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kamikazechaser··on How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent
Surprised to see my former university director/lecturer appear on HN. She (the author) was very controversial and general not liked towards the end of her tenure by most of my peers. Nonetheless, she was quite good in her field.
kamikazechaser··on Neki – Sharded Postgres
Not even freeware/shareware?
kamikazechaser··on Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
I have been hosting gitea for our small org (docker + sqlite) for close to 5 years now. ~50+ repos, some large. All upgrades, including major changes, have been as easy as just changing the tag and reloading the container.
kamikazechaser··on Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage
If using outside of subscriptions, It is almost a no brainer to use this simple because of the efficiency. With subscriptions, not so good. Even the officially endorsed OpenAI integration lacks support for server-side context compaction (without a separate plugin which still triggers the pi native compaction).
kamikazechaser··on Show HN: MicroCodex Coding Agent – OpenAI/codex reimplemented in C++ <1MB binary
How does it compare to nanocodex (https://github.com/gakonst/nanocodex)?
kamikazechaser··on Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects
This is the PR that started it all: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/27455
kamikazechaser··on DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update
The flash variant is on par with Sonnet 5 on DeepSWE (54%). Big, if true.
kamikazechaser··on Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects
I was one of the commenters that was staunchly against this proposal on the original issue that was brought up 3 years ago. Imo their entire argument has always been straw man. Anyone who has spent enough time around the core Codeberg community knows how ideologically motivated their decisions are regardless of what they put out in their PR statements.

This incident coupled with the Forgejo one (In which they twisted the whole story and made Gitea look like the biggest villain in FOSS when in fact they orchestrated the whole drama by submitting a controversial PR that many people don't know about) made me quit and keep away from their hosting.

kamikazechaser··on Grok Build is open source
It's a shame that they exfiled private data. The model is actually good (better than opus 4.8 imo) and the harness itself is butter smooth with the potential of being the best out there.
kamikazechaser··on My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite
The wanna cancel Andrew and Zig by extension for hot-takes.
kamikazechaser··on FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model
> Futo License (shit)

Clearly not a cuck license (https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/why-i-use-the-gpl-and-not-cuc...) so looks good to me.

kamikazechaser··on Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI
Every other AI suite provider claims the same.
kamikazechaser··on Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI collaboration
Specifically on the AI side, how does it compare to beads?
kamikazechaser··on DAG Workflow Engine
Just looking at the features, this is pretty cool!
kamikazechaser··on DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier
In my experience GLM 5.1 has been excellent when paired with IDA Pro (DeepSeek v4 pro comes in close second, Kimi straight up refuses). Claude can only do reverse engineering if you throw it into some sort of hero/saviour mode then gradually pivot into red team (though it gets easily tripped).
kamikazechaser··on Claude Opus 4.7
It has been the same for Sonnet/Opus 4.6 for sometime. It will straight up refuse to work on anything in the grey area. Chinese models will happily do anything; On my tests, GLM 5.1 comfortably bypassed a multi-player game's anti-piracy/anti-cheats check with some guided steering.
kamikazechaser··on Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised
Compromised accounts. The malware targeted ~/.git-credentials.
kamikazechaser··on Xfce is great
I used XFCE (MxLinux) for 5 years until recently when I moved to KDE Plasma (Fedora) because of Wayland support. Imo, KDE is better and more resource efficient. I also got a free 10 fps boost on DotA 2 on the same hardware and settings. Zed and a lot of other apps are better supported on Wayland.
kamikazechaser··on Anthropic acquires Bun
At this stage I don't think either is better over the other. Deno has inexplicable high memory usage issues in Linux containers. Bun more or less suffers from the same with an added dose of segfaults.

1. https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state... 2. https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3...

Node.js is a no-brainer for anyone shipping a TS/JS backend. I'd rather deal with poor DX and slightly worse performance than risk fighting runtime related issues on deployment.

Linux needs to be a first class citizen for any runtime/langauge toolchain.

kamikazechaser··on Stopping bad guys from using my open source project (feedback wanted)
1 word: AGPL-3.0

Offer a dual license model if needed. People may fork, but I'd say its still worth it.

kamikazechaser··on The Miracle of Wörgl
There is a movie by the name Shilling From Heaven around this, you can find a link in our blog post https://grassecon.substack.com/p/worglhtml. Our initial work at Grassroots Economics was inspired by this. We even have a smart contract that implements this idea (demurrage/Gesell tax) in it https://github.com/grassrootseconomics/erc20-demurrage-token.
kamikazechaser··on Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid
F-Droid are in the FA stage of FAFO. If they don't reverse this, they will find themselves in the FO stage. Anyone can hold the opinion that "religion or its texts are ruinous" but you can never apply it in practice in a liberal democracy (even in secular states) simply because religious and expression rights are legally protected.

Don't moral police people especially on something that is as controversial as this.

kamikazechaser··on Let Me Pay for Firefox
Why not fund LibreWolf instead? Or maybe even ladybird?
kamikazechaser··on DeepSeek-R1-0528 Did Not Have a Moment
There is a defacto shunning of it. But people are using it, MAI-DS-R1 https://huggingface.co/microsoft/MAI-DS-R1 among others are alternatives of the same thing with all the blocked topics removed.
kamikazechaser··on Builder.ai Collapses: $1.5B 'AI' Startup Exposed as 'Indians'?
There are personal testimonials in the indiandevelopers subreddit from quite a while ago, if those are to be believed.
kamikazechaser··on Valkey Turns One: Community fork of Redis
As usual, I expect some GPL FUD. Here is a good explainer on it. https://drewdevault.com/2024/04/19/2024-04-19-Copyleft-is-no...
kamikazechaser··on Forgejo: A self-hosted lightweight software forge
I'm not sold on Forgejo as a better alternative to Gitea. The Forgejo fork was completely unnecessary. The trigger behind the fork was the Forgejo authors tried to add their own copyright header into a patch contributed back to Gitea. They (Forgejo/Codeberg) followed it up with a lot of misinformation on FOSS e.t.c. some of which is still on their Gitea comparison page that ended up fracturing the community.

Some Codeberg admins had at some point threatened to blanket ban certain types of projects, notably anything slightly related to blockchain tech and that has always made me cautious of their site.

kamikazechaser··on Reverse engineering Call of Duty anti-cheat
UnknownCheats. I'm active there and it has one of the best resources on this kind of stuff. I'm more interested in how Linux userspace Anti-cheats works notably VAC.
kamikazechaser··on Show HN: Vince – A self hosted alternative to Google Analytics
And Ethereum's state store. Which is an even more serious "database".
kamikazechaser··on Show HN: Citizen – A Node.js web app framework for fans of classic app servers
There has always been Adonis.js
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