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keyleon Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public

This is literally an idea by the primegean on his YouTube under predictions. Self prophecy really with his reach but credit where it's due?

keyleon Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles

Well back in the day, if you wanted to provide some interactive experience worth having on the web, you did it Flash.

It fits entirely to be supported on consoles.

keyleon πFS

Note, this (2012)

keyleon AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere

There is a natural pace of humans requiring food, water and sleep. The main issue with suspicious AI agents is that they never sleep. So it will take extra-coordination between timezones to ensure we don't let them in.

Fundamentally, until we can really prove we're humans online, open-source has a real problem on its hands. Contributions from people from identities known and consistent before the AI-age are fine, everyone else is suspicious. LGTM is a big risk nowadays.

keyleon Surprise, pay $1000

This doesn't seem like the right way to do business long terms. The off chance that someone actually take you up on it and pay your 'bill', you've destroyed a lot of goodwill and alerted the rest of the tech world of your scammy moves.

keyleon German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews

I'm surprised this is even a thing. After all, you go to Google not for the truth, but to search Google. Since when is truthiness the "guarantee of service"?

You're not even paying for a google service, search is free... You might be the product, and your data, but you didn't directly pay for a service and they didn't sell you a fake service.

I'm not taking Google's side, this isn't about whether it's right or wrong to rob websites of traffic, this is about AI's returning search metadata.

But I'm surprised that they lost this argument, and the line they took in the first place.

The Internet isn't made of fact checked data, it's crowd sourced. How can anyone be liable?

keyleon Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

Thanks for reminding me, I appreciate it.

However there is justice for commenting poorly, there doesn't seem to be justice for posting lies and deceit, which is borderline a serial case here(?).

keyleon Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

We've built a better SpaceX! says kid with cardboard rocket in the backyard. In Rust we trust!

Common man, you're not even 5% of a Github replacement. Don't act like one. You've built a Git web UI with accounts, the easy part.

> Building software is still hard

You don't say.

keyleon 1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse

Correct, but you get to see who leaked you.

keyleon 1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse

+1 for not giving those websites your email in the first place!

keyleon 1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse

At this stage just expect that every accounts will get leaked or rooted, it's a matter of when, not if...

Use varying email `plus addressing` (john+am2604@foo.com), varying passwords or passkey and 2FA on anything remotely important (use of your identity, not just financials).

keyleon LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do

I sympathise with the author being in the same boat, largely.

I just want to emphasise a point... Calculators give 100% correct answers and yet we still hire accountants; for the simple fact that we don't want all to be accountants.

People will hire software engineers for the simple fact that they do not want to be software engineers.

keyleon C++: The Documentary

         +90% users in the past 3.5 years

huh? That is incredible growth. How is it even measured?

keyleon Gaussian Point Splatting

It will be interesting to see the first AAA game that uses these methods instead of rendering a 3D world. Even if made from CGI worlds, it would be a very interesting approach and with somewhat predictable performances.

Reminds me of Ecstatica [1], a 1994 game that had intense visuals with a very odd/different rendering engine made of 3D ellipsoids; in a way really crude splats in gouraud shading.

[1] https://ecstatica.fandom.com/wiki/Ecstatica

keyleon Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model

Not terribly impressed with this one. I asked it for recommendation between Paris to Berlin and option 3 was Rome... and option 4 was Tokyo.

mmmkay.

keyleon Meteor Explodes over Massachusetts

TNT explosion unit is ACME friendly!... meep meep!

keyleon Agentic Mfw

Very good. A viable if any longwinded ode to the original. Which in itself is very fitting.

keyleon Show HN: Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface

"Ship on the go" is so insane to me.

It's like people pulling their phones out while taking a piss standing, or having to pull their phones out when the traffic lights are red in a crossing.

Just, do one thing at a time, live a life.

Shipping code from your phone, whhhyy. Mates, this isn't a flex, it's depression.

keyleon macOS needs its grid back

Yeah okay. But at least we have decent font rendering.

keyleon Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services

    AbstractFinalFactoryShaiHuludSerialisedFactory

keyleon Cessation of public development of Kefir C compiler

   This project in particular has been unconcerned with new coding practices so far, primarily, because I derive pleasure from hand-written implementations of my ideas, and believe that overcoming challenges the hard way is the main value I get from it.

This 100% the same for me. Outside of work where speed is more important than quality, and I work with people that use AI, I don't use AI at all on my own projects. It poisons the mind and the soul. Ok that sounds dramatic, but I felt down up until the point where I started hand writing everything again. Software engineering is still fun and powerful, and the hell with where the world is going.

keyleon Re: [PATCH] OOM_pardon, a.k.a. don't kill my xlock (2004)

It can only happen once anyway, and I fly weekly!

keyleon Restartable Sequences

   ... bidirectional communication with the kernel happens via shared memory.

What could possibly go wrong?

keyleon Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup

Unicorns, strapped with rockets, too busy looking at each other to realise the Earth is far gone.

They'll kill us all, or they'll kill each other. They sure as hell ain't making the world a better place, like they promised.

keyleon Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup

Soon none of us will be! right?

keyleon NexusCortex Just Beat Opus 4.8 – and It's Open Source

citation needed...

keyleon Claude Opus 4.8

It doesn't sound like you're in the industry you want to be in.

keyleon Claude Opus 4.8

Heh? How long were you writing "code by hand" before?

keyleon Claude Opus 4.8

It's pretty safe to say that AI will be used on the battlefield making real life and death decisions before it will be able to render a decent pelican on a bike in SVG.

keyleon The Green Side of the Lua

Exactly. You've expressed what I couldn't find the words to say.

I love C, but the shear amount of CVE and crashes are much worse in terms of global energy usage than if it were safe. I imagine the strongest strong-typing ranking that can be saved would come from Swift, where Rust's compile time would tank its ranking...