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maven29on When did Google get so weird?

Bing has been better than google since 2019. Try googling in a fresh browser and see how much personalization contributes to the reranking and query rewriting.

maven29on Asahi Linux on M3

They've done the userspace bringup for linux since apple silicon servers allegedly exist. The drivers exist already so just throwing the device tree over the wall can't be that hard. Nobody is asking for systemready/UEFI or mainline linux.

https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200658399-0645/linux-ke...

I suspect that they might be changing their mind about upstreaming?

maven29on You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)

perhaps this will lead to better AppArmor and SELinux defaults?

maven29on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)

I'm sure you're aware but it's worth pointing out that you will lose all your cache hit discounts with some providers. The next turn will incur the cost of the whole trajectory billed at fresh input token rates.

As an aside, 95 pages into the system card for Claude Opus 4.6, Anthropic acknowledges that they have disabled prompt prefill.

maven29on Weather Model based on ADS-B

It's mostly the US and a few other small markets that even have millimeter wave 5G NR. This is mostly due to the fact that FCC had not wound down analog broadcasts in time, and mmWave/FR2 was the only way to do 5G in the US initially, as lower C-band were not freed up until 2021. Deployments of mmWave exist solely due to the sunk cost of existing equipment and narrow use-cases like stadiums and concerts.

The article predates our current reality where C-band (3.5GHz) is available for 5G

maven29on Anthropic revokes OpenAI's access to Claude

There is an A16z company that does exactly this, called yupp.ai. They need genuine labelling/feedback in return, but you get to either spend credits on expensive APIs or cash out. Likewise, openrouter has free endpoints from some providers who will retain your sessions for training.

maven29on Google shifts goo.gl policy: Inactive links deactivated, active links preserved

A warning shot to guard against an AT&T Bell-style forced divestiture?

maven29on Performance and telemetry analysis of Trae IDE, ByteDance's VSCode fork

How do you do abuse detection for free-tier without these?

maven29on Rapidus Starts 2nm Gate All Around Prototype Production at IIM-1

This is mostly licensed from IBM research, and IBM research already has significant BSPDN IP, so I don't see why they couldn't also license that.

maven29on Kimi K2 is a state-of-the-art mixture-of-experts (MoE) language model

You can probably run this on CPU if you have a 4090D for prompt processing, since 1TB of DDR4 only comes out to around $600.

For GPU inference at scale, I think token-level batching is used.

maven29on Kimi K2 is a state-of-the-art mixture-of-experts (MoE) language model

32B active parameters with a single shared expert.

maven29on A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code

Enforcement of Copilot premium request limits moved to June 4, 2025 https://github.blog/changelog/2025-05-07-enforcement-of-copi...

maven29on Mistral Small 3

They're both European. Look at the author names on the llama paper.

maven29on New textbook teaches students about matrix methods and their real world apps

You could also check the world catalog to see if a library near you offers the ebook for lending. Universities typically allow the general public to walk in and look at books without registration.

https://search.worldcat.org/title/1409698868

maven29on No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains

Just like the heart rate monitor, this was also moved into smartwatches for optimizing revenue from those who truly need it.

maven29on Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

The technique you mention is very outdated and not used anymore. Current thin-bezel OLED panels (even on flexible substrate OLED) use a packaging technique which can be used in the exactly same way on rigid LCD panels. Folding the substrate with driver bonded is expensive, affects yields, and doesn't even get you the thinnest bezels

There are no LCD panels in recent phones that use COG packaging (chip-on-glass) for the display driver and run into the limitation you mentioned. Almost all current LCD phones will utitlize COF (chip-on-film) where the TFT array is attached to a flex-pcb which also contains the display driver.

You can achieve bezels just as thin or thinner using this technique, and Apple has used the technique you mention only once, COF is used even on flexible OLED panels.

maven29on Turkey blocks instant messaging platform Discord

Malware authors in shambles. No point in mourning a platform that neglects user safety and comfort to this extent.

maven29on LaTeX Style Guide for EE 364B [pdf] (2014)

Alternatively, you could just navigate to the URL for the directory path containing the pdf. I'm amazed that directory traversal wasn't disabled.

maven29on I made a game you can play without anyone knowing (No Visuals/Sound)

Yes, because Phantom Vibration Syndrome alone was not difficult enough.

maven29on AppleWatchAmmeter

All you need to do is to start your search on f-droid, the app quality is much better (also consider adding the IzzyOnDroid repo if you don't care about verified reproducible builds)

maven29on Show HN: Remove-bg – open-source remove background using WebGPU

How does this compare to "segment anything" from Meta

maven29on Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11

>Just like an Linux is horrible for doing video editing

Doesn't Davinci Resolve run well on Linux? I've heard most VFX and Animation work is done on Linux workstations and render farms.

Really it's just the absence of Adobe and a few beginner-friendly tools, I'd say.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/VFX-Animation-Linux-Recommends

maven29on SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller

There is an ESP32-S3 version of this camera breakout board, which is presumably what OP might have used for prototyping.

The S3 variant easily justifies the slight additional cost, given that it's easily faster by an order of magnitude or greater, having SIMD and an FPU.

https://github.com/espressif/esp-dl/tree/master/examples/fac...

maven29on ChromeOS will soon be developed on large portions of the Android stack

https://www.engadget.com/samsung-pledges-seven-years-of-upda...

Samsung offers 7 years of major version upgrades on their flagship lineup starting with the S24. It is not retraoctive, although their 5 year policy has been in place for 2021 devices.

It's unlikely that they will offer security patches beyond that point and the mid-range segment still only gets 4/5 years.

Chinese OEMs offer "major" upgrades for longer, however they achieve this by backporting both Android mainline and proprietary features to older versions of Android, along with security patches.

maven29on Microsoft Research chief scientist has no issue with Recall

Might as well steal your sessions if they had that kind of access. MFA bypass is a lot more valuable than petty blackmail.

maven29on Apple M4 iPad Pro OS Has New Security Exclave for Camera and Microphone Activity

Point an illegal high wattage laser pointer at it?

maven29on America's commute to work is getting longer and longer

>Not everything can be done over Zoom or an SSH session.

Agreed. However, if everyone who is capable to work remote will decide to do so, it would free up lane capacity for those who aren't able to.

This would be akin to getting a free infrastructure upgrade for those who truly need it.

maven29on How I Made Google's "Web" View My Default Search

You're better off using Google Maps for this use-case. At some point, the heavy query rewriting becomes unbearable.

The end result of the algorithmically generated SEO spam which Google keeps indexing is that fewer people in enterprise environments will ultimately jump through the hoops to change their default search engine in edge.

maven29on Microsoft's AI chatbot will 'recall' everything you do on its new PCs

>As you might imagine, all this snapshot recording comes at a hardware penalty. To use Recall, users will need to purchase one of the new "Copilot Plus PCs" powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite chips, which include the necessary neural processing unit (NPU). There are also minimum storage requirements for running Recall, with a minimum of 256GB of hard drive space and 50GB of available space. The default allocation for Recall on a 256GB device is 25GB, which can store approximately three months of snapshots. Users can adjust the allocation in their PC settings, with old snapshots being deleted once the allocated storage is full.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recal...

maven29on A proposal to switch Fedora Workstation's desktop from GNOME to KDE

Gnome has better UI, and KDE has the better UX is how I see it. For something you spend hours every day on, you definitely reach a skill-ceiling very quickly with Gnome and end up reaching for the CLI very often.