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max-privatevoid··on Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS
That's the wrong domain...
max-privatevoid··on Strands Harness
Including Ollama support is the new token "open option", like a cross-platform application that claims to support Windows, macOS, and Linux, and targets Ubuntu 16.04 only. Just target the OpenAI-compatible API with custom endpoints, it's not that hard. https://schizo.cooking/schizo-takes/9.html
max-privatevoid··on Unreal Agent
An XR glasses company, Nreal, changed their name to XREAL, allegedly because of Epic Games.
max-privatevoid··on Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5
> ZDR

Does anyone actually believe this?

max-privatevoid··on Mistral raises €3B
> Mistral is the only AI company in the world building the full stack required to answer that question: open-weight models, the infrastructure and the compute capacity they run on

Didn't know Mistral sold affordable inference hardware. /s

max-privatevoid··on Protobuf has LSP support
My favorite programming language is called "A Programming Language".
max-privatevoid··on Show HN: Ante, a coding agent in a single binary that runs offline
> Is there telemetry? Yes, and it is opt-out

Fuck you. Will there ever be a decent agent where the answer to this is "No"?

max-privatevoid··on Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)
I encourage you to actually read the OP if you haven't, because I think it gives the most obvious example for that. That kind of app makes much more sense (for the user) to be a web app, especially when you don't intend to become a repeat customer.
max-privatevoid··on Love systemd timers
It's a mystery to me why everyone tries to use OnCalendar here, when "n amount of times within a certain timeframe" can be done much more easily with OnActiveSec, in this case that'd be OnActiveSec=6h.
max-privatevoid··on Show HN: Atomic – Local-first, AI-augmented personal knowledge base
The online documentation does not suggest that using a generic OpenAI-compatible server is an option, and it once again lists the non-local option first.

https://atomicapp.ai/getting-started/ai-providers/

> OpenAI-compatible is indeed one of the provider options for Atomic. Ollama and openRouter are separate options to allow for easier selection of models from these specific providers.

Why is this necessary over just presenting the result of `/v1/models`?

You can say it's just the ordering of a dropdown, but to me it seems pretty clear that this thing is developed with the idea that you'll most likely use a SaaS provider.

max-privatevoid··on Show HN: Atomic – Local-first, AI-augmented personal knowledge base
Yes. Why even call it local-first when local isn't first? Not to mention, for some reason they decided to only support Ollama instead of giving you the option to connect to any OpenAI-compatible server, which would make this work with any other inference server such as llama.cpp and vLLM as well as Ollama. (and also most SaaS inference providers, including OpenRouter, so the custom integration would not be necessary either, https://schizo.cooking/schizo-takes/9.html)
max-privatevoid··on Show HN: Atomic – Local-first, AI-augmented personal knowledge base
I sure love when the local-first software defaults to a non-local option for its main feature.
max-privatevoid··on TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe
I'll believe it when it's FOSS
max-privatevoid··on Ask HN: Anti-AI Open Source License?
If you release it as GPL or AGPL, it should be pretty difficult to obey those terms while using the code for AI training. Of course, they'll probably scoop it up anyway, regardless of license.
max-privatevoid··on Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers
I'm surprised no one has said NixOS yet.
max-privatevoid··on Writing a good Claude.md
The only good Claude.md is a deleted Claude.md.
max-privatevoid··on Electron vs. Tauri
The idea is awful as well if you spend one second thinking about dependency sharing.
max-privatevoid··on Electron vs. Tauri
It's insane that Zig was needed to achieve this, instead of a preprocessor definition like "#define GLIBC_MIN_COMPATIBLE_VERSION GLIBC_2_40".
max-privatevoid··on Show HN: European tech news in 6 languages
Clicking on "Customize" on the cookie consent banner reveals toggles for the following:

> Analytics Cookies

> Help us understand how visitors interact with our website. We use privacy-first analytics.

Tracking.

> Marketing Cookies

> Used to track visitors and show relevant advertisements.

Ads and more tracking.

> Preference Cookies

> Remember your preferences like language and theme settings.

Do these actually require separate consent, or can they be considered functional?

I would expect that a European digital sovereignty project in which privacy is the whole point would not have a cookie consent banner at all, because it would simply not use any non-functional cookies that would require it. I see the cookie banner as a sort of "mark of shame" that nefarious websites are forced to wear.

Also, I recall hearing that there were plans to make highlighting the "Accept All" button above the other options illegal, because it's a dark pattern that gets people to click the highlighted option more often.

max-privatevoid··on Show HN: European tech news in 6 languages
Why does this have ads and tracking?
max-privatevoid··on Building a CI/CD Pipeline Runner from Scratch in Python
Docker is unusable for build tools that use namespaces (of which Docker itself is one), unless you use privileged mode and throw away much more security than you'd need to. Docker images are difficult to reproduce with conventional Docker tools, and using a non-reproducible base image for your build environment seems like a rather bad idea.
max-privatevoid··on Zed is our office
The collab editing stuff was Zed's original gimmick. The AI stuff is the real feature creep.
max-privatevoid··on Building a CI/CD Pipeline Runner from Scratch in Python
Why use Docker as a build job execution engine? It seems terribly unsuited for this.
max-privatevoid··on A P2P Vision for QUIC (2024)
What prevents you from just using certificates not signed by a CA and verifying them based on the public key fingerprint?
max-privatevoid··on A P2P Vision for QUIC (2024)
You can't disallow hole punching.
max-privatevoid··on Tailscale Peer Relays
Why go through the effort of reimplementing all this instead of using libp2p?
max-privatevoid··on OpenMaxIO: Forked UI for MinIO Object Storage
MinIO has a CLA, so they're in the exact same situation as HashiCorp, just not as far ahead.
max-privatevoid··on Bots are getting good at mimicking engagement
Perhaps this will eventually lead them to give up on spying on users altogether.
max-privatevoid··on Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run – Now Open Source
Careful, it's CLAware.
max-privatevoid··on Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first
I think the proper way to do this would be a DCO. https://developercertificate.org/
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