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mcintyre1994··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
The article says that these were Azure IPs being used by OpenAI, so you’ve probably already blocked whatever they’re doing here.
mcintyre1994··on Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face
I suspect there are very few examples of it when they are as entangled and invested in them as Nvidia is in OpenAI.
mcintyre1994··on Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU
> but not UK or others wanting to leave.

I don't think there are any others wanting to leave after Brexit! Politicians like Le Pen don't campaign to leave any more.

mcintyre1994··on Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
This seems like a no brainer, not sure how Cursor would expect to be trusted by any other company now that they’re owned by SpaceX.
mcintyre1994··on GLM-5.3-Flash
Isn’t the point with these open models that you find a provider with the right terms of use/data sovereignty for you and get it from them?
mcintyre1994··on GPT 5.6 Sol 20% price reduction
If developers are choosing Claude when given unlimited access to both, then any executive who tries to force them to Codex is really stupid.
mcintyre1994··on OpenRouter is joining Stripe
Nobody would trust one of the labs that have their own models with this. They’d assume they’re taking all the data, and biasing the routing to favour themselves. xAI would probably be the least trusted, but the same would apply for any of them.
mcintyre1994··on How does IKEA come up with names for its products?
Sofas → Swedish place names

Bookshelves → men's names

For Swedes it must be weird to be able to find a product named after yourself and your place!

I’d have guessed they used names that Swedes were less likely to identify with than names of places and people.

mcintyre1994··on GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%
I don’t think that’s true. OpenAI docs don’t have this price change. I assume they’d be the source for this post if it was true. The banner on OpenRouter for me says Gemini 3.7 discounted for a limited time, but if I click through that I get to this page: https://openrouter.ai/models?discount=true

That shows a bunch of models, including Sol, with a discount. None of them say how long it’s for, but I’d assume in all their cases it’s for a limited time as the banner said, and only on OpenRouter.

mcintyre1994··on Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+
That makes sense, though I wonder if Claude is a bit of an outlier there because they have the developer audience?

As an example, GLM document being committed to compatibility with OpenAI: https://docs.z.ai/guides/develop/openai/python

My uninformed guess would be that everyone except the frontier labs is probably motivated to do that too.

Similarly they document configuring Claude Code for their models, so I assume they implement Anthropic’s interface there too: https://docs.z.ai/devpack/tool/claude#manual-configuration

mcintyre1994··on Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+
Dumb question but aren’t they all OpenAI API compliant? I thought that was pretty standard, eg I know Anthropic works with it. Also Claude Code can work with different models, they’re probably not using OpenRouter for that?
mcintyre1994··on GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities
In this case depriving US companies would be the point though, so that's not necessarily a disadvantage.
mcintyre1994··on GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities
If you look at the distribution of their findings in the linked post, most of theirs are issues introduced a long time ago, almost all before 2006.

Complete speculation, but I wonder if they and Anthropic are scanning very different codebases and Anthropic's skew would be in the other direction.

mcintyre1994··on GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities
I don't think this really works because the Chinese government is going to be incentivised to tip off the US companies to deny the US government those exploits. I guess maybe that's what the open source patch program here is about, making sure banning the models doesn't work because they can just report the exploits without the company running the model themselves.
mcintyre1994··on HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript
LiveView can send less data than a JSON API, and the client has less work to do.
mcintyre1994··on HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript
Something else that I think is interesting here is the new HTML streaming APIs in Chrome: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/declarative-partial-update...

These mean that you can for example have a websocket serve just the new HTML, and then let native browser code figure out inserting it into the DOM, without any dependency. I’m guessing things like LiveView could eventually migrate to this if it becomes standard, and eliminate more of their JS bundle.

mcintyre1994··on uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook
Based on inspect element on their homepage, they probably are.
mcintyre1994··on US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects
This is about a German company that was going to make a renewable project in the US.

Germany itself has a huge offshore wind industry, which is probably how they have companies that planned to do the same in the US.

mcintyre1994··on Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open
It also might just not be much use for you, especially if you’ve been using tmux for a long time and have a set up you like.
mcintyre1994··on Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open
Mostly it’s the agents view, it’ll show the status of and let you quickly jump to all the agents you have running in any pane/tab.

It also has a default config that’s much easier to use than tmux, letting you use the mouse or simpler (IMO) keyboard shortcuts

Built in worktrees are nice too.

mcintyre1994··on Zed DeltaDB
The sort of company that would do those things is going to be mandating you to use their enterprise AI plan anyway, which already lets them read all your conversations if they want to.
mcintyre1994··on Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation
> filter for “offensive” content, and boost it or collate it into a newsletter/email blast for people of culture.

I think that's the main service that xAI provide for X.

mcintyre1994··on Apple is getting this wrong
I don’t really understand this, Apple obviously wants to force discovery and publishing stuff seems like it’d just widen the net there.
mcintyre1994··on Octane – React's programming model, compiled
Their llms.txt spells it all out: https://octanejs.dev/llms.txt

But it doesn't have the repeating yourself/over-emphasising that you sometimes see in LLM instructions when someone is trying to fight the model's default assumptions

mcintyre1994··on Octane – React’s programming model, compiled
Which is ironic because the author works at OpenAI!
mcintyre1994··on Adding Go's Defer to the TypeScript Compiler
JS has the using keyword for this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
mcintyre1994··on Seedance 2.5
This seems extraordinarily good to me, compared to what I've seen before. Their washing machine advert example seems like it's as good as anything else on social media. I'm shocked by the quality and the coherence they're able to maintain, I assume it's really good at using those reference images they mention in their prompts. I think the only one that's noticeably bad is the concert hall, where the first few seconds show almost empty stalls and then toward the end it shows a full audience, and that audience also looks a bit off.
mcintyre1994··on Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub
The issue you’d have then is the CI might not be green after the 4th commit but it is after the 5th. A single PR will hide that, so you’d need a way to run the CI on the subset of commits you want to extract. It’s also much easier to isolate those blocking comments on the 5th commit if it’s in its own PR and not mixed with all the review comments on the other ones.

I don’t really see it as diverging much from the underlying git tool TBH - it’s still just git branches pointing at each other.

mcintyre1994··on Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English
They acknowledge this, but I really dislike whatever style they're using for the readme:

> Yes, this README breaks half of them. Marketing is explicitly out of STE scope. The skill knows that and stays in the docs.

> Where it refuses to go: marketing copy, blog voice, brand writing. Flat on purpose.

(Each sentence there has an emoji that HN cuts out)

mcintyre1994··on Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard
I don’t know that individuals can really be expected to use a new model enough to develop a proper opinion though. If I try a new model, and it doesn’t seem as good as the one I’m using, I’m just going to stop using it. That’s not enough data to give anyone else a useful view on it, but it’s enough for me to make my mind up.

Especially because I’m probably trying it at work, and I can’t really justify using the company’s enterprise plan to develop my understanding of a model that I don’t think is going to be the one I use for my work.

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