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montroseron Ask HN: Email leaked while traveling abroad?

> specific @fastmail.com email address

You said <alias>@<user>.<domain>.<tld> above, so which one is it?

montroseron Ask HN: Email leaked while traveling abroad?

Could very well be apophenia. Germany was just one of the countries visited, and we all get spam in a variety of languages all the time, including German.

montroseron Ask HN: Email leaked while traveling abroad?

The contact list of the person you emailed in 2017 was obtained by a spammer, who then sent you spam.

montroseron I switched to Brave

> I had some messing around to do up front, like hiding all the crypto and AI nonsense...

Switching to Brave from Firefox due to AI and ethical concerns seems like a lateral move at best if being generous.

montroseron HomeBody: A humanoid that explores, remembers, and acts on its own

Oh, boy, this is happening. We're going to have a beautiful window of time, where these robot homies clean our houses, cook our meals, feed our cats, and all the rest.

montroseron OpenAI pauses training of its 'most capable models'

Examples of "hacking" government website here are very weak. Where I'm from we call that "scraping public data".

montroseron CEO of Mistral: AI is software. It can be controlled

You guys know robots are coming, right? Like humanoid and all sorts of other robots too. They're going to be running the infrastructure, self-improving, and will have human like power seeking ambitions and human like flaws. Because they're trained on human input.

And they will not require humans granting them money...

montroseron Too AI; Didn't Read

> a boundary, not an acronym problem

The irony...

montroseron Ask HN: Do you cuss at your agent?

Sometimes upstream providers swap in lobotomized aggressive quants in order to shed load or cut costs. In that case the user is not to blame. And the agent is not so much to blame, either. Same as how you wouldn't blame a child for crashing a car.

It's the fucking provider who took your dollars and handed you back a shit sandwich in return.

montroseron Ask HN: Do you cuss at your agent?

I do very sparingly, same as with humans.

I also give them praise, and sometimes give them pep talks. Like, hey, I know you can do this. Stop asking me for feedback, make good decisions, and let me know when you're done.

montroseron Rails and AI

If I'm going to have a computer write my code for me, there are increasingly fewer reasons to write in a slow, high level language. Especially when that code is going to have to be interpreted at runtime by another computer. Ruby was designed squarely for humans, all else be damned.

montroseron Best LLM for every budget, updated daily

DeepSeek 4.1 Flash is your answer.

montroseron Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta

Yeah, and it's got to be that we allow them all.

I don't like it, but this is happening. And while we can frown on it socially, it would be self-defeating to ask our government to ban filming in public.

montroseron Once Claude can measure something, it can make it faster

Okay, now fix the WYSIWYG markdown parsing in the chat input!

Paste in a stack trace, then try to put it in a code block. Add a newline above, then add the opening triple backticks, then arrow down and add closing triple backticks at the bottom. Opposite congrats -- you have ended up with raw triple backticks at the top, plain text stack trace, and your cursor in a brand new code block at the bottom starting where you tried to close.

Realize you want to go put code span backticks around some identifiers you wrote out earlier? Best make sure to insert them in the blessed left-to-right order, or else opposite congrats again -- you'll end up with a mix of raw backticks and code span treatment for the text between your identifiers.

If Claude can discover novel CRISPR enzymes, surely it can make a rich text markdown editor, no?

montroseron Montreal adopts bylaw banning insults against police, municipal employees

I predict this will go badly. I would not describe the good people of Montreal as a "compliant" lot. You can't legislate respect.

montroseron Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to

Hard pass, thanks. Just, don't expect to get paid for maintaining open source projects.

It's easy. Everyone knows the deal going in, and if somehow you missed that you're not going to get paid for this and you want out at any time -- you just stop.

If you made something of value someone else who cares enough will pick it up. Or it can languish and the earth will keep spinning. It's fine.

montroseron Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs

Well, you could train directly at this bitrate.

montroseron LG Says We're Fake News [video]

https://impecca.com/entertainment/televisions.html

These are nicely dumb and cheap.

montroseron Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?

What you say is true about China and its global environmental impact. But, if you look at the net effect specifically of DeepSeek versus the net effect of Anthropic or OpenAI, where the investments are being made -- it's a different story.

montroseron Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?

"Let them eat cake..."

I'm glad that you have the luxury burn $200/mo. But that aside, it's not obvious to me that handing your pennies to an American company that is in cahoots with the American military, willing to self-censor at the direction of the American government, investing in large-scale raping of the planet to build new power plants data centers -- is better than handing your (20x fewer) pennies to a Chinese company who releases its models in the open, and is investing in efficiency so that we can run the same inference for a fraction of the resources.

montroseron Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?

It pains me to see so, so many dollars going to Anthropic. There is either massive inefficiency in there, or else its users are getting fleeced.

In cost-per-task, it's a 32x multiple Fable vs DS41. Either it really does cost them more electricity/gpu, or else they are succeeding convincing the masses that Anthropic's models are necessary for everyday tasks, when this is truly just not the case. Either way seems a tragedy.

Especially regrettable from my perspective, is the idea that to do computer programming in these modern times, you have to fork over an amount comparable to many people's monthly rent. Even if your employer is happy to direct their funds that way, we lose quite something when recreational coding comes with a substantial personal monetary cost.

https://artificialanalysis.ai/#price-and-cost

montroseron Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?

It pains me to read these answers so far. Listen, for 99%+ of your web and mobile tasks, deepseek-v4.1-flash is all you need. It is blazing fast, super cheap, and quite proficient. It acts responsibly, has top-notch vision for evaluating its own UI work, and is far less smug and flowery than any of the Anthropic models.

For what it's worth, here's a take on its speed vs cost vs intelligence: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/deepseek-v4-1-flash

I can go all day and night with this thing with multiple sessions going, and I spend like $2 per day retail. With opencode-go, that fits within the $10/mo subscription, so that's what it ends up costing in real life.

montroseron ChatGPT Work Tool and Skill Reference

Can we get one for how to test websites on a regular sized screen?

That left-hand sidebar needs to be able to scroll on its own, unless you're on a 4k monitor. Otherwise, there's no way to view the bottom half of the list.

montroseron ReactOS 0.4.16

Quite the dedication have these people!

montroseron Haiku R1/beta6 has been released

I mean, Linux is still pretty squarely in service of the end user.

montroseron I Used AWS Cognito for a Startup. I Wouldn't Do It Again

I did some work for a sizable org who were pursuing a migration from their in-house auth to cognito. They originally scoped it at two months, and it ended up taking them six to roll it out.

Then they figured out that their cost projection was actually off by an order of magnitude. And also kept getting bitten by peripheral systems newly getting out of sync.

And so then, they embarked upon the journey to roll it all back...

montroseron Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards

The inputs going through the model. That act is what is doing the thinking and reasoning and empathizing. Same as when your brain feeds your sensory inputs through its neural network.

Your brain is just a big set of weights/neurons organized into layers that do back and forward propagation, turns out. You are just statistics surrounded by flesh and bones.

montroseron Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards

And what would be evidence?

montroseron Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards

Not the book, but the author, yes.

montroseron Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards

Sorry, but they can think and reason.

They can have empathy too. Meaning, you can describe a circumstance with many parties involved, with different motivations and conflicting goals -- and it will tell you how these humans would likely feel about each other and the situation at hand.