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riku_iki··on Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%
like what?
riku_iki··on Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%
its not easy choice if you want mature crossplatform UI framework.
riku_iki··on Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI
google is giant and chaotic, and chrome likely is spagetti code mess. Its hard to tell if their approach is reasonable and fully implemented without digging deep.

I work on such project, where we use simplified C++, and it works fine, no memory corruptions in my experience.

riku_iki··on Alleged Distillation Attacks by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax
> them complete hypocrites in respect to how they got the model training data in the first place.

sure, hypocrisies is part of rules for big games: politics and business.

> Fraudulent accounts? They're just accounts.

they tell the story in blog post, that they don't allow claude in China, but those labs use some proxy services to access claude and mix traffic with regular users to hids its activities

riku_iki··on Alleged Distillation Attacks by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax
From the tweet, Anthropic's point is that distillation is Ok, unless new model has safeguards removed or used for military or surveillance purposes.
riku_iki··on Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI
> C++ is a dying language compared to Rust.

there is a good chance Rust will start dying and will actually die by being replaced by some new hyper-overengineered lang much faster than C++ actually die.

riku_iki··on Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI
> Wouldn't it be better to decide on a memory-safe language,

it is totally possible to use some strict subset of C++, which will be memory safe.

riku_iki··on Global Intelligence Crisis
> Are you going to choose to buy your protein bar online from mysteryBargainBar[.]com for a $1 savings, or just pick it up as part of your local grocery trip?

1. I buy in bulk.

2. I check amazon vs walmart usually.

riku_iki··on CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate
> The children of engineers who worked on xyz v1.0 have a genuine advantage when its time to work on xyz v2.0.

my point is that other children with no extremely heavy investments into perl v1.0, will have some skills in c++ v1.0 and python v1.0, and will have advantage in adapting Tensorflow v1.0, which is more valuable than skills in perl v2.0. Heavily investing in one industry you sacrifice some flexibility.

So, this is multifactor analysis, lets say wise American people will elect me as next president, I would create list of industries, assign metrics (national security importance, potential revenue in 5y from now, impact on other industries, potential margin, risks of failure, etc), then build some formula which aggregate those metrics into single, and base on final metric allocate weighted funds to support N top industries.

riku_iki··on CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate
sure, looks like more analysis is needed to check which verticals are diversified and which are not, instead of throwing blanket list of everything.
riku_iki··on CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate
> steel, heavy industry, semiconductors, machine tools

the question is if single country can carry all these industries at loss for prolonged period of time.

Another approach is to rely on international supply chain and speed of innovation, we can't produce steel domestically profitably today, fine, we may buy it from diversified international supplier network, and rebuild it fast tomorrow if needed using new tech, and focus on many other high margin verticals, instead of putting many billions of resources into infra which could be obsolete tomorrow.

riku_iki··on Reproducible and traceable configuration for Conan C and C++ package manager
sure, it is solved just by one with good packages coverage.
riku_iki··on KFC, Nando's, and others ditch chicken welfare pledge
Ok, still focus could be not on avoiding antibiotics completely, but preventing runoff, or finding types which decay faster in environment.

Do we know even if we can build sustainable large scale industry without antibiotics?

riku_iki··on KFC, Nando's, and others ditch chicken welfare pledge
but it will be localized farm environment only..

Its just question of risk/benefit ratio, benefit is clear: cheap meat, because producers will be less impacted by deceases. Risks are not so clear in this case.

riku_iki··on KFC, Nando's, and others ditch chicken welfare pledge
Maybe it is not a big deal? Chicken goes through withdrawal period and level of residue is tested in end product, supposedly..
riku_iki··on Farewell, Rust for web
protobufs?
riku_iki··on Farewell, Rust for web
> and now everyone hates Java

speak for yourself :-)

But sadly Java can't rule them all because there is no browser story and no IOS story.

riku_iki··on Gemini 3.1 Pro
hopefully op will answer if that's what he is doing
riku_iki··on Gemini 3 Deep Think
> If gemini-3-deepthink gets above 85% on the private eval set, it will be considered "solved"

They never will do on private set, because it would mean its being leaked to google.

riku_iki··on Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV
that statement is factually wrong too
riku_iki··on GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks
Also, LLM prices include all other capital expenditures: building/maintaining datacenter, paying salary to SWEs, fees to financial transactions (investments) middlemen, which could be much cheaper in China.
riku_iki··on Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV
they from whatever reason made it much shorter and smaller than previous gen..
riku_iki··on Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV
> New cars are no longer $20-30k in the US and haven’t been since 2021.

there are plenty cars in this subrange, its just Americans prefer to spend more on extra features.

riku_iki··on Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV
> Mine gets a 40-45 mile all electric range. That sounds like the real issue, vs. EVs. This sounds like you basically have to plug it in every time you park it. And there’s no way you could do any sort of (even small) road trip without using gas.

> (For comparison, our EV6 has about 200-250 mile range, and we charge it about once a week or so, give or take, unless we take a road trip.)

its gasoline car. You use 45miles for every day commute while charging overnight, and use gas for roadtrips: 500 miles range + 3 mins put gas into car

riku_iki··on GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks
maybe being in China gives them advantage of electricity cost, which could be big chunk of bill..
riku_iki··on Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist Credit Card Number
it depends if potential reputation damage is high.

Apple was fighting for user's privacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%E2%80%93FBI_encryption_d...

riku_iki··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
Maybe you can try to appeal..

Being permanently banned from reddit and/or this site would be a huge deal for me.

riku_iki··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
> When will it be normalized to be able to say "Parents should just be doing their job"

you can say this, but it is not enforced, so this part of discussion is not really productive.

riku_iki··on Testing Ads in ChatGPT
Kagi is waiting for your money
riku_iki··on Testing Ads in ChatGPT
> The managers at Google have become self interested promotion hunters, and the programmers weak sycophants. It wasn't like this in the early days when I was there, the best ideas won, but then the B player managers were hired and the rot started.

I bet they run some metrics, and while hyper-intelligent persons like you are annoyed, there is a chance that avg joes representing 95% of revenue are fine with that.

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