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rynn··on Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived
Wow, I’ve had the opposite experience. I’ve needed to talk Claude down from Redis clusters for hobby projects to avoid concurrency edge cases.

Although to your point, it struggles to do anything with SQLite beyond a single user even when its architecturally not a problem

rynn··on Music Theory for Programmers
The most amazing thing about HN comments is watching engineers demand that their expertise be taken seriously completely disregard the expertise of people in other domains because <make up a reason>.
rynn··on Grok Build is open source
That doesn’t mean they won’t be, or that the forks won’t be good.
rynn··on Claude Code's OAuth Flow Broken When Pasting
If you woke up and found you couldn't log into to anything that required a code, you're not alone.
rynn··on Elevated error rates on Opus 4.6
API almost there too
rynn··on Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly
Amazing utility that just works. Windows version of ‘locate’

IIRC it loads the FS index into memory and queries directly off of it. If a simple metadata search is enough for you I don’t think you can do better

rynn··on Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work
9 years into transformers and only a couple years into highly useful LLMs I think the jury is still out. It certainly seems possible that some day we'll have the equivalent of an EDR or firewall, as we do for viruses and network security.

Not perfect, but good enough that we continue to use the software and networks that are open enough that they require them.

rynn··on Show HN: Mysti – Claude, Codex, and Gemini debate your code, then synthesize
Awesome, in that case, I'll check it out!
rynn··on Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole
>What is keeping Google/Amazon/Microsoft from licensing Groq’s tech?

Nothing, but they likely can't implement it as well as they could had they bought Groq first.

rynn··on Show HN: Mysti – Claude, Codex, and Gemini debate your code, then synthesize
> licensing with BSL when basically every month the AI world is changing is not a smart decision

This turned me off as well. Especially with no published pricing and a link to a site that is not about this product.

At minimum, publish pricing.

rynn··on Unifi Travel Router
Where spies == logging and they tell you, and provide clear opt out instructions
rynn··on GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability
> I think the DGX Spark will likely underperform the M4 from what I've read.

For the DGX benchmarks I found, the Spark was mostly beating the M4. It wasn't cut and dry.

rynn··on GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability
> Please do give that a try and report back the prefill and decode speed.

M4 Max here w/ 128GB RAM. Can confirm this is the bottleneck.

https://pastebin.com/2wJvWDEH

I weighed about a DGX Spark but thought the M4 would be competitive with equal RAM. Not so much.

rynn··on GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability
gpt-5.2 codex isn't available in the API yet.

If you want to be picky they could've compared it against gpt-5 pro gpt-5.2 gpt-5.1 gpt-5.1-codex-max gpt-5.2 pro

all depending on when they ran benchmarks (unless, of course, they are simply copying OAI's marketing).

At some point it's enough to give OAI a fair shot and let OAI come out with their own PR, which they doubtlessly will.

rynn··on A guide to local coding models
What are you working on that you’ve had such great success with gpt-oss?

I didn’t try it long because I got frustrated waiting for it to spit out wrong answers.

But I’m open to trying again.

rynn··on A guide to local coding models
It will be like the rest of computing, some things will move to the edge and others stay on the cloud.

Best choice will depend on use cases.

rynn··on Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files
Where did you get all the data? The justice.gov site didn’t have a mass download option that I could find.
rynn··on VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits
> I recognize this is a hard concept to understand for folks on this site, but the average joe signing up for a VPN doesn't even remotely understand what they are doing and why.

Really this is the answer to half of the comments on this thread.

rynn··on VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits
> Is there any real-life situation in which this matters, though?

You’d be shocked at the number of people in regulated industries that thinks a VPN inherently makes them more secure. If you think your traffic exits in the US and it exits in Canada — or really anywhere that isn’t the US — that can cause problems with compliance, and possibly data domicile promises made to clients and regulators.

At minimum, not being able to rely on the provider that you are routing your client’s data through is a big deal.

rynn··on VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits
Do you use Tor for everything? How do you deal with the latency?
rynn··on Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products
Nadella has to have his own custom agents. It isn't even possible for an enterprise like MSFT to not have custom agents that are still remotely useful.

So, his experience with Copilot agents != Average Customer's experience

rynn··on 73% of AI startups are just prompt engineering
@apwell23 while the author didn’t say how s/he measured QA, creating the QA process was literally the first bullet.
rynn··on 73% of AI startups are just prompt engineering
It’s easy to underestimate the amount of testing “just” prompt/context engineering takes to get above average results.

And then you need to see what variations work best with different models.

My POCs for personal AI projects take time to get this right. It’s not like the API calls are the hard portion of the software.

rynn··on Keeping the Internet fast and secure: introducing Merkle Tree Certificates
Seems like you answered your own question
rynn··on An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia
Aren't all encyclopedias 'lossy'? They are all partial collections of information; none have all of the facts.
rynn··on OpenAI's new open-source model is basically Phi-5
Azure AI Foundry says:

How was the model trained? The gpt-oss models were pretrained primarily using synthetic data along with some heavily filtered real code. The models were then post-trained using distillation (RLKD against o3/hailmary) and berry. For more details about the model training process, please refer to the documentation.

Meaning the author was spot on.

rynn··on OpenAI delays launch of open-weight model
It was more than $5m

https://interestingengineering.com/culture/deepseeks-ai-trai...

rynn··on Show HN: API Parrot – Automatically Reverse Engineer HTTP APIs
How does it compare to mitmmitmproxy2swagger?

https://github.com/alufers/mitmproxy2swagger

rynn··on Etsy loses its 'handmade' and 'vintage' labels as it takes on Temu and Amazon
“Correction, July 9th: An earlier version of this story misstated the types of items that can be sold on Etsy. Vintage, handmade, and craft supplies are allowed. Also added more details about vintage labels.“
rynn··on AI assets are a legal risk and need to be banned from the marketplace
@sp332, yes, sorry. I meant to reply to the top level comment.
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