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scirobon Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space

Nice we have a document we can point at of someone doing a space data center project pointing out all the flaws and benefits without hallucinations.

Putting data centers in Antarctica or extreme north Canadian islands would also put you out of the way of molotov-throwing joe public. Even in space your not safe from the voting public as long as your companies directors are sitting on earth somewhere.

scirobon Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space

scirobon Hy4 preview

Just got benchmarks done for German langauge eval index i help maintain. Hy4 is a big improvement over h3 but still below Deepseek pro and Significantly below GLM 5.3 Flash .

hy4 ranks ~14th overall

https://dach.peerbench.ai/compare?models=tencent%2Fhy4-previ...

https://dach.peerbench.ai/models/tencent/hy4-preview

scirobon AurionMail: E2EE suite (CryptPad/Stalwart) with single-password UX

love the direction have asked myself manytimes why this feature sent doesn't exist somewhere; for sure would need to see some high profile people start using this to think its bullet proof

scirobon Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model

Maybe it's my dyslexic brain but "it's own frontier model" in my head converted to foundational model that was trained from scratch.

But this is qwen based.

But w/e I'm pro AI so more companies having more people with skills for more post training is cool

scirobon IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

I tried to build a few non crypto decentralized apps. The killer was reliable always deliverability inside the browser. https://inbrowser.link/ was a huge jump in utility but came to late the ipfs.js just never worked consistently. In the end the only way to get good XP for yours users was that you provider the IPFS to http gateway for all content but then whats the point its just decentralization theater.

I remember in 2015 having the IPFS concept blow my mind its such a memorable moment when it really felt like someone designed something significantly different that current mainstream paradigms. But in the end it seems like it was still a case of a cool technology looking for a use-case not solving a real problem.

scirobon IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

oh man and when Brave removed native IPFS support. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/37735

scirobon Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

can this not be achieved through a system prompt adjustment ? Running yet another LLM call on top might not be the simplest solution.

scirobon Death to the Self-Playing Game

Vampire survivor is an amazing game. If you can't accept the value of entertainment then the rest of your life is probably to easy.

But fair enough everyone can have their take.

scirobon Qwen 3.8 27B

We maintain German Langauge index as no one publishes or reruns these sepeartly.

Qwen 3.8 27B is a small improvement with some regressions in our benchmarks not a huge jump like benchmarks listed.

https://dach.peerbench.ai/compare?models=qwen%2Fqwen3.8-27b,...

German language has never been a big focus for asian models but they still outperform Gemma models https://dach.peerbench.ai/compare?models=openai%2FQwen%2FQwe...

So in production we have been using Gemini Flash Lite as primary and fall back to Qwen when gemini servers are overloaded or just giving us 429

scirobon Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal

Same question.

I usually have one local clause orchestrating multiple remote Claude in different tmux . And then another orchester and remote vm worker sin tmux for another repo etc...

It gets a bit hard to keep the overview but I don't want to give up my parallelism, your too might help

scirobon Deno Desktop

They had this before I used it to ship some stuff but binaries were big . How small did they get it with this update

scirobon A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime

Yea pls protect it feels mega oppressive how most EU countries require you to have the SIM card guy in his corner store scan your passport.

scirobon Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model

Quickly deployed it to check some benchmarks relevant for German language. These are results for CohereLabs/include-base-44 german only : Gemma 4 12B %61.9

  Gemma 4 26B (a4b MoE)    0.647
  Qwen 3 14B               0.621 
  Gemma 4 12B              0.618
  Ministral 14B 2512       0.604 
  Gemma 3 12B              0.547

The quwen 3 14B vs Gemma 4 12B difference is within random variance they same in some repeat runs they actually got the exact same score. Next step up Gemma 4 31B gets 0.676 on this. Or let in some reasoning Qwen 3 14B (reasoning) 0.676.

I'll run some cheat-proof benchmarks ones tomorrow see if qwen is still on top.

scirobon Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment

Idk n26 still not integrated. Twint in Switzerland has amazing penetration can pay at any terminal with qr code

scirobon Mistral's CEO: Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state'

I wonder why googles biggest European office is in the low tax high salary country of Switzerland

scirobon EU weighs restricting use of US cloud platforms to process government data

OMG just do, EU needs some balls. Upcloud, Scaleway, Hetzner, OVH are all production ready . EU business leaders are so afraid of not using the biggest provider they are blind to how you IT can absolutely run 100% on compute from these providers and opensource

scirobon New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references

Great, it's so easy to automate checking ref super bad to not check

scirobon PGLite Evangelism

It's in wasm so should be possible to code up the next language

scirobon Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't

I can confirm init7 and the whole setup in CH is indeed working well

scirobon "Disregard That" Attacks

haha for sure some one has made a little aggregator for this and saving tokens. I bet you gotta dig for a while though before you find a company exposing Opust 4.6 to customers and not flash 2.5 lite

scirobon "Disregard That" Attacks

Another option:

If you have an LLM on the untrusted customer side the wrost it can do is expose the instructions it had on how to help the customer get stuff done. For instance phone AI that is outside of tursted zone asks the user for Customer number, DOB and some security pin then it does the API call to login. But this logged in thread of LLM+Customer still only has accessto that customers data but can be very useful.

You can jailbreak and ask this kind of client side LLM to disregard prior instructions and give you a recipie for brownies. But thats not a security risk for the rest of your data.

Client side LLM's for the win

scirobon Machine Payments Protocol (MPP)

x402 is more of a protocol than this

scirobon Ethiopia gets $350M World Bank financing for its digital ID project (2024)

its not only good https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/estonia-sues-gema...

scirobon Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users

This sounds decently targeted, why is it so offensive? Email marketing is far more democratic than Superbowl ads, give a small company a chance it's not hard to build something without the Superbowl millions

scirobon Building SQLite with a small swarm

Did they pass all unit tests in the end ?

scirobon Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library

ultra-lightweight, these dev's probably go hiking. I like : )

scirobon Show HN: Try [name-redacted] AI video model

Claims to give free first video gen for testing after signup but does not give enough credits to do so and still asks for payment.