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I seem to recall that one of their original selling points was that they were based in Switzerland which does not have data sharing agreements with the US under the Patriot act, unlike the EU.

Cynical view - they prefer to IPO in another market than Swiss, the real reason for the move.

sfc32on Show HN: Zenflow – orchestrate coding agents without "you're right" loops

The multi-LLM approach is a great direction and I like the polished feel of the application. Moving up to a more project managenent approach is welcomed. I will download and give it a go.

One thought - vendors like cursor.ai have the benefit of highly tuned prompts, presumably by programming language, as the result of their user bases. How is it possible to compete with this?

On another note, I have played around with v0 etc, but AFAIK there is no really good UX/UI AI tool that can effectively replace a designer in the way that coding tools are replacing engineers (to a certain extent).

sfc32on Kimi K2 1T model runs on 2 512GB M3 Ultras

A single 512GB M3 Ultra is $9,499.00

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-studio/apple-m3-ultra...

sfc32on US 'Homeland Security' Twitter account seemingly run from Israel

Most of Maga is in Africa, and all over Africa? A bit difficult to understand.

sfc32on iPhone Pocket

Is it April 1st today?

sfc32on When a Street Kills a Child, We Put the Parents on Trial

Wow https://archive.is/jcxbu

sfc32on When a Street Kills a Child, We Put the Parents on Trial

Is there any more to this story? Even for the dystopian US, this seems odd.

sfc32on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file

No source code?

sfc32on Show HN: I made an AI that turn live lecture into structured notes,mind-maps,PDF

Is it possible to see an example without signing up?

sfc32on Show HN: Go Plan9 Memo

> Performace And The Future

There's a typo on "Performance"

sfc32on Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter?

I read it as "Can you get A root with only a cigarette lighter?"

sfc32on U.S. Shrugs as World War III Approaches

Here's the report https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/nds_comm...

sfc32on U.S. Shrugs as World War III Approaches

https://archive.is/dMwmg

sfc32on U.S. Shrugs as World War III Approaches

Hilarious. Are you of conscription age?

The personal commitment made by troops sent to Iraq and Afghanistan was beyond WW2 levels https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/...

> The Army retains very little unutilized capacity to deploy additional active component soldiers without lengthening deployments or shortening the time between deployments, both of which increase the burden on those who have already deployed.

sfc32on U.S. Shrugs as World War III Approaches

Also on CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/21/politics/video/smerconish...

sfc32on Let's compile like it's 1992 (2014)

Had some problems opening the archive

Archive: wolfsrc.zip End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on the last disk(s) of this archive. unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of wolfsrc.zip or wolfsrc.zip.zip, and cannot find wolfsrc.zip.ZIP, period.

sfc32on Most people with addiction simply grow out of it (2014)

They don't call it Dope because it makes you smarter

sfc32on Most people with addiction simply grow out of it (2014)

> Not letting your kid touch the hot stove at all is as bad as letting them pull a pot of boiling water down on their head.

While kids are over-protected these days, I strongly disagree with this.

sfc32on Tech companies axe 34,000 jobs since start of year in pivot to AI

Link to unpaywalled article?