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supjeff··on Superlogical
backed by tobi lutke? so, supervillain tech.
supjeff··on Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace
We've had frontier models widely available for general use for 5-6 years now. Despite the promises, we haven't revolutionized anything; not society, not government, not engineering, not the environment. The only thing we've done is revolutionize the pockets of AI purveyors, suppliers and charlatans. We haven't cured disease, ended hunger, or achieved time travel. Sure, the tech is cool. But it's cool at 1b, 8b, and 30b parameters at a size that fits on consumer hardware. Hyperscale AI that's built for no purpose in particular, at any social/environmental cost, is everything that's wrong with society. That's not Christian fundamentalism or doomerism, that's recognizing the sickness at the core of the tech industry. We let the tech-billionaires delete their ESG pledges, and abandoned the fight against climate change so we can generate celebrity porn.
supjeff··on Neutrino-1 8B
software naming claims another victim
supjeff··on Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace
a "moment for humanity"? as if this shit isn't going to generate 99% slop at the cost of all we have left as a species?
supjeff··on Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace
I think China publishing this stuff is more about prestige. The US has had export controls that make it illegal to sell Nvidia chips, and other AI hardware to China, and this is China saying "yeah, whatever". Also, it weakens western tech companies' position in AI, and pushes CCP bias perniciously. Building your product/company on top of a text-generation model that favours the CCP position on everything is just peak propaganda.
supjeff··on Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
I'm having some success running `qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b` in LMStudio with Opencode. I'm on an M4 MBP with 36gb. I'm getting 80 tok/sec with 260k context limit and temperature set to 0 (same prompt results in same output every time).
supjeff··on 'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon employees mock the company's AI on Slack
maybe the managers should be replaced
supjeff··on Hospital at centre of child HIV outbreak caught reusing syringes in Pakistan
If they aren't educated, throw the whole thing away and start over. if they are educated, and decided to share HIV needles with children, throw the whole thing away, but put them all in prison.
supjeff··on Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’
Oh, you think the current administration only wants robots that kill other robots! Sweet Summer Child!

Its not fully autonomous ice cream machines, its fully autonomous _weapons_. are you stupid or are you dumb? I don't think you're asking an honest question.

supjeff··on Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court
does anybody think prices will fall after this?

i don't

supjeff··on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan launches dark-money group to influence CA politics
I agree with you, in spirit, but I think the true issue lies elsewhere.

Rich people can spend money to influence elections, yes, but how can they do it? through political donations, super-pacs and bribes. Bribes are already illegal. political donations and super-pacs can give politicians the juice they need to get their messaging out, but getting the message across isn't enough to win an election. The people need to vote. Billionaires can spend as much money as they want to support candidates, but a billionaire still only has one vote to cast.

My point is, billionaires can pay for all the political campaigns in the world, but the electorate gets the final say. It's up to us to A) run for office and B) vote for the best candidate (but tell that to the 64% turnout in the 2024 presidential election)

supjeff··on CIA suddenly stops publishing, removes archives of The World Factbook
yeah, where is the CIA going to find the money to pay a few editors?

I think you touched on the real reason: objective facts are anti-trump, woke leftist propaganda

supjeff··on CIA suddenly stops publishing, removes archives of The World Factbook
How much do we believe the current administration values "intelligence"? For the most part, the truth is trump's enemy. as far as he can control it, it's better for his to be the only authoritative voice. If he says Australia is full of muslims and bad hombres, he doesn't need the CIA contradicting him.
supjeff··on LICENSE: _may be_ licensed to use source code; incorrect license grant
i think it's just meant to add an air of poise and propriety as such
supjeff··on Things I want to say to my boss
If a good leader is somebody who consistently sets a good example, and is willing to sacrifice personally for their team, I don't think there are very many out there. The problem is that companies still need "leaders" the same way TV stations need programming.

If an company decides to invest some money in the pursuit of an opportunity, some managers might get hired or promoted, and the company isn't going to scour the earth for genuinely good leaders. They'll post a job, take a few interviews then promote the person who was going to get it anyway, or hire somebody who looks the part. Generally, one shouldn't take middle-managers seriously.

supjeff··on Gemini 3 Pro Model Card [pdf]
given how often these llms are wrong, doesnt it make sense that they are less confident?
supjeff··on SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3
> SSH3 is a complete revisit of the SSH protocol

so, new undiscovered vulnerabilities

supjeff··on How to be a leader when the vibes are off
> how to be a leader: total and complete capitulation while you wait for it to blow over

yep. that's leadership.

supjeff··on Product Hunt is dead
I don't know if it's fair to call this a dead-internet thing. Most comments on social media are nothing or misdirection. You might say "well that's easy if you're paying for fake activity from bots" but I've seen plenty of real people have transactional, nothing-exchanges in real life. I mean, the internet isn't the only place where people are fake/lazy.
supjeff··on Product Hunt is dead
The author assumes that he's talking to legitimate vote-riggers, and not just people who will screenshot successful posts, say it was their doing, pocket his money and block him.
supjeff··on Abundant Intelligence
AGI answer: "Individual people must change their habits"
supjeff··on Corporations are trying to hide job openings from US citizens
I feel like there was a lot of nonsense ideas for what is such a short, and supposedly journalistically rigorous article
supjeff··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025)
Looking at your post comment history, you've posted the same roles since June, and had a 60 person team for 3 months. Why are you posting if you're not hiring?
supjeff··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025)
It looks like you copy/pasted this from the post you made in last month's thread. You're still hiring for the same positions? Are you actually hiring? Why haven't you filled any of these roles? Why are you posting if you're not actually hiring?
supjeff··on Parler 'free speech' app tops charts in wake of Trump defeat
> Obvious and dead horse beaten issue. I’m working on solving this and will report here when I’ve got a prototype. Surprising insights arise from pondering the philosophy of show and tell-specifically how listening is involved in order to “earn” your turn to speak.

Do you ever look at what you've written and ask yourself: "Would somebody else understand this"? Could you say it again, but using enough words this time?

supjeff··on Ex-Enron CEO Skilling launching new digital marketplace for oil investors
> The guy paid his debt to society, let him try to do something positive with his life now.

Yes, the guy who committed some of the most flagrant financial crimes in history as the CEO of an energy exchange deserves a second chance at running an energy exchange the moment he is released from prison.

supjeff··on On responses to “Bye, Amazon”
If I search these comments for the word "union", there are no relevant results. Why don't we unionize tech workers?
supjeff··on Thousands flock to Wikipedia founder's 'Facebook rival'
Aside from the fact that wales' software is supposed to be free and open source and thus will not require its users to trust the founder as much as they are forced to with fb, how is Wales not more trustworthy than Zuck? One guy has a string of abuses and apologies spanning almost two decades as the founder, CEO and majority shareholder of a company that helped the Russian gov't steal the 2016 election and helped bring back eradicated diseases, and the other created a non-profit encyclopedia and gave away the source code?
supjeff··on Left-pad as a service
I went ahead and made an SDK https://www.npmjs.com/package/left-pad-io-js-sdk
supjeff··on Show HN: Yet another (faster) way to discover events nearby
Lots of interesting events in my area!

I made a similar app that shows you nearby events from your facebook "likes". I'd be interested to see what you guys think of it https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/eventual/id1016305409?mt=8

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