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tngranados

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Problem solver who ships. Rails, AI, and anything that gets the job done.

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tngranados··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
Are German manufacturers not subsidised? There are plenty of electrification grants, direct to manufactures and to consumers that end up improving sales for them
tngranados··on OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra
I saw some GPT-6 Astra related blog posts in my RSS feed but the links weren't working

Edit: In the OpenAI blog I meant to say

tngranados··on On AI regulation and messaging
> I don’t think that a glitzy marketing campaign with a positive spin (which some have advocated that Anthropic do) is the way to win back that trust — at this point, saying that AI will cure cancer is more a cliche than it is inspiring, and most people think it is deceptive. The thing that will work is actually curing cancer.

Then, proceeds at promising it again, without delivering. Amazing.

> We are however doing our best to fix this: Anthropic is ramping up its efforts very quickly in biology and medicine, and we hope to have incredible results in the coming years and some early glimmers in the coming months. When we’ve actually accomplished something real, the whole world will hear about it, as loudly as possible, you have my word on that.

tngranados··on JetZero
But even more people can
tngranados··on The Kimi K3 Moment
Do frontier labs not distill their own bigger models into the smaller/cheaper variants? I thought that’s been the case for a while
tngranados··on Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
Except it literally shows this post as the first result
tngranados··on Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies
The no AC in Europe thingy is mostly central and north Europe, where, in fairness, it didn't use to get very hot but now have heat waves fairly often.

Spain, Portugal, Italy and other southern European countries have very wide spread AC usage.

tngranados··on DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD
I'm not sure if the copy is also AI generated but I felt the same as the other commenter when reading it, although maybe I was influenced by the looks.
tngranados··on Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter
And it was founded in 2009, 14 years without turning a profit
tngranados··on GPT‑5.5 Instant
Looks like it gives more readable answer, hopefully it does, the regular free ChatGPT modal right now is insufferable.
tngranados··on Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027
I suppose they can advertise a 0.9x Wh battery and include a 1x Wh battery instead, which is fine for me. If the battery is going to degrade hard just give me one that only reaches 90% max.
tngranados··on Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?
That's a matter of changing a law, it's all up to the people and their representatives. We talk as if everything is set on stone but if there really is a will, there is a way.
tngranados··on Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again
Looks like they are trying to correct course now, but they’ve already lost the trust, and with the new lower limits, it’s probably not worth using it in OpenClaw
tngranados··on 447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane
I remember my father showing me one of those articles when I was a kid about a postal stamp size, thin and lightweight new memory system. I remember we were as doubtful then as you are now. A few years later I remember that moment while switching the micro SD card of a camera… Sometimes this breakthroughs turns out to be exactly as they are told
tngranados··on Gemini 3.1 Pro
There's a CAD example in that same thread: https://x.com/JeffDean/status/2024528776856817813
tngranados··on Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC
Building a C compiler is definitely hard for humans, but I don’t think it’s particularly strong evidence of "intelligence" from an LLM. It’s a very well understood, heavily documented problem with lots of existing implementations and explanations in the training data.

These kinds of tasks are relatively easy for LLMs, they’re operating in a solved design space and recombining known patterns. It looks impressive to us because writing a compiler from scratch is difficult and time consuming for a human, not because of the problem itself.

That doesn’t mean LLMs aren’t useful, even if progress plateaued tomorrow, they’d still be very valuable tools. But building yet another C compiler or browser isn’t that compelling as a benchmark. The industry keeps making claims about reasoning and general intelligence, but I’d expect to see systems producing genuinely new approaches or clearly better solutions, not just derivations of existing OSS.

Instead of copying a big project, I'd be more impressed if they could innovate in a small one.

tngranados··on BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp
Since some time ago, you can type the number directly in the search bar and it would let you message it, at least on iOS
tngranados··on Gemini 3
The point of benchmarking that is checking for hallucinations and overfitting. Does the model actually check the picture to count the legs or does it just see it's a dog and answer four because it knows dogs usually has four legs?

It's a perfectly valid benchmark and very telling.

tngranados··on Gemini 3 Pro Model Card [pdf]
It works fine for me using Movistar
tngranados··on Vapor chamber tech keeps iPhone 17 Pro cool
I've noticed my iPhone get hot the most while using the camera. Especially while taking video, but after a few photos it gets hot as well. I was on vacations last week in a tropical country and took a lot of photos with my 16 Pro and it gets so hot after just a few photos that it starts lagging A LOT due to the throttling.

I'm sure this is handy for LLM usage, but this was a problem before those were a thing I'd say.

tngranados··on Los Alamos is capturing images of explosions at 7 millionths of a second
The first line of the articles says "seven-millionths of a second", which would be 1/7μs or 0,14μs. They also mention that the camera shot 16 frames in that period, so that would be once every 0,00875μs or once every 8,75ns

Youtubers are a couple of magnitudes away from that, AFAIK

tngranados··on No Calls
“ No sales calls, except for a short 'discovery call' if absolutely needed.”

But it’s the default call to action for bigger inquiries

tngranados··on No Calls
I even went back to check the post date, but it’s from today and yet they do have a “book a call” button. I don’t get it. Is this just marketing?
tngranados··on Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking
It's basically how the Apple Vision Pro mainly works.
tngranados··on macOS command-line tools you might not know about
I didn't know about `taskpolicy`, I'll add it to my list. It will be handy now that it's getting hot around here for long running commands that I don't mind waiting for, Apple Silicon Macs run cooler than Intel's but they can still get very hot when maxed out.
tngranados··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2023)
Remote from Europe is ok?
tngranados··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2023)
Can’t find any iOS roles in the list but you are mentioning it in the comment, is the role already filled?
tngranados··on WezTerm is a GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator written in Rust
I switched to WezTerm a few months ago after setting up a new computer and missing an easy way to share the iTerm2 config between my computers just like I do with most of my other tools that use dotfiles.

It’s a very nice application, easy to configure, very customisable, stable. I’ve only have experienced one bug with app, I opened an issue in GH and Wez had a nightly version with a fix in just a few hours.

If you haven’t check it out yet, I highly recommend it.

tngranados··on Ask HN: What's your proudest hack?
When I was a teenager, my friends and I played this free MMO game online. A friend was told by another friend of him about a bug in the game. This bug would let you receive the reward of a certain mission without marking it as complete, so you could get the reward as many time as you wanted.

Me and my friend started exploiting the bug like crazy, spending hours literally just doing that. The problem was that the process to exploit this bug was very convoluted and a pain to do manually.

I had no experience of programming nor anyone around who knew anything about it, but I felt that there must be a way to do the whole process automatically. Computers are meant to automate stuff, right? Anyway, I started investigating online and found AutoIt, which is a BASIC-like scripting language that allows you to automate GUI stuff.

I then began building a script that did literally what I had to do manually to exploit that bug. And literally means literally. The way I made it work was by scanning colors in coordinates (to check whether a window it's opened, etc), moving the mouse and clicking. The script was full of duplicate code. I didn't knew about loops. All I knew was if conditions and mouse actions. I even remember having to go to a forum and asking for help (in super broken English) because I wanted to keep the program running indefinitely (they told me to use `while true`). But it worked.

Anyway, I spent about two weeks of after school afternoons building this bot. Then, when I had it working, got banned in a matter of days :^)

This might not seems like much, but I remember it fondly as this was my introduction to programming and the reason this became my career. I'm still holding onto the (terrible, terrible) script.

tngranados··on SwiftUI Is Convenient, but Slow
Have you tried using EquatableViews? That would let you customize if you want the view to get updated when the diffing occurs. Seems like a perfect fit for your issue.
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