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tonyrice··on How (Not) to Find a SWE Job in North America
Relate to this very deeply.
tonyrice··on Analyzing data from Silicon Valley ventures and founders prosecuted for fraud
I once worked at a startup that did this. They raised over $1m+ on a slideshow and a fake mockup while convincing investors they had a working product. This company was eventually acquired and swallowed up. From what I understand it didn't make it to the market they intended.
tonyrice··on Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates
This reminds me of PhantomJS
tonyrice··on Our position on open-weights models
>We should not sell powerful chips or chipmaking equipment to China, and we should crack down on the rampant smuggling3 and workarounds used to obtain access to such chips. China has limited domestic production capacity, and therefore, due to the scaling laws, cannot build more powerful models than the US without US chips. This is the most efficient and direct way to block threat #1, and by hampering the training of models that are out of reach of US law, it also indirectly helps with threat #2.

If hardware becomes affordable for the masses, then Anthropic current business model is at risk.

tonyrice··on Our position on open-weights models
Imagine regulating a programming language. I remember when Delphi, Vb6, .net, etc was used often to create Remote Access Trojans and viruses were widespread. Companies didn't compete to ban other languages. Crime is crime. What would regulating open-weight models do for people that actually intend on using these tools for crime ?
tonyrice··on Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people
I really love this!
tonyrice··on U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations
I'm looking forward to better open source models. Now I just need to afford the compute to run these models.
tonyrice··on Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash
This is why I don't always use the official Gemini Web app. Lately I've found that it's more useful to utilize a CLI. I'm looking forward to the day they add MCP in the web.
tonyrice··on Tell HN: Happy Fathers Day
Happy Father's Day!
tonyrice··on Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites
rather interesting, except the spamming of the inappropriate messages.
tonyrice··on Cohere's First Model for Developers
I'm excited to see more OSS models
tonyrice··on RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8
If I had an eGPU right now, I'd 100% be using Qwen
tonyrice··on Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks
Yesterday, I gave Claude Fable 5 a very simple task. The task was to create a few components and embed them onto another page. It ended up completely missing the mark and embedding it on another page. I also noticed that it burned through an exponential amount of tokens to complete a simple task. I ended up switching back to Opus 4.8
tonyrice··on Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
lol :D fair enough
tonyrice··on Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows
I was literally just thinking about the desire to have a mouseless keyboard solution yesterday.
tonyrice··on The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was "modern"
Same here. I had a window's phone at some point. Would have loved it with a stylus.
tonyrice··on 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
> Everything is relative.

That makes me realize how much of society, economics and our nature is really like a current, ripples in a big ol ocean. Supply and demand baby.

tonyrice··on 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
At one point I remember DDR2 ECC coating like $150-$180

Looking at it from that frame, it seems reasonable.

tonyrice··on President signs executive order to give Gov. Early Access to AI Models
I would assume this would set a precedent for the government to have early access to proprietary technology before it was ever released?
tonyrice··on Automating Human Connection
The appearance of genuine, authentic interest would functionally appear to be the same as the actual true nature of it. I would imagine that the more frequent those connections are, the more likely leaks will appear that in turn signals the dishonest nature of the connection.
tonyrice··on Researchers directly observe infinitely long wavelengths for the first time
Functionally that makes sense to me. Something has a property of infinite must mean that it is infinite in nature? What if we can infinitely debate those questions because of infinity?
tonyrice··on Researchers directly observe infinitely long wavelengths for the first time
Without reading the context of the article yet, I would assume this means that we've observed another seemingly infinite component of existence ?
tonyrice··on We are constantly broadcasting emotional data
This makes me think about how much the world really has come because of our nature to connect with each other. Small things scaling.
tonyrice··on We are constantly broadcasting emotional data
As absurd as it sounds, their brains had to find something to associate that context with. He gave off a signal, and they had to interpret it somehow. Maybe it was so absurd and out of context it just switched the entire context of what they were being processed at the time.

We're like walking flash drives constantly associating, downloading and updating our storage.

Disarm people with absurdity. I'd rather not test it out though

tonyrice··on We are constantly broadcasting emotional data
lol that brought some joy to me. Thank you for your time
tonyrice··on We are constantly broadcasting emotional data
One of the things that I've noticed is there's an aversion to people noticing their emotions, companies analyzing that data, "men sharing their feelings" and the way that I've come to process these things is that at the end of the day they're all signals.

For example the gentlemen that we crossed. His rage, contempt, anger, disgust, whatever it may be, was a signal and the way that we interreacted had a profound impact on the other signals that came to surface.

I believe when we look at these signals from a functional perspective and truly consider the "subjective" nature of the signals, then it makes sense that they are some of the most important signals we have.

You put your hand in hot scolding water, most people immediately take note of the signal and act accordingly.

There's been a lot of devaluation on the actual supportive and objective nature of our own emotional and cognitive signals.

The mere idea that a corporation is tracking emotional data becomes absurd because at the end of the day, we're all kind of doing that ourselves. The tone of how we associate is a bit dysfunctional if you ask me.

tonyrice··on We are constantly broadcasting emotional data
What did reading this open up for you?
tonyrice··on We are constantly broadcasting emotional data
One of the beliefs that I conjured up, is that we're broadcasting these signals whether we intend to or not.

There's a lot of conflict around sharing emotional signals intentionally without realizing we're already doing that.

I personally believe that emotions are best to be understood regardless of what party is considering them, businesses, partners, society, etc.

tonyrice··on Ask HN: Question for Startup Founders on tracking emotions and cognitive signals
Thanks for your feedback. I realize that this is truly a complex subject and the framing of that really drives the direction of where my thought train is.

My ultimate thinking was that having awareness on emotional and cognitive signals correlating with business decisions made regardless of them can paint a deeper picture of how emotions impact the business.

It's a bit difficult to negate emotion in business but there's a strong pattern of people attempting to do that. Ignoring the signals don't make them go away, they just turn into something deeper.

tonyrice··on The first place you go after a breakup
Sadly, I feel that our culture needs to support more community like this. Breakups can be brutal, nasty and everything in between.

Pretty sure these reviews are fake. The download link for the app doesn't work either.

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