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vopion Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"

Does this article not have a source?

vopion Introducing System One Models and Jev

This is actually pretty cool. I think the undertalked about part of this for TypeSafe is that they can always "extract"/distill the frontier of this type of task from the newest LLMs for cheap. Jev seems seems to be GPT-6-Astra/Fable 5.1 but I imagine a bunch of training data is from earlier models?

Then, you can serve it faster/cheaper than the frontier LLMs. It's basically distilling a small but extremely common use-case from LLMs and serving it. Then RLCD comes into play to update weights when a new model comes out, etc.

Any thoughts on what the next potential "cheap" win to be distilled from frontier LLMs is? I'm going to need to play around with this.

vopion Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026

I don’t think it was misleading, deliberately or otherwise. Did you read the report? I hate to call you out like that but I think you can only get that impression if you only read the above quotes. That’s not the insinuation I get at all. It’s specifically under the “illicit distillation” category. It’s never framed in anyway but as a form of distillation.

I think they are pretty fair and explicitly say “Distillation itself is a legitimate training method […] Distillation is commonly used because it reduces the resources needed to achieve more advanced capabilities”. And go on to say their definition that makes it illicit in these cases.

And, also, they almost certainly __were__ tricking users and sending their data overseas.

Do you see it any differently?

vopion Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra

Heads up: it doesn't appear to be available on the Devin CLI (for me as a free user).

vopion Fable 5.1 World Modeling

Cool demo! That's funny. I literally sketched out something similar 30 minutes ago on paper. I wonder if there was some recent, semi-related article/link that subconsciously prompted the relevance.

vopion Elixir-lang.org has a new design

>I also worked on all of the copy myself, collecting feedback from core maintainers as I went. The new tagline was a suggestion from Theo which we iterated on. I did use LLMs as an assistant, but I did not ask it to generate the content.

>Might as well use LLMs for the whole thing next time, since we will be accused of doing so anyway! :D

vopion My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite

I generally agree with you that choosing something based on where it's hosted is dumb. I still think there could be an impact wrt a network effect.

The original comment you replied to was talking about "the loss of network effect" and you sounded dismissive of it. It might not even matter, but I think it's somewhat fair to say it could have an impact.

vopion My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite

I agree. It's possible in the future a project hosted on codeberg is a silent "stamp of quality". Though, I still think there could be impact wrt a network effect.

vopion My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite

You’re telling me you would be as likely to contribute to a project hosted in CVS as compared to git (and on GitHub)?

vopion My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite

“An Ad hominem refers to when a speaker attacks the character, motive, or some other attribute of the person making an argument rather than the substance of the argument itself”

It’s definitionally an ad hominem against Jared. If he stuck to why he thought it was bad for Bun to do this, I would be more sympathetic.

vopion Identity verification on Claude

The answer seems to be yes [0]. Although I think it's important to state The Web Archive link proves that the recent Fable banning was not the catalyst for the page being linked.

Will Fable be back behind an ID verification step? I wouldn't be shocked if that happened. However, this specific support page and the ID veridiction process is not new. It is currently enforce.

It appears (but I can't be certain and don't think it's in bad faith) that many people are under the assumption that this is a result of the Fable banning. As a datapoint, I did some form of KYC verification to use OpenAI's cybersecurity platform a few weeks ago.

To be clear: I still think this is an important discussion.

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1smpjg8/well_iv...

Edit: truthbe above pointed out there was a privacy policy change.

vopion TypeScript 7.0 Beta (built on Go)

A quote from the official FAQ - https://github.com/microsoft/typescript-go/discussions/411:

>By far the most important aspect is that we need to keep the new codebase as compatible as possible, both in terms of semantics and in terms of code structure. We expect to maintain both codebases for quite some time going forward. Languages that allow for a structurally similar codebase offer a significant boon for anyone making code changes because we can easily port changes between the two codebases. In contrast, languages that require fundamental rethinking of memory management, mutation, data structuring, polymorphism, laziness, etc., might be a better fit for a ground-up rewrite, but we're undertaking this more as a port that maintains the existing behavior and critical optimizations we've built into the language. Idiomatic Go strongly resembles the existing coding patterns of the TypeScript codebase, which makes this porting effort much more tractable.

TLDR: Typescript -> Go is much easier than Typescript -> Rust/Zig/$OTHERNATIVELANG

vopion Khipu Field Guide

This is a very interesting reference/jupyter NB/historiography someone put together about deciphering Khipu, the cord-based numbering system/ancient Excel from the Inca's.

"Welcome to The Khipu Field Guide - Travel back in time to the Inkan empire of the 14th through 16th century. Explore how the Inkas used cloth to communicate and record commitments. Journey with me, as I work with other khipu scholars, to decipher the enigma behind a knotted mop of camelid yarn."

There is some statistical analysis here but part of my hopes in posting on HN is perhaps someone here might get nerdsniped by it.

vopion When the CIA got away with building a heart attack gun

Mind sharing some links? Curious what you are talking about.

vopion Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge management software

As far as I know, it's the opposite (using Skia to render). Flutter for the web is a second-class citizen, whereas for mobile apps, it's quite productive.

vopion Vanna.ai: Chat with your SQL database

Are all those Twitter testimonials fake? None seem to be actual accounts.

vopion Convoscope: Smart Glasses Intelligence Tools

Super cool demo. The potential for "contextual search engines" to live up to what I really wanted from Google Glass a decade ago is exciting.

Never tried the later enterprise Google Glass, but it always seemed generally to be more of a smart watch with a prism strapped to your face than a future-tech(tm) assistant strapped to your face.

vopion Ask HN: Why did Python win?

Can you elaborate why we're living in the era of Textual? Genuinely. It seems like a pretty nifty library but I'm not sure it transcends to killer library territory. Thanks!

vopion G/O media will make more AI-generated stories despite critics

Great quote.

vopion FCC orders phone companies to block scam text messages

For me, it has a been a very recent thing. A couple years ago, I would have had a handful a year. Now it wouldn't surprise me if I had a couple a day.

vopion Llama.cpp: Port of Facebook's LLaMA model in C/C++, with Apple Silicon support

Hmm. I'm not sure. Presumably this will be updated soon: https://www.youtube.com/@geohotarchive/videos

vopion Flux Keyboard

Ahh thanks!

vopion Llama.cpp: Port of Facebook's LLaMA model in C/C++, with Apple Silicon support

https://www.twitch.tv/georgehotz/videos?filter=archives&sort...

although, there is a VOD channel on YT that might be better.

vopion Flux Keyboard

I was recently messing around with a very small eink display (and used it to display HN posts somewhat similar in concept to you). Out of curiosity, what display is that/where did you source it from?

vopion Fun Fact: I own porn I can't watch

Perhaps you could call it a video essay?

vopion Panoramas of Deus Ex Human Revolution

If it at all persuades you, I was barely home from the hospital when the original came out. I played it a couple of years ago as I love DX:HR and DX:MD. It takes a couple hours to get immersed past the technical limitations, but once you are in, it still holds up. I even chose not to use any modern patches to get the original experience. It can be a little wonky especially with 20 years of game development hindsight, but still worth a play through.

But I can completely understand if some people can't get through it (I'm like that with a lot of older games)

vopion U.S. Army Camouflage Improvement Explained (2013)

Could you comment on the price aspect I thought up? As I understand it is cheap and only the cost per hour is an issue. Obviously the actual program is expensive, but I wanna ignore that for now and focus on the actual performance.

Because I'm at work and can't look through the full 372 page non-public report linked, can you provide some page numbers I could look at? I'm curious what the actual issues are in actual use.

Btw I'm not of the same mindset of the other guy, I'm not gonna call you a "Luddite Reformer" because I saw a YouTube video.

From when I know many of the issues are FUD, but obviously there is real issues and I'd like to better educate myself. But I am just a layman with limited research time.

vopion U.S. Army Camouflage Improvement Explained (2013)

The F-35 ended up being great though. Even now, it's cheaper on a per unit basis than other aircraft that are worse.

vopion EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, approved

Nevermind, my ctrl-f'ing failed me. Ignore.

vopion EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, approved

Where does it mention side loading? Still skimming the legal doc, but it just says basically they need to be fair and non-discriminatory about app-store access.