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woadwarrior01

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woadwarrior01··on Fuck Android Developer Verification Program
Same! I ported my free iOS utility app[1] to Android because a lot of people were asking for it. Just before I could publish it, they closed my Play Store account for a year of inactivity. Now, I haven't been able to re-create the Play Store account. Every time I try, money gets debited from my card, but the process ultimately fails. TBF, the money gets refunded after a month or so.

I'm happy supporting iOS, macOS and web.

[1]: https://cleanlinks.app/en

woadwarrior01··on Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics
It depends. BTC is, ETH isn't.
woadwarrior01··on Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models
This isn't really surprising. LLM reasoning and before that, chain of thought prompting are essentially forms of test-time compute scaling.
woadwarrior01··on 10 Tells of a Slop UI
It takes one to know one.
woadwarrior01··on Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story
There's a related Steve Jobs quote:

"When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through."

woadwarrior01··on Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story
> For one, Apple was unwilling to have visible barcodes printed on the envelopes — but it wanted every step of the shipping and delivery of your card tracked. That wasn’t something the US Postal Service did. Apple and the printing company created an invisible barcode that was sprayed on the envelope, visible only under certain UV light, so that the envelope itself would remain unadulterated. And the USPS agreed to scan cards when sent, when processed at mail facilities, up to and including when they went out on a mail truck for delivery.

This is classic Steve Jobs. Sheer force of will.

woadwarrior01··on Can gzip be a language model?
aka Normalized compression distance (NCD). Its close cousin: Normalized Google distance (NGD) is also super interesting!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalized_compression_distanc...

woadwarrior01··on SDCC – Small Device C Compiler
I have fond memories of using it for PIC16 as a teenager, ~25 years ago. It was a huge step up from writing assembly. My parents bought me a Microchip PICSTART Plus, but refused to pay for a Hitech-C compiler license. :)
woadwarrior01··on How GLM built its own inference infrastructure
That is such a canard, IMO. FWIW, Anthropic and OpenAI encrypt "thinking" token outputs in their models, while Chinese labs don't. If anything, it's more likely that everyone is using open-weight models in their synthetic training data generation pipelines. It's way easier to distill from logits than it is to distill from hard tokens.

https://x.com/EricSimons/status/2099252922098061714

woadwarrior01··on Show HN: Jexxa: High Speed on Device Dictation
Apple provides APIs for doing this in a privacy-sensitive way, instead of exfiltrating data like this, carte blanche using PostHog.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/metrickit

woadwarrior01··on Swift 6.4 Released
This[1], I suspect.

https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-pr...

woadwarrior01··on Swift 6.4 Released
Incidentally, there's a nascent OSS project called OpenSwiftUI.

https://github.com/OpenSwiftUIProject/OpenSwiftUI

woadwarrior01··on Show HN: Jexxa: High Speed on Device Dictation
If you care so much about user privacy, why do you exfiltrate events named "dictation_started", "dictation_completed", "dictation_rejected", "dictation_blocked", "insertion_failed", etc to PostHog, with properties named: "audio_seconds", "latency_ms", "duration_ms", "install_id", etc?
woadwarrior01··on Show HN: Jexxa: High Speed on Device Dictation
I spent ~10 minutes looking at it.

Vibe-coded website.

Both bundles contain quantized versions of the CohereLabs/cohere-transcribe-03-2026 model. The model in JEXXA.dmg is MLX int8 g64 affine quantized. JEXXA-Small.dmg has the same model but MLX int4 g32 affine quantized. There's also an int8 quantized WeSpeaker ECAPA-TDNN speaker-verification ONNX encoder. No acknowledgments for both models (doesn't the Apache 2.0 license require it? WeSpeaker's cc-by-4.0 license certainly does). Both bundles also contain full-blown Python 3.12.8 runtimes with about a dozen packages installed.

Apps are unsandboxed menubar apps and also contain PostHog analytics and Supabase auth. So, I wouldn't run it on any of my machines.

A few engineering hygiene issues like a .pytest_cache directory, Python code, .DS_Store files, etc.

Given the above, I suspect the "I am training better models." is just marketing speak.

nb: The demo link without LinkedIn tracking slop: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sankyde_jexxa-demo-httpsjexxa...

woadwarrior01··on Compressing a flag to 11 bits
Very interesting!

I suppose the next logical thing to do would be to train a language model to generate random flags, call it Artificial Flag Intelligence (AFI) and raise a $10m pre-seed at $100m post. :P

woadwarrior01··on Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace
I'm not defending claudeslop, but TBF, anaphora and its lesser-known sibling: epistrophe far predate the English language, let alone something new like LLMs.
woadwarrior01··on JetKVM Mini
On a related note, I came across this USB-C KVM on pre-order the other day. It ostensibly supports Tailscale, which would be really useful.

https://sipeed.com/nanokvm-go

woadwarrior01··on Retrospectively Reverse-Engineering Apple's Neural Engine
This one's authored by a human, the other one is authored by Claude.

> Does the M4 and later ANE expose any additional capabilities, or is it just a higher-performance iteration of the same thing?

IIUC, M4 introduced a fast path for INT8 weights and activations (w8a8). M5 Ultra, M6 and A20 have two ANEs.

> As an aside, the introduction to this article seems to conflate the ANE with the Neural Accelerators (NAX)

Yeah, that part is true. NAX cores are matmult accelerators, closer to tensor cores in NVIDIA GPUs.

woadwarrior01··on RTK reports token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree
TBF, what difference does it make when the very harnesses you're using these "hacks" in are themselves vibe-coded?
woadwarrior01··on Compute-efficient pretraining and scaling to trillion-parameter models
They have a history of making grandiose claims like this[1] from 2024, with no visible products or research.

[1]: https://magic.dev/blog/100m-token-context-windows (also linked to in their blogpost)

woadwarrior01··on Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
> - Levent works at Anthropic, but this research was independent of his work there, with a mix of GPT and Claude models.

One minor wrinkle in Alpöge's narrative, he refuses to deny that he hasn't used any non-public Anthropic models for his "independent" research.

https://x.com/giffmana/status/2097560503581069585

woadwarrior01··on Kimi K3 (2.8T) at 1 token/s on a MacBook Pro, streamed from four SSDs
That's because it's copy pasted from a coding agent.
woadwarrior01··on bzip3
I'd recommend trying openzl for jsonl.
woadwarrior01··on Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
You might want to look at this CLI that Tencent released recently.

https://github.com/Tencent/teamai-cli

woadwarrior01··on Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Who will watch the watchmen?

woadwarrior01··on Statichost.eu – European static site hosting
Especially when it's hosted in the UK.
woadwarrior01··on Statichost.eu – European static site hosting
The company is Swedish, but the website is hosted by datacamp in the UK. You can see it for yourself if you run whois on their domain.

https://datacamp.co.uk

woadwarrior01··on An open DNS recursive service for free security and high privacy
What are the odds that it's a honeypot?
woadwarrior01··on WebLLM: high-performance in-browser LLM inference engine
Yeah, both WebLLM and mlc-llm have been mostly abandoned since NVIDIA acquired OctoAI in late 2024.
woadwarrior01··on Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards
They care very deeply about retaining their #1 position on Felony Bench. :)

https://www.felonybench.com/

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