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If you are a company selling Red Team cybersecurity services, it’s in your interest to make your services indispensable. Your unwilling customers must subscribe to frontier cyberse…

If someone wanted to use this as a real-time WAL-tracking read-only mirror of a live production database, for analytics work, is it ready for that use case yet?

To be very clear: there's a difference between the people shaping/benefiting from/profiting from this system, and those being shaped by it. And, without sharing too much personal i…

> deserves what they get American voters exist in an environment of propaganda addiction, with every piece of their personal technology reinforcing and profiting from said addictio…

There's a rich ecosystem around distributed tracing via OpenTelemetry! Honeycomb was one of the pioneers of this, and they contributed significantly to OTel which largely standardi…

Are there any that you'd recommend?

Similarly, I've often wondered if this is the root cause of why GitHub has become fragile of late. All of a sudden you have operations on billions of tiny files that are amplified …

I am shocked, shocked, that a company that is part of SpaceXAI would become hostile to its existing paying users and partners. This has never happened before in history.

It begs an interesting question as well: are frontier labs stuck in the incumbent phase of the "innovator's dilemma," where there's such intense pressure to maintain the flavor/cha…

Self-replying as this is no longer correct - there are two tiers, one matching Moonshot pricing with comparable latency/throughput, and a fast mode at $4.50/M (still cheaper than O…

The top threads here have commentary: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... especially https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41937664 IMO - while nothing i…

Here's an interview with the senior product manager of Apple Silicon that more-or-less says the same thing: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/06/apple-silicon-exec-expl... > He als…

Fireworks' priority tier of Kimi (at $3.75/M vs. Moonshot's $3.00/M) is available on OpenRouter as well. https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k3#providers Currently it's showing s…

One aspect of this is cyberattack proliferation by way of "Hey boss, I saw this TikTok that says if you let me invest [a tiny piece of the neighborhood's profit|our militia's budge…

It frustrates me that AI detection for student essays effectively works as a protection racket: if a student wants to write an essay without AI assistance and reliably get credit f…

This is really cool! What are you using for screenshot animation btw?

There are two types of users: those who are able to use subsidized rates, and those who need to use API rates due to audit requirements, enterprise billing, etc. Model routing for …

> this is the first llm that is capable and willing to write an exploit An open-source Kimi is going to have real economic impact (and not only because of its forcing function on f…

For clarity, those > quotes are from the article, and I'm explicitly advocating against that approach!

> Nurses are instructed to stick to a script on phone calls and give no more than two to three pieces of advice, Capulong and other nurses said, which means they may sometimes need…

> The biggest limitation of the pelican is that it doesn’t touch at all on the thing that matters most for today’s model: agentic tool calling and the ability to operate tools reli…

If AWS was a predatory mobile gacha game, we'd get 300 apology gems as credit to our accounts for this mixup, to help us in our rolls for the next 3-letter acronym they release. Do…

Given that Microsoft's overhead to actually landing features has, from what I've heard, long been more about dodging the cross-org and inter-org "guns" famously depicted in [0] and…

Not a ban, perhaps... but if I have two users - Alice who uses the app according to normal patterns, and Bob who consistently predicts and declines when my dynamic pricing algorith…