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love this project. i used it on my pinephone daily for at least a year: it does _everything_ you'd want and does it fast. problem for me was that they vendor like 30 different depe…

we've barely scratched the surface when it comes to the available design space of agent harnesses. i also expect you'll see markedly different results if you constrain yourself to …

hopefully all of the above? at some point the conversation has to go past this reflexive "USA uses tech abusively -> but look at how abusive China is with tech -> ..." back-and-for…

i'm mildly annoyed by the project in general because i put in a sizable effort getting the whole sway stack to cross compile correctly in nixpkgs/NixOS, keeping that stable for a y…

i hadn't considered that Seattle might be an outlier; the numbers vary by city more than i knew. https://www.soundtransit.org/sites/default/files/documents/2... page 11 has the $ f…

the turnstile thing is more complex than you perceive because almost every transit system relies on public funding. here (Seattle) those fares only fund about 10% of the _operating…

i just prompted Kimi & it replied with an uncensored version. i posted the transcript as a reply to you, and HN automatically flagged it. but go on.

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> The bigger problem with the post is that it talks out of both ends of the mouth: it’s clearly meant as a personal attack, but also insists that it isn’t. my instinct is to step u…

the options available to small web hosts are: 1. do nothing: everyone gets page loads of 30s if not worse. 2. put the content behind anubis -> load drops by 80% and page loads are …

just their smallest dataset looks to be 6 TB _compressed_. not a thing you can really ship as part of the agent. but if somebody made a fetch_url tool that sharded that across all …

ironically (?) i prefer to improve Pi by connecting MCP servers instead of native extensions in part due to this (process-level sandboxing is trivial; anything more granular -- as …

any tips for calibrating or even just validating these handheld CO2 meters? i've taken a few Amazon-listed CO2 meters from $dirt-cheap to $150, tossed them in a ziplock, and then d…

i installed the playwright MCP to let my agent access walled sites (specifically ebay and WSJ). i noticed that 90% of the time it was bounced from a site, it just reached out to a …

that's somewhere between saying "use Android, just switch to Graphene if/when they lock it down", and saying "just switch to postmarketOS/Ubuntu Touch/whatever flavor of Linux take…

AgentWorld is _fantastic_. i just migrated "down" from the 122B A10B qwen model to agentworld (35B A3B) because it feels as capable, easier to steer, and it's 3x faster. also i lik…

i like that people are taking the privacy argument seriously, after however many decades. i think there are other arguments to be made for running these locally which are less sett…

the _one_ downside i've seen is on an airplane serviced by Starlink: UDP was extremely lossy to the point that whatever recursive resolver i was using at the time would mark half o…

Buy Bitcoin. look, i'm sorry, but this is a thoroughly solved problem by now.

the companies which have the power to alleviate these shortages are the same companies who are profiting most from the shortage. scarcity is an asset, it's not irrational that a co…

can those macs boot linux? i've heard about Asahi but have no idea how far along they are. i've got my fleet configured with nix and sure, nix can target darwin, but there's a _lot…

i asked gemini and it replied with "Error: 400 Your prompt was blocked by safety filters. Please revise and try again."

curl used to have rust in it, dropped it 1.5 yrs ago. AI doesn't help with the hard parts here i don't think. https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/12/21/dropping-hyper/

a huge aspect of open source is the user -> contributor -> maintainer pipeline. maybe they mean well, but in fact they're constructing a wall between those last two groups. especia…

good for bitcoin