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> Clearly this is an attempt to prevent similar patents from being weaponised against them in the US. Why do we assume that Mistral is a "good guy" protecting themselves? I'm not s…

I was at a much smaller YC company when I found that AWS root credentials were checked into the repo, purely for S3 file uploads for logos. When other engineers and I brought it to…

I'd also argue this is the case for any company releasing open weights. They're not righteous, they're marketing. That's not necessarily a bad thing! They're releasing some great s…

My understanding was that they had to legally destroy the books after they processed them for whatever copyright strangeness was involved.

While I do like pgrust's license, I do feel like it's kind of wrong to port in such a direct way and change the license. I guess this isn't a fork, but it kind of is? It looks like…

Is there any way to view our consistent destruction of green energy products in the last few years as anything other than hostile towards the majority of people purely to have a ha…

Mitchell Hashimoto had a blog post a few months ago talking about him moving off of GitHub: https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github This is a man who's spent a signifi…

Qwen Max is their large model - over a trillion params. Similar to Kimi K3 in size. Qwen 3.8 27B is going to be more accessible to your own hardware. I'd say that Qwen Max is not a…

On other occasions, I'd take this as a time to have a walk because I'm blocked. Unfortunately, I need to get some stuff out for a customer quickly. Can't do anything about that tho…

While I won't take their limited benchmarks with much salt, if it actually is this close to opus, but at a third the cost, that's pretty solid. Now, Terra is pretty damn affordable…

Just like the last Oxide post, I just have to say how excited I am for their product as a concept. I really hope to see them continue to do well! Selfishly of course so I can make …

One consideration I have on every purchase I make is that I own it, like actually own it (with exceptions where necessary, of course). Internet access in something that shouldn't n…

Kimi K3 is about the same

Totally agree. Selfishly, I was always the "regular expression" guy because they were a bit hobby space of mine (engine implementation and such), so seeing LLMs rip them is a bid o…

Saw this at work yesterday. Absolute insanity to do something as user hostile as removing the cost of the service. There's no way to attempt to brand this as anything but negative …

Grok 4.5 is them as well now I guess since they're owned by spacex now. I'd consider grok 4.5 the sonnet and composer the haiku (both capable, fast models).

What's the point of not releasing it? Let people play with it and get some experience with it for a price.

LLMs come up a good bit on the Oxide and Friends podcast. I'd recommend giving it a listen. They have very reasonable takes on LLM usage. I think the idea of being all in on LLMs o…

This is probably just a personal lifestyle thing, but I'd rather have a cheaper, not as good thing that I own outright rather than lease (not own) a nicer, better thing. Cars, phon…

FWIW Apple has had some of the best device support lifetimes of any smartphone. Google started guaranteeing their 7 years of updates sometime around the Pixel 6 or so I want to say…

For transport you're right. I think the parent your referring to was specifically saying there's no alternative way to power a plane. That's my assumption at least.

Agreed that it's absurd. Consumers continue to purchase cars that do this though. BMW doing this, having proprietary bolt heads, and the subscription heated seats fiasco from nearl…

Free for individuals, but paid if you're the business it seems from what I've found? If that's the case, it seems to be the same as a card in the US and I wouldn't be surprised if …

From the first paragraph: >The goal is not to replace the current mail system, heaven forbid!, but to learn, have fun and discover current technologies to swap out every element: s…

I totally agree with the premise. I do agree with the parent that this wouldn't be a "mainstream" price. The mainstream is a $15 hoodie. I also try to own fewer, nicer things while…