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It does seem like there has been an increase in that social engineering approach. The Rust ecosystem was being targeted recently too, enough that they felt the need to warn people about it: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/09/17/targeted-attacks/
Re:OLED iPad Mini on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:29AM (#50244367)
But don't you just need a big camera on your giant tablet? How will you ever manage if you don't have a nice camera on both sides of all your handheld devices? /s

If they put the tiny "front-facing" camera pointed out the back it would be enough for the vast majority of people I imagine.

Re:I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets on Friday October 16, 2026 @06:09PM (#50125416)
This feature should be opt-in, but can someone explain how this is a security concern? I don't understand how it would be an actual security risk to share the first 5 digits of the sha256 of my passwords.
Ubicloud does not have hard budget caps, which I only realized this morning after moving all my CI over to them over the past few months. Fortunately I didn't learn the hard way.
Re:I Switched to Brave Browser on Monday September 28, 2026 @12:01PM (#49880160)
So did Brave stop that crypto thing that was clearly designed to steal money from content creators?

Yes I know, it's a tired complaint years after the fact, but if you launch a browser with that system as a core value prop then it should probably taint the leadership team for a good long while.

Re:Ember-1 on Sunday September 27, 2026 @03:26PM (#49869970)
Over on /r/LocalLLaMA there's a group that's been getting popular doing the same thing for the Qwen 27B (and other) models. - https://huggingface.co/ukisai
Re:Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @12:53PM (#49804358)
Great. Now let me use the subscription outside Claude Code.
Re:Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md on Friday September 18, 2026 @05:29PM (#49760508)
Just .gitignore CLAUDE.md and handle it locally. Checking in a symlink would be weird.
It's the scale that's the problem. I've been saying for a while, the value of any individual piece of work is not terribly valuable for an LLM, but the aggregate value of all human work is obviously very valuable. I think this line of thinking can be the argument for why we should heavily tax these AI companies above and beyond how we tax other industries.

Also that if you're going to use these things to write software, you should make it as virally copyleft as possible https://jackson.dev/post/moral-ai-licensing/

Re:Big AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture on Monday September 14, 2026 @01:55PM (#49701082)
I can't find the reference right now, but I'm certain that Anthropic has been asking for a coordinated slowdown for at least 4 or 5 months. I think it was around their Mythos/Fable releases this spring.
Re:Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils on Monday September 14, 2026 @11:31AM (#49698674)
Has the code quality in that repo gotten to a good point then? I haven't followed it much, but last I looked[1] (which was a few years ago) almost every tool I looked at in detail had pretty bad performance or correctness issues.

[1] https://jackson.dev/post/rust-coreutils-dd/

Re:GamersNexus and LG: Or why rooting your TV is a bad idea on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @01:49AM (#49605955)
demonstrate != explain?
Re:Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @01:24AM (#49429406)
Thanks! And from the Technical Report linked in there it looks like their Large unreleased model is a trained Qwen3.5-397B
Re:Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model on Monday August 24, 2026 @11:12PM (#49428676)
> starting from a strong open-source foundation and investing $40 million to train Thomson

Sounds like they spent $40 million finetuning an open weight model on their own data? I wonder what they built on.

Anecdotal, but from my personal usage I found GLM-5.3 was not as capable at performing autonomous tasks as Opus/Sol. Certainly competitive with the Sonnet/Terra level, but not with the Frontier.

I got their lowest subscription tier and burned a week of quota on trialling it.

Re:Scrap on Saturday August 22, 2026 @08:04PM (#49405047)
Be nice, maybe this person isn't very tech-savvy and doesn't know how to setup their own blog?

It's not like they are the highly technical founder of a very successful, privacy-focused messaging app....

Re:Thunderbird's Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign on Saturday August 15, 2026 @04:24PM (#49313989)
I think it's a design mockup, they didn't implement it yet.
Re:Thunderbird's Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign on Saturday August 15, 2026 @04:23PM (#49313986)
So this is a new design, but it's at the design proposal stage and not yet implemented?

They've been talking about redesigning Thunderbird for years now, but I'm honestly not sure I've noticed any difference at all in my actual use.

Re:Battery packs: Let's talk about crates, baby on Saturday July 18, 2026 @10:31AM (#48958505)
Since I don't see it mentioned yet, https://blessed.rs seems to be pretty popular for finding common/recommended crates in the Rust ecosystem.
Re:Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class Model that runs on a phone on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @04:33PM (#48912599)
Awesome! I've been waiting for them to start scaling ternary models for over a year[1]. Excited to try it out, typical Qwen 27B is too heavy for me to run on my local hardware at reasonable speeds.

[1] https://jackson.dev/post/dont-sleep-on-bitnet/

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026) on Sunday June 14, 2026 @02:47PM (#48531075)
I've continued working on Eidetica, my decentralized database project. I recently added support for a client/server architecture so that it can be transparently run as a local daemon for background sync and sharing the local storage with multiple users. I've been making progress on integrating blob storage next, as well as scoping out WASM based "lenses" for handling decentralized version/schema updates. https://github.com/arcuru/eidetica

I've primarily been testing it by building out my AI tool chaz into an Eidetica-native AI Agent framework for decentralized Agent sessions. It's working surprisingly well, it maps pretty well onto the storage model and it's uncovering issues with Eidetica I need to fix (which was always my primary reason for building it anyways). https://github.com/arcuru/chaz

Separately I'm building OptiMap, a SIMD-accelerated hashmap repo that explores the design space for hashmaps and benchmarks different approaches. This is mostly for my own learning but I'll eventually turn into a blog post. https://github.com/arcuru/optimap

Re:Surprise, Pay $1000 on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @12:12PM (#48478512)
I'm not so sure that Blacksmith is making the right choice around how to handle this signup flow, but I have very little sympathy for the person in this post. $1000 in CI is a lot of usage.
Re:Did Claude Increase Bugs in Rsync? on Friday June 05, 2026 @10:19PM (#48420774)
> rsync (remote sync) is a utility for transferring and synchronizing files between a computer and a storage drive and across networked computers by comparing the modification times and sizes of files.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync

It's even weirder that their long post doesn't mention it's Mac only.
I am very happy with DSv4 for their price/performance but neither of them are comparable to Opus.
Re:The Cost of Owning a Home on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @02:02PM (#48283361)
You can always go join your condo board meetings though. In my experience most HOA boards are filled with people who have seen horror stories of HOAs and don't want to live in a place with a bad one.

Sure sometimes they do make bad decisions, but you're welcome to just show up to their board meeting and give them some advice.

Re:DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent on Friday May 22, 2026 @01:59PM (#48239181)
It's actually even cheaper when you look at the cache read costs. Those costs can dominate in agent workflows and DeepSeek's cost for cache reads is insanely low comparatively. At $.003626/M tokens, the cheapest other thing on your list is >$.2/M tokens. That's on the scale of 100x cheaper.
Re:Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us on Monday May 18, 2026 @02:28PM (#48183541)
> What changed with Mythos Preview is that a model can now take those low-severity bugs (which would traditionally sit invisible in a backlog) and chain them into a single, more severe exploit.

I think this statement seems to align with some of the other independent tests of Mythos[1]. It did very well on long agentic work which I expect is what they trained it for, and that requires being able to find these tangential links between loosely related topics in the context window.

[1] I'm mainly referring to https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-evaluation-of-claude-mythos...

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