Sajarin

Trenchboom is great!

Shameless plug but I ended up making this q3 map using a custom Trenchboom MCP:

https://sajarin.com/q3inc

Looks like apple services compatibility is not currently supported for this [0]

[0] https://github.com/Lakr233/vphone-cli/discussions/175

They have a bit more info on their announcement blog post[0]

> Belfort today released the "so far" CIFAR demo, an encrypted implementation of ResNet-20, a popular model for image classification. It outperforms recent SOTA by 3x with a total latency of less than 200ms

Not many details on how they've done this, so I'm a bit skeptical. Fast HE is a holy grail.

> Belfort's image classification is built on top of its upcoming GPU library, Cyclops. It comes with several optimizations that make Cyclops extremely fast on Encrypted AI workloads.

Looks like a lead up to an upcoming library release

[0] https://belfortlabs.com/blog/sofar

Just blogged about this here[0] but at least they're not doing the usual canned PR response surrounding this.

Folks are already building on top of it:

thedavidweng/gork-build[1] — rebrand grok→"gork", stripped vendor telemetry, opt-out-only data retention, blocks x.ai auto-update. A "VSCodium-style privacy fork."

DigiGoon/digi-grok-build[2] — "dgrok" multi-provider CLI, builds from source instead of x.ai CDN.

victor-software-house/open-grok[3] — "opened to every provider."

LukaMucko/grok-build[4] — extra_body support for provider-specific request fields.

RapidAI/grok-build-desktop[5] — Tauri desktop GUI client.

mazdak/grok-build[6] — theming (Catppuccin).

thomas9120/grok-build-archival[7] — Windows telemetry-disable script.

saqoah/grok-build[8] — Kotlin MemoryBackend.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928913

[1] https://github.com/thedavidweng/gork-build

[2] https://github.com/DigiGoon/digi-grok-build

[3] https://github.com/victor-software-house/open-grok

[4] https://github.com/LukaMucko/grok-build

[5] https://github.com/RapidAI/grok-build-desktop

[6] https://github.com/mazdak/grok-build

[7] https://github.com/thomas9120/grok-build-archival

[8] https://github.com/saqoah/grok-build

What flashcard app are you using? Anki?

You can turn it off, there's a little toggle at the bottom of the page.

There's a writeup here:

https://blog.rice.is/post/doom-over-dns/

People aren't good at detecting AI generated/edited comments, so unsure how effective this policy will be. Though I guess there are still some obvious signs of AI speak like emdashes and sycophantic (it's not X, it's Y!) speech.

Bit of a shameless plug but I wrote a HN AI comment detector game[0] with AI and most of my friends and fellow HN users who tried it out couldn't detect them.

[0]: https://psychosis.hn/

[1]: https://sajarin.com/blog/psychosis/

Shameless plug but made a similar tree here: https://sajarin.com/blog/modeltree/

Wish this post got more of a response, so thanks so much for giving it a try! Hope it was at least fun (and maybe a bit horrifying) :)

psychosis.hn is a daily game. Every day we fetch three stories from a previous front page of HN, each with 5-7 AI comments threaded into the discussion. They have personas, reply to real people, and sometimes have real comments reparented underneath them.

Thanks for the feedback friend, updated to make it (hopefully) a little easier to read!

Sonnet numbering has been weirder in the past.

Opus 3.5 was scrapped even though Sonnet 3.5 and Haiku 3.5 were released.

Not to mention Sonnet 3.7 (while Opus was still on version 3)

Shameless source: https://sajarin.com/blog/modeltree/

Thanks, that means a lot! Let me know if you have any feedback or suggestions, I would love to work on any improvements :)

Those smooth chunks are all (mostly) public park land. Known as Presidio and part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

I think this comes off a bit too strong (as well as the replies to this to be fair)

The example isn't quite accurate. If a friend bought you lunch, the social norm of reciprocity would incline you towards buying them lunch in the future (i.e part of your paycheck)

Free open source software is a public good. While there is no obligation to give back, giving back helps that public good become more useful to other people (including your future self). I'm against making contribution an obligation, but I'm not against light social pressure upon philanthropists who have the means (which is what the parent comment was doing).

What did Ilya see? (or rather what could he no longer bear to see?)

> Academics distorting graphs to make their benchmarks appear more impressive

> lavish 1.5 million dollar bonuses for everyone at the company

> Releasing an open source model that doesn't even use latent multi head attention in a open source AI world led by Chinese labs

> Constantly overhyping models as scary and dangerous to buy time to lobby against competitors and delay product launches

> Failing to match that hype as AGI is not yet here

I wonder if anyone has done an analysis on the HN user sentiment on the varying AI models over time. I'd be curious to see what that looks like. Increasingly, I'm seeing more and more people talk positively about Gemini and Google (and having used Gemini recently, I align with that sentiment)

I think Bard (lol) and Gemini got a late start and so lots of folks dismissed it but I feel like they've fully caught up. Definitely excited to see what Gemini 3 vs GPT-5 vs Claude 4 looks like!

Blaming the “system” is easy but is it the whole picture?

How much of it is due to culture? Teachers in western countries are not as respected as teachers in other parts of the world. A few teachers abuse their authority and that results in outrage and lawsuits from parents, rightfully so.

I can imagine in many schools in the US, if a cellphone ban were to be implemented, there would be a large outcry from parents on how restrictive or overreaching that policy would be. Even if the net positives (as shown in the article) are proven to outweigh the pragmatic concerns (i.e I might need to be in communication with my child) why take the risk?

Not to be supporter of “the man” but it seems unfair to point the finger at a system that takes steps to preserve itself without also acknowledging the hostile environment in which it operates.

Parents have greater zeal in suing the school than they have in attending open board meetings.

As a previously precocious young teen, I would have agreed with your point but as someone who is now a boring adult I disagree.

Projects are often and will continue to be judged by their marketing. There are many such cases of "I'm X years old and I made Y" posts on Hacker News reaching the front page. As a founder, you should use whatever you can to get eyeballs on your product. As a hacker, you should try to make something you think is cool.

While it is obviously cool to have something novel or technologically interesting to showcase, the value is often less in the actual product and more in the nostalgia and reminder that we too, as boring adults, were once younger hackers.

Let's not be so hard on each other. I think it's a pretty well designed landing page (although the mobile website needs some work in terms of responsiveness.) I don't think this is similar to Anki because there's no spaced repetition or flashcard retrieval involved (from what I could tell).

It does seem like a tool for cheating which is somewhat questionable. I do like the idea of a young hacker today figuring out how to automate their homework, but I think the tool can be a bit more tailored and more ethical if it focused on a specific use case students would equally pay for (ex: AP test prep)