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Re:The Quake Fan who built the map editor everybody uses on Sunday October 25, 2026 @12:21PM (#50233226)
Interesting, and cool project by the way!
Re:Lego collaboration with Daft Punk on Sunday October 25, 2026 @12:18PM (#50233194)
RAM Drumless really does damage their legacy, truly one of the most offensive records I’ve ever had the displeasure of listening to
I understand not wanting slop but banning solo projects and AI augmented projects is just a typical Reddit moderation power trip
Re:The Quake Fan who built the map editor everybody uses on Saturday October 24, 2026 @01:28AM (#50218559)
Trenchbroom is legitimately among the best software I have ever used. I grew up using Hammer and this simply blows it out of the water.

One nice thing is that you can use it as a level editor for your own games in Godot with func_godot

Re:Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic on Thursday October 15, 2026 @03:11AM (#50100310)
Artifact viewing on Mac was broken for months.

There was a point where they were also rendering images as base64 text.

Can you point out the hyperbole to me?

Re:Google Playground on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @12:02PM (#49994694)
Abandoned in <6 months, on the official kill list in 3 years
Most people do these days; it's convenient. Businesses push it because it improves retention too.
Re:Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @10:43AM (#49979277)
I still need to evaluate it for my own workloads, but if you trust the benchmarks, seems about on par in quality vs GLM 5.3 Flash

Source https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/mistral-large-4?total-c...

Re:Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @10:38AM (#49979211)
So about 2 or 3 generations behind, just like they were a year ago?
Re:Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @10:37AM (#49979197)
I don't see how distillation relates to using the published techniques developed by Deepseek, Moonshot, Zhipu, etc
Yeah, the blocker I ran into was on day 0 (I preordered the card). Tried again after the Mesa updates got released, and no issues since.
This used to be the case, but new AMD cards were fine about 2 weeks after they released, provided you’re not on an old kernel of course.

I can attest to this myself, my 9070 was a bit rough on launch but worked perfectly soon after.

Re:Nobody Asked for a Crab Chair on Friday September 25, 2026 @09:52AM (#49844705)
>Let’s be clear: if I could have a free crabchair tomorrow, I’d be out the door, in the line to pick up my new robot legs before I knew where to go.

So you're asking for a crab chair?

Jokes aside, yeah, it's expensive and likely impractical, but exploring the solution space is what this prototyping is for

Re:Claude Opus 5.5 on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @03:22AM (#49812737)
You’re missing my point. I’m saying anthropic are exaggerating their results.
Re:Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @01:29PM (#49805006)
Not disputing the increase in quality, just stating that non-cherry-picked benchmarks show it is more verbose at Max effort
Re:Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @01:18PM (#49804768)
So did I. Unfortunately it's even more verbose according to https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/claude-opus-5-5#token-u...
Re:Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @01:16PM (#49804733)
Unfortunately, they're full of it https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/claude-opus-5-5#token-u...

It does work out to be a similar cost per task though

Re:MiMo-v2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @10:17AM (#49801695)
In these metrics, yes. In the reported training budgets of anthropic/openai, who knows?
Re:MiMo-v2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @05:47AM (#49798677)
My understanding of tech salaries in China is that they are pretty decent, but not as high as in SF; closer to typical European salaries.

Mostly due to lower cost of living; Shenzhen is way cheaper than SV

Re:Alibaba releases Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash on Friday September 18, 2026 @04:55AM (#49751762)
Omni usually means multimodality (in terms of input and/or output type, text, images, audio, etc)
Re:CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3 on Friday September 18, 2026 @04:47AM (#49751707)
Yes, but not commonly. Hence my request for elaboration
Re:CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3 on Thursday September 17, 2026 @04:36PM (#49746169)
Yeah honestly fair point

Though I imagine it’s more about getting upfront payment for tickets to cover suppliers

Re:CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3 on Thursday September 17, 2026 @09:54AM (#49740805)
The organisation has to still pay their suppliers, and have to comply with anti money laundering laws
Re:CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3 on Thursday September 17, 2026 @09:39AM (#49740598)
> extremely right wing misogynism of DefCon.

Can you elaborate? I thought a lot of LGBT people attend regularly?

Re:GLM Built Its Own Inference Infrastructure on Thursday September 17, 2026 @06:44AM (#49738882)
Breaking TOS isn't illegal per se. It just allows for denial of services, and may define terms by which the provider can reclaim costs.
Re:GLM Built Its Own Inference Infrastructure on Thursday September 17, 2026 @06:41AM (#49738853)
>As we develop GLM, the model sometimes exhibits capabilities that surprise us, and even unsettle us.

Come on now

Also, why would they introduce themselves on their own blog?

Re:Ask HN: AI Panic, you buying it? on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @02:30PM (#49731042)
No, just a push for regulatory capture, nothing more
Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @05:47AM (#49710013)
>Without the local agent, you are shuttling off all your data to be persisted by an AI cloud provider in case they need it.

I'm aware of the privacy implications. I'm talking about Apple's "private cloud". All of this data is already on iCloud anyway.

>The foundation models run on the device for access to the local graph database and to interact with local actions (intents).

This does not require an on-device model.

Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 on Monday September 14, 2026 @02:30PM (#49701664)
Yeah, the 15 owners got hosed badly by it, especially since they were marketing it as the "AI iPhone" when it launched.

Personally, new Siri is the only reason to upgrade from 13 Pro, and it's just not worth the money to bother.

Re:Steam Frame starts at $1059 on Monday September 14, 2026 @02:12PM (#49701354)
I think technically it can, but the cameras are black and white, so it would be very subpar for AR out of the box.

There is some chatter about using the expansion port to add a 3rd party colour camera to get over this, but I wouldn't hold my breath for it.

Edit: I stand corrected, there is such a 3rd party camera linked on the page!

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