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Re:GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @12:35AM (#49904387)
Sure... until that later update undo it. I remember I had to debloat Windows 10 removing those junk apps (Candy Crush, OneDrive, Xbox etc)
Re:It's Trump's world, and he's accelerating its chaos on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @09:14AM (#49800769)
The MAGA sentiments in the US were there already but latent. What Trump did is lit the fire and add oxygen.
Re:Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips on Monday September 21, 2026 @03:53PM (#49792468)
One way of doing it... You can blast away the original markings / copper using laser and put something in place like sheet of copper or something that resembles copper, add solder mask layer on top. Done.

These operations are not hobbyist level, they have access to the machinery to make it trivial.

Re:Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips on Monday September 21, 2026 @02:22PM (#49791221)
That's still trivial to defeat. They're very capable and determined. In the olden days they used to mill the top of microprocessor ie intel x86 to remove the engraving and engrave the fake label. These days I imagine it's way more advanced
Re:Carmakers Have a New Idea to Boost EV Range: Add a Gas Engine on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @07:08AM (#49624518)
Toyota was right, but this is not hybrid. It's a range extender engine, won't be as efficient due to power conversions
Re:Carmakers Have a New Idea to Boost EV Range: Add a Gas Engine on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @07:07AM (#49624506)
Indeed this. A range extender engine will never be as efficient as hybrid
Re:Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader puts Silicon Valley to shame on Monday September 07, 2026 @09:02AM (#49597924)
I suggest buying M5Stack PaperMono instead. It's an esp32 board with an eink screen and a battery. I bet someone will make an open source firmware for it
Re:Hacking IKEA Furniture on Sunday August 30, 2026 @04:29PM (#49502444)
100% wood is way heavier, even the lighter variant.

Interesting note... I recently disassembled an IKEA cupboard from 1999 made from MDF. It was definitely much heavier than their MDF products (eg. Metod kitchen cabinets) from today.

Firefox is never really a major browser
Can we trust the NTSB these days?
Unfortunately they'll learn nothing. The rest of the world however... have to endure the consequences
Numerous prompting will cause prompt fatigue, similar to pressing yes on a dialog boxes.

LLM, like fire is a powerful tool. Some people play with fire and achieved great things, some play with fire and got burned. A number of them achieved great things and got burned. We need to understand that and learn from our mistakes.

It's "artificial" intelligence
Re:The State of Immutable Linux on Saturday March 28, 2026 @06:03PM (#47558514)
So which one is recommended for running on servers in production?
this is just regurgitating the manufacturer's claim. I believe it when I see it. Most of display energy use is to turn on the OLED/backlight. They're claiming, because our display flickers less, it's 48% more efficient now.
I don't think that's a realistic suggestion as as the quantity of applications are huge who are going to spend time reviewing them one by one. And and even then it's not realistic to expect that that undesirable things can be detected as these things can be hidden externally for instance or obfuscated
Re:Cook: A simple CLI for orchestrating Claude Code on Thursday March 19, 2026 @03:20AM (#47435975)
It's not 3x because of 3 runs; can be more token, can be less.

The way of thinking it is, telling Claude to tackle the problem 3 times, each time it may or may not use different approach, fix or improve on things it did previously.

Re:You Just Need Postgres on Friday February 27, 2026 @04:22AM (#47178469)
This. Postgres is slow for large inserts compared to eg. Clickhouse.

This slowness is mostly because of OLTP features

Re:Forget MCP, Bash Is All You Need on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @02:49AM (#47058406)
This mirrors my experience.

If you want the agent to be more aware of the tool, prompt it to create a skill for whatever bash commands you wish

Re:French railway operator tests solar on train tracks on Monday February 16, 2026 @02:32PM (#47039236)
It's a dumb idea actually, as these panels will be covered in brake dust, sand, leaves, etc.

If you're interested, check EEVblog's video on this

No the murders happen in camps eg. What's happening to the Uyghurs.

That said, they also use them as slave labors.

Maybe that's what ICE is going to do with the plan to setup large detention centers in the US

Re:MiniMax M2.5 released: 80.2% in SWE-bench Verified on Thursday February 12, 2026 @12:50PM (#46992280)
you can use Claude Code with these models. You just need to pass the right env vars. Have a look at the client setup guide on z.ai
Re:GLM5 Released on Z.ai Platform on Thursday February 12, 2026 @05:47AM (#46987159)
Why distill, if you can run the full model yourself... or at other inference providers.

Quantization the better approach in most cases, unless you want to for instance create hybrid models ie. distilling from here and there.

Re:GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering on Thursday February 12, 2026 @04:48AM (#46986791)
That's a bike that's ergonomically designed for pelicans.

It is unreasonable to expect pelicans to ride human bikes, they have different anatomy.

Re:Show HN: AI agents play SimCity through a REST API on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @11:13AM (#46976778)
Fun! Any other games with REST API?
The question is: what do they expect those companies to do?

Just like subjects in other fascist regimes, be damned if they do comply, be damned if they don’t.

Re:Eight More Months of Agents on Monday February 09, 2026 @01:59PM (#46949343)
> It sounds like someone saying power tools should be outlawed in carpentry.

I see this a lot here

Retail PCs will probably never catch up to even the open‑weight models (the full, non‑quantized versions). Unless there’s a breakthrough, they just don’t have enough parameters to hold all the information we expect SOTA models to contain.

That’s the conventional view. I think there’s another angle: train a local model to act as an information agent. It could “realize” that, yeah, it’s a small model with limited knowledge, but it knows how to fetch the right data. Then you hook it up to a database and let it do the heavy lifting.

Well, it depends on the hardware you have. If you have a hardware locally that can run best open models, then your local models are as capable as the open models.

That said, open models are not far behind SOTA, less than 9 months gap.

If what you're asking about those models that you can run on retail GPUs, then they're a couple years behind. They're "hobby" grade.

AFAIK Zuck got mad and restructured the whole department.

What's likely is that there won't be anything open / significant coming out from them anymore

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