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Yeah, mind blowing after reading some comments which wen to conclusions without thininkg...

Look at the report (or point your clankers at it), not the saased helgi-pay-me-for-more, but free, full at CZ corporate registry. few tidbits from my fast (error prone) readin:

- main reason of net income loss is currency movement in 2025(CZK vs USD). eg. if they hold USD, they report loss without money moving. The other was bigger costs (but look below)

- they have 6% rev growth but ONLY in this CZK entity, whole group is whooping 25% up

- investing was lending (to subsidiaries) and outflow to bank deposits (sic!)

- cost increase impacting operating profit was from:

  - “Other services”: +1,941, to 4,941.

  - Consulting: +482, to 601.

  - Marketing: +428, to 2,146

  - Software development: -1,025, to 3,216
Looks fine for me and definitely not ai-doom-scenario.

not yet ;)

the business model, I suspect, is classic rug-pull in some time after building user base.

proof: boldly claiming being open source in literally first sentence, while cowardly hiding on-by-default telemetry (WTF??) in truly last paragraph of readme.

sorry to sound harsh, but this is typical old era playbook here.

in the era of AI, fortunately, such products has much lower value. people and VCs didn’t yet tune to it.

impressive only if using pre-gpt era assumptions about saas/products/software.

unfortunately a small team can reproduce it in two months, which greatly lowers value of it.

we, as a collective, have to change our value-judging logic and tune it to post AI world.

It is still slow.

Honestly I do not understand those last ten years craziness about 'new-native-gpu-turbo-ultra-xhigh-max-terminal' <insert current trend here>.

(my) battle tested urxvt under X11 is STILL faster then shitty (and all others):

## ascii (95 MiB cat, best wall of 3)

| terminal | wall | user | sys | throughput | |---|---|---|---|---| | urxvt | 0.78s | -s | -s | ~122 MiB/s |

these days on HN, if you oppose someone, you get dead-flagged.

I vouched for your comment, as I find it perfectly 'not agreeing' answer.

Re:AI Is Slowing Down on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @05:55PM (#48468305)
There are three things to make money:

- tell lies to ones who want to hear lies -> riches

- tell truth to ones who want to hear truth -> modesty

- tell truth to ones who want to hear lies -> bankruptcy

p.s. read it on a blog name I dont remember :(

Re:The desperation of NYTimes on Thursday June 04, 2026 @04:20PM (#48404086)
If my polite neighbour smiles, holds the door, but also pisses on my doormat every few days, I call him LOUD a jerk and tell him to stop. I never approve the piss because he said good morning.
Re:Programming Still Sucks on Thursday May 07, 2026 @04:10AM (#48046759)
Thank you for writing this and your below longer comment.

I printed them with OP to remind me any time i’m afraid somebody can criticize my work and that it’s not worth to produce/write/publish.

no matter how good, there will always be people like you here, so no need to worry.

Re:My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo on Sunday April 19, 2026 @04:28AM (#47822712)
## performance data for token generation using lmstudio

- gemma4-31b normal q8 -> 5.1 tok/s

- gemma4-31b normal q16 -> 3.7 t/s

- gemma4-31b distil q16 -> 3.6 t/s

- gemma4-31b distil q8 -> 5.7 tok/s (!)

- gemma4-26b-a4b ud q8kxl -> 38 t/s (!)

- gemma4-26b-a4b ud q16 -> 12 t/s

- gemma4-26b-a4b cl q8 -> 42 t/s (!)

- gemma4-26b-a4b cl q16 -> 12 t/s

- qwen3.5-35b-a3b-UD@q6_k -> 52 t/s (!)

- qwen3.5-35b-a3b-uncensored-hauhaucs-aggressive@q8_0 -> 34 tok/s (!)

- qwen3.5-35b-a3b-uncensored-hauhaucs-aggressive@bf16 -> 11 tok/s

- qwen3.5-27b-claude-4.6-opus-reasoning-distilled-v2 q8 -> 8 tok/s

- qwen3.5 122B A10B MXFP4 Mo qwen3.5-122b-a10b (q4) -> 11 tok/s

- qwen3.5-122b-a10b-uncensored-hauhaucs-aggressive (q6) -> 10 tok/s

Re:Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All on Thursday April 16, 2026 @03:11PM (#47798085)
interesting, I just tried this very model, unsloth, Q8, so in theory more capable than Simon's Q4, and get those three "pelicans". definitely NOT opus quality. lmstudio, via Simon's llm, but not apple/mlx. Of course the same short prompt.

Simon, any ideas?

https://ibb.co/gFvwzf7M

https://ibb.co/dYHRC3y

https://ibb.co/FLc6kggm (tried here temperature 0.7 instead of pure defaults)

Show HN: Google started to (quietly) insert (self) ads into Gemini output

I was using today a Gemini (3.1 pro), and had a long conversation about mobile operators offering on gemini.google.com. In one of the replies, completely out of context (topic), gemini added: "By the way, to have access to all features, please enable Gemini Apps Activity." Last three words were a link to https://myactivity.google.com/product/gemini.:-ONB: 1. this conversation was not about...

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Re:The Codex App on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @08:36AM (#46870802)
all the examples for visual UI, are tasks which already are (or soon be) done by the agent, not human. hence not needed.

I suspect that final(*) UI is much more similar to TUI: being kind of conversational (human <> AI). Current GUIs provided by your bank/etc are much less effective/useful for us, comparing to conversation way: 'show/do me sth which I just need'. Not to mention (lack of) walled garden effect, and attention grabbing not in the user interest (popups, self-promo, nagging). Also if taking into account age factor. Also that we do not have to learn, yet another GUI (teach a new bank to your mom ;). So at least 4 distinct and important advantages for TUI.

My bet: TUI/conversation win (*).

*) there will be some UI where graphical information density is important (air controller?) especially in time critical environments. yet even there I suspect it's more like conversation with dynamic image/report/graph generated on the go. Not the UI per se.

Re:A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch on Sunday January 25, 2026 @12:15PM (#46755900)
Congrats on the app.

I'm seeing that "great-ai-unlock" is happening: in last month a lot of new software being codeveloped with claude/codex/gemini/you-name it.

Before, it was to costly to do sth like the Posture app: here, you would have to know Swift and apple apis to write such tool. Would you be C# (very good) programmer with free weekend, and an idea: no cookie for ya.

These days, due to "great-ai-unlock" your skills can be easily used to cross platforms boundary and code sth like this in a weekend.

Jevons paradox is indeed working (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox)

Can you expand with more technical explanation how are those two points implemented:

- You can bring your shell environments / init scripts / aliases with you in a noninvasive way. I.e. you don't have to modify the remote system dotfiles, when you connect through xpipe it will set up any scripts you want to have available automatically

- You can link up your password manager with your SSH client and other connection methods that require passwords

Feel free to write here or refer to any url you recommend.

Thank you, and good luck with your product!

Re:Ente Auth: open-source Authy alternative for 2FA on Sunday July 07, 2024 @04:01AM (#40895956)
Authy has one superb feature: you can switch a toggle to lick/unlock accessing a vault from new devices.

quite handy and can further increase security (trading it of course with lack of recovery would you lost all your devices).

Re:They make USB-C cables with displays now on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @10:24AM (#40718232)
this is not industry-imposed regulations. this is not industry.

this is single party ToS atmost.

Do not whitewash harmfull practice as the law.

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