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by abalashov 3mo ago
As a cyclist, I've heard a similar argument for years about indoor training, and particularly doing difficult indoor intervals beyond FTP.
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by abalashov 3mo ago
> if people would look up from their phones for 10 minutes and pay attention. Ah, that's a big ask in 2026...
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by abalashov 3mo ago
Judging by the number of news stories in which they have done just that, they will happily trust AI. A certain relatively small percentage will generate national news and that kind of blowback, but by and large, they have the guns, the SWAT
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by abalashov 3mo ago
I think the intended point is that there's going to be a certain amount of natural partisanship--from at least some users--to YC companies in a YC-run forum with a YC origin story, and that YC and those aligned with YC in a fiduciary w
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by abalashov 3mo ago
This is an underrated comment. "Corporate" power did not mean, in 1920s-30s Italy, what Americans think it means.
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by abalashov 3mo ago
I hear you, but a little foray into history may convince you that this kind of two-facedness and speaking out of both sides of one's mouth is actually quite common. This is particularly true when the decisionmakers for the one (ICE coo
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by abalashov 3mo ago
Yes, but I'm not sure you can catalog all the features of the people you recorded and compile this into a real-time database that can be queried with relatively little oversight. I'm not a legal expert, but I suspect there would b
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by abalashov 3mo ago
I dare say it might require a little more knowledge than _anyone_ would possess.
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by abalashov 3mo ago
That's a pretty astute diagnosis. The politology varies by county, but as far as this particular county goes, you've nailed it: lots of gun-totin' bubbas, and growing numbers of university-affiliated liberal-progressive intel
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by abalashov 3mo ago
Whoops. Yeah.
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by abalashov 3mo ago
Surely.
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by abalashov 4mo ago
It is also due to shoplifting. They wouldn't get deployed if nobody could justify them in any way. https://prospect.org/2026/05/21/home-depot-lowes-downplay-cu...
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by abalashov 4mo ago
It was both, of course, but it's not an accident they were placed there at scale.
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by abalashov 4mo ago
Adding later: and of course, there's GLM 5.2 (Z.ai), which I've now had a chance to try. Holy crap. I'll grant you, I don't "one-shot" "long-horizon" tasks the way some people do, but I'd say for
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by abalashov 4mo ago
And it's not an accident that Flock cameras were implicated in many ICE raids at Home Depot and Lowe's, either.
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by abalashov 4mo ago
These horrific things are multiplying exponentially in my (rural GA) environs. There are a dozen of them along every conceivable cycling route I could take, and far more if I drive somewhere. If you think this is a city thing meant to deter
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by abalashov 4mo ago
In all seriousness, between DeepSeek-V4-Pro, Kimi K2.6 and now K2.7-Code, Xiaomi's MiMo-2.5-Pro, and Qwen3.7 Max, I haven't touched Claude for any sort of programming-related task in months. I still lean on Claude for research&#x2
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by abalashov 4mo ago
Haters are going to hate and downvote, but I think this is the right spirit.
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by abalashov 4mo ago
But boy, it must be glorious. I use these through OpenRouter and rarely bother with Claude anymore.
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by abalashov 4mo ago
Yeah, but then you need RAM for the rest of your OS and applications. I'd say 64 to be comfortable in the sense to which most HN users are accustomed.
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by abalashov 4mo ago
Not a ton. I'd say 64 GB minimal to play, 96-128 GB better.
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by abalashov 4mo ago
And if you want to dial in a setting in between: I've switched to Kimi K2.6 (now K2.7) and DeepSeek through OpenRouter and Reasonix for pretty much everything, with no discernible loss of analytical quality or utility. However, like ma
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by abalashov 4mo ago
Have you tried Kimi K2.6 or DeepSeek V4 (Flash or Pro)?
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by abalashov 4mo ago
I guess there are those who might say, "Well, hang on, give the crisis a minute to unspool..."
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by abalashov 4mo ago
The flip side is that if you have that creative control, then LLMs have _definitely_ sucked the joy out of programming, and in the worst way.
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by abalashov 4mo ago
Yeah. It's easy to forget that sometimes.
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by abalashov 4mo ago
That's an interesting perspective. It's hard for me to relate to it because I haven't worked in a job where I just have to ship code 'for work' in so long. Being a more or less one-man software company, all my work
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by abalashov 4mo ago
"It is genuinely unclear whether today’s training methods and architectures could unlock that capacity." Aye.
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by abalashov 4mo ago
In 2017, I wrote a blog post expressing some scepticism about the stampede toward remote work. This was well before the pandemic and before things hit a watershed with it. It occurred to me, then, that this would disrupt the pipeline for ju
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by abalashov 4mo ago
I was today years old when I learned about this. Thank you!

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