apatheticonion

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by apatheticonion 1mo ago
FR the iPhone is such a great missed opportunity. Imagine if someone developed a Linux based mobile OS that could run on it. Imagine if someone figured out that the USB-C port could do displayport out. Then imagine plugging that Linux iPhon
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by apatheticonion 1mo ago
I see a large emphasis placed on headless agentic/vibe coding, what I don't see people talking about is how great guided coding is. I have over a 15 YoE writing software and guided coding sessions - that is, using an editor like Z
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by apatheticonion 1mo ago
I would like this to be extended to software. If I buy an Android phone, I should be able to maintain/update the operating system. If I buy a MacBook, I should be able to maintain or change the operating system. If I buy a TV, smart wa
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by apatheticonion 1mo ago
Exactly this. Using an LLM to study the decompiled output then another LLM to implement an emulator/engine/etc That sounds similar to how LLMs have been trained on GPL code and yet output is not (yet) considered derivative work
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by apatheticonion 1mo ago
DS is dead to me after the pricing changes. Qwen 3.8 has replaced it entirely for me
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by apatheticonion 1mo ago
Does this mean someone could develop a switch emulator using an AI and Nintendo couldn't win a lawsuit against them? Does it enable decompilation remasters of classic games? It feels like AI is a cleanroom laundromat
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by apatheticonion 2mo ago
I've been using DeepSeek exclusively since I've been playing with LLMs, largely due to the price. I joined a company that is an Anthropic shop and I am genuinely shocked. Sonnet 5 is a little better on long horizon tasks and headl
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by apatheticonion 2mo ago
I take that back, Haiku is considerably worse at following instructions compared to DeepSeek Flash
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by apatheticonion 2mo ago
It's because of my workflow, I think. I have my IDE open and a prompt a given task with limited scope - like "write a function that does xyz" "add tests" "create an endpoint that accepts this json" "w
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Ask HN: What's Next for LLMs?
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by apatheticonion 2mo ago
You can configure it with just config files. Database is optional, if you add one, you get advanced caching. It's just a single executable. wget https://downloads.getmaxim.ai/bifrost/v1.6.5/linux/amd
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by apatheticonion 2mo ago
Under $20 it's a flat $0.8 fee. Over $20 it's +5.5% + credit card charges (+1.5%)
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by apatheticonion 2mo ago
It's more just the value for money. It doesn't really offer me anything valuable other than billing consolidation - and the markup is excessive for that use case. If I was using the routing features it would make more sense - but
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by apatheticonion 2mo ago
I do understand the reasoning for it, it still sucks as a user who is doing the right thing.
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by apatheticonion 2mo ago
Yeah I looked at it, LiteLLM is functionally more mature. The only reason I didn't go for it is I'm not a fan of Python dependency management, Bifrost is just a single executable that uses nearly no memory and is lightning fast.
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by apatheticonion 2mo ago
For me, the only utility OpenRouter gives me is billing consolidation - I don't really need the routing capabilities because I use Bifrost for that. As a router, it's not very feature rich. For example I restricted the available m
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by apatheticonion 2mo ago
I love the Chinese models. I use DeepSeek exclusively and now Kimi K3 offers a great planning assistant for more advanced coding tasks. DeepSeek v4 Flash is extremely fast and is able to handle pretty much anything I've thrown at it (I
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by apatheticonion 3mo ago
Thanks :)
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by apatheticonion 3mo ago
https://onlytrades.live/ Being unemployed and wanting to make something, I started studying quantitative trading concepts and got into algorithmic trading. I decided to build out an algorithmic trading platform using the to
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by apatheticonion 3mo ago
Any chance you could share how you achieved that? I've been using LLMs a lot and they have been a force multiplier, but I am not sure I could knock out a year's worth of work in 2 months. I must be doing something wrong
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by apatheticonion 3mo ago
Despite acknowledging that LLMs improve my productivity and am happy with how they have positively affected my life - I'm a bit cynical about the trajectory of this "AI bubble" and am looking forward to it popping sooner rath
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by apatheticonion 3mo ago
Sorry that you're being blamed. People have a pretty negative sentiment towards Americans in general right now because we have been watching helplessly in horror as our best friend tears things down. I have friends in blue states who d
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by apatheticonion 3mo ago
Something I wonder about in this domain is if this is the fault of the language. Game development is usually in C++ or C#. With C++, bugs are a nightmare to find. C# less so, but there are still memory leaks possible. I've been writing
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by apatheticonion 3mo ago
This is a great point. In the past this is how I learned to architect software in general as you are never the only contributor and often must accommodate the contributions of contributors who are early in the careers. Good software archite
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by apatheticonion 3mo ago
I'd be fine if it cut both ways. It shouldn't be legal for works distributed by people under licenses that would prohibit derivative work whilst if I reverse engineered a Nintendo Switch 2 with an LLM I'd be sent to the under
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by apatheticonion 3mo ago
To be fair, most of their votes don't actually count. And even with our westminster system, One nation has swept the right wing. Considering how many seats they will likely get in the next election, my high horse has shrunk a fair bit.
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by apatheticonion 3mo ago
That's why experience + cost effective model is IMO the best combination. Experience allows you to design the skeleton where the implementation details are often inconsequential. There are relatively few scenarios where an LLM would ne
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by apatheticonion 3mo ago
If I spoke freely about how I feel about the US right now and the direct personal impact of policies implemented by the recent administration, I'd be denied entry into the country to visit friends later this year. It is inconsequential
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by apatheticonion 3mo ago
I am using Flash and accessing the API directly via vscode insiders and occasionally Zed (it's buggy but I keep coming back to it because I want it to succeed). Unless you need enterprise multi-model management, I don't see the po
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by apatheticonion 3mo ago
I wish it was as simple as `git clone <url> --lazy` I had previously worked on a big tech monorepo that has gigabytes of history. It would take forever to clone or do operations on. I had a cheat sheet of git commands that would do th

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