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by btown 2mo ago
To be very clear: there's a difference between the people shaping/benefiting from/profiting from this system, and those being shaped by it. And, without sharing too much personal info, I am very much one of those being attack
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by btown 2mo ago
> deserves what they get American voters exist in an environment of propaganda addiction, with every piece of their personal technology reinforcing and profiting from said addiction, that has never existed before. I have great empathy an
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by btown 2mo ago
There's a rich ecosystem around distributed tracing via OpenTelemetry! Honeycomb was one of the pioneers of this, and they contributed significantly to OTel which largely standardizes this approach. OP's approach is a bit differen
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by btown 2mo ago
Are there any that you'd recommend?
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by btown 2mo ago
Similarly, I've often wondered if this is the root cause of why GitHub has become fragile of late. All of a sudden you have operations on billions of tiny files that are amplified by AI usage. And object graphs are so fragmented by nat
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by btown 2mo ago
I am shocked, shocked, that a company that is part of SpaceXAI would become hostile to its existing paying users and partners. This has never happened before in history.
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by btown 2mo ago
It begs an interesting question as well: are frontier labs stuck in the incumbent phase of the "innovator's dilemma," where there's such intense pressure to maintain the flavor/character of their widely-loved existi
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by btown 2mo ago
Self-replying as this is no longer correct - there are two tiers, one matching Moonshot pricing with comparable latency/throughput, and a fast mode at $4.50/M (still cheaper than Opus) with 3x the throughput.
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by btown 2mo ago
The top threads here have commentary: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... especially https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41937664 IMO - while nothing is a guarantee
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by btown 2mo ago
Here's an interview with the senior product manager of Apple Silicon that more-or-less says the same thing: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/06/apple-silicon-exec-expl... > He also described a shift
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by btown 2mo ago
Fireworks' priority tier of Kimi (at $3.75/M vs. Moonshot's $3.00/M) is available on OpenRouter as well. https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k3#providers Currently it's showing significantly
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by btown 2mo ago
One aspect of this is cyberattack proliferation by way of "Hey boss, I saw this TikTok that says if you let me invest [a tiny piece of the neighborhood's profit|our militia's budget] into some RAM, I could get a fully auton
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by btown 2mo ago
It frustrates me that AI detection for student essays effectively works as a protection racket: if a student wants to write an essay without AI assistance and reliably get credit for doing so, they still need to pay a company like Pangram f
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by btown 2mo ago
This is really cool! What are you using for screenshot animation btw?
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by btown 2mo ago
There are two types of users: those who are able to use subsidized rates, and those who need to use API rates due to audit requirements, enterprise billing, etc. Model routing for subsidized users takes the form of a "use Opus 5 subage
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by btown 2mo ago
> this is the first llm that is capable and willing to write an exploit An open-source Kimi is going to have real economic impact (and not only because of its forcing function on frontier labs to indefinitely subsidize their models to me
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by btown 3mo ago
For clarity, those > quotes are from the article, and I'm explicitly advocating against that approach!
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by btown 3mo ago
> Nurses are instructed to stick to a script on phone calls and give no more than two to three pieces of advice, Capulong and other nurses said, which means they may sometimes need to decide whether to withhold advice or face a performan
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by btown 3mo ago
> The biggest limitation of the pelican is that it doesn’t touch at all on the thing that matters most for today’s model: agentic tool calling and the ability to operate tools reliably as conversations grow in length. In all seriousness,
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by btown 3mo ago
If AWS was a predatory mobile gacha game, we'd get 300 apology gems as credit to our accounts for this mixup, to help us in our rolls for the next 3-letter acronym they release. Do the right thing for the players, Matt!
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by btown 3mo ago
Given that Microsoft's overhead to actually landing features has, from what I've heard, long been more about dodging the cross-org and inter-org "guns" famously depicted in [0] and [1] than coding time... a 24% increas
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by btown 3mo ago
Not a ban, perhaps... but if I have two users - Alice who uses the app according to normal patterns, and Bob who consistently predicts and declines when my dynamic pricing algorithm tries to push above market pricing, and has a remarkably h
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by btown 3mo ago
To the point of people overtuning/overfitting skills that were once generic, to overly reference and draw upon their private preferences and workflows... sometimes having "installation = effectively forking" for a known-good
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by btown 3mo ago
We've adopted a simple/similar Dropbox-based approach for skills and rules - each person's ~/.claude/skills is actually symlinked to a folder just for them inside a shared Dropbox folder, one that others on our (sma
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by btown 3mo ago
As a counterpoint: in a complex project, Fable's "curiosity" may be exactly what you want for an exploration and planning stage - not just for the orchestrator that turns your prompt into different angles with which to explor
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by btown 3mo ago
It's also worth noting that in 2023 they abandoned their Kubernetes support which was relied upon by a full 3.5% of their users: https://posthog.com/blog/sunsetting-helm-support-posthog In their rationale for this
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by btown 3mo ago
Something that many don't realize is that Claude Desktop and the Agent SDK are both just wrappers around pools of CLI instances, literally running `claude --input-format stream-json --output-format stream-json`. So this wasn't eve
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by btown 3mo ago
HN is competitive if and only if != != =
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by btown 3mo ago
If you're wondering what creats.io is - this is satire!
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by btown 3mo ago
Writing an entire article about whale transportation, without even a subtle nod to Star Trek IV, or even a reference to tank material and the process of its invention, is borderline criminal. What is this, the dark ages?

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