Hacker News: Arcuru

New comment by Arcuru in "I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets"

Arcuru — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:09:24 +0000

This feature should be opt-in, but can someone explain how this is a security concern? I don't understand how it would be an actual security risk to share the first 5 digits of the sha256 of my passwords.

New comment by Arcuru in "We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything"

Arcuru — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:39:15 +0000

Ubicloud does not have hard budget caps, which I only realized this morning after moving all my CI over to them over the past few months. Fortunately I didn't learn the hard way.

New comment by Arcuru in "I switched to Brave"

Arcuru — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:01:56 +0000

So did Brave stop that crypto thing that was clearly designed to steal money from content creators?

Yes I know, it's a tired complaint years after the fact, but if you launch a browser with that system as a core value prop then it should probably taint the leadership team for a good long while.

New comment by Arcuru in "Ember-1"

Arcuru — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 19:26:07 +0000

Over on /r/LocalLLaMA there's a group that's been getting popular doing the same thing for the Qwen 27B (and other) models. - https://huggingface.co/ukisai

New comment by Arcuru in "Claude Opus 5.5"

Arcuru — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:53:23 +0000

Great. Now let me use the subscription outside Claude Code.

New comment by Arcuru in "Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md"

Arcuru — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:29:29 +0000

Just .gitignore CLAUDE.md and handle it locally. Checking in a symlink would be weird.

New comment by Arcuru in "Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'"

Arcuru — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:05:42 +0000

It's the scale that's the problem. I've been saying for a while, the value of any individual piece of work is not terribly valuable for an LLM, but the aggregate value of all human work is obviously very valuable. I think this line of thinking can be the argument for why we should heavily tax these AI companies above and beyond how we tax other industries.

Also that if you're going to use these things to write software, you should make it as virally copyleft as possible https://jackson.dev/post/moral-ai-licensing/

New comment by Arcuru in "Big AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture"

Arcuru — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:55:58 +0000

I can't find the reference right now, but I'm certain that Anthropic has been asking for a coordinated slowdown for at least 4 or 5 months. I think it was around their Mythos/Fable releases this spring.

New comment by Arcuru in "Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils"

Arcuru — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:31:41 +0000

Has the code quality in that repo gotten to a good point then? I haven't followed it much, but last I looked[1] (which was a few years ago) almost every tool I looked at in detail had pretty bad performance or correctness issues.

[1] https://jackson.dev/post/rust-coreutils-dd/

New comment by Arcuru in "GamersNexus and LG: Or why rooting your TV is a bad idea"

Arcuru — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 05:49:11 +0000

demonstrate != explain?

New comment by Arcuru in "Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive"

Arcuru — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:51:07 +0000

https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/?ip=162.192.7.34

New comment by Arcuru in "Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model"

Arcuru — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 05:24:28 +0000

Thanks! And from the Technical Report linked in there it looks like their Large unreleased model is a trained Qwen3.5-397B

New comment by Arcuru in "Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model"

Arcuru — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 03:12:44 +0000

> starting from a strong open-source foundation and investing $40 million to train Thomson

Sounds like they spent $40 million finetuning an open weight model on their own data? I wonder what they built on.

New comment by Arcuru in "Scrap (2006)"

Arcuru — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:04:52 +0000

Be nice, maybe this person isn't very tech-savvy and doesn't know how to setup their own blog?

It's not like they are the highly technical founder of a very successful, privacy-focused messaging app....

Moving to a Lonely Forge

Arcuru — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:01:47 +0000

Article URL: https://jackson.dev/post/moving-to-a-lonely-forge/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49349812

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Arcuru in "Thunderbird's Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign"

Arcuru — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:24:12 +0000

I think it's a design mockup, they didn't implement it yet.

New comment by Arcuru in "Thunderbird's Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign"

Arcuru — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:23:45 +0000

So this is a new design, but it's at the design proposal stage and not yet implemented?

They've been talking about redesigning Thunderbird for years now, but I'm honestly not sure I've noticed any difference at all in my actual use.

New comment by Arcuru in "Battery packs: Let's talk about crates, baby"

Arcuru — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:31:51 +0000

Since I don't see it mentioned yet, https://blessed.rs seems to be pretty popular for finding common/recommended crates in the Rust ecosystem.

New comment by Arcuru in "Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone"

Arcuru — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:33:54 +0000

Awesome! I've been waiting for them to start scaling ternary models for over a year[1]. Excited to try it out, typical Qwen 27B is too heavy for me to run on my local hardware at reasonable speeds.

[1] https://jackson.dev/post/dont-sleep-on-bitnet/

New comment by Arcuru in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

Arcuru — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:47:24 +0000

I've continued working on Eidetica, my decentralized database project. I recently added support for a client/server architecture so that it can be transparently run as a local daemon for background sync and sharing the local storage with multiple users. I've been making progress on integrating blob storage next, as well as scoping out WASM based "lenses" for handling decentralized version/schema updates. https://github.com/arcuru/eidetica

I've primarily been testing it by building out my AI tool chaz into an Eidetica-native AI Agent framework for decentralized Agent sessions. It's working surprisingly well, it maps pretty well onto the storage model and it's uncovering issues with Eidetica I need to fix (which was always my primary reason for building it anyways). https://github.com/arcuru/chaz

Separately I'm building OptiMap, a SIMD-accelerated hashmap repo that explores the design space for hashmaps and benchmarks different approaches. This is mostly for my own learning but I'll eventually turn into a blog post. https://github.com/arcuru/optimap