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New comment by Iolaum in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

Iolaum — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:45:32 +0000

Unfortunately Mistral is not close to the frontier. Their last release Mistral Medium 3.5 128B is near the performance[0] of QWEN-3.6-27B, a much smaller model that was released earlier.

It's good that they exist, and I hope they catch up, but if you don't have origin constraints for your use case I don't see why you would chose their models today.

[0]: On the only benchmark they both published performance results - SWE-bench Verified -they are within a margin of error Mistral 77.6 vs Qwen 77.2.

New comment by Iolaum in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

Iolaum — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:23:11 +0000

> The world is a bit bigger than US and China

With respect to AI capabilities is it really?

I don't see anyone else producing frontier closed source LLM's or frontier open source LLM's outside of US and China.

New comment by Iolaum in "SpaceX's president is floating a Tesla merger as the company begins trading"

Iolaum — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:09:06 +0000

Does this mean Telsa would get out of the S&P index, or that SpaceX would come in? Hope for the former.

New comment by Iolaum in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"

Iolaum — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:54:45 +0000

They (Anthropic) don't need to "look" at the data. Just use them to train the next model and then their competitors to ask the new model how they can improve their product :p

New comment by Iolaum in "AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere"

Iolaum — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:17:41 +0000

One popular solution lately has been instead of banning too much, because of the danger of false positives, to use vouch [0]. Trusted people get vouched and you prioritize their actions. Unknown people (or agents) need to gain trust to be vouched and bad actors can still be banned.

[0]: https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch

New comment by Iolaum in "Show HN: Gravity – Interactive solar-system simulator, from Newton to Einstein"

Iolaum — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:07:41 +0000

My physics bias would like to see earth forming while it's constituents were orbiting around the sun.

In any case, nice visualization.

New comment by Iolaum in "I design with Claude more than Figma now"

Iolaum — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 06:40:07 +0000

Why not ask Claude design to write a document fully specifying the prototype?

New comment by Iolaum in "S&P 500 Indices Consultation on Treatment of MegaCap Companies – Results [pdf]"

Iolaum — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:22:16 +0000

Good, no fast track to the S&P 500 !

New comment by Iolaum in "Nvidia announces new AI chip for personal computers"

Iolaum — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:20:02 +0000

Strix Halo chips have around 210+ GB/sec gpu memory bandwidth and announcements put the new nvidia chip at around 300GB/sec gpu memory bandwidth.

I 'd say that is an improvement if you want to run local llm inference. Still well below with what you can achieve with Apple chips though.

New comment by Iolaum in "Qwen3.7-Max Ran for 35 Hours on Unknown Hardware and Achieved a 10× Speedup"

Iolaum — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:28:38 +0000

The LLM's had to learn that from somewhere :p

New comment by Iolaum in "OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days"

Iolaum — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:35:23 +0000

I 'd say he is an outstanding engineer as well. He may favor output over security more than outstanding engineers at 2025 but in the 2026 world what he does is impressive. And with OpenAI's resources he has turned OpenClaw's security woes around. Latest versions are much more secure than 2 months ago.

New comment by Iolaum in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

Iolaum — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:59:03 +0000

Many people noticed the math doesn't add up, e.g. in the CEO's interview here [0]. Am wondering if they are betting on the stock going up because of the news so they would then be able to fund the deal.

[0]: https://www.businessinsider.com/gamestop-ceos-awkward-interv...

New comment by Iolaum in "DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier"

Iolaum — Sat, 02 May 2026 15:33:02 +0000

We shouldn't need a lawsuit. The legislative branch should pass a law clarifying those things, that's their job.

New comment by Iolaum in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

Iolaum — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:22:32 +0000

$200 for you is not the same as $200 for them

New comment by Iolaum in "France's Mistral Built a $14B AI Empire by Not Being American"

Iolaum — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:35:28 +0000

I don't know their strategy but I wish they would double up on the open source ecosystem by sharing their innovations like Chinese labs do and use the ones shared as well. I think models in the range of 50B - 250B still have a lot of room to grow and presumably compute to train them should be more accessible than multi-T parameter models.

This would also add pressure on other labs to keep being engaged in the open source ecosystem as a rug pull isn't a small danger IMO.

New comment by Iolaum in "Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet"

Iolaum — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:16:11 +0000

As a scientist and a father I can say that the most morally corrupt thing is doing bad things to children, not scientists.

New comment by Iolaum in "America must guard against China's own Mythos"

Iolaum — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:56:52 +0000

Such a ridiculous article given deepseek v4 pro release today that is intended to be served on Ascend 950 chips signaling an ability of E2E owning of the AI stack.

New comment by Iolaum in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

Iolaum — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 06:52:07 +0000

If you maintain your stuff you know enough to fix some things and you know when you can't and need to call a mechanic (or a friend who knows more and can do it).

New comment by Iolaum in "Anthropic banned Pi, a third party harness"

Iolaum — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:19:28 +0000

They 've already banned OpenCode so this looks just a continuation of their policy.

New comment by Iolaum in "Cursor 3"

Iolaum — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:31:32 +0000

Looking at the video cursor 3 UI looks very similar to the one I experience using OpenCode :D