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New comment by avaer in "Show HN: Gemma Gem – AI model embedded in a browser – no API keys, no cloud"

avaer — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:31:16 +0000

There's also the Prompt API, currently in Origin Trial, which supports this api surface for sites:

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/prompt-api

I just checked the stats:

  Model Name: v3Nano
  Version: 2025.06.30.1229
  Backend Type: GPU (highest quality)
  Folder size: 4,072.13 MiB

Different use case but a similar approach.

I expect that at some point this will become a native web feature, but not anytime soon, since the model download is many multiples the size of the browser itself. Maybe at some point these APIs could use LLMs built into the OS, like we do for graphics drivers.

New comment by avaer in "Talk like caveman"

avaer — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:40:30 +0000

That was my first thought too -- instead of talk like a caveman you could turn off reasoning, with probably better results.

Additionally, LLMs do not actually operate in text; much of the thinking happens in a much higher dimensional space that just happens to be decoded as text.

So unless the LLM was trained otherwise, making it talk like a caveman is more than just theoretically turning it into a caveman.

New comment by avaer in "Simple self-distillation improves code generation"

avaer — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:05:10 +0000

I definitely pay more attention to papers affiliated with Chinese companies; the economics seem to be more conducive to doing good academic work and publishing it. I would say the same for companies like Apple (where TFA came from).

But to filter based on author's names sounds pretty darn racist.

New comment by avaer in "Delve removed from Y Combinator"

avaer — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:47:25 +0000

I wonder if the kind of personality that gets you on 30U30 correlates with being willing to engage in massive fraud, and being able to get away with it for a minute.

Holmes, SBF, Shkreli, Charlie Javice, Ishan Wahi...

New comment by avaer in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

avaer — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:38:25 +0000

This announcement completes the betrayal of their founding principles.

"Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return."

  - Not advancing digital intelligence
  - While locking people into a superapp
  - Because they are further constrained to generating financial returns

New comment by avaer in "U.S. stocks are set to deliver their worst quarter in nearly four years"

avaer — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:24:05 +0000

I wouldn't would shelve it under "politics", it's not what politics meant just a few years ago.

And I don't think the people you're talking about would have been political before politics became a bag of memes.

New comment by avaer in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

avaer — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:32:36 +0000

It seems human. It taught me 合影, which seems to be Chinese slang for just wanting to be in the comments. Probably not a coincidence that it's after work time in China.

Really interesting to see Github turn into 4chan for a minute, like GH anons rolling for trips.

New comment by avaer in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

avaer — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:15:57 +0000

Relieved to know I'm not the only one who grepped for that. Thank you for making me feel sane, friend.

New comment by avaer in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

avaer — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:55:19 +0000

(spoiler alert)

Buddy system is this year's April Fool's joke, you roll your own gacha pet that you get to keep. There are legendary pulls.

They expect it to go viral on Twitter so they are staggering the reveals.

New comment by avaer in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

avaer — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:40:16 +0000

You'd be playing cat and mouse like yt-dlp, but there's probably more value to this code than just a temporary way to milk claude subscriptions.

New comment by avaer in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

avaer — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:34:50 +0000

Would be interesting to run this through Malus [1] or literally just Claude Code and get open source Claude Code out of it.

I jest, but in a world where these models have been trained on gigatons of open source I don't even see the moral problem. IANAL, don't actually do this.

https://malus.sh/

New comment by avaer in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

avaer — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:14:22 +0000

No, it was never open source. You could always reverse engineer the cli app but you didn't have access to the source.

New comment by avaer in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

avaer — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:44:31 +0000

Harder to do. Also node is not updated at the rate of npm deps.

New comment by avaer in "Ask HN: Are you too getting addicted to the dev workflow of coding with agents?"

avaer — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 02:11:18 +0000

Unironically, the descendant of Claude Code is the metaverse/holodeck/next minecraft.

It will look nothing like those things, but it will be obvious in retrospect.

For better and worse.

New comment by avaer in "She spent 20 months battling to die under a euthanasia law. Today Spain let her"

avaer — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:17:35 +0000

It's called the hedonic treadmill [1]. There's plenty of things written about it if you want to go down the rabbit hole.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill

New comment by avaer in "Tired of AI When will this era end?"

avaer — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:16:55 +0000

That's like saying the most beautiful thing in painting isn't the painting... it's selling gallery tickets.

New comment by avaer in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

avaer — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:44:40 +0000

As good as the team is, that's not what they're buying in this case.

New comment by avaer in "Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games"

avaer — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:31:48 +0000

How does this stack up against something like Tesana [1], which is also Godot based? Would it be accurate to say that it's like "Tesana but local"?

[1] https://tesana.ai/

New comment by avaer in "Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns"

avaer — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 07:22:35 +0000

It's easy to create value for others and not worry about returns when you have enough money to not worry.

Unfortunately for most people, there's plenty of companies willing to take the returns and leave you paycheck to paycheck. That's literally what they are optimized to do.

I don't even disagree with the ideal, but I think a prerequisite step to this philosophy is UBI.

New comment by avaer in "An opinionated take on how to do important research that matters"

avaer — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 02:52:11 +0000

I wish the original title was kept ("How to win a best paper award"). It seems a good list for that.

Most of this list is about how to dress for senpai; figuratively speaking. A pretty depressing take on "how to do important research that matters".

I would hope that would be of the most unimportant part of science, totally irrelevant to what's important and what matters. But maybe that's not true today.