Hacker News: jijji

New comment by jijji in "Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model"

jijji — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:34:25 +0000

competition in this space is great, especially with open models/weights. I think the answer is not closed source models. Similar to the Unix versus Linux situation in the 1990's, open source wins out. Yesterdays story about how OpenAI has now began encrypting traffic between model and agent [0], this story brings a breath of fresh air. There is nothing "Open" about hiding the communication between model and agent, especially with software that is running within a trusted environment/network. It needs to be more transparent, not less.

[0] https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/15/openai-hide...

New comment by jijji in "ZeroFS vs. Amazon S3 Files"

jijji — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 01:05:48 +0000

s3 is expensive... there are a lot of cheap options. I think I pay $48/month for a linux vps with 8 cpus and 16tb of storage with interserver.net... the same storage on amazon s3 is $377/month lol

New comment by jijji in "ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2"

jijji — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:42:27 +0000

what does that have to do with AI companies being forced to exfiltrate data to the US government?

New comment by jijji in "ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2"

jijji — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 03:45:45 +0000

snowden's book, "Permanent Record" talks about the mass surveillance that he released in 2013. it makes no mention of AI companies sending data to the government. unless you can quote the exact language you're talking about in the book, I call BS on that.

secondly, you're claiming that it is the same in the US. there is no laws in the US requiring private companies to exfiltrate data and send it to the government en masse, like there is in China. these laws just don't exist, and if they did exist they would be ruled unconstitutional in violation of the Fourth amendment. As a matter of fact, last week Supreme Court decision in Chatrie v. United States came out on Monday, June 29, 2026 that affirmed that general warrants are a violation of the Fourth amendment, related to sweeping geofence warrants. so what you're talking about just does not exist. Yeah, I'm sure some companies, like Facebook, Google, etc have private agreements with government agencies to release data privately, these rules eventually are a violation of the Fourth amendment without a warrant.

to avoid any of this, I use open models with small providers that are very unlikely to be having private agreements with government agencies specifically to avoid that conflict. it's up to you to protect your own privacy. but to claim that the US government is doing this with AI companies, it's just flat wrong.

New comment by jijji in "ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2"

jijji — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 02:07:15 +0000

Chinese Communist party? it would be funny if China didn't have laws related to companies in China exfiltrating foreign data and giving it to the government for espionage purposes, z.ai is a chinese company, based in the capital Beijing. The likelihood that they work with the government hand in glove is pretty high. I wouldn't run that binary on any machine I was doing anything serious with. If you ran it on a corporate network, I would hope security escorts you out of the building.

New comment by jijji in "ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2"

jijji — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:36:18 +0000

or more likely, sending it to the CCP

New comment by jijji in "Post-Mythos Cybersecurity: Keep calm and carry on"

jijji — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:26:27 +0000

it all looks suspicious:

  - June 1st 2026: Anthropic files S-1 paperwork with SEC to get ready for IPO

  - June 2nd 2026: Anthropic annouces expanding "Project Glasswing" to let people use their new model to enhance security of existing systems

  - June 9th 2026: Anthropic releases Mythos model

  - June 12th 2026: Model gets export regulations placed on it by US Gov

  - June 26th 2026: US gov announces they will let some companies use new model

  - August 2026: Anthropic goes IPO

The timing of all of this just seems to be a play to pump the stock. The reality is that in six months GLM-5.3 will be released open source with comparable functionality to their Mythos model. They are trying to cash in before that happens.

I would not be surprised if the US government, the people pulling the strings who actually put the export announcements onto Anthropic, actually have purchased stock in the company to artificially pump up the stock, I would bet money on it.

New comment by jijji in "Did my old job only exist because of fraud?"

jijji — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:53:02 +0000

most large companies have a 2-year limit on contractor employment so what they tend to do is they'll hire the same guy through a different contractor with another two-year agreement..... that's to get around the situation where if someone is working as a contractor for more than 2 years they can legally claim that they're actually an employee....see Vizcaino v. Microsoft Corp., 120 F.3d 1006 (9th Cir. 1997) [0]...

this is just a guess by the way but it seems like a plausible one, as I've seen it happen in Fortune 500 a lot, where the same guy comes back through a different vendor 2 years later if he was really good and they needed him to come back....

[0] https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/120...

New comment by jijji in "Identity verification on Claude"

jijji — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:01:51 +0000

glm-5.2 is available for $20/month on ollama.com and is IMHO more functional than the $200/month claude max subscription. you can even use the same claude harness [0]. You get about 20x more token usage at 10x less the price.

[0] https://ollama.com/library/glm-5.2

New comment by jijji in "Cell-based architecture for resilient payment systems"

jijji — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 05:32:31 +0000

if a "cell" is different from a "container", from the articles context, please explain how... This could be some special FPGA board too referred to again as a "cell", but they are extremely vauge about the definition.

New comment by jijji in "Cell-based architecture for resilient payment systems"

jijji — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 04:24:50 +0000

I agree, confusing and it seems like they are using the coined word "cell" to describe "container", but they really should say that instead of making up new words.

New comment by jijji in "Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb"

jijji — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:15:30 +0000

have you you checked out "esp32-s3" which costs $7.12 and has wifi and microsd installed on it [0]. Also esp32-cam is another board with similar specifications.

[0] https://www.seeedstudio.com/XIAO-ESP32S3-p-5627.html

New comment by jijji in "MiMo Code is now released and open-source"

jijji — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:18:35 +0000

sounds really cool if it was coming out of anywhere except China, which has laws to exfiltrate your data and send it back to the government for espionage purposes [0].

[0] https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/counterintelligence/the-chin...

New comment by jijji in "Siri AI"

jijji — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:34:59 +0000

They are a few years late to the party

New comment by jijji in "1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices"

jijji — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:53:36 +0000

Using the demo and typing in "A sign that says xxxx" where xxxx is any text, it gets it wrong almost 100% of the time.

New comment by jijji in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

jijji — Sun, 31 May 2026 05:10:21 +0000

I think you mean "StarOffice" which later forked into OpenOffice, then LibreOffice.

New comment by jijji in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

jijji — Sun, 31 May 2026 05:06:05 +0000

I think Microsoft stopped being the "darling" in 1994 when they got sued by Stacker and had to pay $120 million for stealing their source code and using it in their own product.

New comment by jijji in "DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost"

jijji — Mon, 25 May 2026 01:17:58 +0000

The situation you reference is related to a specific investigation by US congress requesting documents about potentially illegal censorship actions by EU officials from a specific company (microsoft). The difference is that the laws in china are broadly defined to include giving all intellectual property of anyone back to the government with no oversight, for the purposes of espionage.

The former relates to a specific investigation about potential criminal activity, the latter relates to broad illegal activity committed by the government itself unrelated to any specific case.

The US has no laws on the books forcing companies to wantonly give intellectual property and other espionage level material back to the government. If they did, no one would use cloud providers.

To avoid this, you can run your own hosted machine in a colocation facility, because in the US, people do have reduced rights when their data is controlled by a third party versus being controlled by themselves. Its the same as if the data was in your house, they would need a search warrant to obtain it, but when its at a Azure or AWS datacenter not controlled by you, your privacy rights are reduced by doing this.

New comment by jijji in "DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost"

jijji — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:35:24 +0000

there's laws on the books in China that says that every company operating in China must aid and abet the Chinese government in espionage against the rest of the world. given those facts, I find it deeply troubling to be using anything coming out of China, especially a program that runs in the context of a Linux terminal on a machine that might have something important on it. I'd argue it's a back door waiting to happen, if not sooner than obviously later.

New comment by jijji in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

jijji — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:14:39 +0000

I just can't get past the deepseek-CCP connection... as good as it might be I'd wonder when your machine gets backdoored by the CCP or at least your data gets stolen