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New comment by kioleanu in "Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040"

kioleanu — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:14:30 +0000

Hopefully it will go better than the last time someone had such an ambitious plan with nuclear plants

New comment by kioleanu in "Ask HN: Best Hetzner Alternatives?"

kioleanu — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:34:08 +0000

I second this, been with them for 6 years. Very reliable and transparent and the owner still answers emails himself

New comment by kioleanu in "Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit"

kioleanu — Sat, 30 May 2026 06:55:14 +0000

I just got an email from them saying that they’re retiring some (most?) of the dedicated models like devstral gradually through August and one should now use the general model. Cost grows exponentially

Devstral 2 (devstral-2512 and devstral-latest) → We recommend transitioning to Mistral Medium 3.5 (mistral-medium-3-5 with reasoning_effort set to "high"), a stronger model, priced $1.5/$7.5 per million input/output tokens (change from the previous $0.4/$2).

New comment by kioleanu in "Protestware for coding agents"

kioleanu — Fri, 29 May 2026 08:03:15 +0000

> Would you count this as malware if it was about the author trying to profit or steal from inattentive people using AI?

That’s a slippery slope and not at all related to the subject of the article

New comment by kioleanu in "Protestware for coding agents"

kioleanu — Fri, 29 May 2026 07:41:32 +0000

How is it malware tho? Do you not check the output your agents produce?

New comment by kioleanu in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

kioleanu — Fri, 15 May 2026 09:16:58 +0000

I had the same problem with my Skoda, but it was fixed under warranty, albeit it took 7 months for them to do it, although they've acknowledged it from day one.

I use Apple CarPlay and one thing that consistently worked was starting the navigation on the phone before it connected to the car.

Otherwise, the fix is relatively simple and cheap: the ECU has to be replaced, it doesn't cost too much, but it's pretty labour intensive.

New comment by kioleanu in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"

kioleanu — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:17:32 +0000

I am from Eastern Europe and I’ve been living for many years in Western Europe. Where I come from, kids get their first phones when they start school at 6 (there’s a pre-school year) simply because every other kid has one. I keep coming back in my mind to two examples from my birth country: a friend’s kid carrying an 8 inch smartphone in his hand everywhere because the phone was as big as half his thigh and would have to carry a bag for it. The second one was on a visit at the zoo, I was on a bench and a family with two young children with them, in a cart. And both children, couldn’t have been older than 4 or 5, were scrolling TikTok, that was showing them children content!

In contrast, in Western Europe, my son is now in the sixth grade, more than half his class doesn’t have phones, phones are absolutely forbidden on school grounds and at school activities, and they are now doing a class trip where they were told that there’s a pay phone at the hotel, in case they want to call the parents - our son promptly informed us that he’ll rather buy a pack of Pokémon cards than call us and 3 days is not so much anyway.

And it is not only at school, he travels for tournaments with his team every other week and mobile phones are absolutely forbidden on the team bus. Children read, play games (including chess on a magnetic board), sing and change stories for hours at a time

New comment by kioleanu in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

kioleanu — Tue, 05 May 2026 09:29:19 +0000

You want to have your cake and eat it too, I think the best solution in your case is paying for youtube

New comment by kioleanu in "The Car That Watches You Back: The Advertising Infrastructure of Modern Cars"

kioleanu — Tue, 05 May 2026 07:59:22 +0000

I have a Skoda and the GPS module was broken and that messed up a lot of the systems in the car, I couldn't use the adaptive cruise control, no traffic signs recognition and no SOS module. And apparently CarPlay sometimes uses the car's GPS module, so navigation was also a pain. I'd have to start the navigation from outside the car, otherwise it wouldn't use the phone's GPS.

New comment by kioleanu in "Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125k years ago (2025)"

kioleanu — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:12:41 +0000

If I enable reader mode on this article on my iPhone, I get an AI summary instead of the article text. I’d it the sure doing that or my phone? I hate it either way as there’s no way to read the article in reader mode

New comment by kioleanu in "He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice"

kioleanu — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:54:06 +0000

Yes, people are using LLMs for this because that is how they've been marketed, like being able to solve every day tasks like a personal assistant on one hand, but also like researchers being able to solve old problems that humans couldn't crack.

Does the model say it can't do that when asked? No, it answers confidentely.

Also it's easy to trust it if you don't know how it works

New comment by kioleanu in "Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes company database in 9 seconds"

kioleanu — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:12:18 +0000

AI identified a problemm namely a credential missmatch and it decided it needs to delete a volume in order to fix that. Then it went and searched inside the whole codebase for a token that allows it to do that, found a production token meant for something else and issued the deletion request with said production token.

On the other end, the cloud company had something, _by design_, that also deletes any backups if you delete the volume.

New comment by kioleanu in "Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent"

kioleanu — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:22:28 +0000

Oooh it’s for the children!

New comment by kioleanu in "Migrating to the EU"

kioleanu — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:35:55 +0000

I think he means that he can have a catch-all, but to reply from that address, there needs to be an alias created on the account

New comment by kioleanu in "Migrating to the EU"

kioleanu — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:25:17 +0000

If you buy directly from Mullvad, they delete the transaction details after two weeks. Sure, your payment procesor knows you’ve bought from Mullvad, but in this case so does Amazon, no?

Regarding Migadu, after extensive research it seemed to be the best option, but man that 20 outgoing emails limit is just so off-putting and the next tier is so far apart. I would be comfortable paying 50-60 euros per year for 50 outgoing emails, but no, it’s either 20 for 20 euros or 100 for 90 euros

New comment by kioleanu in "Migrating to the EU"

kioleanu — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:21:17 +0000

The problem is that, even if Fastmail are Australian, they host exclusively in the US. They state that sure, there is the possibility of interference at the data center level, but they rely on their anti-hacking measures to prevent unlawful access

New comment by kioleanu in "Mistral AI Releases Forge"

kioleanu — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:35:09 +0000

wow, thank you, this is great. I was thinking they should have a page like this, but I couldn't find myself.

New comment by kioleanu in "Mistral AI Releases Forge"

kioleanu — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:09:03 +0000

you might be correct. for example, they have an intellij plugin that allows integration without the AI Assistant, but it is only available for Enterprise customers

New comment by kioleanu in "Mistral AI Releases Forge"

kioleanu — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 09:38:53 +0000

no, the key is actually universal, you can't choose a specific product

New comment by kioleanu in "Mistral AI Releases Forge"

kioleanu — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:04:44 +0000

I like Mistral, it hits the exact sweet spot between cost and my data staying in the EU, withouth a significant drop in quality, but man are their model naming conventions confusing af. They mention they have a model called Devstral 2, which is neither Codestral nor Devestral. I want to use it, but the api only lists devstral-2512, devstral-latest, devstral-medium-latest, devstral-medium-2507, devstral-small, devstral-small-2507.

I think, devstral-latest should be it, no? So I write to support and get an answer 12 hours later that says oh, no, devstral 2 is definetely called devstral 2 and then a page of instructions on how to set it up in Intellij... generated with AI. The screens it is refering to don't exist and never did.