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New comment by rbbydotdev in "Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

rbbydotdev — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 03:59:37 +0000

Howard Lutnick is the 41st United States Secretary of Commerce. Howard Lutnick is known to have had ties to Jeffrey Epstein. From what we know and what has so far been released to the public, he is even documented to have visited his island.

New comment by rbbydotdev in "Claude Code is steganographically marking requests"

rbbydotdev — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 03:55:29 +0000

the source of cc being closed, and peoples accounts being deactivated for 'openclaw'-esque misuse, i sort of assumed there were such things in the source. I wonder if there is anything else...

New comment by rbbydotdev in "The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level"

rbbydotdev — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:44:48 +0000

Raise the minimum wage to ~$25-30/hr

Before anyone says inflation, there will be more consumer spending and thus more cash flow in the middle and lower class

New comment by rbbydotdev in "GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks"

rbbydotdev — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 03:06:17 +0000

Argh, agent benchmarks are so bad and can be gamed easier than bmw emissions tests.

New comment by rbbydotdev in "MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control"

rbbydotdev — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:46:54 +0000

Anyone have a price chart comparing all the sandbox providers? (microvm included)?

New comment by rbbydotdev in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

rbbydotdev — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:13:59 +0000

Reminds of the TikTok ban for security and safety only for it to be sold to a fellow crony. Can't help but see this play going down again. Threaten / Ban / Control / Pressure a technology+company, then get your cronies a seat at the board.

The cynic in me suspects they were salivating so much over the Spacex IPO they wanted a finger in anthropics 2026 IPO. Banning fable ~1 day after.

New comment by rbbydotdev in "Will It Mythos?"

rbbydotdev — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:11:16 +0000

I find it ironic, we now have to use lesser models to write potentially MORE buggy code, than greater models which would allow you to write LESS buggy code. It's paradoxical.

New comment by rbbydotdev in "VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reasoning with novel SFT+GRPO"

rbbydotdev — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:14:36 +0000

Looks like we are seeing small but mighty model breakthroughs, outpacing the pure capital firepower of SOTA providers. I love rooting for the little guy, but is it too soon to call it? To play devils advocate, could it just be the benchmarks are not efficient enough to capture success of real developer workflows?

New comment by rbbydotdev in "How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s"

rbbydotdev — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:19:02 +0000

> The catch is that regular EC2 is already a VM. AWS runs our host inside its own isolation layer, and then we run browser VMs inside that host. In other words, every browser is a VM inside a VM.

yes but i think there is specifically some ec2s which give you hypervisor access and thereby firecracker too - someone correct me if im wrong?

New comment by rbbydotdev in "How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s"

rbbydotdev — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:17:07 +0000

crazy that the maker of chrome(google) and also the owner of a massive amount of cloud services has not made a cloud product identical to this yet

New comment by rbbydotdev in "Removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds"

rbbydotdev — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:00:43 +0000

I wonder if with enough input data and transcription you could “fingerprint” where a speaker personality has habits of interjecting “ums” leading to more hardy analysis. Novel approach, but gets me thinking

New comment by rbbydotdev in "Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents"

rbbydotdev — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:08:41 +0000

This is great, does it work in the browser via wasm? There’s an emcripten libgit2 out there but the wasm is a little big too be any fun

New comment by rbbydotdev in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

rbbydotdev — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:51:40 +0000

launching apple music on play, seems very similar to microsoft's early anti trust case and internet explorer

New comment by rbbydotdev in "I don't want my search engine to think for me"

rbbydotdev — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:55:23 +0000

Maybe it’s misplaced nostalgia but google search before google plus ruined the +, and the image search was top tier (not shopping ads) - truly incredible the signal to noise you could find.

Now all the junk comes to the top and the sites you get all have ads and modal popups or sales funnel flows

New comment by rbbydotdev in "London's Free Roof Terraces"

rbbydotdev — Sun, 31 May 2026 11:03:31 +0000

> Alas it also had great views into the apartments at Neo Bankside whose residents ultimately sued and won, thus if you arrive by lift today you can only visit the cafe

bummer

New comment by rbbydotdev in "The Last Technical Interview"

rbbydotdev — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:45:18 +0000

Steve Yegge is the creator of gastown, a multi-agent workspace manager. It's an open source 21st century master piece of ai psychosis, slop, and most especially redundant processes, orchestration and code (MILLIONS OF LINES) I'm finding no surprise and even laugh-out-loud hilarious, that the author of such abomination is also the progenitor of the equally inane and psychotic hiring process of FAANGs like google and amazon.

New comment by rbbydotdev in "Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes"

rbbydotdev — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:13:30 +0000

That sounds like a violation of affiliate t&c ? Wouldn't that nullify them, and even lead to lawsuits?

New comment by rbbydotdev in "Real wages start to shrink in developed countries"

rbbydotdev — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:15:57 +0000

Human output is not money go in production come out. This is tired. Companies continue to headquarter in the most expensive cities in the world. Surely they would all REMOTE TO THE BALKANS by now if it were actually a viable option

New comment by rbbydotdev in "Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)"

rbbydotdev — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:48:26 +0000

This is great. Maybe before self driving becomes a thing we can convince our capital hoarding tech oligarchs who run the country we need more walkable cities to feed ai inputs

New comment by rbbydotdev in "Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)"

rbbydotdev — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:46:29 +0000

Of course it does, and is it any surprise the most innovative city and urban centers in the world are the most walkable?