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New comment by reissbaker in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

reissbaker — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:25:22 +0000

Muse Spark doesn't even match GLM-5.1 on most benchmarks. And GLM is open source!

New comment by reissbaker in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

reissbaker — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:26:30 +0000

Well, I see you've graduated from wishcasting the Iron Dome being "blinded" by a radar it doesn't use to being confused that shooting down missiles involves AI.

New comment by reissbaker in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

reissbaker — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:07:17 +0000

None of your links support that claim or even try to make it. The Haaretz article is complaining about a day of unusually short missile notifications on March 7, a week later than the Iranian strike on the radar (and now a month-old claim, which lasted only a day — if that was due to the radar, why did it not start the day the radar was actually hit, and why did it only last a day when the radar remains ruined today?). One of your articles is about drones, which has nothing to do with the radar system, and you are now backpedaling all of your drone-related claims for Israeli air defense despite making many drone claims earlier (why is that?). The other is the Guardian article that doesn't make that claim, and one is about the American Patriot missile defense system, not Israeli ones.

Recent reporting has indicated that contrary to your claim that the American radar system getting hit has left the Iron Dome "blind," Israeli missile detection has actually improved over the course of the war:

https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/society/artc-israel-up...

https://www.nbcrightnow.com/national/israel-using-ai-to-fine...

Which makes sense, because:

1. Israeli air defense was not dependent on that American radar system (unlike what you keep claiming).

2. Israel has had many more data points on Iranian missile launches since the war started.

New comment by reissbaker in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

reissbaker — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:10:08 +0000

The problem is you do not understand how these systems work and are making claims that don't pass the sniff test to anyone who does know how these work. For example, you claim multiple times that Shahed drones have somehow exacerbated these Iron Dome missile interceptor issues, and now claim you're not talking about the literal Iron Dome — you're talking about who knows what (you don't specify any actual, concrete system and instead use a metaphorical understanding from the popular press). The problem is: actually, the literal, real Iron Dome does target Shaheds! So if it's the radar system that was the problem and caused the metaphorical Iron Dome to be "blind" — why did drones matter, if those are targeted by the literal Iron Dome that doesn't use that radar? Are you meaning to talk about David's Sling, which targets missiles and drones? But David's Sling is a medium range system that doesn't use the American radar in Qatar either! Arrow 3? Guess what — it has nothing to do with Shaheds, and has nothing to do with the American radar system either — it uses an IAI radar system.

The Iranian hit on the American radar in Qatar hasn't left the "Iron Dome" blind, figuratively or literally, and your proposed mechanisms of actions don't make sense.

New comment by reissbaker in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

reissbaker — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:47:32 +0000

Both you and the Guardian are confused (or perhaps the Guardian is just trying to ride the popular understanding of the "Iron Dome" as a super catch all missile defense system vs reality). The Iron Dome has nothing to do with shooting down ballistic missiles. The Iron Dome isn't designed to target ballistic missiles: it targets short-range rockets and artillery like the ones fired by Hamas and Hezbollah, and has been modified to also target slow-moving drones (although the Iron Beam is intended to be the main drone defense system in the future). The Iranian missiles are targeted by different systems: David's Sling and the Arrow 2 and 3.

The Iron Dome does not depend on the American radar system in Qatar that Iran hit. It would be crazy for it to do so when it only targets short range attacks. If someone is telling you that the "Iron Dome is blind" because an American radar in Qatar got hit by a missile, you should probably update the amount you trust that source negatively, since not only is that not true, but it doesn't even pass the sniff test to anyone who knows what the Iron Dome is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Dome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%27s_Sling

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_3

New comment by reissbaker in "Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people"

reissbaker — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:18:26 +0000

FWIW, Pierre's "Code Storage" project [1] seems like it simplifies a lot of the operational overhead of running git servers, if what you want is "an API for git push". Not affiliated with the company (and I haven't tried it myself, so I can't vouch for how well it works), I just think it's a neat idea.

1: https://code.storage/

New comment by reissbaker in "OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle"

reissbaker — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 23:40:13 +0000

I run a small open source LLM inference company, Synthetic.new. As far as I can tell, CNBC isn't reporting this accurately: the problem isn't that Oracle is building "yesterday's data centers": they're building Blackwell DCs! Those are today's DCs.

The problem appears to be that Oracle is building today's DCs... Tomorrow. And by the time they come online, Vera Rubins will be out, with 5x efficiency gains. And Oracle is unlikely to want to drop the price of Blackwells 5x, despite them being 5x less efficient.

It's a little unclear to me how bad this is. Nvidia's "rack scale" machines like GB200-NVL72s and GB300-NVL72s are basically a fully built rack you roll into a DC and plug into power and network. In that case, Oracle should probably just buy the rack-scale Vera Rubins when they come out instead of Blackwells and roll them into their new DCs. Tada! Tomorrow's DCs, tomorrow.

OTOH it's possible someone at Oracle screwed up and committed to buying Blackwells at today's prices, delivered tomorrow. Or maybe construction of the physical DCs is behind schedule, so today's Blackwells are sitting around unused, waiting for power and networking tomorrow. Then they're in a bit of trouble.

Regardless, CNBC's reporting seems pretty unclear on what actually happened and whether this is actually bad or not.

New comment by reissbaker in "How to run Qwen 3.5 locally"

reissbaker — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:12:18 +0000

How does it compare at vision tasks to Kimi K2.5?

New comment by reissbaker in "Strikes in Middle East since 28th Feb in real time"

reissbaker — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:05:32 +0000

No, it attacked Azerbaijan's airport and Saudi oil refineries, among many other civilian targets. They're just hitting whatever they can.

New comment by reissbaker in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

reissbaker — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 21:40:36 +0000

Wait, why would you still need a home server if the harness (aka, the agent) is hosted in the cloud?

New comment by reissbaker in "Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions"

reissbaker — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:52:51 +0000

Where are the polecats, though? What about the mayor's dog?

New comment by reissbaker in "xAI joins SpaceX"

reissbaker — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 04:28:06 +0000

Photovoltaic production has been doubling every year. That's not a huge amount of doubling!

New comment by reissbaker in "Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking"

reissbaker — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:41:34 +0000

Counterpoint: Vim has existed for decades and does not use a bloated React rendering pipeline, and doesn't corrupt everything when it gets resized, and is much more full featured from a UI standpoint than Claude Code which is a textbox, and hits 60fps without breaking a sweat unlike Claude Code which drops frames constantly when typing small amounts of text.

New comment by reissbaker in "Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking"

reissbaker — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:40:07 +0000

Yes yes I'm familiar with the tweet. Nonetheless they drop frames all the time and flicker frequently. The tweet itself is ridiculous when counterpoints like Vim exist, which is much higher performance with much greater complexity. They don't even write much of what the tweet is claiming. They just use Ink, which is an open-source rendering lib on top of Yoga, which is an open-source Flexbox implementation from Meta.

New comment by reissbaker in "GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client"

reissbaker — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:33:32 +0000

It's really unfortunate the term "free software" took off rather than e.g. "libre software", since it muddies discussions like this. The point of "free software" is not "you don't have to pay," it's that you have freedom in terms of what you do with the code running on your own machine. Selling free software is not incompatible with free software: it's free as in freedom, not as in free beer.

New comment by reissbaker in "Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking"

reissbaker — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:37:08 +0000

Surely you mean 6fps

New comment by reissbaker in "Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model"

reissbaker — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 10:37:21 +0000

Generally speaking, 8xH200s will be a lot cheaper than 16xH100s, and faster too. But both should technically work.

New comment by reissbaker in "Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's flickering in terminal"

reissbaker — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 02:11:09 +0000

FWIW, Ink is working on an incremental rendering system: they have a flag to enable it. It's currently pretty buggy though unfortunately. Definitely wish Anthropic would commit some resources back to the project they're built on to help fix it...

Synthetic.new <3 OpenCode

reissbaker — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 01:45:03 +0000

Article URL: https://synthetic.new/blog/2026-01-10-synthetic-heart-opencode

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46571955

Points: 9

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New comment by reissbaker in "Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout"

reissbaker — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:36:40 +0000

If there weren't protests, Iran wouldn't have cut the internet. And besides, the BBC has videos of them: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgm4y0ewe93o