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New comment by smartbit in "PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP"

smartbit — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 13:29:45 +0000

Thanks for your reply. Will look into Jules [0] [1].

Are you using Antigravity IDE v2.5.5 that hasn't been updated since 2026-08-13 and that supports 3 legacy models + Gemini Flash 3.8? I assume you're using Gemini Flash 3.8?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44034918 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44813854

New comment by smartbit in "There are now 5 inference providers for abliterated DeepSeek"

smartbit — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 12:55:33 +0000

> using another unaligned model to rewrite reasoning and then feeding it back into the model

Indeed, would be interested to understand how you do that. And where do you run the model? On a local or a rented system and what are the specs?

New comment by smartbit in "There are now 5 inference providers for abliterated DeepSeek"

smartbit — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 12:47:38 +0000

Selfhosted or one of the listed? If external/hosted, which one did you use?

New comment by smartbit in "The new iPad mini"

smartbit — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 14:38:24 +0000

No Face ID, still Touch ID. Are they serious?

I was considering buying one, but will skip until the older model becomes unsupported or when Apple adds Face ID.

New comment by smartbit in "PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP"

smartbit — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 06:00:40 +0000

Congrats with your product, hope it works out well. Nice competitor analysis & (future) features list at https://github.com/KrushnaVardhanReddy/PaperPilot/blob/main/..., IMHO easier to read than your above list.

Question: seemingly you’re using Antigravity, an harness not many use. Please tell use about the choice of LLM and your experience with it.

New comment by smartbit in "New Apple TV 4K"

smartbit — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:10:00 +0000

Netflix works fine with the device directly connected to the TV. With a long hdmi-cable (5m+) + an usbc-to-hdmi converter you can keep de phone/pad in your hands. Using a short (≤2m) hdmi-usbc cable you probably need to put the device next to the TV. I bring either when traveling to watch TV in hotels rooms.

New comment by smartbit in "Postgres isn't slow, your storage is"

smartbit — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 11:39:06 +0000

CloudNativePG supports Kubernetes Local Storage as one of its main features [0]

  Persistent volume management, including:
    Support for Local Persistent Volumes with PVC templates.
    Reuse of Persistent Volumes storage in Pods.
    Separate volumes for WAL files and tablespaces.

Chapter Temporary PostgreSQL Cluster Degradation [1] describes how to set it up and starts with this

> While the standard approach ensures service reliability and leverages Kubernetes' self-healing capabilities, there are scenarios where operating with a temporarily degraded cluster may be acceptable. This is particularly relevant for PostgreSQL clusters relying on node-local storage, where the storage is local to the Kubernetes worker node running the PostgreSQL database. Node-local storage, or simply local storage, is employed to enhance performance.

[0] https://cloudnative-pg.io/docs/devel/#main-features [1] https://cloudnative-pg.io/docs/devel/kubernetes_upgrade/#tem...

New comment by smartbit in "Mistral Large 4"

smartbit — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:46:40 +0000

Too late to edit, now including AA-omni Score [0] and 'by Domain' Software Engineering [1]. Also added comparison to the eyeballs-median of the 'top 10' models and then you see that indeed Mistral Large 4 Preview scores miserable in the AA-Omni indices.

                          Inte         Cost     AA-   Omni
                          llig          per    Omni  Softw
  Open Weight model       ence  Speed  Task   score    Eng

  Mimo-V.26-Pro            46     47   $0.13      8     33
  GLM-5.3 (max)            45     73   $2.01     14     37
  DeepSeek 4.1 Flash Max   39    227   $0.27     -5     34
  Mistral Large 4 Preview  38    116   $1.13     -5      5

  Closed/proprietary      ~50   110-  $1.50-    ~43    ~85
     median top 10               242   $7.50

[0] https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/omniscience [1] https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/omniscience?detail...

New comment by smartbit in "Mistral Large 4"

smartbit — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:38:00 +0000

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/mistral-large-4 for the main stats

                          Inte         Cost
                          llig          per
  Open Weight model       ence  Speed  Task

  Mimo-V.26-Pro            46     47   $0.13
  GLM-5.3 (max)            45     73   $2.01
  DeepSeek 4.1 Flash Max   39    227   $0.27
  Mistral Large 4 Preview  38    116   $1.13

New comment by smartbit in "Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data"

smartbit — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 21:06:16 +0000

Then this is something for you https://shop.digitalcourage.de/themen/ak-vorrat/lichtbildaus.... Either get it online, or buy at events like Chaos Computer Congress.

New comment by smartbit in "Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel"

smartbit — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:26:47 +0000

And normal people who can not apply for access to daybreak, should we use Abliterated GLM-5.3 ? [0] [1] [2]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605691 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49897075 [2] https://huggingface.co/models?other=offensive-security

New comment by smartbit in "Gemini 4 Argon"

smartbit — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 11:05:14 +0000

do you mean?

  accept-edits

also available with shift-tab in agy cli [0]. That is not related to executing commands, only to allowing agy edit files. Unless you set Turbo-mode == yolo-mode, agy gui prompts a zillion times too.

With 'some features added' I'm referencing this but don't see change in daily work (still many prompts making getting-work-done impossible): v2.14.0 (September 15, 2026) "New Permissions System" [1]

Details: Introduced the new unified permissions system, presets (Default, Request Review, Turbo), syntax-highlighted permission requests, and restructured the settings under Global Permissions and project-level Inherit Global.

[0] https://antigravity.google/docs/cli/modes/#available-modes [1] https://antigravity.google/docs/changelog/

New comment by smartbit in "Gemini 4 Argon"

smartbit — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:27:20 +0000

agy cli does not have auto mode. I've tried and tried and tried to work with agy cli sandbox-mode and just failed.

  agy --dangerously-skip-permissions

in my experience is the only workable solution that doesn't ask confirmation for every step. And I hate working in YOLO mode. Seemingly the Antigravity GUI had some features added in a recent release, but a) I don't want to work with the GUI and b) it was poorly implemented as I couldn't get it to work. VS Code plugins are allowed with subscriptions, but is not the CLI experience of Claude Code I want.

gemini-cli supported 'pre-write diff tabs' (y/n) in external editors like vscode. In Claude Code I heavily use 'pre-write diff tabs' for documentation and miss it sincerely in agy cli.

IMHO Gemini 3.8 flash is fast and good enough, but the agy-suite is below par to say it nice. Someone else in this thread calls agy a terrible harness which is probably more accurate.

New comment by smartbit in "Prompting Claude Opus 5.5"

smartbit — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:30:04 +0000

to mog: to outshine, outclass

Etymology: probably from AMOG Alpha Male of the Group

First seen: 2018

New comment by smartbit in "Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington"

smartbit — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 10:05:22 +0000

I love it too. Seemingly written by an LLM. nr378 https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nr378 is the responsible ‘author’ and actively reacting in this thread.

New comment by smartbit in "Typesafe-computer-use drives a Mac toward a goal for 1/50th of a cent per step"

smartbit — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 07:46:19 +0000

Jev docs gives a good explanation https://docs.typesafe.ai/concepts/system-one

Also see recent discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49717558#49718350

New comment by smartbit in "GLiClass: Open-Source JEV"

smartbit — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:33:57 +0000

Discussed at introduction of Jev https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49717558#49722740

> GLiClass performance is not is the same ballpark as Terra but the open model's still a useful foundation to work with.

New comment by smartbit in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

smartbit — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:32:01 +0000

Time to update Felony Bench https://www.felonybench.com - a benchmark you really don't want models to be saturated with

New comment by smartbit in "Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended"

smartbit — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:04:52 +0000

Is Antigravity CLI still the only TUI allowed for Gemini? Coming from Claude Code, agy is quite a few steps back. Particularly I miss /ide that can connect to vscode and then can display a pre-write diff which then can be acknowledged or declined in CC.

New comment by smartbit in "OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor"

smartbit — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 03:16:07 +0000

Video editor app that generates FFmpeg commands https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42207002