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New comment by stanac in "GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%"

stanac — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:04:00 +0000

As I understand OAI is offering discount only for users using the model via OR. Not sure why. Maybe they want OR users to try the model and switch to OAI subscription or something.

New comment by stanac in "Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose"

stanac — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 20:16:26 +0000

Sounds like MoE but more pluggable. Not sure if anyone is researching something like this. I still think your swift or GIS model will need basic reasoning and coding to work, so it's more like multiple smaller models which you can load as needed, e.g. sub-agents for GIS needs the GIS model.

Another approach would be to have basic coding and reasoning model and then load specification for language and libraries into context, it could work for self-hosted models, but I don't want whole specification of the language to be send to API and waste tokens on that.

New comment by stanac in "For the love of god stop using CPU limits in Kubernetes"

stanac — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:35:57 +0000

Could it be that they're using coding agents to develop applications they previously wouldn't spent time on developing? Like internal tools, or experimental builds.

New comment by stanac in "DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813"

stanac — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:48:22 +0000

V4 Pro 0813 isn't offered by other providers. I can't find this model on hugging face. It's probably not open, or not open yet.

New comment by stanac in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"

stanac — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:21:52 +0000

If k3 is open-weight (and it's available on hugging face [1]), how could they force providers to sing an extra (secret) licensing agreement?

Edit to answer my own question:

License file [2] states:

> If the Licensee or any of its affiliates operates a Model as a Service business, and the aggregate revenue of the Licensee and its affiliates exceeds 20 million US dollars (or the equivalent in other currencies) in total over any consecutive 12 months, the Licensee must enter into a separate agreement with Moonshot AI before using the Software or its derivative works for any commercial purpose.

[1] https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3

[2] https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3/blob/main/LICENSE

New comment by stanac in "The End of an Era"

stanac — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:16:13 +0000

> I think this was fairly obvious and fair 1 - 2 years ago.

And that's mostly for us, developers who use it all the time and maybe for other office employees. Not sure if random person would recognize LLM-isms.

New comment by stanac in "SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers"

stanac — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:09:20 +0000

Ah, my bad, first I was wrong about null/not null, and now I see what you mean.

New comment by stanac in "SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers"

stanac — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:57:48 +0000

You create a nullable column and then change it to not null. Which wasn't possible in SQLite until recently.

New comment by stanac in "SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers"

stanac — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:56:09 +0000

Released a month ago, thanks, didn't know.

New comment by stanac in "SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers"

stanac — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:13:05 +0000

> Better option is to just add a new column with the correct definition

After that you won't be able to change column to NOT NULL. You would need migration to create new table with not null column, copy everything, drop old table and rename the new one.

Edit: unless the table is empty.

New comment by stanac in "SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers"

stanac — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:05:34 +0000

If your app is a web app you could create a rudimental page with SQL input and table output and authorize only admins. It's risky, if someone gets access to admin account they can drop everything. I have something like this for logs, app reads log files directly and they are accessible only via private domain (tailscale), if I connect to public domain I can't access logs. Additionally you could enable only SELECT statements via web.

Another downside is that it will take time to make it look nice.

New comment by stanac in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

stanac — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:03:33 +0000

> Copying of said works is still illegal.

Yes it is, but at least they are not charging for the access.

New comment by stanac in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

stanac — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 07:12:40 +0000

I am using it right now and it still works for me. I guess it's a rollout. Someone mentioned cookies, maybe it will stop working when they expire, I am not willing to clean them to find out.

New comment by stanac in "I also filed the corners off my MacBook"

stanac — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:32:47 +0000

Bosch owned Junkers since before WW2, at least heating appliances, I think airplanes where independent. They started rebranding Junkers to Bosch Thermotechnik ~20 years ago. I think they never sold heating appliances in UK under Junkers brand.

New comment by stanac in "Java 27: What's New?"

stanac — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:29:41 +0000

It's probably comment on shared CPUs. Like in kubernetes where you can assign 300 milliCPUs.

I didn't read the article, it doesn't open for me (HN hug?).

New comment by stanac in "Java 27: What's New?"

stanac — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:26:39 +0000

I think they are saying Java is dead?! Not sure how else to interpret the comment. If that's the case I have to disagree. There are probably billions of lines of Java in enterprise, it will never die.

New comment by stanac in "Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives"

stanac — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:39:52 +0000

NUC 11 i5-1135G7 with 32gb of ram and one nvme. Bought it new years ago.

For forgejo I host only code and packages there, everything is built on dev pc since I am the only one using it. It also host postgresql server, jellyfin (for music only), custom OPDS server (for books only) SMB shared directory I can use from multiple PCs, some test environments for personal projects and possibly more things I forgot.

It's a small pc but it works without problems. I do have to clean it from time to time (with cheap battery-powered air duster) to keep the thermals low.

New comment by stanac in "Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives"

stanac — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:29:23 +0000

I missed the opportunity to add "you are absolutely right".

New comment by stanac in "Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives"

stanac — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:10:20 +0000

I don't understand your question. If I was working for GH would I be selfhosting forgejo?

edit: If you think I sound like an LLM, I guess that is what happens when most of your interactions in English language are with LLMs.

New comment by stanac in "Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives"

stanac — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:35:29 +0000

Not GP. Probably less dependencies on github, e.g. actions which sometimes don't work. This way github is a "dumb backup".

I selfhost forgejo (gitea fork) on home sever (nuc), similar setup with tailscale. I was planning to setup git mirror on a remote VM for backup, but since I am the only one using it and have everything on dev laptop and remote backups of nuc server I didn't bother to do that (I know I still should).