Much cleaner, shorter code and type safety with Postgres (my schema tends to be highly normalized too). And these days I’ve got it well integrated with Zod for type safe JS/TS front-ends as well.

I’ve always believed governments and companies should be regarded with fairly low trust, and the behavior of big tech companies and some recent government actions are great examples why.

But what disappoints me a bit about this moment is (the perhaps inevitable?) response to nationalism with more nationalism.

Just as I didn’t seek to punish the EU over authoritarianism in Hungary and Poland, I feel the current moment has many responding to the symptoms instead of the sources of the problems. This is not a defense of policies I believe concern you, it’s a question of priorities.

I think the author of the article got it right. Because in addition to privacy, I believe one should be able to navigate the internet freely without a mandate to do business with monopolistic dominant companies, which includes rights like ownership of your data.

I pay for Docker licenses, even though not meeting the criteria for business size requiring it, as I wanted reliable image fetching for my self hosted container CI/CD pipelines failing docker hub image fetches.

But as of now, my oAuth logins to Docker expire within hours now, and I’ve been left with no choice but to scatter in search of diffuse container image alternative sources for my Dockerfiles to stop this madness.

My one way permanent migration from Docker Hub sourced images has finally left me with no reason to keep paying for Docker licenses due to whatever this misguided or blundered rate limit implementation is.

So I use Apple Maps, Mapbox, OpenStreetMap, and Google Maps… sometimes to check the results with multiple providers, and sometimes to divvy up the free allotment.

For anyone using Java/Kotlin/JVM, I made an SDK for Apple Maps: https://github.com/WilliamAGH/apple-maps-java which is one with a generous included tier.

curl -L -o brief.zip https://github.com/WilliamAGH/brief/releases/latest/download... unzip brief.zip cd brief-*/ ./bin/brief

I wasn’t expecting the main topic of what I’ve been building to appear on the cover of hacker news today, so I was caught a bit unprepared, but they were definitely on the todo list next!

https://github.com/WilliamAGH/tui4j

It combines a port of BubbleTea from Go, and Textual and other inspired rewrites of other functionality.

It’s a fork of someone’s earlier work that I sought to expand/stabilize.

I built a beautifully simple LLM chat interface with full dialog windows, animations, and full support for keyboard and mouse interactivity parity, showing what this Java library is capable of.

Example chat app: https://github.com/WilliamAGH/brief

Would love to see others build similar things with it!

1. disclose my method was not quantifiably measurable as the not model, because that is not important to me, speed of action/development outcomes is more important to me, and because

2. I’ve observed a large gap between benchmark toppers and my own results

But make no mistake, I like have the terminals scrolling live across multiple monitors so I can glance at them periodically and watch their response quality, so I care and notice which give better/worse results.

My biggest goal right now after accuracy is achieving more natural human-like English for technical writing.

I’ve used several runtimes, including vLLM. Works great! Speedy. Best results with Ubuntu after trying a few different distributions and Vulkan and ROCm drivers.

As someone else mentioned, the GPT-OSS models are also quite good (though I haven’t found how to make them great yet, though I think they might age well like the Llama 3 models did and get better with time!).

But for a defined task, I’ve found task compliance, understanding, and tool call success rates to be some of the highest on these Nvidia models.

For example, I have a continuous job that evaluates if the data for a startup company on aVenture.vc could have overlapping/conflated two similar but unrelated companies for news articles, research details, investment rounds, etc… which is a token hungry ETL task! And I recently retested this workflow on the top 15 or so models today with <125b parameters, and the Nvidia models were among the best performing for this type of work, particularly around non-hallucination if given adequate grounding.

Also, re: cost - I run local inference on several machines that run continuously, in addition to routing through OpenRouter and the frontier providers, and was pleasantly surprised to find that if I’m a paying customer of OpenRouter otherwise, the free variant there from Nvidia is quite generous for limits, too.

‘masterphai’ is evidence of how effective a good LLM and better prompt can be now at evading detection of AI authorship… but there’s no way this authors comments are written by a sane human.

From the comment history it appears it has tricked quite a few humans to-date. Interesting!

> "It’s not likely to be something you’ll ever have at home"

I’m curious… what would need to be true to make this statement wrong?