Hacker News: woadwarrior01

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach"

woadwarrior01 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:53:05 +0000

I think it's time for LastPass to rebrand themselves as First0wned.

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI"

woadwarrior01 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:36:53 +0000

You're absolutely allowed to release 20% time projects publicly. As in any large bureaucracy, there's a process for that which is taught during onboarding. What you're not allowed to do is skip the process. There's nothing Google specific about it and I've seen similar firings at other companies too. Skipping legal and corp comms review on any external public communication is grounds for termination.

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance"

woadwarrior01 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:45:27 +0000

For locally hostable image editing models, the edit variant of the recently released Boogu-Image[1] model is very good. Anecdotally, I'd say way better than Flux.2 Klein 9B and Qwen-Edit.

[1]: https://github.com/boogu-project/Boogu-Image

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "Two Qwen3 models on one DGX Spark: the residency math"

woadwarrior01 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:25:37 +0000

Thanks for sharing.

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs"

woadwarrior01 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:19:40 +0000

I’ve been using oh-my-pi with GLM-5.2 xhigh as the main model and GPT-5.5 medium as its advisor model. IMO, the combo works better than either of those models alone.

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs"

woadwarrior01 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 08:13:42 +0000

Someone posted a temporary workaround for this on X[1].

sqlite3 ~/.codex/logs_2.sqlite "CREATE TRIGGER IF NOT EXISTS block_log_inserts BEFORE INSERT ON logs BEGIN SELECT RAISE(IGNORE); END;"

Also, I found that running VACUUM FULL on the sqlite file on my laptop shrunk it from 27GB to a mere 73MB[2].

[1]: https://xcancel.com/bdsqlsz/status/2067964486615810369

[2]: https://xcancel.com/jeethu/status/2068087449469780434

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "The minimum viable unit of saleable software"

woadwarrior01 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:21:15 +0000

You'd probably get much further along by fine tuning a small BERT style encoder model based classifier for it. IMO, even something as simple as training a linear classifier on the CLS token embeddings from a frozen encoder might work.

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "Occupancy Math on the AMD MI355X: A From-First-Principles Guide"

woadwarrior01 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 20:53:38 +0000

Yeah, the site has an odious AI design smell.

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "Two Qwen3 models on one DGX Spark: the residency math"

woadwarrior01 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:38:01 +0000

> unsloth has toxic employees in their discord

Would you mind elaborating on this?

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "Identity verification on Claude"

woadwarrior01 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:43:15 +0000

In the EU and UK, data protection legislation applies to governments' handling of their subjects' data too.

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "Identity verification on Claude"

woadwarrior01 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:42:19 +0000

r/USdefaultism :)

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "Data Compression Explained (2012)"

woadwarrior01 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 08:47:22 +0000

There are many approaches around this, the simplest being to treat bytes as tokens (cf: Google's ByT5[1]). Also, BLT[2] from Meta and ByteFormer[3] from Apple.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.13626

[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.09871

[3]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00238

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

woadwarrior01 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:02:05 +0000

What VPN provider is this? I could use it because Chinese users of my apps often complain about not being able to download things from my western hosted servers.

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

woadwarrior01 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:43:29 +0000

I think it's wild that Kimi is only valued at half as much - $30B.

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model"

woadwarrior01 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:13:02 +0000

It's is a well known idea[1], although it's still surprising that something as simple, even works.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.05482

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "Don't trust large context windows"

woadwarrior01 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 09:46:56 +0000

aka Softmax context rot

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "Appreciating Exif"

woadwarrior01 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:32:49 +0000

As with most standards, there are three almost overlapping standards for image metadata. EXIF, IPTC and XMP. IPTC incidentally is hot again because certain generative AI providers add IPTC metadata[1] to the images they generate. Incidentally, OpenAI uses another standard for the same purpose, C2PA[2].

All of these, the author mentions. Now for SynthID[3], which both OpenAI and Google embed in the pixels of the images they generate. Needless to say, in mutually incompatible ways.

[1]: https://iptc.org/news/draft-for-public-comment-new-photo-met...

[2]: https://c2pa.org/

[3]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09263

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "You can power on a Mac remotely"

woadwarrior01 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:09:32 +0000

Isn't it easier to scotch tape or better yet, duct tape it down?

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end"

woadwarrior01 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:58:13 +0000

> Remember: Claude is capable of extraordinary creative work. Don't hold back, show what can truly be created when thinking outside the box and committing fully to a distinctive vision.

Manifestation for LLMs. :)

New comment by woadwarrior01 in "More AI-generated code doesn't make your team faster. It might slow you"

woadwarrior01 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:57:04 +0000

`Using AWS services doesn't save you money. It might actually lead to you burning more money.`