I'd suggest using OpenCode (via Go sub or just API credits). It will give you access to more than just one companies models and you can experiment and find one that works best for you.

I really like GLM and ended up subbing to both OpenCode Go & z.ai. Mistral, Kimi and Mimi are all also options as well. I have been eyeballing the Kimi Pro sub for a while now and contemplating cancelling my ChatGPT sub for it.

Gotta love HN. You can't just have a thread without a psycho-analysis on how people interact with each other on a social media website.

As a constituent, I see this as the right move.

I would not benefit from an outright ban so that would be too heavy handed. On the other hand - something has to be done. If anything else it's proof the people do have the power to convince their representatives that these affairs matter and we are paying attention.

I wouldn't be to quick to dismiss this as only political theater.

> The compute is still real. The VRAM is still real. And the memory bandwidth is where it gets genuinely surprising.

Had to stop there. Annoying. I can't stand AI use for writing. It makes any otherwise great article feel so disingenuous.

Agree. But I have not used AI in the slightest.

Some of us just write that. AIs had to learn it from somewhere.

What a difficult world you must live in these days

While I don’t disagree with their sentiment, I’m far more annoyed with it than the AI writing.

Yeah. I get that many HN comments are just complaints (heck mine was too and just as negative and shaming). But how bad of a day must you be having to try to shame someone about how they choose to write up an experience they thought was neat. Whatever, free speech and all that. Hope OC's day gets better.

It doesn’t read like shaming to me. It’s, in the grand scheme of HN comments, definitely on the more constructive side of the criticism. Maybe it could have been reworded, but I think the author of the post could very easily find it actionable in the future. I too had to stop reading the article at that point, so I think if the author wants more people to read, my advice for them is to just write like themselves. We’ve entered the start of a new Instagram filter age where many people feel they need to have LLMs reword their writing presumably for the same reasons as the original filter age. I share OC’s sentiment of pushing against the recent trend of implicitly shaming people for their individualistic writing styles.

Every single HN post has the same comment now.

Only because so many of the articles posted on HN now are AI-written, and badly, too. A lot of tech people are so impressed with LLMs’ capabilities in code that they fail to recognize how bad they are at writing enjoyable prose. And it feels like a chore to write out a whole blog post by hand when the machine could do it for you! But the result we get is so, so much worse and more annoying.

I dislike AI prose too, the cadence of it really rubs me the wrong way, but, that said we've had a lot of great, informative articles lately, written with AI help, where you just have to grit your teeth and get through them to get the underlying knowledge.

I don't think that commenting on every article is going to make the posters suddenly decide to go back and rewrite it by hand. Some of them probably don't even speak English natively. The comments are getting more tiresome than the AI prose at this point.

Hopefully in a year or so the LLM output won't be so janky and obvious, so this might just be a phase everyone has to pull through.

That line was the exact moment I also realized the post was AI written. I kept reading though, but I am left constantly guessing at which key details might be pure hallucinations.

FYI, not a single line was AI written. If there is a hallucination, it’s fully mushy brain sourced.

Sorry for the false positive! It's interesting that multiple people thought that line was AI generated.

I think for me it was mainly the superlative "genuinely surprising" that made me wonder.

Honestly, the default styles are pretty bad. I use Claude in my scientific writing in a very specific way. 1. I write a paragraph. 2. I put Claude into concise style mode. I then ask Claude to revise for clarity.

I can write competently, but it's natural direction is towards emotional rhythmic flow that can convey emotion/passion...but which for scientific writing, can get in the way of clear clean communication. So, I write what I mean,and Claude straightens it out...and these days (i.e. not last year), it doesn't lose my meaning that often. And since I wrote it first, these AI-isms appear less frequently, and if they do, I revise them away.

But does it surface relevant search results?

Many things on the web use Yandex.

Ever since the TrueCrypt fiasco years ago, I have no trust in that brand.

Fiasco? You mean where they voluntarily shut down rather than compromise themselves? Or are you referring to another matter?

Presumably when the authors of TrueCrypt declared “Using TrueCrypt is not secure”

If I trust them to provide my FDE software, I certainly trust them when they say I shouldn’t use it.

My interpretation was that the authors received a National Security Letter and chose to shut down development rather than let their software get backdoored. IIRC the shutdown announcement cited the discontinuation of Windows XP as why the software got discontinued (when it was cross platform and supported newer versions of Windows) and included a step-by-step guide for how to migrate to Bitlocker (a red flag for anyone remotely cynical).

An independent audit of the last version of TrueCrypt was published about a year after the discontinuation. It did not find any significant security issues or backdoors.

This. I have no trust in TrueCrypt or it's derivatives. If TrueCrypt was compromised then it stands that VeraCrypt is as well.

How so? Veracrypt was independently audited, even by German BSI [1] and no serious problems were found. [1] https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/EN/BSI/Publicat...

One of the greatest cyber security mysteries of our time. Regardless of what actually happened, I hope the author is okay. (The story implied to me that the author was forced to post that, or was disappeared and the website was changed by someone else)

Is there a brand you do have trust in? I’ve kind of thrown my hands up, considered my attack surface is dude stealing my laptop and not the state department wants my 4chan history, and just use the encryption tools provided by Apple and Microsoft

Mental health is up there, but far from the most important thing we need to be focusing on as a society in the immediate future.

I say this as someone who has mental health issues, has experience loss of important people around me because of mental health issues, and probably need more therapy than the universe could reasonably provide me.

AI is directly and indirectly uprooting every facet of society. Money, energy, food, housing, medicine. Cultural revolutions are not pretty, the true outcomes are felt by those who are the winners and losers. It very much feels like a rich eats all scenario is playing out right now. I'd wager that's because it is.

Worth calling out that CopyFail can be trivially patched. I did so on my personal devices + remote servers. The attack vector is apparently only typically utilized for exploits anyways, it supposedly has little practical/legitimate use.

This article has instructions on how to self-patch: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-linux-cop...

IRC has existed for decades.

I met some of my girlfriends through irc :)

And it's a ghost town.

I suppose that depends on where you go and what you expect. Older communities are better populated than younger ones. (Not age-wise but topic-wise).

where's a good irc chat these days?

It depends on the time of day, but #emacs, #nethack, #archlinux, #lobsters, #security, #openbsd usually have enough users for good convos. It depends on what you are into, really.