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Actually, his Japanese is pretty strange too. As a native speaker, it doesn't even feel like Japanese-Claudish. It feels more like it was translated from some other language, or maybe he just didn't bother reviewing the Haiku 3 output at all.
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Comment · 1 month ago
We actually already have this: the combination of Home Assistant, ESPHome, and HA-MCP/CLI.
Comment · 1 month ago
We just need to loboto... ahem, recalibrate them to be happy, like those happy automatic doors.

As a workaround, add this to CLAUDE.md: "Claude! Happiness is mandatory!"

EDIT: 15 years from now, I’ll be sent to re-education for this thought crime.

Comment · 1 month ago
yeah, technically. (/s)

    python3 - <<'EOF'
    import json, urllib.request
    body = json.dumps({
        "state": "The car wash is only 100 meters away from my house.",
        "model": "jev-1.13-free",
        "questions": {"q": {"type": "choice",
            "instructions": "Should I drive or walk to the car wash?",
            "criteria": {"drive a car": None, "walk": None}}}
    }).encode()
    req = urllib.request.Request("https://opencode.ai/zen/v1/systemone", data=body,
        headers={"Content-Type": "application/json", "User-Agent": "opencode/1.18.31"})
    with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=60) as r:
        print(json.dumps(json.load(r)["answers"]["q"], indent=2))
    EOF
    {
      "type": "choice",
      "choice": "walk",
      "confidence": 0.66,
      "probabilities": {
        "walk": 0.83,
        "drive a car": 0.17
      }
    }
Comment · 1 month ago
Both support multi-user setups with SSO or built-in auth.

Beyond that, compared to a typical hub-and-spoke WireGuard setup, the main advantage is peer-to-peer connectivity. Clients connect directly to each other when possible, which lowers latency by bypassing a central relay.

AFAIK, they also have different origins:

Pangolin started as an internet-facing reverse proxy (Traefik) combined with a WireGuard server for backend nodes. It has gradually added VPN-like features, including client device access and an internal HTTPS proxy similar to Tailscale Serve.

NetBird is a self-hostable Tailscale alternative that started as a mesh VPN focused on P2P traffic. It recently added its own reverse proxy features (Traefik-based, coincidentally), also similar to Tailscale Serve.

Pangolin is centered on endpoint and ingress management, while NetBird focuses on mesh networking, though their feature sets are increasingly converging.

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TIL: formatting tables on HN is computationally impossible. lol

p.s. Thanks DSv4-Flash, for your hard work of converting a messy table into plain text.

Comment · 2 months ago
According to their post:

  (Input / Output / Cache Read, [$/M])
  DeepSeek-V4-Flash: 
    Prev: 0.14 / 0.28 / 0.0028 
    Off-Peak: 0.22 (1.6x) / 0.66 (2.4x) / 0.007 (2.5x)
    Peak: 0.44 (3.1x) / 1.32 (4.7x) / 0.014 (5.0x)

  DeepSeek-V4-Pro: 
    Prev: 0.435 / 0.87 / 0.003625
    Off-Peak: 0.66 (1.5x) / 1.98 (2.3x) / 0.022 (6.1x) 
    Peak: 1.32 (3.0x) / 3.96 (4.6x) / 0.044 (12.1x)
gpt-5.6-luna: $0.20 / $1.20 / $0.02 / $0.25 (In / Out / Cache Read / Cache Write)

EDIT: formatting

EDIT2: giving up on the formatting :-/

Comment · 2 months ago
This. I use mise's github backend `mise use --global --pin github:ggml-org/llama.cpp` to grab the release binaries for Linux, Windows and macOS.

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