I'm trying sourcehut at the moment https://sourcehut.org/ and it seems really good - very simple and fast. And does seem to be free for hosting open source projects.
This being a news site for hackers, I should point out you can use browser plugins to change the default feed. And (if you use an Android phone, but maybe there's a way with Safari?) you can run those plugins (at least on Firefox), so you can have the experience you want on mobile too!
I made one of these (called Instalamb for Instagram), but haven't maintained it recently as there wasn't much interest. There are plenty of others though.
I think my biggest disappointment with social media is not that capitalism made it harmful and addictive (that was inevitable), but that most people don't seem to care enough to even install an advert blocker, never mind something to make their feed cleaner. Despite having had a better experience before, and it being much easier to do than many things people do all the time in their daily lives.
I've been wondering this - I don't have an intuition for Anthropic's gaming around military applications, or how this stage could play out in terms of relationship to Government controlling AI.
Are there some Less Wrong posts or similar I should read that probably explain it?
I only did undergraduate level in Maths, and to me there is a key aesthetic element which makes it created. The choice of axioms to use, the choice of with theorems are interesting.
Yes the "truth" (doesn't exist, see Gödels theorem) is discovered in a vast, wild landscape that Mathematicians explore.
But which areas are worth exploring is a critical question. Partly driven by application, partly aesthetic. It's a quest for simple things that are a bit surprising, or that were hard to make the statements so simple.
There have been some US cases about this, but it isn't generally settled internationally. "Fair use" is a US specific thing. Even in the US there are ongoing cases.
Long term, getting locked into proprietary software development tools is a bad idea. And these models are extremely proprietary. The ability of the US Government to cancel them at any time is one real recent example of one category of problem.
Back in the 1990s the good C++ compilers were proprietary, eventually GCC and LLVM caught up, and now dominate. The pattern repeats in software development, and there's no reason to believe it won't continue.
Yes, right now it makes sense to use Opus 4.8, but it is good that a significant number of people are using other options, and making sure they work and are ready for when you need them.
Plus it is extremely fun and connecting and hackerish to do local coding with a local model. Try it.
However true that is, it now has only to compete with the US, where any model could be shut down by the Government on a whim with no clear rules at any time.
They can't under GDPR. The DMA is for market access - there are other laws for privacy. Those require use commensurate with what is needed for the service, so anyone who e.g. scraped all of a user's local info and stolen it would be breaking EU privacy laws themselves.
This is not complicated. Even in the US, every other industry is regulated to your benefit, you're just used to it and haven't realised. Digital technology obviously needs to be too. And yes, you have to do it properly.
NIST's similar unit in the US is now called CAISI https://www.nist.gov/caisi - interesting that the most recent post is an evaluation of DeepSeek capabilities, which sound more like watching China. But presumably this executive order alters the emphasis?
Well, or not spawn any external commands, and actually have tools made of code written by someone who thought about what the agents at each level should be limited to doing.
Make harness independent of model, so when pricing or quality changes you can switch.
Avoid lock in to stack from one provider (things like a harness that only works with models from one provider and so on).
Use local models (a couple of them do work a bit now, if you have 20Gb video RAM), which saves money and is more private, and works offline.
Can improve the harness, fix bugs in it, make it compatible with different systems and techniques.
This game happens every time in new cycles of developer technology. The good bet historically has always been to use open source - there's a reason most developer tooling just pre-AI revolution was open source (even things like Java and .NET which used to be proprietary).
Reporters without Borders recently released Press Freedom Index 2026 puts Malta 67th, and the UK at 18. So no, certainly not much better - although looking at some of the historic data, it was better e.g. in 2010.
I was finding this really interesting, that maybe a human had written it and it really reflected a vision for how we build software in this new world. I want to know the way, I'm curious!
Until I got to "One platform, three modes." and my brain just pattern matched "AI slop" and the entire post dissolved into meaningless for me.
I don't know if I can stop my mind reaching this conclusion. I'm sure someone at GitLab made some effort to carefully edit the post... But that it wasn't entirely rooted in a human who'd worked out how this stuff goes, but clearly had lots of AI writing it out... Just made my instinct go "this isn't worth paying attention to after all".
I've tested this extensively in a workflow (not agentic) context, and you're right, the underlying models are both good at full rewrite of code files, and at doing search/replace.
They've been decent at full rewrite for 2 years. I don't think they were good at search/replace until a year ago, but I'm not so sure.
It's true that the models 2 years ago would sometimes make errors in whole rewrite - e.g removing comments was fairly common. But I've never seen one randomly remove one character or anything like that. These days they're really good.
Main reason agentic harnesses use search/replace is speed and cost, surely! Whole file output is expensive for small changes.
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