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webninja

430 karmajoined 10 years ago
I work as a software engineer for a fortune top-500 company.

I get more upvotes on my tech content than my financial content. It’s probably because I have a degree in I.T. and I do not have a degree or certification in Finance(yet). Do not count anything I say regarding finance as financial advice. I am in my late 20s but have about 15 years of experience with stocks. Mostly from winning virtual stock trading competitions and because I find that crap interesting.

I cannot be held liable for any capital losses you may incur.

Submissions

Owl Alpha – A free model for agentic workloads (prompts logged / closed-source)

openrouter.ai
2 points·by webninja·2 months ago·0 comments

Grok 4.3

docs.x.ai
4 points·by webninja·2 months ago·0 comments

Tencent used Anthropic's Claude to fine-tune it's new Hy3 AI model

reuters.com
2 points·by webninja·2 months ago·0 comments

Amazon to offer OpenAI models on AWS after Microsoft exclusivity ends

aboutamazon.com
1 points·by webninja·2 months ago·1 comments

Why the Chicken Crossed the Road, According to Various Entities

dynomight.net
2 points·by webninja·2 months ago·0 comments

I quit drinking for a year

dynomight.net
82 points·by webninja·3 months ago·111 comments

Samsung may post first-ever mobile division loss this year, blaming RAM crisis

9to5google.com
4 points·by webninja·3 months ago·4 comments

Constellation Draw

neal.fun
4 points·by webninja·3 months ago·0 comments

Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career

seangoedecke.com
10 points·by webninja·3 months ago·5 comments

comments

webninja
·7 hours ago·discuss
Yes, Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 are still Anthropic’s best chat models. They had more human evals and are still a joy to chat with. Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 by comparison have a cold enterprise feel. Opus 4.7 talks like I’d imagine a hitman would talk.

Sonnet 4.6 is better at writing good emails than Opus 4.8, Fable 5, and even Sonnet 5.
webninja
·last month·discuss
I think the measurable term for this is “Velocity of Money”.
webninja
·last month·discuss
It’s unbearably slow, for sure. Not nearly as slow as Kimi K2.6 though. I’m trying to like 4.8 but I may go back to 4.6 again. Definitely won’t ever be using 4.7.

4.8 took a shortcut today. There was an error in my local LLM’s relay of thinking text. So it brilliantly decided to turn thinking off, neutering the model. Had to revert that nerf. That’s the same lazy behavior as 4.7. 4.6 would never.
webninja
·2 months ago·discuss
> US tax authorities will be barred from pursuing claims against Donald Trump, his eldest sons and the Trump Organization under an agreement to halt the president’s $10bn lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service.

> The pledge by the Department of Justice on Tuesday came a day after Trump agreed to settle his lawsuit against the IRS in exchange for the US government launching a $1.8bn fund for victims of alleged “lawfare”.

> A DoJ spokesperson told the FT that the decision to bar the IRS from pursuing claims against Trump was “only with respect to any existing audits”. “There would be little point in settling several significant claims if either party could simply turn around and seek to initiate more adverse claims that could have been pursued previously,” added the spokesperson. > Danny Werfel, an IRS commissioner under former president Joe Biden, noted, however, that he was “unaware of a single precedent where the IRS has agreed in advance to permanently forgo examination of previously filed tax returns for a specific person or business”.

First, what legal mistake did the IRS make that put them $1.8B to $10B in the wrong?

Second the article title is sensationalized and embellished. The article mentions only an exemption from past tax returns —- which have already been thoroughly examined with a fine toothed comb prior to Election Day.

During Presidential election season, this was healthy journalism because it helped make more informed voters, but at this point it’s just unhealthy harassment over a past settled case. If there was something to find, it would’ve already been found by now. Unless there’s something new, leave bro alone so he can do the job America democratically and dutifully elected him to do.
webninja
·3 months ago·discuss
Are you astroturfing? The article you reference is 4 months older. In the Age of AI, that can mean about a 2x change.
webninja
·5 months ago·discuss
A monopoly with lower profits threatens competitor. I mean, since you can write any law, just nationalize every wealthy company while you’re at it. What’s the worse the targeted company will do, sue?
webninja
·10 months ago·discuss
What do they conclude about Russia?
webninja
·3 years ago·discuss
Sounds like something a gang would require.
webninja
·7 years ago·discuss
What’s a better company to buy from? Samsung is the only company getting brand recognition in your post.