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Programmer and tinkerer; based in Belgrade, Serbia. I like building products, systems programming, distributed, and gamedev.

Building Carthagine (AI-powered Figma to React): https://carthagine.ai

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mowgli.ai 4mo ago

Show HN: Mowgli – Figma for the agent era, with Claude Code and design export

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tinyclouds.org 6mo ago

We're Still Underestimating What AI Means

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morphllm.com 1y ago

LLMs Are Bad at Being Forced

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www.cnn.com 1y ago

Deepfake porn is destroying real lives in South Korea

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www.nytimes.com 1y ago

The Government Knows AGI Is Coming

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carthagine.ai 1y ago

Carthagine: Pixel Perfect Figma to React AI

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arxiv.org 1y ago

Vision language models are blind (2024) [pdf]

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www.lottielab.com 1y ago

Show HN: Create interactive vector animations with Lottielab Interactivity

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www.lottielab.com 1y ago

Introducing the World's First Interactive Lottie Editor

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www.lottielab.com 2y ago

Making Lotties 10x Smaller

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www.figma.com 2y ago

Show HN: Figma to Lottie Animation via Lottielab

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store.steampowered.com 2y ago

Liyf, a pixel art platformer with a light-shadow mechanic, built in Godot

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www.lottielab.com 2y ago

Show HN: Lottielab – Create product animations in the browser easily

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babylonjs.medium.com 3y ago

Babylon.js 6.0 released, with Havok Physics support via WASM

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www.havok.com 6y ago

Havok Physics for Unity now available

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www.issendai.com 7y ago

Sick Systems: How to Keep Someone with You Forever

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www.goroam.city 7y ago

Show HN: Create self-guided walking tours of your city

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github.com 7y ago

TypeScript-Is: Run-Time Type Checks for TypeScript

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www.paulgraham.com 7y ago

Java's Cover (2001)

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textslashplain.com 7y ago

Chrome Sync

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polymerlabs.github.io 7y ago

Arcs – open source framework for composable assistive experiences

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www.blog.google 7y ago

Happy 10th birthday Chrome–the best is yet to come

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www.codesimplicity.com 8y ago

Measuring Developer Productivity

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mediapreservation.wordpress.com 8y ago

Extracting Audio from Pictures (2012)

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amp.theguardian.com 8y ago

New AI can guess whether you're gay or straight from a photograph

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www.neowin.net 8y ago

'Google' may be termed generic as SCOTUS petitioned to nullify trademark

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pavelfatin.com 8y ago

Scrolling with pleasure

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www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com 8y ago

Google Play Music Desktop Player

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medium.com 8y ago

Where’s all my CPU and memory gone? The answer: Slack

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www.npr.org 9y ago

A Serbian Farmer Wants to Protect the Balkan Donkey by Selling Its Pricey Milk

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A few words on DS4 2 months ago

`from opentele while import trace`

FYI, this to me points to an inference bug, bad sampling, or a non-native quant. OpenRouter is known to route requests to absolutely terrible, borked implementations. A model like DeepSeek V4 Flash shouldn't be making syntax errors like this.

I actually ran this one. It measures some 700k lines of code, and seems to contain things like a full VBA implementation, complex currency and date parsing, etc. But the UI is extremely basic, doesn't seem to expose any of this advanced functionality, and and is buggy to the point of being unusable. Focus will jump around as you type, cells will reset to old values, it will stop responding to keyboard events, etc.

It's interesting to also compare this to getting a bare metal instance and provisioning microVMs on it using Firecracker. (Obviously something you shouldn't roll yourself in most cases.)

You can get a bare metal AX162 from Hetzner for 200 EUR/mo, with 48 cores and 128GB of RAM. For 4:1 virtual:physical oversubscription, you could run 192 guests on such a machine, yielding a cost of 200/192 = 1.04 EUR/mo, and giving each guest a bit over 1GiB of RAM. Interestingly, that's not groundbreakingly cheaper than just getting one of Hetzner's virtual machines!

Sora 2 10 months ago

You didn't include the amortized cost of a Blackwell GPU, which is an order of magnitude larger expense than electricity.

Well this was a trip down the memory lane. I built a small game on Irrlicht at the time and I remember these discussions also.

Irrlicht had its editor (irrEdit), a sound system (irrKlang), and some basic collision detection and FPS controller was built right into the engine. This was enough to get you a considerable way through a fully featured tech demo, at the very least. (I even remember Irrlicht including a beautiful first-person tech demo of traversing a large BSP-partitioned castle level.)

However, for those not afraid to stitch these additional parts from other promising libraries (or derive them from first principles, as was fashionable), OGRE offered more raw rendering prowess: a working deferred shading system (this was the heyday of deferred shading), a pop-less terrain implementation with texture splatting, and more impressive shader and rendering pipeline support, with the Cg multi-platform shading language. I remember a fairly impressive ocean surface and Fresnel refraction/reflection demos from OGRE at the time.

Common sense:

- The compute requirements would be massive compared to the rest of the industry

- Not a single large open source lab has trained anything over 32B dense in the recent past

- There is considerable crosstalk between researchers at large labs; notice how all of them seem to be going in similar directions all the time. If dense models of this size actually provided benefit compared to MoE, the info would've spread like wildfire.

Seems heavily vibe coded, down to the Claude-generated README and a lot of the LLM prompts themselves (which I have found works very poorly compared to human-written prompts). While none of this is necessarily bad, it requires a higher burden of proof that it actually works beyond toy problems [0]. I think everyone would appreciate some examples of vulnerabilities it can find. The missing JWT check showcased in the screenshot would've probably been caught with ordinary AI code review, so to my eye that by itself is not persuasive.

Good luck!

[0]: Why I say this --- a 10kLOC piece of software that was mostly human-written would require a large amount of testing, even manual, to ensure that it works, reliably, at all. All this testing and experimentation would naturally force a certain depth of exploration for the approach, the LLM prompts, etc across a variety of usecases. A mostly AI-written codebase of this size would've required much less testing to get it to "doesn't crash and runs reliably", and so this depth is not a given anymore.

Thanks for sharing this! It's difficult to find good examples of useful codebases where coding agents have done most of the work. I'm always actively looking at how I can push these agents to do more for me and it's very instructive to hear from somebody who has had success on this level. (Would be nice to read a writeup, too)

GPT-5 12 months ago

It just matches the 90% discount that Claude models have had for quite a while. I don't see anything groundbreaking...

GPT-5 12 months ago

o3 pricing: $8/Mtok out

GPT-5 pricing: $10/Mtok out

What am I missing?

GPT-5 12 months ago

SWE-Bench Verified score, with thinking, ties Opus 4.1 without thinking.

AIME scores do not appear too impressive at first glance.

They are downplaying benchmarks heavily in the live stream. This was the lab that has been flexing benchmarks as headline figures since forever.

This is a product-focused update. There is no significant jump in raw intelligence or agentic behavior against SOTA.

Open models by OpenAI 12 months ago

They have worse scores than recent open source releases on a number of agentic and coding benchmarks, so if absolute quality is what you're after and not just cost/efficiency, you'd probably still be running those models.

Let's not forget, this is a thinking model that has a significantly worse scores on Aider-Polyglot than the non-thinking Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507, a worse TAUBench score than the smaller GLM-4.5 Air, and a worse SWE-Bench verified score than the (3x the size) GLM-4.5. So the results, at least in terms of benchmarks, are not really clear-cut.

From a vibes perspective, the non-reasoners Kimi-K2-Instruct and the aforementioned non-thinking Qwen3 235B are much better at frontend design. (Tested privately, but fully expecting DesignArena to back me up in the following weeks.)

OpenAI has delivered something astonishing for the size, for sure. But your claim is just an exaggeration. And OpenAI have, unsurprisingly, highlighted only the benchmarks where they do _really_ well.

Open models by OpenAI 12 months ago

GLM-4.5 seems to outperform it on TauBench, too. And it's suspicious OAI is not sharing numbers for quite a few useful benchmarks (nothing related to coding, for example).

One positive thing I see is the number of parameters and size --- it will provide more economical inference than current open source SOTA.