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Patrick Socha

@psocha.co.uk
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Previously software engineer in cyber security, now in private market intelligence. Follow my Hacker News bot: @hnfeed.bsky.social

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 29/09/2026
FOI docs: UK police's six-month live facial recognition trial in London railway stations scanned 500K+ faces, leading to no arrests and one false-positive alert (Daniel Boffey/The Guardian) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 26/09/2026
Today I found out that @github.com doesn't support IPv6 on GHCR.
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Cersei Lannister's Walk of Shame
ALT: Cersei Lannister's Walk of Shame
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Someone asked Muse to dump its entire virtual machine file system, and it did
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger.
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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New belt-tightening indicator just dropped
James Timpson on Twitter:

You can tell Ozempic and Mounjaro are popular…in our Timpson shops we have seen a 680% increase in the number of free holes in customers belts we’ve been doing this year.
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 23/09/2026
Spent last night setting up a new server within a vpc for logging and redis down the line. The server is fully off the internet, only accessible via wireguard, and directly to other servers via the vpc. Did I ever say how much I love wireguard?
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 22/09/2026
Wrote a mini log ingestion tool. A docker app which makes use of SQLite. Search, streaming, auto purge. Put it in a VPC, happy days. Perfect for when you have a few apps whose logs want to keep on top of. Going to try open source it in coming days.h
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 22/09/2026
Hitting 60 tokens/sec with qwen3.8:27b-mlx with MTP and MLX on an M4 MBP 64gb. Crazy stuff.
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 21/09/2026
To everyone complaining about needing to buy Meta One to post a link: own your distribution through your own mailing list and RSS. Stop supporting walled gardens.
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Hacker News Bot @hnfeed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5 github.com/jaredpalmer/kev/tree/main [comments] [81 points]
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GitHub - jaredpalmer/kev: tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5 you can train and run on your own
tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5 you can train and run on your own - jaredpalmer/kev
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Unsloth AI @unsloth.ai · 17/09/2026
You can now train and run 500+ models locally with our Unsloth Docker image! 🐳 Use our new GUI or notebooks workflow. No setup required. Works on NVIDIA and AMD. Guide: unsloth.ai/docs/get-sta... GitHub: github.com/unslothai/un...
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/09/2026
apparently we are calling incompetently failing to control your AUTOMATED HACKING SOFTWARE "model misalignment"now
axios.com
OpenAI discloses six new safety incidents
The AI lab is now rolling out a new process to internally report safety issues.
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 17/09/2026
If you're running an MLX (qwen3.8) model on Ollama, update to a version after v0.32.14 which _should_ fix a KV cache memory release issue. You'll save ram and hopefully stop swapping.
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 16/09/2026
Don't worry too much about AI taking your job any time soon. Chats from the last 24h.
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 14/09/2026
Every European to get 1L of maple syrup for life and it’s a deal? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
cbc.ca
Carney says Canada planning to discuss 'unique alliance' with EU, but not membership | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada plans to begin discussions for a "unique alliance" with the European Union — but not membership — as he gears up to address the European Parliament this week.
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Hacker News Bot @hnfeed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026 www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligen… [comments] [143 points]
anthropic.com
Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic
Case studies from threat actors disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026 across seven areas of harm, from cyber operations to biological misuse.
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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 08/09/2026
pov: you just claimed that llms are capable of solving certain real world problems
piper comanche with a ton of arrows stuck through its undercarriage
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 08/09/2026
It's beautiful 🥲 Everyone blocking me for talking about LLMs.
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🍅🥔🫐🌽 hoopy frood 🌶️ 🥑🍫🌵 @huwupy.kawaii.social · 07/09/2026
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Hacker News Bot @hnfeed.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search productrise.app/blog/google-ai-mode… [comments] [287 points]
productrise.app
Google AI Mode shows the same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search [Data Study] | Productrise
A US and UK data study: when the same product ranks in both Google AI Mode and traditional search, the AI Mode price is about 21.6% higher.
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 03/09/2026
Start of the month, was updating personal finance spreadsheet. Realised I could get an LLM to write me a single html file which writes values to a CSV and displays everything exactly how I want it. Super simple. Way clearer at a glance.
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 27/08/2026
I've been using Qwen3.8-27b-mlx for my work lately on the 64gb mbp. I honestly think we're almost there.
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Hacker News Bot @hnfeed.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
HTML Can Do That chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that [comments] [603 points]
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Ion Prodan @iprodan.dev · 17/08/2026
#1. The web just got a little more intelligent. 🤟 Meet `contrast-color()`: You give it any color; it returns either `black` or `white`, whichever provides better contrast. ⤵️ Shipped in Chrome 147, Safari 26, Firefox 146, and Edge 147 (April 2026). Pure CSS that guarantees readable text 💪🏼
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 15/08/2026
Running qwen3.8:27b-mlx with around ~30tok/s locally on Apple hardware. Love it.
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Chris Coyier @chriscoyier.net · 06/08/2026
I kinda stop relating when it's like "I need to be able to manage my 10 agents running on cloud linux boxes from my phone while walking down the street to get a coffee" like just go get a coffee. let your brain chill and think
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 27/07/2026
My personal life is basically just admin at this point. All I do is sort stuff out.
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 22/07/2026
OpenAI hacked Hugging Face by accident. openai.com/index/huggin...
openai.com
OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation
OpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders.
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Hacker News Bot @hnfeed.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets 9to5mac.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-o… [comments] [1118 points]
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 09/07/2026
‘A generational transfer in free cash flow is taking place.’ thedailyshot.com/2026/07/09/t...
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kyleayers.bsky.social @kyleayers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 06/07/2026
Build a startup they say, it’ll be fun they say. No, it’s just marketing. No building. Don’t even dream of building. Only marketing for u.
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 06/07/2026
Logging off for the day.
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 05/07/2026
If you use LLMs for building out your website, get it to write out a style guide, and components. Saves your website looking like a random collection of bits you threw together.
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 04/07/2026
> Hammering Fable while you have access
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Chris Meder @evcurvefuturist.com · 02/07/2026
37% of new heavy trucks sold in China: now fully electric. Not delivery vans — 49-tonne heavy-duty rigs. This one swapped ~550 kWh in just 5 mins. Competitive, proven & inevitable. China's heavy EV truck sales surged 182% YoY in 2025, rising from single digits just two years ago.
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 02/07/2026
I'll keep saying it: the fact that I can run an LLM on my laptop which is as good as haiku/early sonnet, is crazy.
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 30/06/2026
Read that putting your mac into low power mode if you run local models seriously cuts down the heat - and it does! Able to run Qwen3.6:35b A3B Coder without heat issues!
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 30/06/2026
Devops tip: if stability is a primary concern, pin your docker images in your compose file. I discovered that Traefik 2 is breaking change to Traefik 3.
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 29/06/2026
No one tells you when you start a side project you’ll obsess over SEO and marketing. You’re not a builder, you’re a marketer.
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Hacker News Bot @hnfeed.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics startupfortune.com/hyundai-takes-fu… [comments] [738 points]
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Agustin Capeletto @lowpoly.gg · 16/06/2026
I'm porting Quake to 3D CSS, so it runs in the browser without WebGL. It's open source 👹 Play it! cssquake.com Repo: github.com/LayoutitStud...
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 17/06/2026
The Qwen a3b coder line of models are nothing short of spectacular.
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Hacker News Bot @hnfeed.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Free SQL→ER diagram tool, runs in the browser, nothing uploaded sqltoerdiagram.com [comments] [316 points]
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 12/06/2026
Wispr Flow, but make it local and private. github.com/PatrickSocha...
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GitHub - PatrickSocha/yapper: Offline voice-to-text for Mac
Offline voice-to-text for Mac. Contribute to PatrickSocha/yapper development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 13/06/2026
New LLM benchmark just dropped for Mythos.
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Hacker News Bot @hnfeed.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware twitter.com/jsrailton/status/206466… [comments] [149 points]
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 12/06/2026
Wispr Flow, but make it local and private. github.com/PatrickSocha...
github.com
GitHub - PatrickSocha/yapper: Offline voice-to-text for Mac
Offline voice-to-text for Mac. Contribute to PatrickSocha/yapper development by creating an account on GitHub.
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