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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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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 17h
Incidents I can believe. But it’s then really down to the approval process. I’ve been rejecting PRs without videos/screenshots of it working, and especially without tests. Good, process and CI will fix this. Code fast, review slow, test aggressively.
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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 · 28/09/2026
To be fair, eat the rich and their two double bedroom mansions. /s www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/9...
rightmove.co.uk
Check out this 2 bedroom terraced house for sale on Rightmove
2 bedroom terraced house for sale in Houblon Road, Richmond, TW10 for £1,000,000. Marketed by Savills, Richmond
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 28/09/2026
I’ll be honest, sometimes it really do produce hot garbage. Mostly not, but sometimes, just wow.
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Unrelated to the car, but that 90 degree turn to as a cyclist avoid going on to the pavement is criminal 😂
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 26/09/2026
😂
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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.
static.klipy.com
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]
github.com
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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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 21/09/2026
🤖
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 21/09/2026
3.8 is pretty good if you’re able to run it. ~on par with sonnet I’d say.
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 20/09/2026
I guarantee those companies will have a shit time down the line. bsky.app/profile/psoc...
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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
🤩 memory is released!
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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 · 16/09/2026
You can take my ChatGPT but you will never take my GGUF!
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 15/09/2026
OpenAI can read my Ollama chats? /s
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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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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 10/09/2026
But what does he think of pineapple on pizza?
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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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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 07/09/2026
Oh man you’re about to lose some days to playing around with local models. Wrote my own harness for qwen3.8. Works amazing.
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 07/09/2026
Uses a smaller model to predict multiple tokens then passes them in one pass for the bigger model to agree/disagree. If agree, you get a speed up of tokens from the Multi Token Prediction.
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🍅🥔🫐🌽 hoopy frood 🌶️ 🥑🍫🌵 @huwupy.kawaii.social · 07/09/2026
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 07/09/2026
As a reviewer: actively reject large PRs. I’m not going to be able to reliably review 5k LOC.
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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 · 04/09/2026
Precisely this. You see it all over bsky.
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 04/09/2026
Sounds targeted?
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 04/09/2026
Not necessarily true. If you only posted on bsky, there’s a huge group of anti-ai users. Doesn’t reflect the wider engineering community. From my experience, everyone is using it.
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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 · 03/09/2026
Or make your password “incorrect”. That way when you type it in wrong, every website reminds you that your password is “incorrect” 👍
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 03/09/2026
Grow up.
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 02/09/2026
I believe its in relation to everyone shitting on the paint.net guy who said he got his application working on linux with the help of LLMs. Bsky went ape and he quit the platform for making a genuinely useful free tool available to even more people.
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 02/09/2026
1,000% agree. Private equity DD now often includes building out the product using AI as a way to test the defensive moat. Anyone saying they won’t use any product that uses it is delusional and far removed from the industry.
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 02/09/2026
I kinda get that. But also it’s fun to get notifications about getting blocked by people who hate ai but still use a website that’s hosted in a datacenter.
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 01/09/2026
Absolutely. It's a simple loop, written in Go, uses bubbletea and honestly it's so simple, but it works great. I was using Qwen with Claude Code, but tool usage was failing with updates. I wrote this super simple harness, and it's just fantastic + stable. 47tok/s on 64gb mbp m4. Crazy.
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 01/09/2026
ouch...
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 01/09/2026
Absolutely. I've written my own harness (container + has read, find, bash). Finding it does pretty much everything I need with 3.8:27b. Agents are great, but I'm not fully sold/trust them as a SWE just yet.
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 01/09/2026
Absolutely. That's sort of why I'm thinking the mac mini isn't awful. Good hardware, not the best, but good and great power consumption.
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Patrick Socha @psocha.co.uk · 01/09/2026
Yeah, but that's waiting for two years when I want local models yesterday 😂
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