sbinnee

Born on March 17, 2022•266 Karma

1 day ago

I can share mine. It was a job interview with one of the fastest growing companies. They were expanding sales positions in APEC region, specifically Korea. I am not really into sales, but I thought okay because it was such a big opportunity to work for this company.

I got three rounds of interviews including technical ones, then I had an interview with my potential team lead. The first thing he asked was about my MBTI personality test, which I hate and didn't pay much attention to learn mine. It seemed every encounter in Korea began with this MBTI test, but common in a job interview? I honestly answered him that I don't know my MBTI and just described my personalities in general. Then he started describing his MBTI and told me that I may not be the best fit with him because this and that.

A few days after, I got an email "... sorry". I don't want to believe that his MBTI question attributed a lot to this decision.

sbinnee•

4 days ago

•on: I Miss Terry Pratchett

Granny might not be for teenagers but she is the wise for adults

sbinnee•

7 days ago

•on: Ask HN: How to manage AI APIs for SaaS application...

I am a bit familiar with litellm. Do you proxy server?

sbinnee•

7 days ago

•on: Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026

Another tombstone in Google Graveyard soon [1].

[1] https://killedbygoogle.com/

blcsntb•

7 days ago

Thanks

sbinnee•

7 days ago

•on: Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026

I was working on a product that relies on ACP (agent client protocol). Gemini CLI supports ACP natively although it is missing some protocols. But I found that Antigravity CLI (agy) lacks ACP support! It's a bad sign for me.

sbinnee•

8 days ago

•on: Dumb ways for an open source project to die

I must admit that I have a few thesis orphans. I didn't think them this way that they are my children. But in some sense, they are! I am feeling a bit ashamed.

em-bee•

7 days ago

it is unfortunate the there is little motivation to publish thesis projects to a wider audience. not to blame the authors here, because that is how the system works. exceptions require extraordinary effort or extrinsic motivation.

one project i am working with got a grant that was conditioned on the project being published as open source. it motivated the developers/researchers to reach out to the wider community and even package the project for a linux distribution. that's how i was able to find out about it. i got involved and i am still using it 20 years later. but without that grant this likely would not have happened.

sbinnee•

8 days ago

•on: Gemini Omni

Classic 3d simulation artifact with boundary conditions. I remember for an assignment where I had to model liquid with rigid bodies, they would suddenly gain infinite force at the corner and just disappear. It's clear that they must have used a lot of these kinds of synthetic data. But what's impressive to me, every release of these models, I am feeling less and less uncanny valley.

sbinnee•

8 days ago

•on: Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI

I check almost every mistral model. But to be honest after agentic coding has become a thing, I only test their models in a chat app. I tried their coding TUI a few months back and found that it was way behind. It didn't even support skills back then. I wish they go strong just because they are a big AI player in Europe and I have personal connection to France.

phillc73•

7 days ago

Mistral’s Vibe CLI does support SKILL.md files.

sbinnee•

8 days ago

•on: Gemini 3.5 Flash

Wow what’s with all the styling? Is it manifestation of google’s styling bias? I like the result for sure. It’s shiny and pretty. But then it’s something I didn’t ask for.

sbinnee•

8 days ago

•on: Gemini 3.5 Flash

While I am excited, the price compared to gemini 3 flash preview which I used for the longest time is x3 more. Upon arrival of deepseek v4 flash, I am a happy user of deepseek. We will see how long that reign would last after I try this new gemini.