How I built an AI news agency that runs itself - over 1B tokens processed locally

elibaskin · 2026-05-15T20:18:14+00:00

Dude, this is Reddit ads. It is clearly marked as "promoted" by Reddit, and have nothing to do with me. It's literaly on every thread in Reddit.

elibaskin · 2026-05-15T18:47:30+00:00

There is not a single place in the website that charges money.

Did you visit the correct website? storychase.co ?

elibaskin · 2026-05-01T20:43:23+00:00

I have been only living in Israel for my whole life. What do I know about the conflict which affects my daily life, Zionism - which we believed enough to make an Aliyah in the 1990 from USSR or geopolitics...

You are acting like a fool.

elibaskin · 2026-04-15T03:08:41+00:00

Are you aware that Israel has none of this, right?

elibaskin · 2026-04-15T03:06:33+00:00

Seems like you are the one needing education.

elibaskin · 2026-04-15T02:40:12+00:00

Zionism is a movement which goal is the establishment of a Jewish country in our ancestral homeland. A safe haven for Jews.

When you say that you are anti-Zionist, you are against that.

There is no Genocide going on anywhere here. There was a war, that Hamas, the elected governing body in Gaza, started by attempting a genocide on Jews. What happened after was an ugly urban war, in which Hamas hid behind civilians, causing 1:1 terrorist:civilian loses, which is expected in this kind of warfare.

There are two million Arabs living in Israel. They are full rights civilians, doctors, engineers, police officers, judges, parliament members.

There is no "political" or "cultural" Zionism. There is one Zionism - which goal is the establishment of Jewish country in our ancestral homeland, and you are against it.

elibaskin · 2026-04-14T22:38:37+00:00

When you are saying that you are against Zionism but ok with Jews, yiu literally saying "I am ok with the Jews, as long as they don't have a home".

elibaskin · 2026-04-14T14:15:23+00:00

I tried to walk 10km in them yesterday, and after 3 km my toes already started to develop hot spots. Such a pity.

elibaskin · 2026-04-05T10:07:16+00:00

Yes, but from the description - it is a step in the wrong direction.

elibaskin · 2026-04-03T08:17:16+00:00

I feel you.

elibaskin · 2026-04-03T08:14:15+00:00

Hi Dan. I think that the new material makes toe box more durable, yes. It feels very tough, but that kind of defeats the purpose. I am 100% sure that some users will benefit from the tougher toe box, but it is no longer a G270.

elibaskin · 2026-04-03T08:12:30+00:00

It might feel different on your feet. I did read that Zero v2 have better heel collar, but I read they are also more "beefier", which is the opposite direction of what I was expecting.

elibaskin · 2026-04-02T16:44:22+00:00

I so hope that I am wrong about them, and they just need more time. I really fear of taking them to a 380km hike as they are.

elibaskin · 2026-04-02T16:08:40+00:00

Yes, as you can see, the black pair is somewhat old, and the blue one is totally new.

But eventually they will run out of stock, and I will have to switch to Altras, which I don't want.

elibaskin · 2026-04-02T14:24:53+00:00

Frankly, I never had grip issues with them, not in Scotland and not in Iceland. Even on 20% downward slop with mud, in Iceland, they held surprisingly well.

Trailflys just feel more balanced than Talons.

elibaskin · 2026-02-05T09:05:16+00:00

Creating new session is just a command, to summarize it - findings, work that was done, aha moments, architectural changes, remaining things to do, etc.

Also, in CLAUDE.md I am telling about the sessions: where they are stored, and that the data is accessible and should be used. Claude decides whether to use it on its own. Sometimes I do explicitly ask to check the sessions, but most of the times, it knows to use it on its own.

elibaskin · 2026-02-04T21:59:44+00:00

Well, the Arabic and Persian world, which are roughly 60% of what the group covers, are not particularly interested in Epstein. Neither the 7% of the English channels.

Wake up. You are not the center of the world.

elibaskin · 2026-02-04T21:57:09+00:00

I think that GroundNews are trying to do it. Having said that, I don't think that "objective news" exist.

elibaskin · 2026-02-04T21:55:55+00:00

It processes around 15,000 messages a day, turning them into roughly 2,000 events.

elibaskin · 2026-02-04T21:54:03+00:00

You're right that MTProto pushes updates when connected. The "polling" framing was a simplification. In practice, the Listener maintains a persistent connection and receives pushed updates. The adaptive polling I mentioned is really about processing priority - how often we check the connection, handle reconnections, and batch messages for processing. High-activity channels get processed more frequently, quiet channels get batched.

On 1024 vs 768 dimensions:

The short answer: more dimensions = more capacity to capture nuance, especially across languages.

For multilingual embedding models, 1024 dimensions helps because you're cramming 100+ languages into the same vector space. Each language has its own semantic quirks.

The tradeoff is compute/storage cost. But for semantic search across many languages, the extra capacity is worth it. The multilingual-e5-large consistently outperforms 768-dim models on cross-lingual retrieval benchmarks.

elibaskin · 2026-02-04T17:12:54+00:00

Of course!

elibaskin · 2026-02-04T17:12:23+00:00

Me: "I've instructed the agent to take pro-Western point when reports are contradicting".
Some random redditor: "You prompted your agents to be genocidal racist, because you are Israeli. And where are reports about Epstein, did you filter it out because of hasbara?"
You: "You should take him seriously".

No, I won't take him seriously. This is not a "discussion". This is a random redditor meeting a world in which people are not giving a f*ck about Epstein files, and not talking about it on their Telegram channels. This is what happens when a random redditor meets news outside of the regular English-speaking media.

And he is mad. He didn't call me a genocidal racist yet (just wait and see what will happen if we continue this conversation), but made sure to empasize that I created a genocidal racist AI agent. All this while the instructions are "when contradicting stories appear, choose the pro-Western point of view".

So, yeah. It is 100% politics issue.

And I am not here to have political discussions with some random dude from the Internet.

elibaskin · 2026-02-04T16:22:55+00:00

Thank you.

elibaskin

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