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RohanAdwankar

Re:Agent Sandboxes on a 7GB PC on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @11:21AM (#50260709)
I pasted my fastfetch into Gemini and it said it would expect ~4-6 sandboxes for this machine so this was fun trying to stretch that (albeit also stretching the definition of a sandbox in the process :) ).
Re:Avian Physics 0.8 on Thursday October 22, 2026 @04:59PM (#50200950)
Cool demos!
Re:Parsing in .woff2 on Monday October 12, 2026 @02:26AM (#50052096)
I had never heard of .fea files or harfbuzz before someone here recommended looking at ligatures, was fun to mess around with this stuff. I never thought there was so much to text :)
Re:Show HN: Panda, the world's first personal AI computer on Sunday September 27, 2026 @10:16PM (#49872796)
What justifies the claim of being "the world's first personal AI computer"? There are many computers catering to local AI on the market.
Re:Can a language model run in Linux eBPF? on Saturday September 26, 2026 @03:52AM (#49854229)
Fun article, the broader infra the author is building is worth checking out as well: https://github.com/eunomia-bpf/eunomia-bpf
Re:A font that reads what you wrote on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @06:24PM (#49809087)
My bad on the title, I was trying to think of a good name to describe what it was intuitively but couldn’t figure it out at the time. Wasnt trying to be clickbaity
Re:A font that reads what you wrote on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @11:53AM (#49803331)
Oh good point I usually list posts on my homepage but for this post I still have it marked as a draft in the repo I use to build the site so its not there I’ll add it. Maybe I also should make the posts page show both drafts and non drafts so its less confusing. If you cant tell this has been my first week of writing stuff on the blog haha.
Re:A font that reads what you wrote on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @11:29AM (#49802932)
Thanks this is such a thoughtful comment! This project was definitely more to explore the idea than to make it certain that this was the answer. I think my goal was more so from the perspective of if text is streaming by very fast like it would be for an agent is there anything we can do to make it easier to read. The answer may genuinely be no but I think if we can get to something where the program highlights things accurately then in theory the reader could skim faster. I remember debaters who have to speak/read very fast highlight and format the sources (https://youtu.be/0FPsEwWT6K0?t=121&is=7fFn3BjKUnJKPXu3) so in theory it may be helpful for high speed cases. But I definitely agree with your point that it would be annoying if for example a book was formatted in this way haha
Re:A font that reads what you wrote on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @10:53AM (#49802357)
woah i didnt know this was a thing thanks for sharing!!
Re:A font that reads what you wrote on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @09:56AM (#49801379)
Thanks for calling that out! Someone from here has fixed it: https://github.com/RohanAdwankar/RohanAdwankar.github.io/pul... Thanks Jakub!
Re:A font that reads what you wrote on Sunday September 20, 2026 @05:38AM (#49774162)
Not using an LLM, but rather just a plain set of heuristics which can run formatting quickly enough to render while the text is being streamed or edited. The aim is to try to see if I can make text more readable as it's being streamed in.
Re:How to make a market (for accelerated compute) on Saturday September 19, 2026 @08:45PM (#49771485)
This is a bit less engineering focused than the normal hacker news reader's interests but I think it's very well written and worth reading. They mixed in the interview with diagrams and explanations so the topic is much more approachable to people without econ experience. Even if you don't care about the financial engineering going down right now this is useful to get some insight on how the market may eventually mature.
Re:The Rust Subreddit Bans Posting Rust Repos on Saturday September 19, 2026 @08:01PM (#49771224)
Feels like the end of an era. In the past part of what propelled Rust projects into open source success was this subreddit and the broader online community which gave support to projects and helped them grow and keep momentum. Perhaps I'm being too sentimental but I think the confluence of this and communities splintering into different git forges means the end of that golden age of rust in open source.
Re:A Peek Inside Meta's Muse VMs on Friday September 11, 2026 @12:25PM (#49661070)
The channels concept is visible via a conf file:

# skill-scopes.conf -- GENERATED from extensions_scoped.toml. DO NOT EDIT. # # extensions_scoped.toml is the single source of truth: each [[skills]] entry # lists the skill's `scopes`, and this file is derived from them -- one # `<scope> <directory> ...` line per scope, both sorted for a stable render. # # The tokens after the scope are skill DIRECTORY names, not SKILL.md names: # launch-daemon.sh resolves each against /opt/hatch/skills-scoped/<directory>. # # launch-daemon.sh reads this at cell boot and reveals only the gated skills # whose scope matches the VM's JARVIS_CD_CHANNEL. An unset/unknown channel or a # missing line reveals nothing (fail-closed). Edit the manifest, not this file. hatch-e2e ads_mcp health nutrition hatch-evals ads_mcp health nutrition internal-test ads_mcp audio_notes_read documents end-call health nutrition polymarket price-tracker prod granola notion whatsapp

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