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Re:Connecting the Machines on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @03:14PM (#49615349)
Well, they're mainly introducing Herdr Cloud which I take to be similar to Tailscale (and other comments seem to support this too). `herdr login` on any machine, anywhere and suddenly that box joins your Herdr network of boxes you can connect to and deploy agents to. This is totally doable with Tailscale today, but maybe there's other features that can only be realised with some kind of cooperation at or above the network level?
Re:Robot Videos: Heavy Lift Cargo Drones, Grippers, More on Saturday August 15, 2026 @04:45PM (#49314162)
This style of highlight video honestly gives me headaches. No content, just 60 seconds of sound bites and clips to an electric guitar track. Why has everything got to be so "Instagram"? I know the answer but SIGH.
Re:Quake – 30th Anniversary Update on Thursday August 06, 2026 @05:16PM (#49202689)
It can also mean the market has shifted which is more the case imo.
Re:Ask HN: How are you using AI to learn? on Saturday August 01, 2026 @06:10PM (#49138974)
I had Claude research and synthesize as much as it could from published curriculums and then design its own undergrad Philosophy degree. Then I asked it to split it into lessons, and I am consuming these lessons, delivered dialogically, at the rate of about 1 a week at the moment. It's fun, it's engaging, and I really feel like I am learning and making progress. Could all be an illusion.
Re:Why Agentic Systems Need Ontologies [video] on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @04:31AM (#49094789)
I'd say that 99% of the problems that 99% of us are solving are not novel, new domains and someone out there has already thought up an ontology for it. He speaker lists some in the talk e.g. FIBO. These are always malleable to whatever use case you need. The win here is being able to enforce adherence to a set of rules that exist at the business level, not the code level. Of course, if your ontology is "wrong" it won't be as effective, but increasingly, those of us who are more like "LLM Product Pilots" than software developers are spending more time having conversations at the ontological level, than the code level.
Re:Why Agentic Systems Need Ontologies [video] on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @04:26AM (#49094764)
As expressed in the article, can't we get some way towards, perhaps not "integrated" ontologies, but ontologies being enforced at the edge through tools? Inefficient as it may be for now, it still should have the same outcome?
My follow-up: I'm grateful for the advice from commenters. I perhaps should have specified that my issue isn't insomnia, it's sleep procrastination, which gets a lot less sympathy.
I think the question is fair. I don't tend to drink caffeine after about 5pm so had kinda written this off as a potential.
My thought exactly. For people who struggle with this, and conventional wisdom doesn't seem to stick, what are we supposed to do?
Re:Punk, or why I don't stream anymore on Sunday July 12, 2026 @02:13PM (#48883154)
I think 99% of the commenters in this thread seem totally tone deaf to the article and the phenomenon being attacked by geohot. Granted, he doesn't articulate it well, but as you say, these aren't new concepts and much better introduced by Nick Land, Mark Fisher, Byung-chul Han etc.
Maybe don't fill your games with ads and release them on restrictive, exploitative platforms?
I don't really buy this. From my personal experience, indie devs are more likely to use methods which make their server tech distributable (e.g. Minecraft). Large game publishers appear to go in the opposite direction for control and lineage reasons: "Crew 1 is dead so you need to buy Crew 2 now".

Anyone who gamed before 2005 knows that games do not require magic, expensive, managed remote services. We all used to run our own servers! The GameSpy era!

I couldn't agree more. Socratic methodologu, domain modelling, systems thinking, pipes-and-arrows problem solving etc. These are the skills that get real work done in coding agents these days.
Re:Google changes its search box on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @02:08AM (#48203704)
My partner recently bought a receipe book that was probably 100% slop, from the recipes themselvea to the images for each dish.
Re:There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness' on Monday May 18, 2026 @08:34AM (#48178849)
Ok, but that doesn't really address "pernicious". I understand pursuits of philosophy are inherently concerned with truth, but does not truth mean pernicious? My experience of reading philosophers is limited; is Rovelli just a materialist and that's that? Is this positivism?
Re:There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness' on Monday May 18, 2026 @07:59AM (#48178469)
> It is time to give up the pernicious dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness and embrace the reality that our soul, or our spiritual life, is consistent with our fundamental physics.

Why is it pernicious?

Re:Vibe Coding Will Break Your Company on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @02:40AM (#47931107)
I think the judgement angle is the only interesting part of this article, and the piece worth pursuing is automating the judgement where possible.
> Callable skills can’t activate on a schedule or listen for events

I feel like they can. cron and git hooks have existed for a long time.

There is something uncanny about the way you've phrased your comment, as if to suggest nothing about what Tesla did was wrong.
Re:Cursor 3 on Friday April 03, 2026 @04:04AM (#47624255)
I've heard rhetoric like "we have to use LLMs to stay competitive now" which attempts to justify the cost
Could be wrong but I guess it more likely communicates with the charger. The car will always try to draw if it's plugged in, but most chargers can be switched on ("charge") and off ("don't charge") remotely. It's probably quite trivial to have something watch the price of power and on/off as appropriate
Is global economic collapse not an eschatological scenario?

When you say "everything is still getting better", what do you mean? Because the price of fuel and food, isn't getting better. It seems to be getting worse. Your version of "reality" doesn't seem to reflect the experience of a lot of people.

> people will buckle down and sort it. It's an interesting series of words that don't say a lot. There is much to wonder about.

Re:Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI on Saturday March 14, 2026 @03:43AM (#47374274)
Bozhidar always writes like this. I can see why you would think it's AI style but I would vote that it isn't. Look at some of his pre-AI blogs, if you care to.
Re:Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it on Monday February 16, 2026 @08:10AM (#47034536)
How can you combat one unprovable framing by insisting on another unprovable framing?
Re:Show HN: ÆTHRA – Writing Music as Code on Friday January 30, 2026 @04:28AM (#46822300)
Please can you link to a video of it being used?
Re:Claude Cowboys on Thursday January 22, 2026 @09:06AM (#46719396)
Wow, I wrote a system very similar to the author that seems to becoming the defacto for ground-up multi-agent terminal workflows. git worktrees + tmux + claude hooks
Re:The recurring dream of replacing developers on Sunday January 18, 2026 @05:20AM (#46666549)
To put an economic spin on this (that no one asked for), this is also the capitalist nirvana. I don't have an immediate citation but from my experience software engineer salary is usually one of the biggest items on a P&L which prevents the capitalist approaching the singularity: limitless profit margin. Obviously this is unachievable but one of the major obstacles to this is in the process of being destablised and disrupted.
Re:Artisanal Code on Saturday January 17, 2026 @11:06AM (#46659101)
I appreciate your response, and I will confess to a certain bias as at some point I think I made the leap of acceptance of AI, in the sense of "this is how it's going to be from now on so I better get on board with it".

Spot on. These are the exact tools I was referring to. They seem a little un-magical but the real value is the boilerplate they provide for context management. Essentially allowing coding agents to perform at their beat. For what it's worth, Taches is my tool of choice.

Re:Artisanal Code on Saturday January 17, 2026 @07:15AM (#46657438)
I am going to give a predictable rebuttal. Many of these articles come from a place of fear and uncertainty, which is completely understandable. We ascribe value to the things we love, we love coding and therefore coding is valuable. But if it's commoditized how can it be valuable anymore? This alone is enough to shake the tree of rationality and most articles, including this one, set out with a mission of bashing a force they don't really understand. One signature of these articles, as I have noticed, is that they talk about AI writing code fairly reasonably but then insist that without a clear mental view of it, how could it ever be understood, or debugged, or optimised? This simply illuminates the lack of experience with the tools. Anyone who's used Ralph or Taches skills will understand this is a non-problem because well-attuned, AI-first codebases are actually very good at debugging, optimising, and will happily relay to you the model they've used, so that your grey matter can understand it.

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