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Re:Scaling Git at OpenAI on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @02:41AM (#50349180)
> fifth major article

Seventh, at least, all the major code forges are on it: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/scaling-git-for-the-agentic-so...

Entire also seems focused on this: https://entire.com/news/entire-launches-distributed-git-netw...

Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:06PM (#50347513)
I for one am looking forward to having Opus 5.5 level intelligence built into my calculator in 2027.

What a time to be alive. Imagine when everyone has access to a model of this level for free, on mobile devices.

Re:GitHub Incident with Actions, Pages, and Webhooks on Friday October 30, 2026 @06:22PM (#50310906)
> I am building a code forge myself

Isn't everyone else doing that too?

* https://cursor.com/docs/origin

* https://tangled.org/blog/forge/

* https://radicle.dev/

* https://entire.com/blog/the-git-forge-for-agent-human-collab...

The space is getting a little cramped, to say the least.

Re:The Federated Code Forge on Friday October 30, 2026 @06:04PM (#50310751)
I hope this takes off!

Some feedback:-

* I found the UI on the homepage/timeline a bit busy - lots going on. Notifications, Recents, Announcements don't seem like they need to live on this page?

* The Activity chart on a users profile page seems a bit wild to me. I'd suggest simplifying it or just using what GitHub/GitLab use with their square grid activity chart - it's what users are most familiar with. It's kind of analagous to all the LLM/Chat applications in recent years - they all converged on the same UI because that's what works - no need to reinvent the wheel when users understand an existing pattern. Plus - it's better for marketing:- people like to share their activity on GitHub/GitLab as it quickly conveys how much work they've done over the year - your current page doesn't.

Re:Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX on Friday October 30, 2026 @05:42PM (#50310542)
Nice! I do slightly prefer the implementation/style in the Reddit post - do you have any plans to try and recreate that more closely or add multiple style options to it? Neat either way.
Re:Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX on Friday October 30, 2026 @05:41PM (#50310532)
> The creator prefers to keep the source closed to avoid code critiques

That doesn't sound like someone who doesn't want their idea copied.

> That doesn't mean that their exponential improvement will change faster than light travel.

It doesn't. But if FTL is possible, ASI will get us there faster.

> How do you support a population for 400 years

There are engineering solution to all of the individual points you're making.

> Basically, what you're arguing is that exponential growth in AI (not a given) will unlock huge material sciences and biological advances.

It already is unlocking material science and biological advances. What happens when you can literally simulate matter, the human body, cells, perfectly in a computer - and run millions of experiments to reverse engineer these things? I don't understand how someone can't see where this is going.

> While possible, it's unlikely to combine in a way that suggests "we should send people to other solar systems".

I'm not sure what your last sentence means exactly. What determines this is whether people have the desire to or not, and I'm sure profit will be involved in one way or another. If there's a will, there's a way - there are enough sci-fi movies and books to clearly illustrate what mankind dreams of and has dreamt of for millennia.

Just my thoughts as a software engineer with a mechanical engineering background.

Re:AI promised less work. I've never worked more on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @09:54AM (#50259383)
That didn't happen when we got computers to do more work for us, over the last 30 years, and it won't happen now unless people get violent.

Massive productivity gains over the last few years and the rewards have all gone to shareholders, not working class people.

If they had, and workers rights, minimum wage etc had kept pace with the economy, we'd be on a 3 day week by now.

> Nobody is solving colonization of planets in this lifetime

Eh, speak for yourself.

I'm not sure how anyone can say "nobody is doing x.." or "we'll never be able to do y.." after the advances of the last few years. Not sure you understand the implications of what we're seeing here and what RSI/ASI will bring about.

Even just imagining the technological acceleration we'll experience when open source models at the Opus level can be run without insane hardware (I guess in a year or so) or if we just stopped development of AI today - is still insane.

If there's a will, there's a way. There are engineering solutions to every problem you mentioned.

"Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

> singularity

We're already in it. The next few years are going to be wild.

Re:GPT-6.1 Terra on Monday October 26, 2026 @02:35PM (#50248729)
Yeah this isn't intuitive at all.

Both companies have screwed up their naming royally. Maybe that's intentional - I'm sure it doesn't hurt Anthropic to have people using Fable a bit longer than they need to and racking up a huge bill in the process.

Re:The State of Context Engineering on Sunday October 25, 2026 @10:21PM (#50238346)
I can't cite the sources at the moment but this is already well known - a few papers on it and Anthropic say somewhere in their docs that you want to get across the minimum amount of context required to achieve your goal. Quality diminishes the more you dump in.
Re:Retired decorator's Pokémon cards sell for £1.5M on Sunday October 25, 2026 @10:17PM (#50238312)
I had at least that many, first generation as well, including a bunch of Japanese shinies that my mum found in a shop somewhere and bought for me.

They all went into the loft at some point and later ended up in a bonfire along with my first edition Harry Potter book collection when my mum was doing a "clear out". Such is life.

Re:JetBrains Thinkrail on Sunday October 25, 2026 @09:54PM (#50238131)
Right. Look at Opencode, OpenChamber, Cursor - that's the direction they need to go in, and like yesterday.

The only reason I keep Rubymine open these days is out of habit and I still like using it's git UI but there's less reason to do that every day. It's also a total RAM hog. JetBrains - please, make a lightweight, chat first IDE like everyone else is doing.

Re:You could have invented transformers from memory on Sunday October 18, 2026 @02:19PM (#50143807)
Love how the comment below yours states it's one of the most well written blog posts they've read in a while. Classic HN, full of highly opinionated folks.
What's with Claude preferring cursive and italic font in landing page hero sections?

Looks absolutely awful.

Re:DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 on Saturday October 17, 2026 @09:43AM (#50131121)
I have some fairly large personal software projects and I still don't understand what useful work people are getting out of burning all these tokens on unattended agents.

What exactly are they doing for you that's giving you $200 of value in such a short timeframe?

Re:More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke on Thursday October 15, 2026 @07:48PM (#50111929)
Why would someone respond to a post in a professional capacity with their personal HN account?
Re:The designer lamps in my house on Thursday October 15, 2026 @11:16AM (#50104909)
Cool lamps - love the minimalism of it all, but it is a tad contradicted by the amount of consumption/consumerism going on here.
Re:Show HN: Ito – build terminal UI in Lua on Thursday October 15, 2026 @11:01AM (#50104696)
I do find it funny how TUIs are trying to become increasingly ergonomic with more friendly UX.. to the point where they're basically just becoming GUIs.
Re:OpenCode 2.0 on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @08:43PM (#50097684)
There's an actual team? I had the same experience and figured it was basically just one guy. Their issue backlog does seem a total shambles though.
Re:OpenCode 2.0 on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @08:42PM (#50097674)
The OpenCode UI was OK to use for the first few months but then it basically didn't improve at all in the next -insert-too-many-months-.

It's long been surpassed by better UIs like OpenChamber. Looks like I'll be trying Paseo out next.

Re:OpenCode 2.0 on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @08:37PM (#50097639)
Huh, this looks like a literal clone of OpenChamber, or maybe it's the other way around as Paseo has more stars and forks.

TLDR of the benefits over OpenChamber?

Re:OpenCode 2.0 on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @08:34PM (#50097612)
OpenChamber ftw! I'm surprised it's not more popular - so much nicer to use than the TUI.

I'm always confused when people at work show me their opencode or Claude code setup of 6 terminal windows open simultaneously with the same illegible walls of text. No idea how people still prefer that over a nice GUI.

Re:Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @08:07PM (#50097425)
> expectations to be successful

+1. Also maybe it's an age where responsibilities start to peak. More senior positions in the workplace, having children, marriage, etc.

I've had a few stressful periods lately where it felt or feels like I can't load any more on to my plate and I don't even have that many responsibilities - no kids either, just an accumulation of small and background things needing dealt with. I think I do understand people who do commit suicide to an extent - if you add the above normal stresses of life to some highly stressful life events like a breakup or divorce and throw kids etc into the mix - and hey why not a pile of work related stress too - I can absolutely see how people get pushed to the edge.

Modern society has not been arranged in a way that sets people up for success. Staring at device screens for more hours year on year likely doesn't help.

Re:Phloem: Git history grown like a slime mold on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @04:13PM (#50094416)
Go to your Network Tab if you're on Chrome, then find the mp3 request - right click it and "copy as cURL" - then paste that into your terminal.
Re:Phloem: Git history grown like a slime mold on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @04:04PM (#50094274)
I like this track more than the visualisation. I'd listen to this on repeat if it was on Youtube Music.
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @03:45PM (#50077554)
Yeah being presented with these options is such poor UX:-

- Try in Gemini

- Try in Google AI Studio

- Try in Google Antigravity

Will non users of Google products even know what these three things even are?

Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics on Friday October 09, 2026 @06:05PM (#50027166)
> I think AI will just embed all sorts of biases

I don't see how, if they're being benchmarked on being more intelligent and being correct/accurate? If an AI can squarely tell us flat out what tax policy won't work and what current governments are doing wrong - surely that's a good thing?

Re:GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone on Friday October 09, 2026 @06:03PM (#50027145)
Whatever the benchmarks are measuring them on? Chat quality, agentic capabilities? i.e., not allowing me to try on clothes in a virtual wardrobe.

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