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Re:Patrick Stewart has died on Thursday October 29, 2026 @11:14PM (#50299462)
I have started to wonder if anti-heros are generally bad at a social level. If you train people to believe that bad people are not that bad and good people are not that good, and you should never believe the name on the tin, then people start carrying over those lessons to the real world, and encouraging antipathy since anyone who esposes good ideals is lying, and anyone who esposes bad ideals is playing 4d chess, or is not that bad - so what's the difference?
Re:Using LLM for confidence scoring is a bad idea on Thursday October 22, 2026 @08:10AM (#50194236)
So can you not do structured output and get the log probs across all your allowed output classes? Then use that relative measure of how confident it is?
Codex is written in rust, fyi... Not that I disagree.
Re:Docker Agent on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:34AM (#50006306)
We're all project managers now...
Re:5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @03:48PM (#49913386)
Why are v8 isolates bad, I see speculative execution hacks, but are there others?
Re:Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock on Monday September 28, 2026 @11:05AM (#49879222)
I remember looking into Bitcoin in 2012, and thinking:

"This will never work as a currency, because of the max number of bitcoins it will inherently be deflationary, and the value will go up, which means that there will be a disincentive to spend it, because the value will just go up..."

Yep... Did not buy any.

The thing with starlink is that there are a lot of them. It is not a single satellite to take out it is a bunch.
Re:Show HN: AgentRun: DSL to turn agents into Workflows on Thursday September 24, 2026 @06:56PM (#49837910)
Ahh, OK

Thanks!

So this means that every node in the graph has to be a fully fledged agent runtime with the smarts to handle an arbitrary filesystem.

I guess there is some sort of tool call that the agent has to tell the runtime 'I am done, and I succeeded go to the success node in the parent state machine'

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I think I have been trying to approach a slightly different problem where you have a mostly deterministic control flow of steps/ nodes in the graph, but individual nodes can be pretty stupid/ small models, so having a more constrained universe should be more reliable. (My intuition)

My example is a citation checker for an essay -

1. generate a list of claims in a paragraph, For each claim: Read the attached citation, validate that it backs up that claim.

The output is a nested json structure with a list of claims with a explanation+binary classification of whether each one is supported.

This is not really agentic, and the nodes would be claim identification > validate claims (in parallel) > deterministically merge the validated claims into a unified module.

It should be very token efficient, and since it is so constrained I think I can get away with tiny models, and small context.

At least that is my hope... But I think I need typed IO/state so that the llm that writes the graph can deterministically say that the individual nodes complete the problem wholly.

Re:Show HN: AgentRun: DSL to turn agents into Workflows on Thursday September 24, 2026 @04:38PM (#49836456)
How are you thinking about state management when you handle things? I have been playing around this and the state gets messy fast.
Re:Don't Paste the AI, please on Thursday August 20, 2026 @08:27AM (#49373684)
Was just in south America, everyone uses it.
Re:Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @12:07AM (#49356656)
For context, I read Claude output every single day, I know what it is reliable with and what it is not. Or at least I have a feel for how much I can trust it.

It may not be clear to a non-english first language person, but when I read Claudes documentation, my brain immediately picks up claude-speak. Therefore, I expect the code to be generally correct, maybe, depending on how specific I was during my prompting. In no way shape or form do I really trust it, at least until i dig into the code and validate my mental model. And query the review for edge cases etc...

By writing your documentation with Claude, my brain immediately associates the quality of the project with the quality of unreviewed Claude output.

To a degree this is unfair, as it is like judging the quality of someone's work based on their accent.

But Claudes accent, has a high correlation with Claude, so unlike with people, where an accent has no bearing on technical ability, Claude being Claude does.

I would much rather read a typo ridden sentence than claudism, even just as a forward, explaining what you did vs the ai, and telling the users how much we should trust it.

Also, If you really insist on using AI to write, have another model rewrite docs/comments into regular English (opus 4.6 for example is much better than 4.7, 4.8, or 5.

It is open source so you can do whatever you like, but people (especially native English speakers) will discount your work, because Claude, especially opus 5 writes very very badly.

The people who say they would rather see a typo infested mess of a readme are serious. Or even just write in your native language and then have Claude translate.

Both of those are better indications of proof of effort than a Claude readme.

Out of curiosity what state are you in?
I think the question is how do you keep track of the ideas that the agent is pursuing - like I was working on this for implementing a fft, and doing the optimizations, but I held its hand and was like - hey let's go back and retry this older thing you discounted because of a 3 % slowdown.
Re:Show HN: Embed a real Linux terminal on your website on Friday August 14, 2026 @03:31PM (#49303529)
From my perspective it does not tell me how it works, or the give examples of why you would use it?

Is it a actual Linux kernel + filesystem under the hood?

Or did you just use the standard utilities compiled for wasm,

how does network access work (assume it doesn't because of coors)

Can you run non-wasm programs? How do entry points work - what about ctrl-c and interrupts for long running programs.

You do not discuss any of this and it seems half baked.

(This coming from someone who has explored how to do this for a vscode in browser editor playground)

Re:To Save C, We Must Save ABI on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @07:21AM (#49256445)
What other cross-language abi do you propose?
Somewhat agree, but Facebook and social media are really bad though, even leaving aside extreme cases like Myanmar genocide promotion.

I think Facebook would need to do a lot more to balance the scales.

Re:Mistral Patent for "Code implemented tool calls" on Monday August 10, 2026 @09:37AM (#49243491)
So anyone have prior art we can point to? Because no way is a rpc call novel.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) on Sunday August 09, 2026 @04:53PM (#49235757)
So I am working on building a low latency streaming dataflow framework - ala gnuradio but actually usable in production. The idea is to have deterministic latency as a first class objective and let all the other benefits fall out of that.

Additionally:

Live graph reconfiguration Timed events Easy simd support Support for non-mmu based architectures Imperitive configuration management and querying at the single runtime level. Can be compiled to wasm, and run in the browser (w/ coors headers). IO/user interface and any GUI is done via typescript.

Re:AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU on Monday August 03, 2026 @12:32PM (#49157998)
Wait I thought the router ends up specializing the experts?

Like there is no explicit goal aside from each 'expert' getting roughly equal weight?

And it happens that when you train the router you do end up passing certain classes of problem to each expert - just as a training result nothing as clean as a python expert. But math vs creative writing will tend to rely on different experts over the majority of the inference?

I do not know what I am talking about, this is my limited understanding...

Re:The bottleneck might be the air in the room on Saturday July 04, 2026 @08:09AM (#48784814)
Wouldn't high CO2 make you breath faster?
Re:Right to Local Intelligence on Friday July 03, 2026 @01:19PM (#48777425)
Inference isn't that hard, you can run on amd/ Intel if needed.
... Out of curiosity, why did they close the street? Was it to turn it into public walking space? (I'm trying to imagine a reason and coming up short...)
It's really annoying when you open a interesting article and realize it's llm slop.
Can't you just force it to do structured output via constrained generation?
Re:Steam Machine on Monday June 22, 2026 @03:16PM (#48634724)
But if they subsidize the hardware, non game users will purchase the hardware and use it for non game use-cases, where valve cannot recoupe the costs.

A interesting scenario would be to sell the hardware at cost, but include a 30% off ticket to the steam store (up to a few hundred dollars, in savings).

Re:Did my old job only exist because of fraud? on Sunday June 21, 2026 @11:19PM (#48625259)
Wait, did you get paid overtime when he modified your time sheet?

I guess it may not be normal but I got straight time overtime when I worked for a contractor. Made those weeks I really did do 80 hrs nice. But if they have any system involved the fact you did not get paid for the time would be a big red flag.

Wow that's snappy
Re:The Cost of Safetyism on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @08:46AM (#48279053)
Population is generally stable or declining out side of the developing world.

Infinite cities only yh happen with infinite population.

Why not use the same acc disability features?
Re:Where the Goblins Came From on Thursday April 30, 2026 @07:51AM (#47961106)
So, I always thought that Warhammer 40k techpriests were absurd. Strange obscure religious rituals to appease the machine spirit.

But at this point I can actually see something like that. What is prompt engineering but a strange pseudo ritual.

So praise the Omnissiah, I guess...

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