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Re:Block the "Upgrade to Tahoe" Alerts on Saturday February 28, 2026 @09:14PM (#47202899)
they have really tried hard to make the entire OS less usable. I'm not an "iToddler", I paid for a Unix workstation and will not have lower information density forced onto me.
Re:Coding Agent VMs on NixOS with Microvm.nix on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @01:24PM (#46889551)
I there a way to make this work with macOS hosts, preferably without having to install a Linux toolchain inside the VM for the language the agent will be writing code in?
Re:Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @10:48PM (#45122953)
Remote dev isn't very good in Zed, unfortunately. For some reason they chose not to apply the local editor's settings to a remote session by default. Every remote has its own config file. Questionable choice, imo
In their tech report, they say this is based on:

> "Our methods extend [28] through careful modifications to the data and computation to scale up learning."

[28] is Lou et al. (2023), the "Score Entropy Discrete Diffusion" (SEDD) model (https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16834).

I wrote the first (as far as I can tell) independent from-scratch reimplementation of SEDD:

https://github.com/mstarodub/dllm

My goal was making it as clean and readable as possible. I also implemented the more complex denoising strategy they described (but didn't implement).

It runs on a single GPU in a few hours on a toy dataset.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2023) on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @05:57AM (#34244197)

  Location: Munich, Germany
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Haskell, OCaml, C, Python, Linux, Formal Methods, Compiler Design, Systems Programming
  Résumé/CV: https://starodub.net/static/cv_mxs.pdf
  Email: See CV
I'm a student of computer science and mathematics with one year of experience writing software in a professional setting, currently looking for internships or a part-time position. I've been passionate about programming and theory for over ten years, reading open source code and regularly writing programs / libraries for personal and academic use - Which I hope would translate to needing little to no hand-holding in your team. Should you think it useful, I have accumulated quite a bit of experience with administering Unix systems as well. Looking for any position where I get to solve difficult problems - I tend to enjoy those.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2022) on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @09:31PM (#33089902)

  Location: Munich, Germany
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Haskell, OCaml, C, Python, Linux, Formal Methods, Compiler Design, Systems Programming
  Résumé/CV: https://starodub.net/static/cv_mxs.pdf
  Email: See CV
I'm a student of computer science and mathematics with one year of experience writing software in a professional setting, currently looking for internships or a part-time position. I've been passionate about programming and theory for over ten years, reading open source code and regularly writing programs / libraries for personal and academic use - Which I hope would translate to needing little to no hand-holding in your team. Should you think it useful, I have accumulated quite a bit of experience with administering Unix systems as well.

Looking for any position where I get to solve difficult problems - I tend to enjoy those.