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I discussed this here: "Who bankrolls the AI agent swarm?"
> A highly capable agent swarm requires an absurd amount of resources. Either the swarm steals tons of compute from a company that has a lot of money to burn and doesn't address a massive spike in its cloud bill, or a company intentionally commits those resources but is negligent about monitoring the workload.
https://noperator.dev/posts/who-bankrolls-the-ai-agent-swarm...
Posted by
noperator on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @08:36AM
from the noperator.dev dept.
Leanstral 1.5 has 6B active parameters. How many parameters does GPT-5.5 have?
Having some success while testing this model out as a replacement for GPT-5 nano in source code security review. Running on RTX 3090 (24 GB VRAM) via vLLM. It's not great on structured output (as noted in the model card) but I'm working around that in my harness.
Posted by
noperator on Saturday June 13, 2026 @09:38AM
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noperator on Thursday May 28, 2026 @10:17AM
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Posted by
noperator on Saturday February 28, 2026 @01:37PM
from the show-hn dept.
> compute isolation means nothing if the sandbox can freely phone home.
Here's a project I've been working on to address the network risk. Uses nftables firewall allowing outbound traffic only to an explicit pinned domain allowlist (continuously refreshes DNS resolutions in the background).
https://github.com/noperator/cagent
Posted by
noperator on Thursday January 15, 2026 @09:45AM
from the maragu.dev dept.
Posted by
noperator on Monday January 12, 2026 @09:31AM
from the arxiv.org dept.
Digital technologies can be terribly destructive, but they can also be gloriously empowering. How do we shape them into tools for conviviality rather than means of domination?
Posted by
noperator on Saturday January 10, 2026 @09:00PM
from the v5.chriskrycho.com dept.
My prototype one-liners usually turn into Go programs :)
Hey, author here. see also, sol: a de-minifier (formatter, exploder, beautifier) for shell one-liners
https://github.com/noperator/sol
I actually wrote jqfmt because I needed it for sol :)
Awesome! I found this section interesting:
https://blog.kelvin.ma/posts/an-ode-to-pocket-analysis-of-ex...I don't think of HN as a source itself but rather a way to discover sources. So I think my Pocket data reflects sources that I've discovered, but to your point, doesn't represent everything I've read from those sources.
Posted by
noperator on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @09:42AM
from the blog.kelvin.ma dept.
Moved to Wallabag, but note that I don't read anything via Wallabag (or Pocket) UI. I export saved items as an RSS feed which I consume in an RSS reader like Inoreader or FreshRSS.
> This is a relatively simple request when the server is under your desk: boot a rescue disk, use a tool like shred to wipe the data on all the hard drives, then press the power button. When the server is in a remote data center, it's a little more challenging: use a remote console to reboot into a rescue disk, wipe the server, then remotely pull the power using some networked PDU. When, like me, you have to wipe a server thousands of miles away with no remote console, no remote power, no remote help and only an SSH connection, you start scratching your head.
Posted by
noperator on Monday July 07, 2025 @08:32PM
from the linuxjournal.com dept.
o3 spent that time "thinking" and built the profile using only the URLs/titles, no content fetching.
Thanks all for your feedback. Adjusted the title to clearly reflect that I'm the agent here.
Posted by
noperator on Monday July 07, 2025 @08:44AM
from the noperator.dev dept.
Recalling Simon Willison’s recent geoguessing challenge for o3, I considered, “What might o3 be able to tell me about myself, simply based on a list of URLs I’ve chosen to save?”
Posted by
noperator on Friday June 13, 2025 @09:41AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://github.com/noperator/curlmin
curlmin is a CLI tool that minimizes curl commands by removing unnecessary headers, cookies, and query parameters while ensuring the response remains the same. This is especially handy when copying a network request "as cURL" in Chrome DevTools' Network panel (Right-click page > Inspect > Network > Right-click request > Copy > Copy as cURL).I use Chrome's "Copy as cURL" _a lot_...
You can also use
https://github.com/noperator/raink to brainstorm TLDs that are relevant to some topic you care about. For example:
curl -s https://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt |
raink -f /dev/stdin -p 'which of these TLDs is most related to the concept of "hacking"?' |
jq -r 'map(.value)[:10]'
[
"BLACK",
"COMSEC",
"TOOLS",
"SECURITY",
"ZERO",
"EXPOSED",
"FORUM",
"SHELL",
"BOT",
"SOFTWARE"
]
Those are all in the IANA list but not all can be registered—just showing as PoC. See
https://bishopfox.com/blog/raink-llms-document-ranking for more background.