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Re:Show HN: VisionLaya: Jev with Vision capabilities on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @06:22PM (#49823400)
Yea it seems to be very jagged so far but will be training on more datasets.

I just added evals for existing datasets and some classic controls problems.

Will likely look for more commercial datasets and synthetic data too.

I’m funding personally in short term but if I can find some compute can see how well this scales!

Re:I am often wrong on Sunday September 20, 2026 @03:15PM (#49779004)
a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds
Re:Laya the open source version of Jev on Saturday September 19, 2026 @12:50PM (#49768096)
Re:Laya the open source version of Jev on Saturday September 19, 2026 @11:42AM (#49767472)
been loving hacking on this. just created a vision version of it here https://huggingface.co/thaitea/laya-vision-smolvlm-256m

Show HN: VisionLaya: Jev with Vision capabilities

https://huggingface.co/thaitea/laya-vision-smolvlm-256m

This model makes calibrated, typed decisions about an image plus optional text. It answers choice, score and noul (yes/no probability) questions in one forward pass, with no text generation.It adds image input to Laya by replacing Laya's ModernBERT encoder with SmolVLM-256M-Instruct. Laya's predict(state, questions) API, proper-scoring-rule training and temperature calibration are...

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Re:Use MCP-JS to control Modal Sandboxes on Monday August 31, 2026 @01:03PM (#49512073)
been working on a javascript runtime for agents and recently got grpc working with modal!
Our cloud platform supports gpu but we haven’t shipped it yet. I’ll be sure to update guide when that’s shipped!
Totally agree. I’ve built a bunch of harnesses for Minecraft and a specialized one will almost certainly out preform a general purpose one.

I believe the way we advance the capabilities for general computer use is to to attempt harder and harder tasks with it, and build up the necessary infrastructure to accomplish it along the way.

Even when we don’t achieve the goal, the infrastructure we build is often useful for easier and more obtainable goals as well.

If your computer use environment can pilot Minecraft, it can also probably do your taxes

its not marketing to you, its marketing to agents looking for tools to use
Re:Programmatic Tool Calling for Any MCP on Monday June 01, 2026 @12:18PM (#48358901)
You may have heard of Programmatic Tool Calling from anthropic or Code Mode from cloudflare for calling mcp servers. I have been working on an open source version of this and recently put together some basic docs, and thought this page would be a good one to share.

There are plenty of other features to explore, but this one alone has resulted in significant improvements in the speed of execution in many tasks including minecraft playing agents, computer use agents, and for querying and aggregating information from my telemetry systems in a lightweight low risk way.

Re:Work with Codex from Anywhere on Thursday May 14, 2026 @11:18PM (#48144152)
if i didn't have to prompt it to learn from its mistakes and it just "intuitively" knew to do that
Re:Launch HN: Vela (YC W26) – AI for complex scheduling on Thursday March 05, 2026 @01:29PM (#47265313)
have built in this space which led me to develop a minizinc mcp server [0] for scheduling bocce tournaments [1]. scheduling with constraints is a np hard problem and it makes sense people struggle. tools exist to solve this problem but they are complex and hard to use for non technical folks, and even technical folks. am hoping a tool like this can bridge the gap and would like to bring it to your awareness if you aren't already thinking about the problem this way :)

edit: after reading a bit more of description looks like yall are taking a similar approach, kudos!

[0] https://github.com/r33drichards/minizinc-mcp

[1] https://github.com/r33drichards/bocce-scheduler

Re:MCP is dead. Long live the CLI on Sunday March 01, 2026 @02:08PM (#47209652)
yep! thats the motivation behind https://github.com/r33drichards/mcp-js

I want to be able to give agents access to computation in a secure way without giving them full access to a computer

Re:Show HN: A MitM proxy to see what your LLM tools are sending on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @09:01PM (#46804762)
Does this support bedrock?
Re:Agent Skills is now an open standard on Thursday December 18, 2025 @12:57PM (#46316150)
Is it possible to provide a llm a skill through the mcp resource feature?
Re:Why Windows XP is the ultimate AI benchmark on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @11:31AM (#46290595)
as an infrastructure engineer the idea of being able to train computer use agents without provisioning infrastructure sounds amazing!

a common use case i run into is i want to be able to configure corporate vpn software on windows machines. is there a link for a getting started guide i could try this out with?

have used it, and i do like it, but the licensing situation is not great. It open source but its not free software by any means.
wrote about this a bit too in https://www.robw.fyi/2025/10/24/simple-control-flow-for-auto...

ran into this when writing agents to fix unit tests. often times they would just give up early so i started writing the verifiers directly into the agent's control flow and this produced much more reliable results. i believe claude code has hooks that do something similar as well.

Re:Isn't WSL2 just a VM? on Monday December 01, 2025 @03:01PM (#46112373)
clearly you have never worked in enterprise
Re:Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility on Monday December 01, 2025 @02:16PM (#46111726)
nice one kyle! you could add https://github.com/wasmerio/webassembly.sh and have a fully featured in browser shell with support for installing packages!

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