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In a spirit of trying to do what my imagination wants to be possible I set off to use or recreate Strata but to load Poolside Laguna S 2.1 Q3 on my system.

My machine has an RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB on PCI 3.0, Threadripper 1950X with AVX2, and 128 GB quad-channel DDR4-2133

I stopped after hitting a successful 84-minute autonomous run in OMP. Just 4 bugs in the result found by a frontier-ish model. Hit 770.83 tokens/sec on prefill and 15.85 tokens/sec at 8k context and 11 tokens/sec over the full run at 128k context.

The link is to the main findings and attempts at improving performance. In the end the Laguna architecture didn't lend itself to the same kind of dissection as Qwen3.8 and I've taken it as far as I'm willing to go. It's all dropped into the performance and research folders.

I love competition in the open weight world and Strata has been such a boon to my own local development I was greedy for more! Hope this helps someone, or you find it interesting at least.

Re:Why Are Coding Agents So Dumb? on Friday October 09, 2026 @06:37PM (#50027456)
Funny the sandbox is a real security benefit but it just turned into an extra confirmation for me. I'd rather have it than not.
Re:Using Blu-ray M-Disk as Backup of Last Resort on Monday October 05, 2026 @06:11PM (#49971585)
Now that I'm at ~$350 a year on Backblaze I need to look at this again. Or the LTO-6 tapes.
I like the fast releases. 6.1 coming so fast after 6.0 means they found some improvement solid enough for a new rollout.

The only time I remember the newest model making an obvious regression was when the first rolled out MoE. Super speed update but each request had less intelligence at hand. We’re way past that now

Re:Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @01:25AM (#48916592)
I had no idea Thinking Machine was a brand! I just thought they were "thinking machine super computers" another way of saying "artificial intelligence super computers" or "machine learning" (dunno if ML was around then :shrug:)
Just an FYI there are many efforts already available to clean and or provide a clean Firefox.
I leaned into the narrative style for this post. The content comes from my concrete talks and work but I don't mention any specifics. Not sure if I like the result but it was still interesting. The topic was light and easy enough I don't feel it suffered for it.
Re:AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale on Thursday May 21, 2026 @10:41AM (#48223489)
I'll bite. I have always been told copyright is inherit. Does it cost money to file a copyright? Do I need to do it for each blog post? For each gist? I'll totally setup some scripts to make it happen if it what actually needs doing to have the copyright I expected.

Edit: remember not to down vote ideas you disagree with. I think it was only down vote things that lower the discourse

It's a competitive world out there isn't it? Thank you

Show HN: Agent Historic Philosophical Persona Routing and Prompts

https://github.com/barretts/AgentHistoric

I've been building this for a while. The core of it is I've assigned different tasks in a software engineering job to different philosophers. The prompts are written toward their thinking by "them" but the keywords are generic. I absolutely love using this prompt system. I share it every chance I get. I wrote a whitepaper about it. Maybe ya'll would be interested in it. I find my experience is...

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Unrelated to the app but I dig your website design.
Re:I Was Interviewed by an AI Bot for a Job on Thursday March 12, 2026 @02:43AM (#47347278)
This was a thing in the beginning of 2025. Not sure how they do now but I did the interview just to see the AI bot in action. It wasn't great but it was amazing at the same time. It might have been around sooner but I remember doing one AI interview that had a video lip synced avatar asking questions like we were on video chat.
Re:Has Google Solved Two of AI's Oldest Problems? on Friday November 14, 2025 @08:16PM (#45934180)
Doing something novel is incredibly difficult through LLM work alone. Dreaming, hallucinating, might eventually make novel possible but it has to be backed up be rock solid base work. We aren't there yet.

The working memory it holds is still extremely small compared to what we would need for regular open ended tasks.

Yes there are outliers and I'm not being specific enough but I can't type that much right now.

Feature request: Combine book series into a single entity. Bummer getting recommendations for another book in the same series as one I already liked and read.

Feature request: Exclude books already in shelf. This is harder I'm sure. I've got 1146 books in my Read shelf.

Re:Reading for pleasure plummets by 40% in the US on Monday August 25, 2025 @07:01PM (#45020211)
I know a couple folks that do a ton of phone only reading now. I haven't read for pleasure in over a decade but I've listened to ~1300 different audiobooks. Seems like this isn't well thought out.
I don't know what I'm talking about but when I first asked your question this https://gist.github.com/Artefact2/b5f810600771265fc1e3944228... helped start me on a path to understanding. I think.

But if you don't already know the question your asking is not at all something I could distill down into a sentence or to that would make sense to a lay-person. Even then I know I couldn't distill it at all sorry.

Edit: I found this link I referenced above on quantized models by bartowski on huggingface https://huggingface.co/bartowski/Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-GGUF#whic...

Re:Show HN: HackerRank's Coding Benchmark for LLMs on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @05:48PM (#43019368)
No huggingface models or did I just miss them? Edit: they mention doing open models at some point at the bottom of the page
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025) on Monday February 03, 2025 @02:04PM (#42921573)

  Location: Austin, TX
  Remote: Preferred remote but all things are negotiable
  Willing to relocate: Not really
  Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, Node, GIT, NPM, React, Web Components, Webpack, Build configuration, Jest, Mocha, ESLint, CSS, SASS, Storybook, Monorepo configuration, TestCafe, Unit testing, End-to-end testing, Integration testing, Backbone, Marionette, jQuery, Bootstrap, Google MUI React UI Components, MySQL, Postgres SQL, SQL Server, C#, Python, Ruby, Rake, Docker, TeamCity, Jenkins, Amazon Web Services, Terraform, PowerShell, Visual Studio, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, API Gateway, Cloud Development Kit, EC2 Image Builder, HTML, Internationalization i18n, Localization l10n, Visual Diff testing, Bash scripting, Objective-C, Android Java, Cordova, KendoUI, Flash, Flex, ActionScript
  Résumé/CV: https://barrettsonntag.com/Sonntag_Barrett_resume.pdf
  Email: [email protected]
Is it better that I list everything or just a few things? I'm always conflicted. What if I said TypeScript and React but left out JavaScript? That could mean I never worked with JavaScript right? Which sounds crazy but code camps produce React developers that have no experience outside that framework.
Imagine three other possibilities:

You have a dozen people who would give you emotional support but you don't ask for any because you aren't sure you could give emotional support in return.

You have a dozen people you think might give you emotional support but you don't want to burden them with your problems.

You have a dozen people that would give you emotional support, maybe once, but you are too afraid to burn the single emotional support coupon until its more important.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2025) on Friday January 03, 2025 @03:53PM (#42589372)

  Location: Austin, TX
  Remote: Preferred remote but all things are negotiable
  Willing to relocate: Not really
  Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, Node, GIT, NPM, React, Web Components, Webpack, Build configuration, Jest, Mocha, ESLint, CSS, SASS, Storybook, Monorepo configuration, TestCafe, Unit testing, End-to-end testing, Integration testing, Backbone, Marionette, jQuery, Bootstrap, Google MUI React UI Components, MySQL, Postgres SQL, SQL Server, C#, Python, Ruby, Rake, Docker, TeamCity, Jenkins, Amazon Web Services, Terraform, PowerShell, Visual Studio, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, API Gateway, Cloud Development Kit, EC2 Image Builder, HTML, Internationalization i18n, Localization l10n, Web Accessibility Initiative Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite WAI-ARIA, Visual Diff testing, Bash scripting, Objective-C, Android Java, Cordova, KendoUI, Flash, Flex, ActionScript
  Résumé/CV: https://barrettsonntag.com/Sonntag_Barrett_resume.docx
  Email: [email protected]
It’s awesome they try to define those terms. But I wouldn’t call that well defined at all. https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=6a4c20dc-594d...

I would say that math is unambiguous.

Measurements are becoming more unambiguous. The accepted measurement of a kilogram equalling s Avogadro’s constant. Something like the number of silicon atoms in a 93mm sphere?

But the definitions of best and reasonable are only accepted based off precedent and we’ve seen in recent history precedent in law isn’t as reliable or defined as we may have thought.

Is there any language or any level of language that can remain defined across time and culture?

So long as legalese requires interpretation to determine intent and outcome it can be expected be incomprehensible.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2024) on Monday December 02, 2024 @05:48PM (#42301188)

  Location: Austin, TX
  Remote: Preferred remote but all things are negotiable
  Willing to relocate: Not really
  Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, Node, GIT, NPM, React, Web Components, Webpack, Build configuration, Jest, Mocha, ESLint, CSS, SASS, Storybook, Monorepo configuration, TestCafe, Unit testing, End-to-end testing, Integration testing, Backbone, Marionette, jQuery, Bootstrap, Google MUI React UI Components, MySQL, Postgres SQL, SQL Server, C#, Python, Ruby, Rake, Docker, TeamCity, Jenkins, Amazon Web Services, Terraform, PowerShell, Visual Studio, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, API Gateway, Cloud Development Kit, EC2 Image Builder, HTML, Internationalization i18n, Localization l10n, Web Accessibility Initiative Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite WAI-ARIA, Visual Diff testing, Bash scripting, Objective-C, Android Java, Cordova, KendoUI, Flash, Flex, ActionScript
  Résumé/CV: https://barrettsonntag.com/Sonntag_Barrett_resume.docx
  Email: [email protected]
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My wide breath of skills work on mobile and web development projects stems from my passion as a creator. It never is a question if something is possible but only if we’ve got the will to make it reality. Though I started this career on my own being self-taught I was drawn to leading and mentoring other developers to reach their own potential. There is no greater satisfaction than celebrating a successful launch as a team and to see us grow together. I love working with executives, clients and project managers to architect end to end software solutions that will exceed expectations. Whether the project is building in-house tooling or customer facing applications it is crucial to understand how the user will interact with it and ensure the technology stack will effectively deliver the best possible experience.

Over the last 20 years I’ve built, tested and released products using the languages, libraries or technologies listed above. They aren’t listed with any sorting in mind.

(unabridged resume) https://barrettsonntag.com/Sonntag_Barrett_resume_extended.d...

For the sake of my question let’s assume this is legit and magically works for a wide range of autoimmune conditions. How many years away are we from being able to sign up for this treatment? 10 years? 20? 30?

It would be nice to dream of it happening sometime soon.

Re:Apple iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max on Thursday September 12, 2024 @01:11AM (#41517795)
Halide. If you don't mind subscriptions or the lifetime $75 the app I found that did everything I wanted is Halide. The pain of the problem for me didn't cross the threshold for me to buy the app but the trial of it worked. Funny I have several dozen selfies of me testing it out compared to the Camera app with all the options toggled.

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