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Re:The Importance of Limitations for Creativity and Learning
on Sunday October 25, 2026 @08:46AM (#50230983)
If we assume resources are infinite, any effort would look ridiculous. To achieve great goal, we have to limit ourselves deliberately on some aspects.
It reminds me that "compression is intelligence". By limiting the parameter space, the LLM could extract deep representation from training data.
Re:DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)
on Saturday September 26, 2026 @09:26PM (#49862414)
Competitors will try to touch everyone on the list.
Re:Plan Mode Is Dead
on Friday September 25, 2026 @09:58PM (#49852437)
Why is a plan "mode" needed? I really hate reading plans in conversation UI. One line in AGENTS.md is always better, and you can customize it to fit your document convention.
From the communication perspective, the planning process is most about creating clarity and alignment, on things like scope, constraints and decisions, among people (and agents now), often requiring multiple rounds. The planning tool built in Codex or Claude Code is not persisted, version-controlled, nor well accessible.
In practice, My AGENTS.md contains an instruction about writing a document before starting implementation. Usually I won't read that document, because I don't want to micromanage agents. That document mostly serves a historical purpose like ADR, helping me find out what agents missed, made mistakes on or misaligned on, if needed.
Re:California is chasing wealth that has feet
on Thursday September 24, 2026 @11:58PM (#49840049)
every tax can be expaned to a infinite series of rent.
Re:California is chasing wealth that has feet
on Thursday September 24, 2026 @11:38PM (#49839943)
However, the bank is happy to extend the loan infinitely for people with enough assets. It's questionable that whether such loans are cash flow neutral.
Re:Back and shoulder surgery is often worse than useless
on Thursday September 24, 2026 @10:46PM (#49839647)
Most back and shoulder pains are caused by bad habits. Cutting something from your body doesn't help a lot. Go to gym or physical therapist first.
Re:ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independen...
on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @11:55PM (#49826074)
A free-to-read PDF host site is valuable enough. Most academic publishers have a pay wall.
Re:The new CC, an AI agent built for families
on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @10:04PM (#49810785)
I guess they want to use the email CC concept showing the agent is a side assistant.
Re:Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof, on CPU and GPU
on Friday September 18, 2026 @01:54AM (#49750599)
I'm interested in how to integrate formal verification with existing software libraries. For example, https://github.com/verus-lang/verus integrates proof with macro in Rust. What's the plan for Bend?
Re:Jev: New frontier model 40-400x cheaper and 20-200x faster
on Thursday September 17, 2026 @10:15AM (#49741127)
It looks like a Transformer encoder post-trained on classification and regression tasks. The encoder-only model is less noticed in recent years, but this product finds a nice application for it.
Re:Anecdotally, Programmers Dislike "Reduce"
on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @09:50PM (#49735487)
In imperative languages, it's a leaky abstraction not reducing the cognition overhead, compared with the plain loop.
Re:Anecdotally, Programmers Dislike "Reduce"
on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @09:42PM (#49735434)
If the contraint is not in the signature, and cannot trigger a test failure with typical implementation, it doesn't exist.
Re:Backprop Alternative: Augmented Lagrangian Predictive Coding
on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @03:37AM (#49709067)
other questions:
- can it be used to relax timing order requirement in pipeline parallelism? Each node update lambda on communication, and optimize weights at other time. - given that BP is using SGD, can batches and T share the same timeline in optimization, while keeping the descent direction?
Re:Backprop Alternative: Augmented Lagrangian Predictive Coding
on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @02:08AM (#49708374)
Backprop can also be viewed L local signal passing, but it requires global timing coordination. The Lagrangian enables out-of-order update.
Re:Backprop Alternative: Augmented Lagrangian Predictive Coding
on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @02:04AM (#49708353)
Nice introduction to a simple but useful idea! The Lagrangian works like a time-smoothed optimizing direction state, but it can be placed on any wire, even at non-differentiable boundary! Can it be better than existing training methods for discrete components like argmax, MoE or VQ-VAE? Maybe networks can be composed by a lot of learnable discrete components, or even bits and gates finally.
Re:Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals fr...
on Sunday September 13, 2026 @10:42PM (#49691282)
Human hackers would be put into jail. LLM hackers would be rewarded.
Re:No Country for Mediocre Mathematicians
on Monday August 31, 2026 @11:35PM (#49517679)
Funded positions are much less than PhD number. However, people can fund themselves with a job. In a country, if it's easy to to get a part-time job with enough payment, mathematicians can continue work.
Re:The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later
on Sunday August 16, 2026 @09:14PM (#49325537)
With agent asssistance, we don't need writing annoying formal spec and proof anymore. Then formal verification can be a practical and useful tool in daily programming, especially for "deep module" whose spec is much simpler than implementation.
Re:Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made...
on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @08:30PM (#49091889)
I also wrote a Monkey script to save clicks when reading papers: just embed PDF webview into the Arxiv abstract page.
https://github.com/OneMoreSecond/FileSave/blob/master/arxiv_...
It seems the software productivity has exploded in the agent era. However, do we treat every point of daily experience seriously enough? Do we recognize such pains actively and try to eliminate them (often easy), or just tolerate infinitely?
Re:Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot
on Thursday June 04, 2026 @11:27PM (#48407575)
This is the first shoelace knot my parents taught me. We call it "butterfly knot". It's always my default choice with muscle memory, unless the shoelace is not long enough to create the "bufferfly wings".
It's secured enough for daily use, and easy to release. Also the best choice for apron knot.
Re:Show HN: Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface
on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @02:48AM (#48380775)
Does the official relay server cost a lot on network?
Re:Show HN: Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface
on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @02:06AM (#48380525)
Very nice! an open-sourced alternative of Codex Remote Control, allowing full customization
Re:Claude Opus 4.8
on Thursday May 28, 2026 @10:56PM (#48318443)
I prefer synthetic dataset since the first day hearing distillation. The engineering friction is much lower than soft logits, and I have not observed or heard performance loss (in Speech and language area).
Re:Claude Opus 4.8
on Thursday May 28, 2026 @10:52PM (#48318418)
Could you share some latest articles or papers comparing both methods, especially on lanuage modelling case?
I was not conviced by this claim when reading the original Knowledge Distillation paper. ChatGPT said there are some later works showing: 1. the gain may come from label smoothing; 2. soft logits are more meaningful for students much smaller than teacher.
Re:Building Pi with Pi
on Monday May 25, 2026 @01:13AM (#48263600)
How is the water animation implemented?
Re:Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kickin...
on Sunday May 17, 2026 @11:15PM (#48175203)
I'm curious on the use of rsync in version control. What's the source and destination?
Re:Prolog Coding Horror
on Sunday May 17, 2026 @11:09PM (#48175178)
now we may have a more powerful "Prolog" - LLM Agent, though not precise and correct somtimes.
Re:The Two Sleeps
on Friday May 15, 2026 @06:40AM (#48146953)
I really hate modern time schedule. It's nightmare to be forced to get up 6am or 7am every workday since childhood. The only relief is natural wakeup on weekend.
Re:First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5
on Friday May 15, 2026 @03:06AM (#48145449)
another "obscurity": I'm not valuable enough to be attacked, compared with the cost.
But what if cost has been reduced a lot?
Re:A few words on DS4
on Friday May 15, 2026 @03:00AM (#48145394)
Fucking abbreviations. Who knows it's DeepSeek, Dark Souls or DualShock? All possible on HN.