Hacker News: 8thcross

New comment by 8thcross in "The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox"

8thcross — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:16:44 +0000

we are running a harness outside the sandbox, inside a sandobx.

New comment by 8thcross in "Prompt engineering is collapsing – GPT-5 just proved it"

8thcross — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 11:21:16 +0000

didnt prove anything. prompt engineering still works with GPT-5. dont know what your experience is about...

New comment by 8thcross in "GPT5 is worse than 4.1-mini for text and worse than Sonnet 4 for coding"

8thcross — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 11:45:51 +0000

I tried it with cursor-agent, their cli - and it generated better code than expected. YMMV. It was more thoughtful and strategic than the other frontier models.

New comment by 8thcross in "I know when you're vibe coding"

8thcross — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 23:52:54 +0000

Once you on it, you are hooked bru.

New comment by 8thcross in "Ollama has a native front end chatbot now"

8thcross — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 22:23:25 +0000

a little too late i think.

New comment by 8thcross in "Vibe code is legacy code"

8thcross — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 22:20:57 +0000

interesting but i have thought about it. rarely is ours as well. All my code is original but based on my past experiences from learning, thinking about it, and improving it based on new knowledge i know. my 2cents.

New comment by 8thcross in "Ask HN: Claude Code vs. Just Claude"

8thcross — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 13:12:54 +0000

This is from their claude-code guide: "Claude Code is intentionally low-level and unopinionated, providing close to raw model access without forcing specific workflows. This design philosophy creates a flexible, customizable, scriptable, and safe power tool. While powerful, this flexibility presents a learning curve for engineers new to agentic coding tools—at least until they develop their own best practices". The agent is what makes the claud-code as good as it is. By not using it, you are using the model that is a hit or miss on several aspects a programmer would need.

New comment by 8thcross in "Ask HN: How do you digest fact that you are not successful by 40"

8thcross — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 00:23:41 +0000

I fear your definition of "success", needs some rethinking. What are you really happy about, for whom, why?

New comment by 8thcross in "Claude Code for VSCode"

8thcross — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 11:13:04 +0000

Been using it for a couple days - The integration fixed the gap that required me to open the files for viewing updates, and changes made in real-time as compared to the terminal mode, which did things behind the scenes, and you had no idea what its doing. the series of nonsensical (but funny) names (Pondering, Twerking, Juggling, etc.) it gives are not useful after its initial fancy wears off..

New comment by 8thcross in "Makefile.md – Possibly Use(Ful|Less) Polyglot Synthesis of Makefile and Markdown"

8thcross — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 23:54:05 +0000

Hmm...It seems that humans should be less interested in such things? Making Makefiles readable by human is less needed in the context of LLMs needs to know about it more than us no?

New comment by 8thcross in "Claude Opus 4 turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline"

8thcross — Sun, 25 May 2025 21:48:20 +0000

I think we are just discovering as engineers, on how our brain works.

New comment by 8thcross in "Build real-time knowledge graph for documents with LLM"

8thcross — Wed, 14 May 2025 00:02:45 +0000

building knowledge graphs (GrahRAGs) are obsolete from a acamedic and technical point of view. LLMs are getting better with built in graph networks capable algorithms like SONAR and knowledge embeddings. like someone said - just use Notebook LM instead. But, they are useful in corporate setup when the infrastructure,teams and skills are lagging by years.

New comment by 8thcross in "Ask HN: What Did You Learn Too Late in Your Tech Career?"

8thcross — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 23:48:02 +0000

agreed. depends on how competent a manager is or the org is in recognizing their employee's skills.

New comment by 8thcross in "Ask HN: What Did You Learn Too Late in Your Tech Career?"

8thcross — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 14:35:25 +0000

I realized, being a manager overseeing people, chasing after career progression was a wrong path. I should have stuck to what I like more, engineering, not bullshitting.

New comment by 8thcross in "Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant"

8thcross — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 23:56:36 +0000

was it based on India's UPI? If so, this is the basis for SWIFT for BRICS?

New comment by 8thcross in "Show HN: OCR pipeline for ML training (tables, diagrams, math, multilingual)"

8thcross — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 00:52:36 +0000

so you are saying i can feed my last 10 years of exam question papers and get predictions on what we will get this year?

New comment by 8thcross in "Google's Sergey Brin Asks Workers to Spend More Time in the Office"

8thcross — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 22:26:14 +0000

I think the Indians started this trend...Infosys, L&T etc.

New comment by 8thcross in "Deepseek R1 Distill 8B Q40 on 4 x Raspberry Pi 5"

8thcross — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:04:34 +0000

got it. plan B for skynet. one baby transformer at a time.

New comment by 8thcross in "Deepseek R1 Distill 8B Q40 on 4 x Raspberry Pi 5, 6.43 tok/s (eval 11.68 tok/s)"

8thcross — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 17:37:59 +0000

ah, Thanks! but what can a distributed system like this do? is this a fun to do, for the sake of doing it project or does it have practical applications? just curious about applicability thats all.

New comment by 8thcross in "Deepseek R1 Distill 8B Q40 on 4 x Raspberry Pi 5"

8thcross — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 17:27:02 +0000

whats the point of this? serious question - can someone provide usecases for this?