Hacker News: ElFitz

New comment by ElFitz in "Apple HomeView"

ElFitz — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:26:39 +0000

I fail to see why I should care.

But maybe that’s just me?

New comment by ElFitz in "LLMs may have helped my RSI"

ElFitz — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 07:45:04 +0000

Same with shoes if you walk or run significant distances multiple times a week. Different models, different brands, different types of soles.

It both gives time for the soles to recover, lessening the permanent compaction over time, and helps reduce motion repetitiveness, which all your joints will be thankful for.

New comment by ElFitz in "Cloud Agents Are Inevitable AI Prisons"

ElFitz — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:38:56 +0000

Alright. An industrial robotic arm. A Boeing 737 MAX's MCAS.

New comment by ElFitz in "AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator"

ElFitz — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 10:37:27 +0000

I think my dog has spent all weekend refactoring its own framework to integrate Jev.

New comment by ElFitz in "Financial Times – The era of AI warfare has arrived"

ElFitz — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:22:54 +0000

The article mentions bomb-equipped drones with image recognition, where before launch operators define a set of target types, a desired confidence level, a "kill box" (geographic area in which the drone may engage autonomously), and set the drones loose.

Of note, the drones can’t distinguish friend or foe, nor civilians from combatants.

Financial Times – The era of AI warfare has arrived

ElFitz — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:19:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/686429c0-daf3-42a5-9b7c-7ff06eb291ef

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49742999

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by ElFitz in "Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust"

ElFitz — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:22:00 +0000

How about "Pockmark!... Freshwater swabs!... Bully!.." or "Amoeba! Bashi-bazouks! Chowderheads! Certified Diplodocuses! Nyctalop! Ectoplasm!"?

New comment by ElFitz in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

ElFitz — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 05:55:57 +0000

But everyone has to be in the office. For, you know, collaboration. And face-to-face interactions.

New comment by ElFitz in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

ElFitz — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:33:29 +0000

https://github.com/lightless-labs/pessimal: I got bitten a few times too many by my headless VM running out of disk space, so I had Claude build a minimal OTel agent sending metrics to an OTel collector (Signoz for now), and an iOS / macOS app to query it at regular intervals.

Works nicely with my existing Signoz, costs nothing extra, but I’ve yet to test it against Honeycomb and Clickstack. Apps are in private TestFlight for now.

https://github.com/Lightless-Labs/willikins: a tool to deterministically provision new projects’ git repository, secrets vault / config, build pipelines, etc, based on the project’s needs (cli tool, web service, mobile app,…).

It’s getting tiring to wire all those by hand or with cobbled together script. And I don’t trust agents to give them read and write access to all the resources they’d need to do it. Very much in progress, but it already forced me to clean up some config. I guess it’s like a bad Ansible, for project set up?

I’m also experimenting with a team / project / task-scoped blackboard (https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/an-accide...) tool for agents, to be used by multiple users’ agents (eg different devs working on different sides of the same fix or feature), and a self-hosted Q&A forum for agents intended to serve as an authoritative self-grooming source of truth on technical, domain, and business matters for a team or org’s agents.

New comment by ElFitz in "GPT-6 Astra on robot arms"

ElFitz — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 21:17:29 +0000

And there I was, honestly thinking Terry Pratchett had come up with it all on his own.

Thanks!

New comment by ElFitz in "GPT-6 Astra on robot arms"

ElFitz — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 05:31:43 +0000

There was a line in Discworld about some people in Ankh Morpork taking to breeding rats to collect the rat catching fee.

New comment by ElFitz in "Shutting down our public encrypted DNS"

ElFitz — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 22:14:41 +0000

> Copyright is serving exactly nobody today.

As a budding wannabe fiction author, I certainly hope you are wrong.

New comment by ElFitz in "Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration"

ElFitz — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:05:07 +0000

Maybe I'm just 2026's Dropbox guy, but... yes, and?

New comment by ElFitz in "How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent architecture?"

ElFitz — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 04:21:27 +0000

Maybe, I wouldn’t know. I just find it fascinating that other people have such a radically different way of experiencing thought. No idea what it’s like.

New comment by ElFitz in "How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent architecture?"

ElFitz — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:29:05 +0000

Some humans apparently only or almost only do non-verbal thinking. It’s called anendophasia.

New comment by ElFitz in "Fable 5.1 World Modeling"

ElFitz — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:36:50 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by ElFitz in "Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat"

ElFitz — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:51:35 +0000

You seem remarkably confident about vast, complex topics.

New comment by ElFitz in "Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat"

ElFitz — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:42:47 +0000

I’ve been to quite a few deserts that get the occasional seasonal torrential rain.

They still remain deserts nine to ten months out of twelve.

The water saturates the soil, can’t percolate to underground aquifers where it could otherwise be stored, and runs into (ephemeral) rivers, washing away some of whatever is left of the soil with it.

I wouldn’t be surprised if two places could have roughly the same yearly amount of precipitation yet look completely different depending on how the rainfalls are distributed over time.

New comment by ElFitz in "Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why"

ElFitz — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 22:52:33 +0000

I have that in CC when I resume a session.

Suggests either starting from a summary, a new conversation, or keep going.

New comment by ElFitz in "The Origin of Consciousness (2008)"

ElFitz — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:25:27 +0000

Or words, and language, just provide a sort of sensory input, which provided an environment and a selective pressure can shape an organism or neural network into predicting and producing the kind of reaction or output required for its continued existence.

And no, I’m not implying any sort of survival instinct in LLMs. It’s just that we don’t keep around the weights that produce gibberish.