Hacker News: LatticeAnimal

New comment by LatticeAnimal in "Creepy Crawlies"

LatticeAnimal — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 20:43:40 +0000

Cool, so then that invalidates the ASIC problem, right?

My earlier idea was to imagine that each day Anubis picks an entirely different problem-class. Ex: one day it is Sha256, the next it is prime factorization, the next it is twin-prime-finding, the next it is cracking elliptic curves, the next it is some kind of sorting / information theory problem...

All with the goal of adapting constantly so that scrapers have a harder time optimizing for the PoW problem (i.e. with Sha256 ASICs)

New comment by LatticeAnimal in "Debian: Retiring from the Project (Vv221)"

LatticeAnimal — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:20:16 +0000

I am out of the loop. Why are LLMs seen as fascist technology?

(I see arguments against “Open”AI / Anthropic but what about companies like Mistral?)

New comment by LatticeAnimal in "Creepy Crawlies"

LatticeAnimal — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:24:27 +0000

Some of the asymmetry might be regained if anubis had thousands of variations of PoW algorithms, each different enough that they must be solved independently.

I wonder if AI might be able to come up with new PoW algorithms in a nightly CI job so every day is a different puzzle...

New comment by LatticeAnimal in "Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files"

LatticeAnimal — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:23:40 +0000

I like the ability to introspect the system. I have a lua LSP, when I edit lua config files, I know all of the fields of the config I am editing, and I know how they behave (without randomly trying things)

New comment by LatticeAnimal in "Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings"

LatticeAnimal — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:45:44 +0000

It is surprising that they went this route instead of the Claude-code route. The cloud agents are significantly more limiting.

New comment by LatticeAnimal in "Anthropic acquires Stainless"

LatticeAnimal — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:28:19 +0000

Have you considered open sourcing the SDK generator as part of the shutdown of stainless services?

New comment by LatticeAnimal in "Isseven"

LatticeAnimal — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 05:14:23 +0000

JSONQ supports quantum-aware booleans. Is there a reason you’re still using classical JSON parsing in 2026?

New comment by LatticeAnimal in "How to turn anything into a router"

LatticeAnimal — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:11:23 +0000

I’ve been using OpnSense/pfsense [0] for years and would highly recommend it. It has a great automatic update experience, config backups, builtin wireguard tunnels and advanced features like packet filtering options via suricata.

When I am doing network management on my weekends, I’m so glad I’m not stuck in the Linux terminal learning about networking internals and can instead just go to a webui and configure my router.

0: https://opnsense.org/

New comment by LatticeAnimal in "Kagi Small Web"

LatticeAnimal — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:53:32 +0000

I think that's the problem. I used to find it far superior to google. Now, there are a lot of queries where I am unimpressed with the results and end up trying google just to get better results. (like I used to do with DDG)

I've had a few experiences now where someone is standing over my shoulder asking me to look something up, and I search kagi, find nothing, then search google and find what they asked me to look up. Then when they ask "what was that other search engine you used first?" I don't feel compelled to vouch for kagi :(.

New comment by LatticeAnimal in "Show HN: Graft – Your local environment, everywhere"

LatticeAnimal — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:38:08 +0000

Cool project! How do language servers work with this system? Suppose I am developing PyTorch+cuda code on a remote machine, do I need to have that same PyTorch version installed locally?

If you run the language server remotely, how do you sync the file before it has been saved so that the user gets autocomplete?

New comment by LatticeAnimal in "PeppyOS: A simpler alternative to ROS 2 (now with containers support)"

LatticeAnimal — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:28:28 +0000

Physically crash. When we would block the control loop at all (even down to 100hz), we would get errors and then occasionally the arm would erratically experience massive acceleration spikes and crash into its nearby surroundings before e-stopping.

Re: Other comment. Yes, this was with ur3e s which by default have update rates at around 500hz.

New comment by LatticeAnimal in "PeppyOS: A simpler alternative to ROS 2 (now with containers support)"

LatticeAnimal — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:18:42 +0000

IIRC, the ROS UR controller runs at 200Hz and we’ve had arms crash when they run much slower than that.

The website claims “30hz polling rate”, “2ms latency”. Not sure if that is a best case or just for that demo.

New comment by LatticeAnimal in "Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally"

LatticeAnimal — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 17:43:59 +0000

Beautiful app. Surprised to see JQuery for your frontend; brings back good old memories.

New comment by LatticeAnimal in "Model Context Protocol"

LatticeAnimal — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 04:01:44 +0000

I'd love to develop some MCP servers, but I just learned that Claude Desktop doesn't support Linux. Are there any good general-purpose MCP clients that I can test against? Do I have to write my own?

(Closest I can find is zed/cody but those aren't really general purpose)

New comment by LatticeAnimal in "Should JavaScript be split into two languages?"

LatticeAnimal — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 16:15:51 +0000

In many ways this has already started happening. TS has enums, Svelte has runes, React has jsx. None of these features exist in JS, they are all compile-time syntax sugar.

While it is admittedly confusing to have all these different flavors of JS, I don’t think this proposal is actually as radical as it seems.

New comment by LatticeAnimal in "Splitting engineering teams into defense and offense"

LatticeAnimal — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 21:05:29 +0000

From the post:

> At the end of the cycle, we swap.

They swap teams every 2-4 weeks so nobody will always be on team defense.

New comment by LatticeAnimal in "An SSR Performance Showdown"

LatticeAnimal — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 02:52:56 +0000

404?

New comment by LatticeAnimal in "Ask HN: Has degradation in the quality of ChatGPT and Claude been proven?"

LatticeAnimal — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 22:32:22 +0000

Recently gpt-4-turbo started rejecting writing some tests because it 'knows' it would exceed the max context. (This frustrated me deeply -- It would not have exceeded the context)

New comment by LatticeAnimal in "Meta Launches AI Studio in US"

LatticeAnimal — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 16:06:01 +0000

AI AI AI AI AI AI.

i.e. Apple Intelligence AI Agents create new ai.town agents based on apple intelligence

AI (Apple Intelligence (adjective))

AI (artificial intelligence agents)

AI (proposed verb meaning "create with generative AI")

AI (https://github.com/a16z-infra/ai-town shortening of AI Town)

AI (Apple Intelligence (adjective))

AI (artificial intelligence agents)

New comment by LatticeAnimal in "Can the New Mathstral LLM Accurately Compare 9.11 and 9.9?"

LatticeAnimal — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 19:30:47 +0000

Admittedly, I also assumed that the question was referring to version numbers instead of real numbers and was confused for a few seconds.

Though that may just be because I program a lot more than I do arithmetic nowadays.