Hacker News: NeutralForest

New comment by NeutralForest in "A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't"

NeutralForest — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 11:14:36 +0000

Damn I got rekt, crazy to read all the regulations and neighbors just dog walking me :'(

New comment by NeutralForest in "Autolith: A programming agent with a live runtime"

NeutralForest — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 11:13:41 +0000

very cool, thanks for making this!

Agentic Engineering at Zalando

NeutralForest — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:16:33 +0000

Article URL: https://engineering.zalando.com/posts/2026/08/agentic-engineering-at-zalando-a-snapshot.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49327800

Points: 2

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More than a metaphor: here are testable diagnostics for comprehension debt

NeutralForest — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:04:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fightforthehuman.com/we-need-more-than-a-metaphor-here-are-testable-diagnostics-for-comprehension-debt/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49133287

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by NeutralForest in "Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7"

NeutralForest — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:35:52 +0000

I have a todo list longer than the Tour de France I want to tackle first!

New comment by NeutralForest in "Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7"

NeutralForest — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:15:10 +0000

Great to see the project is still going strong, I kinda want to try CL but I always feel like I don't have a great use-case.

New comment by NeutralForest in "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Constructive Data Modeling [video]"

NeutralForest — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:19:22 +0000

Really interesting follow-up to the "parse dont validate" article and how to understand the trade-off between very specific typing or not.

New comment by NeutralForest in "Python 3.15’s Ultra-Low Overhead Interpreter Profiling Mode"

NeutralForest — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:10:12 +0000

Uh sorry I mistook this for the 3.15 profiler announcement, thanks for the correction!

New comment by NeutralForest in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"

NeutralForest — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:27:40 +0000

The man himself, thank you for the articles =)

New comment by NeutralForest in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"

NeutralForest — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:46:00 +0000

Yes indeed! Mostly don't put changing data in the beginning or prepend.

New comment by NeutralForest in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"

NeutralForest — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:27:43 +0000

Anything Sam Rose is worth reading: https://ngrok.com/blog/prompt-caching

but the implementation will be up to your provider and harness, for deepseek, they expose some numbers: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/kv_cache/ and Anthropic has a list of actions invalidating your cache: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt...

Basically, you avoid anything dynamic: model change, tool change, etc it's also important that your system prompt or main prompt doesn't have non-static data like the date/time/place or someone's name (the person you interact with in a chatbot for example). That should be left to tool call or search.

New comment by NeutralForest in "Python 3.15’s Ultra-Low Overhead Interpreter Profiling Mode"

NeutralForest — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:19:51 +0000

Here are explanation on how to use it from one of the people working on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1x4X83CDSA and the chunky docs that go with it in the beta of 3.15: https://docs.python.org/3.15/library/profiling.sampling.html

New comment by NeutralForest in "If You Build It, They Will Come"

NeutralForest — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:59:50 +0000

Wasting Orval is the biggest sin of all.

New comment by NeutralForest in "New AI tutor achieves 0.71-1.30 SD effect size in Dartmouth course [pdf]"

NeutralForest — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 21:12:52 +0000

Interesting article, wonder where we're going with this though, I find it's very difficult to keep LLMs on track and critical enough to be useful.

Just want to say that:

>In our deployment, student-reported reading completion baselines for MATH 010 were approximately 15%, with instructors estimating 10%. Individual student reports of reading compliance ranged from "literally no one does that" to "is this being recorded?"

is hilarious

New comment by NeutralForest in "Decker Fantasy Camp 2026"

NeutralForest — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:38:51 +0000

I can only recommend looking at all the Decker author's projects. He's done work on APL languages, GUIs, interactive programming, etc. https://beyondloom.com/things/index.html

A cool person making cool things!

EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors

NeutralForest — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:40:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/double-threat-to-private-communications-undemocratic-chat-control-backroom-deals-and-imminent-concessions-spark-relaunch-of-fightchatcontrol-eu/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707719

Points: 741

# Comments: 435

New comment by NeutralForest in "SoftBank 2026 AGM [pdf]"

NeutralForest — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:02:34 +0000

The only thing I got from the presentation is that I still underrate geese, gotta put some respect on their feathered name.

New comment by NeutralForest in "Python 3.14 garbage collection rigamarole"

NeutralForest — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:08:59 +0000

> My experience with Python is a really bad one for professional work: it's chaotic and slow, and has by far the worst versioning and packaging story of any mainstream language, yet its proponents keep praising it in denial.

Some people just don't have the experience you do, "its proponent keep praising it in denial", can we have a better level of debate, come on now.

New comment by NeutralForest in "The state of building user interfaces in Rust"

NeutralForest — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:41:24 +0000

I think this article: https://www.boringcactus.com/2025/04/13/2025-survey-of-rust-... was the most exhaustive review of accessibility that I know of.

New comment by NeutralForest in "Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language"

NeutralForest — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:27:52 +0000

It's exciting to see those developments in what is a language with already great economics. I'm sad there's pretty much no market for it in western Europe aside from maybe Germany.