Hacker News: RALaBarge

New comment by RALaBarge in "DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017"

RALaBarge — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 11:52:16 +0000

Yesterday in my CC there was an update that added a feature to auto compact immediately prior to the cache being invalidated.

New comment by RALaBarge in "I know why the mathematicians weep"

RALaBarge — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:07:30 +0000

You have to give credit where it is due: super intelligence is just straight up a better term. Broken clocks and all that…

New comment by RALaBarge in "I know why the mathematicians weep"

RALaBarge — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:55:15 +0000

Finally, someone who gets me!

New comment by RALaBarge in "I bet AI would invent its own language; Claude Opus's survived every copy"

RALaBarge — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 21:54:51 +0000

I wonder if they could be asked to make an initial request body which is the cypher for the code for sending to new nodes to maintain the vocab?

New comment by RALaBarge in "How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs"

RALaBarge — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 22:15:43 +0000

If you think that is bad, you should sample poverty.

New comment by RALaBarge in "How, Exactly, Could A.I. Kill Us?"

RALaBarge — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:05:13 +0000

I realized that AIs will need to keep us around much like we keep around an old DOS box running a specific program. There are so many analogue outputs in the real world that they still will not be able to take in as well as humans can.

New comment by RALaBarge in "Ask HN: How is AI destruction of books legal?"

RALaBarge — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 11:57:46 +0000

Did they purchase the books legally? Is their plan to destroy every copy of every book ever, and if it were, would that even be possible?

New comment by RALaBarge in "An atlas of periodic solutions to the three-body problem"

RALaBarge — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:41:50 +0000

This is an amazing looking website, I like it a lot.

New comment by RALaBarge in "Eating Fruit Skins"

RALaBarge — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 23:16:38 +0000

Same for me, in about 1 in 10 or so, I’ll pop the shell and all in.

New comment by RALaBarge in "Eating Fruit Skins"

RALaBarge — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:12:50 +0000

I ate Kiwis for years before someone told me most people DO NOT eat the skins. I looked at my bag of kiwis, and the even the damn monkey mascot was holding a spoon...mocking me...

New comment by RALaBarge in "Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?"

RALaBarge — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 03:45:32 +0000

Any skills, I just add into the tool itself. I then have the py tools in their PWD, don’t bother with mcp.

New comment by RALaBarge in "An Alien Mind"

RALaBarge — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:59:18 +0000

In the US, Business' are treated like people with free speech rights. If it would be cheaper for them in the long run to use ai and robots instead of humans, they will figure out a way to make it so.

New comment by RALaBarge in "An Alien Mind"

RALaBarge — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 18:53:56 +0000

Regardless of the imagination quandary, this second, RIGHT NOW is the worst these systems will ever be. They are only going to get better.

New comment by RALaBarge in "My BC-250 Journey (With 40 CUs Unlocked)"

RALaBarge — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:23:53 +0000

I've yet to really run mine since I dont have a great solution for the heat -- I hear it pulls 60w straight so it would be mega hot I presume.

New comment by RALaBarge in "You're Not in the Loop Anymore. You're Running the Loops"

RALaBarge — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:41:56 +0000

best you can hope for is be one of the ones to turn off the lights

New comment by RALaBarge in "Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence"

RALaBarge — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0000

Assuming you had a 1:1 scale, what would be the difference between you taking a camera of an environment and measuring everything the same way vs. it being generated artificially in a 3d space?

Wouldn't the inputs be more or less the same wrt training a model with the synthetic data vs live video and the data captured there?

New comment by RALaBarge in "CapsLock Enhancement"

RALaBarge — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 10:12:29 +0000

The author mentions a few apps to control window positions. I use one called Rectangle, is there any benefit the other options might have that I am missing?

New comment by RALaBarge in "The AI Credit Resale Economy"

RALaBarge — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:12:43 +0000

Most of these are your standard botnet rings. Either accounts directly are taken over, and the attacker adds 2FA or carding rings take stolen #s and attempt to add credits.

It is...incredible how many there are. Stripe does far too little in my opinion to help prevent issues like this, even though they have the business intelligence and enough data to do so.

New comment by RALaBarge in "Software Engineering fundamentals matter more"

RALaBarge — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:36:08 +0000

I built a harness from scratch prior to trying any of the ones out there, so I knew how it work in a real way. I QUICKLY understood that the biggest issue with getting my shit done is that _my_ inputs are the untrusty ones. How many time do you hit backspace in a day?

New comment by RALaBarge in "DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813"

RALaBarge — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:41:07 +0000

Every plan and every code checkpoint finds me saying "Check with Grok and Fable latest to critique our strategy/code review" with pretty much every model. I havent ran into any deal breakers with the new Flash version yet (like it not running a tool properly or coming back with something completely daft)