Hacker News: _superposition_

New comment by _superposition_ in "Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh"

_superposition_ — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:36:47 +0000

I just wish I had the hardware to try it out!

New comment by _superposition_ in "The next era of AI is about infrastructure, not just models"

_superposition_ — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:21:39 +0000

Agreed with much of this. Models are commodities. LLM gateways are the correct enterprise pattern imo.

New comment by _superposition_ in "GPT-5.6"

_superposition_ — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:40:29 +0000

One thing I noticed you can't use codex installed via npm, but it will tell you that. Ymmv I'm a pretty simple user and do things in small manageable chunks. I try keep context < 10% before I fire off a task so I don't use many skills etc.

New comment by _superposition_ in "GPT-5.6"

_superposition_ — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:38:36 +0000

Finding the right docs/flags took longer than anything else. 15 mins from zero to productive on my phone.

Oh My Pi

_superposition_ — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:36:43 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/can1357/oh-my-pi

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48850500

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by _superposition_ in "GPT-5.6"

_superposition_ — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:51:38 +0000

I've been using codex app server. Works great.

https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/app-server

Amber the programming language compiled to Bash/Ksh/Zsh

_superposition_ — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:22:56 +0000

Article URL: https://amber-lang.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48822441

Points: 87

# Comments: 66

New comment by _superposition_ in "Not everything should cost a token: the case for deterministic AI"

_superposition_ — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:37:08 +0000

I thought this was all common sense. Coming from a background of workflow automation I've simply used AI to solve steps that could not be solved before. The example may have made sense if the input was freeform text like an email etc, but surely not json.

New comment by _superposition_ in "OpenRA"

_superposition_ — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:35:24 +0000

I need to hear more. That or start my own NPC circus.

New comment by _superposition_ in "SMTP Relay with Web Dashboard"

_superposition_ — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:32:35 +0000

At acme corp we used to spoof bonus emails from management through the smtp relay. Good times. Not so good security.

New comment by _superposition_ in "Addiction, ADHD, Discipline and Obsession"

_superposition_ — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 22:28:07 +0000

Lol vyvanse consistently put me to sleep.

New comment by _superposition_ in "If you don't design your career, someone else will (2014)"

_superposition_ — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:02:38 +0000

Reminds me of https://fs.blog/hunter-s-thompson-to-hume-logan/

New comment by _superposition_ in "Go ahead, self-host Postgres"

_superposition_ — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 23:32:37 +0000

Lol this made me laugh, there's a reasonable likelihood that time will be filled with meetings.

New comment by _superposition_ in "Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?"

_superposition_ — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:38:39 +0000

This. I find constraints to be very important. It's fairly obvious an llm can tackle a class or function. It's still up to the human to string it all together. I'm not quite sure how long that will last though. Seems more of an engineering problem to me. At the end of the day you absolutely can get good outputs from these things if you provide the proper input. Everything else is orchestration.

Ask HN: Attestation-Based Identity: does this direction make sense? (EnvSecOps)

_superposition_ — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 16:16:53 +0000

I’m proposing Attestation-Based Identity (ABI) as the category and EnvSecOps as the operating discipline.

Basically Zero Trust operationalized for the ENTIRE SDLC, from dev all the way to production support.

ABI: Issue credentials only when a requester presents fresh, nonce-bound evidence that passes policy, then expire quickly. Evidence → Policy → Token, with a tamper-evident audit trail.

EnvSecOps: The practice of governing access by verifying environment provenance at request time across dev, ops shells, and workloads—.

What I have (research/reference only): A small, spec-first reference implementation demonstrating the flow: capture/sign DSSE → OPA evaluate → short-lived OIDC/STS → optional Rekor inclusion → evidence bundle (token ↔ attestation ↔ policy version ↔ log entry). It’s not public yet; goal is a portable on-wire spec not a product.

Feedback I’m seeking:

Predicate must/should fields (materials digests, policy ref/hash, nonce, audience, signer identity).

Minimal, swappable PDP contract (deterministic inputs/outputs).

TOCTOU defaults: acceptable drift window, renewal cadence, revocation hooks.

Boundary with SPIFFE/SPIRE (workloads) and a clean model for ops-shell identity.

Auditor-friendly evidence bundle and reporting expectations.

Happy to answer questions; I’ll publish artifacts once the spec is less volatile.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45857743

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by _superposition_ in "Ask HN: Is going back to college worth it if you already have experience?"

_superposition_ — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 21:38:54 +0000

I have never felt I had any doors shut. Dropped out of CS after my first semester when I got a job doing ops overnight and was being paid to learn more than I was learning at school. Best decision I ever made (almost 20 years ago now). No debt.

New comment by _superposition_ in "Ask HN: Software to build a voice assistant on a Raspberry Pi?"

_superposition_ — Sat, 17 Feb 2018 21:33:12 +0000

I've been meaning to try out Jasper.

https://jasperproject.github.io

New comment by _superposition_ in "The Guns of Bitcoin"

_superposition_ — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 01:29:10 +0000

See modern monetary theory.

New comment by _superposition_ in "The Bitcoin bubble – Greater fool theory"

_superposition_ — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 20:15:22 +0000

Love the down votes, but I'd love more to see an example where this is not the case?

New comment by _superposition_ in "The Bitcoin bubble – Greater fool theory"

_superposition_ — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 14:56:46 +0000

Money is what you pay taxes with. Period. At the end of the day, that's controlled by the government.