Hacker News: awwaiid

New comment by awwaiid in "Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC"

awwaiid — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:10:39 +0000

Yes, many companies going out of business altogether, some of them large, is what a bubble pop would look like. As opposed to a uh.... Correction.

New comment by awwaiid in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

awwaiid — Fri, 15 May 2026 01:59:16 +0000

Was there pressure to do this, or freedom to do this? If I had an unlimited token budget I'd probably try all sorts of crazy things. Also you (one) can read the tests and see that they weren't modified to forcibly pass.

New comment by awwaiid in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

awwaiid — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:58:06 +0000

Maybe he didn't think it would work. Maybe even if it does "work" they'll keep the zig version anyway. Maybe further study is needed beyond existing compiling/test-suite. Intentions and perspectives change over time, even only a few days, without dishonesty.

I'm guessing that if I said it ... that we have no intention of re-writing in rust ... that what I mean is "we have no intention of spending the extreme cost it would take to rewrite". When I discover the cost model is completely different that changes things.

New comment by awwaiid in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

awwaiid — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:40:24 +0000

Those 11 damn lucky interns!

New comment by awwaiid in "Apple is enforcing an old App Store rule against a new kind of software"

awwaiid — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:37:46 +0000

Not AI generated software -- DYNAMICALLY generated software, like at run time and ongoing. Even in-app directed by the user. This is not a thing that existed before, a degree of customizability well beyond letting the user pick a color scheme or from one of a few layouts or default start screens.

I don't know how good of an idea it would be, product-wise, to give programming level flexibility. I am reminded of greasemonkey scripts, but written in english maybe. Maybe it could be awesome. But Apple is saying "nope. Not interested in exploring this with you. BYE"

New comment by awwaiid in "Show HN: Drive any macOS app in the background without stealing the cursor"

awwaiid — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:11:27 +0000

power users opt in to opt in telemetry, and power users opt out of opt out telemetry. Power users click all the buttons.

New comment by awwaiid in "Claude Opus 4.7"

awwaiid — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:33:27 +0000

It's also difficult to recognize that when it got it right THAT might have been the lucky week.

New comment by awwaiid in "Push events into a running session with channels"

awwaiid — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:56:19 +0000

Yes -- this is getting very close to ClaudeClaw. Next they'll offer cloud hosting of persistent execution.

New comment by awwaiid in "Show HN: Duplicate 3 layers in a 24B LLM, logical deduction .22→.76. No training"

awwaiid — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:50:43 +0000

Maybe another idea, no idea if this is a thing, you could pick your block-of-layers size (say... 6) and then during training swap those around every now and then at random. Maybe that would force the common api between blocks, specializaton of the blocks, and then post training analyze what each block is doing (maybe by deleting it while running benchmarks).

New comment by awwaiid in "Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager"

awwaiid — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:18:33 +0000

This was not my experience. For example, it want until chromium 110 that you could use webrtc+pipewire without overriding settings, in 2023. So maybe in a strict sense you could do it with fiddling, I don't think you could install any Linux flavor and screen share over meet reliably.

https://groups.google.com/g/discuss-webrtc/c/fe567r-UUrA/m/8...

New comment by awwaiid in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

awwaiid — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:21:20 +0000

.... did you give them money? Brave!

New comment by awwaiid in "Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI face recognition error links her to fraud"

awwaiid — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 01:29:54 +0000

Yes -- I know at least 3 Orion Blasters.

New comment by awwaiid in "Microgpt"

awwaiid — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 04:05:38 +0000

Where is this 1000 lines of C coming from? This is python.

New comment by awwaiid in "The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)"

awwaiid — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 03:07:09 +0000

Generative TikTok for words

New comment by awwaiid in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

awwaiid — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 02:32:51 +0000

Yep! Maximally closed as much as possible under the law. They also shut down other programs which aim to sidestep propaganda (including US propaganda), though some of those are starting to come back. Radio Free Asia, for example, https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/radio-free-asia-s...

New comment by awwaiid in "SkillsBench: Benchmarking how well agent skills work across diverse tasks"

awwaiid — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 01:14:00 +0000

I've been building a skill to help run manual tests on an app. So I go through and interactively steer toward a useful validation of a particular PR, navigating specifics of the app and what I care about and what I don't. Then in the end I have it build a skill that would have skipped backtracking and retries and the steering I did.

Then I do it again from scratch; this time it takes less steering. I have it update the skill further.

I've been doing this on a few different tests and building a skill which is taking less and steering to do app-specific and team-specific manual testing faster and faster. The first times through it took longer than manually testing the feature. While I've only started doing this recently, it is now taking less time than I would take, and posting screenshots of the results and testing steps in the PR for dev review. Ongoing exploration!

New comment by awwaiid in "How we automated federal retirements"

awwaiid — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 12:53:52 +0000

That was built recently and then discarded by this administration to protect intuit TurboTax and similar services.

New comment by awwaiid in "How we automated federal retirements"

awwaiid — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 12:52:20 +0000

That is very likely the main part they didn't choose so much as utilize an existing system, flowing the existing infrastructure.

New comment by awwaiid in "How we automated federal retirements"

awwaiid — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 12:49:22 +0000

It makes sense that this administration would focus investment on making it maximally easy to leave government above all other potential automations.

New comment by awwaiid in "How we automated federal retirements"

awwaiid — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 12:46:47 +0000

It was downplayed at every other opportunity including the conclusion, emphasizing instead the lone team of two heros. A few shout outs here and there, but the theme was clear.