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New comment by bewestphal in "Go is a good fit for agents"

bewestphal — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 01:30:55 +0000

If you’re not using Python or Typescripts ecosystem then you spend a lot of time as a framework dev. This has a high opportunity cost when you can easily slap together agents and have products quickly nowadays.

New comment by bewestphal in "Government planned it 7 years, beavers built a dam in 2 days and saved $1M"

bewestphal — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 02:54:06 +0000

Beavers get it. You can just do things.

New comment by bewestphal in "Launch HN: Langfuse (YC W23) – OSS Tracing and Workflows to Improve LLM Apps"

bewestphal — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 19:54:56 +0000

Congrats on the launch :) happy users @ Samsara.

Key to our LLM customer feedback flywheel and dataset building.

New comment by bewestphal in "Rerun: Visualize Multimodal Data over Time"

bewestphal — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 16:35:04 +0000

For my team it would be a module for visualizing GPS sensor lat/long readings on maps.

New comment by bewestphal in "Rerun: Visualize Multimodal Data over Time"

bewestphal — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 05:46:42 +0000

Using this for computer vision and sensor debugging. It’s brilliant.

Having worked on developing such UI’s before in house it’s very nice to outsource and focus on building my app with Reruns insanely smooth rendering.

New comment by bewestphal in "Ask HN: What movies changed your perception of reality or life?"

bewestphal — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 03:17:13 +0000

Her

People’s relationship with technology for its ability to solve your every need and desire will be commonplace.

New comment by bewestphal in "Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2023"

bewestphal — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 20:27:54 +0000

A chair cover. I have a faux leather chair and it would flake, leaving particulates everywhere.

Obligatory noise cancelling headphones. Get a good pair.

Apple OEM chargers. They work so well for fast charging.

New comment by bewestphal in "Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”"

bewestphal — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 21:06:23 +0000

Is this problem solveable?

A model trained to optimize for what happens next in a sentence is not ideal for interaction because it just emulates bad human behavior.

Combinations of optimization metrics, filters, and adversarial models will be very interesting in the near future.

New comment by bewestphal in "Amazon Introduces Re:Post, a “Stack Overflow” for AWS"

bewestphal — Sun, 26 Dec 2021 00:08:29 +0000

If built right, this allows for better observability for their teams into important topics.

New comment by bewestphal in "Ask HN: I'm tired of intense code review cycles"

bewestphal — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 06:24:32 +0000

Agreed styling code comments are asinine. Teams need a common linter to leave it to the CI to determine the style, whatever it may be. It’s a waste of everyone’s time.

New comment by bewestphal in "Ask HN: What are your 2022 predictions?"

bewestphal — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 02:21:47 +0000

- Big loans will be transacted in cryptocurrency due to concerns about inflation. This will become more commonplace.

- Large scale ransoms and hacks will continue. Driving fear to take cybersecurity more seriously.

- Distrust in mainstream media outlets will push users to siloed echo chamber platforms. Lower barriers to entry to develop the tech behind the platforms will allow them to grow rapidly.

- The metaverse will not get adoption but the signs of being the future of entertainment will be there.

- A significant breakthrough for brain computer interfaces will be released for gaming. (See Gabe Newell interview) Every big company starts racing to research BCI tech.

- EV startups productionizing for the first time will experience reliability and scalability issues. Tesla’s lead in industry will be apparent but competitors will start closing the gap.

New comment by bewestphal in "Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?"

bewestphal — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 01:05:13 +0000

I’m open to change. But I question whether this was necessary.

I’ve admired Github for having a clear and readable UI that didn’t change. All their UI feature additions before I thought were fantastic.

Devs don’t want to have learn new things if not necessary. I’m hoping it will grow on me.

New comment by bewestphal in "Ask HN: Master of Science in Computer Science at Georgia Tech"

bewestphal — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 05:14:58 +0000

The remaining units are free electives if your choice. More than enough to touch all topics you’re interested in.

Definitely check out the reviews here https://omscentral.com/

Personally I recommend Computer Vision, Reinforcement Learning and AI Techniques for Robotics. Skip classes that emphasize writing essays over coding.

New comment by bewestphal in "Ask HN: What Technologies to Learn in 2020?"

bewestphal — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 00:41:52 +0000

- terraform with Kubernetes

- boilerplate Golang stack for productivity

- computer vision fundamentals (for school)