Hacker News: cat_plus_plus

New comment by cat_plus_plus in "Is AI reasoning right for the wrong reasons?"

cat_plus_plus — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 01:37:25 +0000

LLMs go off context. Dumping more things related to prompt into context gives them more to go off when giving final answer. If you don't like reasoning think "free association", writing a bunch of things related to what you are trying to do on sticky notes and then looking at these for inspiration.

New comment by cat_plus_plus in "Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB"

cat_plus_plus — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:14:59 +0000

Do you want your smart TV to become a persistent access point to your home network? If not, you should prefer to have an explicit unbypassable confirmation before another device is allowed to install arbitrary apps on it and pregrant them arbitrary permissions.

New comment by cat_plus_plus in "Private healthcare makes industries less innovative. It's time for change"

cat_plus_plus — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:50:14 +0000

Yeah, so long as you can mooch off US healthcare innovation like COVID vaccines and weight loss drugs. There is a difference between going to doctor and getting effective treatment, as anyone who dealt with cancer in Soviet Union can testify.

New comment by cat_plus_plus in "Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro"

cat_plus_plus — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:12:33 +0000

Gemma 4 31B just because of faster MTP

New comment by cat_plus_plus in "Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro"

cat_plus_plus — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:28:19 +0000

I just hooked it up to my personal AI Japanese Teacher app, pretty good quality / natural sounding speech in mixed English / Japanese while running fast on CPU so I don't waste VRAM.

New comment by cat_plus_plus in "AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit"

cat_plus_plus — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:17:21 +0000

Drastically slower than Macs and NVIDIA unified memory boxes while not being any cheaper.

New comment by cat_plus_plus in "The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be hard to maintain"

cat_plus_plus — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:56:12 +0000

No senior architect around here is capable of understanding tinygrad

New comment by cat_plus_plus in "Please stop the AI confidence theater"

cat_plus_plus — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:55:28 +0000

AI is like a therapist, it will only change your life if you want to change. I set up python scripts at work to automatically triage, assign and if straightforward fix bugs assigned to me so I have time for complex feature work. At home, I have a script that sends me daily invites to local events based on my interests. Also put together a Japanese voice tutor powered by several local models, can have long free form conversations to learn the language. Planning to go on a long trip around less visited corners of Japan once I feel I can enjoy conversations with locals. Speaking of trips, on my last vacation I had a coding agent find flights/hotels/activities for me using APIs and browser control and just clicked buy buttons. Agent then read my inbox for booking confirmations and added itenary to my Google calendar to stay organized. All in all pretty awesome. But you do have to explain what you want from AI in some detail, it can't decide how you want to live for you.

New comment by cat_plus_plus in "The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be hard to maintain"

cat_plus_plus — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:38:18 +0000

Hehe you think L9s do oncall? Senior not understanding is a problem all right. It's not necessarily junior's problem.

New comment by cat_plus_plus in "The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be hard to maintain"

cat_plus_plus — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:55:16 +0000

Write me simple AI inference code that has high performance in big batches.

New comment by cat_plus_plus in "The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be hard to maintain"

cat_plus_plus — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:37:09 +0000

The primary purpose of code review is to maintain existing hierarchy by preventing junior SWEs from getting promoted by committing code that is smarter than what the senior architect can understand.

New comment by cat_plus_plus in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

cat_plus_plus — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:06:02 +0000

Gemma4 31B with MTP enabled is faster and I feel a bit stronger at coding. Either one can run in 32GB VRAM or unified RAM with some tuning (3 bit weights, 8 bit kv cache)

New comment by cat_plus_plus in "PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s"

cat_plus_plus — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:45:23 +0000

It's not at all like e-mail spam. Vast majority of contributors made a change useful for themselves that they wish to share with others. It's better to think of this as an influx of new programmers or existing programmers picking up new domains. They can be taught to use coding agents better and are likely to stick with projects that facilitate this rather than shutting them out. Maybe it's best for everyone. Let Linux kernel be super locked down to l33t contributors only and let alternative OSes that nobody paid attention to before gain new developers.

New comment by cat_plus_plus in "Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion"

cat_plus_plus — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:04:46 +0000

The preponderant bottleneck is inventing new architectures to make AI actually good at human and superhuman tasks. For example, AI agent harnesses add tool calls and long term state management, allowing AI to autonomously complete complex tasks. Once these are in place, finetuning models with examples of good tool calls helps, but somebody first needed to invent the fundamental capability. Now try to implement humanlike long term memory for AI to be your coworker or life assistant working on tasks that last month. Even if necessary low level technologies are already there, structuring them to be practically useful is non trivial.

New comment by cat_plus_plus in "Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion"

cat_plus_plus — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 05:29:30 +0000

Models consume a lot of memory and power to slowly generate autocompletions of existing content one token at a time. Letting this text control important things in real world is a human decision and control of nuclear weapons or penetration testing agents should be well regulated. But these should already be well regulated without AI. So how about we focus on drawing down nuclear arsenals, which is a present danger one idiot (or faulty AI) away from world shattering consequences rather than fearmongering about unknown future. Before effective AI regulation can be drafted, we need to anyway know more about AI specific dangers rather than humans committing already very common crimes like hacking for ransom with new tools?

New comment by cat_plus_plus in "Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026"

cat_plus_plus — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:55:45 +0000

In 2026 there is a considerably cheaper/quicker solution, but that in no way invalidates OSS maintainers' right to enjoy a summer vacation without interruption.

New comment by cat_plus_plus in "Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026"

cat_plus_plus — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:46:49 +0000

SGTM, if I am worried about a curl exploit, I will type details into Zoo Code prompt and it will disappear in about 30 seconds and then I can upload a PR for others concerned. Enjoy your vacation and I will enjoy security for a lot cheaper than an enterprise contract!

New comment by cat_plus_plus in "Vibe Coder vs. Software Engineer"

cat_plus_plus — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:34:59 +0000

There are priorities here which are not mutually exclusive. If you are building the next big thing in your garage, polishing it before establishing it's in fact the next big thing is a waste of time. If it really is, early adopters / investors will seize on it like they did on AI. Once that is established, yes there is space for adults in the room to adopt proper procedures for large scale production. I do believe AI can help with establishing the next big thing, and if other's don't, it's a irreconcilable difference of opinion.

New comment by cat_plus_plus in "Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)"

cat_plus_plus — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:26:14 +0000

There are amputees that do snowboarding with specially designed prosthesis and boards, so there is certainly a way to take load off weak knees with appropriate gear. OP is just, quite reasonably, not prioritizing this minor dream enough to invest so much time and money in it at the expense of other priorities.

New comment by cat_plus_plus in "Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)"

cat_plus_plus — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:18:49 +0000

Does "athlete" in your original post have to be only martial art/contact sports? For example, are you medically unable to do absolutely any strength exercises, maybe upper body only, with appropriate support/isolation? A lot of times it's a matter or re framing rather than giving up goals, a lot can be done at home with a pair of adjustable dumbbells.