Hacker News: clhodapp

New comment by clhodapp in "Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second"

clhodapp — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 01:03:57 +0000

Personally, I think it's more that text diffusion is not the ideal driver of an agentic work loop than that text diffusion is a total dead end. I am still hoping to see how it does on authoring and editing with further scaling and optimization. I think the push for AGI has put a bit too much focus on the idea of one general model doing everything.

New comment by clhodapp in "SAML: A fractal of bad design"

clhodapp — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:02:59 +0000

Honestly, it's an addressable market versus development cost question... How many clients will you lose if you support OIDC but not SAML? Does the delta justify carrying a SAML implementation? If so, do it. But the post is still correct that SAML is a fractal of bad design either way. And it's good to say this openly, and to run this calculus each time you are considering a new SAML implementation.

New comment by clhodapp in "Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils"

clhodapp — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:17:42 +0000

I can see how it might require an explicit state machine (keep a mutable state number and switch over the inlined bodies of what could be functions), but I'm not seeing how it could require `goto`.

Are there more-complex relationships that might require it?

New comment by clhodapp in "Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils"

clhodapp — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 03:32:56 +0000

No algorithm requires tail-call elimination in a general-purpose language with imperative mutability. It's just another way to express iteration.

New comment by clhodapp in "GPT-6 Astra"

clhodapp — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 02:12:02 +0000

There has stopped being a formal procedural consequence for OpenAI leaders to declaring AGI, there is a clear (small) business benefit to doing so, and the capabilities of all the frontier models are impressive. So why not declare AGI? It's not like anyone can prove it's not...

Don't be surprised to see other (or even the same) people declaring AGI again and again, as it becomes the best time to do so for different parties.

New comment by clhodapp in "Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware"

clhodapp — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 02:27:35 +0000

It seems to support USB4 with what they call "stock firmware". They haven't clarified what that means, but my assumption has been that it's a binary blob made by the manufacturer of their microcontroller that doesn't support all of their fancy debugging features (thus actually turning my into an Aliexpress special eGPU dock with a high quality buck converter).

New comment by clhodapp in "Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025)"

clhodapp — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:43:35 +0000

It feels apparent to me that LLMs don't do what is colloquially thought of as thinking.

What is less apparent is that humans do.

New comment by clhodapp in "Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces"

clhodapp — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:04:38 +0000

Yup. You basically just need something for probability to push off of

New comment by clhodapp in "Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025)"

clhodapp — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:11:55 +0000

Seems like they are closer to scratch than reasoning... Generating some scratch to draw from helps make it easier to compute the real answer.

New comment by clhodapp in "Show HN: We Implemented the IPv8 Internet-Draft in Linux, Libc, and BGP"

clhodapp — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:06:36 +0000

Hrm, but the insistence is more "NAT should not be a practical requirement in a pure IPv6 network", not "No NAT ever for any reason".

NAT-based compatibility strategies are widely deployed in the real world (most cell carriers and Google's IPv6-mostly corporate network use NAT to allow communication with the IPv4 world from IPv6 only devices).

New comment by clhodapp in "Show HN: We Implemented the IPv8 Internet-Draft in Linux, Libc, and BGP"

clhodapp — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:35:58 +0000

IPv8 is just a reactionary response to IPv6 not being "IPv4 with larger addresses" like people who know IPv4 well would prefer.

There would be no reason to adopt it if IPv6 were adopted.

New comment by clhodapp in "Microsoft Responds to Outcry After Quiet Enterprise Install of Beta 'Photos' App"

clhodapp — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:21:58 +0000

That's not a fix. A fix would be undoing the change and making it opt-in.

New comment by clhodapp in "Microsoft Responds to Outcry After Quiet Enterprise Install of Beta 'Photos' App"

clhodapp — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 06:58:32 +0000

I'm incubating my experience over on Linux

New comment by clhodapp in "Stop Killing Games: It's time to sue Sony, join us"

clhodapp — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:04:43 +0000

Consumers would buy bread with sawdust and then, upon learning about it, expect the sawdust to come out and the price to stay the same

New comment by clhodapp in "On non-rooted Android 17, ADB uninstall of system apps fails"

clhodapp — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:40:22 +0000

They will monitor and if "too many" people are still doing normal software installs (I refuse to call it "sideloading" when that properly refers to pushing software from a different device over a debug connection), they'll raise the annoyance barrier higher.

New comment by clhodapp in "Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work"

clhodapp — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 03:08:59 +0000

Marketing types have started subbing in "Operating System" for "Platform" lately. And, because it feels bold and fresh to them, they often name whole product an "OS" when they do this in order to make anyone who talks about the product re-sell the pitch for them.

New comment by clhodapp in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

clhodapp — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:13:37 +0000

Yup. Adopting a month-old Postgres release is quite aggressive. It's much more prudent to start considering adoption after it's had six to twelve months of battle testing.

Adopting a month-old AI model version for new development is the default industry expectation right now. Adopting a six month old model is a recipe for having to migrate to a new one almost immediately, when it hits EOL.

New comment by clhodapp in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

clhodapp — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 02:26:54 +0000

That's fine, but it should still have the same technical availability level

New comment by clhodapp in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

clhodapp — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:18:52 +0000

That's another problem Google have: they won't stand behind their products until they are outdated.

That can work in the B2C space but it's horrible in B2B.

New comment by clhodapp in "Why do we think we understand the world more than we actually do?"

clhodapp — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 06:53:20 +0000

Sounds delightfully like something the Chongqing Punk would say