Hacker News: daralthus

New comment by daralthus in "Apple Foundation Models"

daralthus — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:25:25 +0000

ppl pay for this?

New comment by daralthus in "Building durable workflows on Postgres"

daralthus — Fri, 29 May 2026 11:55:13 +0000

how are you handling schema updates? do you migrate jobs or handle worker deployments in a specific way?

New comment by daralthus in "Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app"

daralthus — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:19:32 +0000

that's because it's an acquisition (http://usegalileo.ai/)

New comment by daralthus in "The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to "The Office" (2009)"

daralthus — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:01:06 +0000

This is broadly accurate, but if anyone feels like freaking out and quickly needs an antidote to the "high" class of sociopath grifters, perhaps could find some solitude in Wim Wenders' Perfect Days for a few hours.

New comment by daralthus in "The Brand Age"

daralthus — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:56:08 +0000

While I mostly agree with the grim conclusion, I think there's an important aspect ignored that in every domain the very first and very best brands could leverage as good design and purpose: art and fun.

Remember winamp skins?

"The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known. The technique of art is to make objects 'unfamiliar', to make forms difficult, to increase the difficulty and length of perception because the process of perception is an aesthetic end in itself and must be prolonged." - Shklovsky on defamiliarization

What pg is really writing about is enshittification, consumerism.

New comment by daralthus in "Privilege is bad grammar"

daralthus — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:13:46 +0000

ppl are so sensitive. it's not impolite to be direct. why would you be wasting each other's time by "dear, sincerely etc" every single time.

New comment by daralthus in "How to take a photo with scotch tape (lensless imaging) [video]"

daralthus — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:07:30 +0000

Honestly this is the best way to learn about inverse problems and it's what made convolution click for me a few years ago.

New comment by daralthus in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

daralthus — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:39:01 +0000

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New comment by daralthus in "Recursive Language Models"

daralthus — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 22:05:03 +0000

sub-agents that access (and manipulate) the SAME context (a file system or variables in the REPL)

New comment by daralthus in "Open Source and Local Code Mode MCP in Deno Sandboxes"

daralthus — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 16:09:21 +0000

File system access is a must tho, that's where half the power of coding agents come from: efficiently managing context files.

Symposium on the Platonic Space – Patterns of Form and Behavior Beyond Emergence

daralthus — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 22:50:28 +0000

Article URL: https://thoughtforms.life/symposium-on-the-platonic-space/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45959320

Points: 3

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New comment by daralthus in "Your data model is your destiny"

daralthus — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 11:44:22 +0000

I 100% agree in the importance of the data model, and the examples show that it often makes more sense to start from the user's perspective of it rather than your db schema.

Interestingly AI Agents are all about disrupting the hard bounds of existing data and interaction models and it turns out the lowest common denominator is often the winner. Eg.: file system > database, grep > embeddings, markdown > pdf, generative ui > portals, computer use > api-s etc.

There simply is no need for all that abstraction / interface / infrastructure to eg. answer questions about documents or to keep track of todo lists, workflows or sending messages etc. when you have glue that can translate between the data models.

New comment by daralthus in "SWE-Grep and SWE-Grep-Mini: RL for Fast Multi-Turn Context Retrieval"

daralthus — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 19:37:14 +0000

this would be useful outside of coding. could you release a benchmark so we can have more models tuned for this?

New comment by daralthus in "Leading artists reveal the fabricators they entrust with their creations"

daralthus — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 10:26:07 +0000

I would

New comment by daralthus in "Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference"

daralthus — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 21:46:28 +0000

I thought this was pretty well known (at least in the JAX/XLA world). I've hit this many times and got batch variance explained to me before: https://github.com/google-deepmind/penzai/issues/82 and https://github.com/jax-ml/jax/issues/20047#issuecomment-1975...

New comment by daralthus in "ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes"

daralthus — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:04:21 +0000

If that helps, I get burnt out on just red bull already...

New comment by daralthus in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

daralthus — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:59:51 +0000

A simple tool to continuously vectorize your PostgreSQL tables with the flexibility of your own embedding pipelines.

https://github.com/BarnacleLabs/RAGmatic

New comment by daralthus in "Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth"

daralthus — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 20:53:53 +0000

> No real human would go four links deep into a maze of AI-generated nonsense.

sure... sure nobody.

New comment by daralthus in "TinyKVM: Fast sandbox that runs on top of Varnish"

daralthus — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 11:31:44 +0000

yes that's the durable objects ~ durable agents model that cloudflare is building

New comment by daralthus in "Ex-Facebook director's new book paints brutal image of Mark Zuckerberg"

daralthus — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 11:27:27 +0000

To be fair, it's more likely they just looked you up on FB.