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New comment by drakenot in "New evidence for hidden chambers beyond Tutankhamun's tomb"

drakenot — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 23:42:22 +0000

Do you watch the movie as a part of this?

New comment by drakenot in "Cloudflare Quick Tunnels"

drakenot — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:27:25 +0000

For those who use Netbird or Pangolin, I'm trying to understand where it would come in handy over my Wireguard-Easy setup with my phone & laptops configured to connect to my Wireguard network externally.

Is this primarily for multi-user scenarios or complex setups?

New comment by drakenot in "GPT-6 Astra on robot arms"

drakenot — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 02:56:54 +0000

Are LLMs going to eventually become the architecture that powers self-driving cars?

Seeing them play Portal and other video games, I'm curious if they will eventually help solve that last N% of self-driving.

New comment by drakenot in "Show HN: Lunar, a "fast", memory-efficient Lua 5.1 VM written in Go"

drakenot — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:56:20 +0000

For those who are interested in what spawned this project:

https://runemud.com

I had been working on it for a couple years, using it myself. I finally released it recently. It heavily uses an embedded Lua VM to power its scripting engine.

Show HN: Lunar, a "fast", memory-efficient Lua 5.1 VM written in Go

drakenot — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:30:04 +0000

I'm releasing Lunar, a new Lua 5.1 compiler and virtual machine written entirely in Go. It includes the standard libraries, coroutines as well as supporting Lua 5.2-style goto.

The embedding API avoids the Lua C API’s stack-based interface in favor of typed Go values and callback frames. Libraries and script-file access are opt-in, so the host explicitly controls what Lua code can access.

On my current benchmarks and use-cases, Lunar is often ~1.5x to 2x faster than GopherLua and Shopify’s go-lua. Its largest improvement however is memory use: loading a 9 MB CBOR-derived object graph (hundreds of thousands of tables) allocates about 107 MB versus 785 MB with GopherLua, with roughly 72 MiB versus 542 MiB retained after GC.

The public API is still stabilizing, and I’d especially appreciate feedback on the embedding design and Go interface.

(Note that this project started in another repo when I still had hopes of porting some of my changes back upstream to another existing library.)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156306

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New comment by drakenot in "The case for MUDs in modern times (2018)"

drakenot — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:09:34 +0000

If anyone is interested, I launched a new mud client in 2026:

https://runemud.com

I had been working on it for a couple years, using it myself. I finally released it recently. A number of users are contributing feature requests, testing, etc on the discord as well.

New comment by drakenot in "Maladaptive Frugality"

drakenot — Fri, 01 May 2026 13:09:19 +0000

I have zero consumer debt and pay off any credit card at the end of the month.

But I don’t mind work expenses on my personal card? I get reward benefits for a sizable chunk of expenses that I’m directly reimbursed for?

New comment by drakenot in "OpenWarp"

drakenot — Fri, 01 May 2026 03:09:38 +0000

I hope they bring back the former UI that allowed you to explicitly toggle "AI / Agent" mode on/off in a terminal session, and gets rid of the Oz / Cloud Agent stuff.

I don't want this auto-detect agent request. The explicit toggle was perfect.

New comment by drakenot in "Warp is now open-source"

drakenot — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 04:20:12 +0000

Thank you for that tip, I'll try that.

New comment by drakenot in "Warp is now open-source"

drakenot — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:05:49 +0000

I used to like Warp and was a paying customer.

It had a simple UI with a clear button / key combo to toggle the “agent mode”. That, plus the fact it could “warpify” my SSH connections made this a useful utility.

Then a couple months ago they completely changed the UI. It doesn’t work as it once did. My saved prompt templates didn’t work as they did before, the agent toggle was gone (you can now start some ‘/agent’ command but it is much less intuitive) and they seem to be focusing on these cloud agents and code editing.

I want none of these things. I loved a simple terminal that let me still execute sudo, let me ssh into remote machines but still bring Claude and OpenAI models to interact with my session.

New comment by drakenot in "The AI revolution in math has arrived"

drakenot — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:45:24 +0000

I think voice mode uses weaker models, just an FYI relative to the SOTA

New comment by drakenot in "We don't need continual learning for AGI. What top labs are currently doing"

drakenot — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:29:18 +0000

It reminds me of the standard counter to the Chinese Room thought experiment: the person inside doesn’t understand Chinese, but the system _does_. The person, the rules, and the lookup tables together form the thing doing the understanding.

New comment by drakenot in "Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware"

drakenot — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:27:40 +0000

How can you tell that you were breached?

New comment by drakenot in "Cursor switches pay-per-token when your plan limit end. Calls "On-Demand usage""

drakenot — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 06:58:43 +0000

Claude Code has gotta be way cheaper for this, right?

New comment by drakenot in "Oxide raises $200M Series C"

drakenot — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:57:36 +0000

I think its the end-to-end, integrated nature of it.

API driven, have "elastic resources", etc, etc. Rather than bolting together various solutions you get to have a "Cloud-like" stack in your own datacenter.

New comment by drakenot in "Voxtral Transcribe 2"

drakenot — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:27:48 +0000

Yes. That is it

New comment by drakenot in "Voxtral Transcribe 2"

drakenot — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 01:19:24 +0000

This past month Parakeet v3 dropped with a streaming ASR model that is 0.6B params, can run on a CPU and is super good.

New comment by drakenot in "Nvidia shares are down after report that its OpenAI investment stalled"

drakenot — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:41:42 +0000

I agree that DeepSeek and others have been doing most of the published research for future frontier models.

But I’m not sure we can say they the big US companies aren’t doing foundational research anymore. I suspect a lot of it is just kept unpublished as a result of the intense competitive pressure, which is disappointing.

New comment by drakenot in "Prism"

drakenot — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:22:18 +0000

This is handy for maintaining a resume!

I converted my resume to LaTeX with Claude Code recently. Being able to iterate on this code-form of my document is so much nicer than fighting the formatting with in Word/Google Docs.

I dropped my .tex file into Prism and it makes it nice to instantly render it.

New comment by drakenot in "Anthropic Explicitly Blocking OpenCode"

drakenot — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 01:00:04 +0000

Perhaps concentrated use of Claude Code increases their perceived market value.

It also perhaps tries to preserve some moat around their product/service.