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New comment by efebarlas in "Warp builds self-improving agents on Claude"

efebarlas — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:05:21 +0000

I tried this and after being unhappy about how much longer the agent seemed to take, I wonder if there’s some tradeoff between a model’s performance (and task cost) and the amount of principles / rules you’ve invoked so far in the session

New comment by efebarlas in "Show HN: Design Engineering, as a Service"

efebarlas — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:38:23 +0000

Just fyi the rquest availability button is a smaller grey button that shows its misfit with the background (on iPhone 16) You might want to have a look

New comment by efebarlas in "Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample"

efebarlas — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:08:28 +0000

i think people say that thinking that only training to produce the next likely word would end up producing some local minimum word that generally fits but doesn't actually lead to intelligent thought.

that feels like a misunderstanding of how the loss function behaves when used within a sequence

New comment by efebarlas in "Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years"

efebarlas — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:51:45 +0000

What's this one? Fable or Sol?

New comment by efebarlas in "Prove you are a robot: CAPTCHAs for agents"

efebarlas — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:06:58 +0000

Is it even possible to have an inverse captcha without time bounds?

Humans can use agents behind the scenes to crack it, right?

New comment by efebarlas in "The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)"

efebarlas — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:35:51 +0000

I feel like that one’s actually pretty good, why should the ear calibrate to the device when it can be vice versa?

New comment by efebarlas in "Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death"

efebarlas — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:14:49 +0000

this is a great thread

it’s hard to isolate the effect size of policy, covid happened, car weights changed, policing may have decreased, US drivers may have driven differently, population size, etc.

New comment by efebarlas in "Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death"

efebarlas — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:15:22 +0000

I want to learn more about “it did not work in the us… excess deaths”

Do you have a link handy for this?

Word Is Bond: What If Companies Bet on Their Future

efebarlas — Wed, 22 May 2024 07:01:23 +0000

Article URL: https://efebarlas.medium.com/word-is-bond-what-if-companies-bet-on-their-future-be5c16a2645c

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40438105

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