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New comment by egonschiele in "The turbulent AI era is here"

egonschiele — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:57:05 +0000

Does anyone else feel incredibly nostalgic for the time when Bill Gates and Warren Buffet were the richest people on earth? I remember feeling pretty good about the fact that they were trying to do so much good, and about the giving pledge. Things feel so different now.

New comment by egonschiele in "New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra"

egonschiele — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:11:02 +0000

> M6 supports up to 32GB of unified memory to multitask across demanding apps and run LLMs on device for secure and private agentic tasks. It also provides up to 170GB/s of unified memory bandwidth — a 10 percent increase over M5 and a 2.5x increase over M1.

Isn't 170GB/s slow for bandwidth?

New comment by egonschiele in "Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI"

egonschiele — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 01:37:52 +0000

Care to share a link? This sounds neat

New comment by egonschiele in "Norway should buy OpenAI"

egonschiele — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:08:22 +0000

I care about this issue, and Norway of course has built an incredible social democracy. However, Norway is also able to do this because it's just a much smaller country. The U.S. is absolutely massive, both in terms of population and in terms of land area, and it is incredibly diverse. A lot of the problems in the U.S. just go away if you don't have to worry about the same scale or diversity of people. I absolutely want the U.S. to rise up to the AI crisis, and we're having major issues, but in the grand scheme of things, the U.S. still does a good job given the scale of its challenges, and I'm not sure Norway would do better.

New comment by egonschiele in "Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack"

egonschiele — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:31:05 +0000

I'm guessing (though not sure) the actors are outside the US.

New comment by egonschiele in "The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder"

egonschiele — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 21:43:46 +0000

Real bummer of a story.

> He approached me because he was really into startups and wanted to become a tech entrepreneur, and make the big bucks

It's a shame that so much of tech culture has become about money. Money was always a part of it, but living in the Bay in 2010, there was more of a focus on building things. But once people started getting rich, especially off bitcoin, it brought in a whole host of people whose primary passion seemed to be money. We moved out in 2018. Still bums me out, SF was my favorite city, and I hoped to live there for a long time, but the values weren't my values anymore.

New comment by egonschiele in "AI's top startups are barely publishing their research"

egonschiele — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:00:22 +0000

As far as I can tell, the paper never actually mentions the companies who aren't publishing papers. Open AI, Anthropic, and hugging face are all specifically mentioned as companies that do publish papers. Just FYI for anyone else who reads "AI's top startups" and immediately assumes OpenAI and Anthropic.

New comment by egonschiele in "Write code like a human will maintain it"

egonschiele — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:19:08 +0000

In a similar vein, here's my favorite prompt: "Please review the tests you've written. Will the tests actually test what they're meant to? If the code breaks, will the test fail?" It's amazing how often LLMs will write tests that don't test anything.

New comment by egonschiele in "Ex-NOAA employees laid off by DOGE rebuilt climate website"

egonschiele — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:11:03 +0000

Love it! Do you need any technical help?

New comment by egonschiele in "Claude Corps"

egonschiele — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:02:00 +0000

Neat throwback to Google Summer of Code, when tech felt so much simpler (at least to me). Anyone know anything about CodePath, Social Finance, or the nonprofits listed?

New comment by egonschiele in "Open source AI must win"

egonschiele — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:30:16 +0000

I have been working on this exact problem, and I suppose now is as good a time as any to talk about it.

To make any agent "good", there are two components: the model and the harness. Very few companies can train models, but anyone can build a harness. How much does the harness matter? Can I build a harness that's good enough that I can use open source models with opus level performance? That's the question I've been trying to answer by building better harnesses. None of the existing frameworks have the functionality I need to build a good harness. The features I need are language-level... and so I started building a language called Agency[0].

It's been six months and its going well. Some of the things Agency can do are wild:

- It can pause and serialize execution at any point, making HITL easy

- It has some neat safety capabilities such as handlers[1] and PFA[2]

- You can bundle up any agent as an HTTP or MCP server[3]

- I'm now working on a built-in optimizer to optimize agents (think DSPy).

Obviously, it's a huge undertaking, but having worked with the Agency for six months, I can't imagine going back to another framework. It makes things so easy. I'm working on its built-in agent now [4]. My goal it to get it to be as good as Claude Code, but using open source models. It's still early days, lots of rough edges, but if this sort of thing interests you, I'd love to have a few more people test it out.

[0] https://agency-lang.com

[1] https://agency-lang.com/guide/handlers.html

[2] https://agency-lang.com/guide/partial-application.html

[3] https://agency-lang.com/cli/serve.html

[4] https://github.com/egonSchiele/agency-lang/blob/main/package...

New comment by egonschiele in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

egonschiele — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:13:42 +0000

To be clear, they've been saying that all AI needs to take a break. I don't think this single action is going to do much.

New comment by egonschiele in "U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse"

egonschiele — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:05:15 +0000

It's important to note that thousands of people are giving their time every day for climate change work, doing thankless jobs for very little pay. The fact that the US chose a corrupt man over these people, the fact that millions of people sat out the vote, is a real slap in the face of the people who try to fight this, day after day after day. And many young people seem to have just given up. It's your future, others are fighting for it, join them.

New comment by egonschiele in "Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness"

egonschiele — Fri, 29 May 2026 23:55:41 +0000

I'm all for people writing their own coding agent harnesses... is there anything different about this one? Its not clear why I'd choose this over pi, opencode, or other existing options

New comment by egonschiele in "Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents"

egonschiele — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:30:12 +0000

As other comments have said, it would be great to add what this does that existing solutions can't. I see the project has been active since Feb, and has < 150 commits. I'd assume this is still pretty immature. So why use this? I think more explanation is needed.

New comment by egonschiele in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

egonschiele — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:34:27 +0000

Why don't all these distro maintainers add their own back doors, and mine crypto off our machines without our knowledge? Surely, there is some legal fine print they can add that would let them do that. There is very little incentive for them to maintain these systems, given how thankless and underpaid the work is.

New comment by egonschiele in "Zed is 1.0"

egonschiele — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:20:24 +0000

Congrats to the Zed team! Great to see people continuing to work on important tooling like editors these days.

New comment by egonschiele in "Is my blue your blue?"

egonschiele — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:46:37 +0000

Warm blue vs cool blue is another interesting social question: https://www.ducktyped.org/p/a-colorful-controversy

New comment by egonschiele in "Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war"

egonschiele — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 02:15:32 +0000

Ah okay, so it's a case of "it's legal so it's fine", and impact or principles don't come into it.

New comment by egonschiele in "Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war"

egonschiele — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 23:00:49 +0000

Do you not think that that would have a negative impact on the world? or do you not care, or is this "the world is going to hell so I may as well get mine"?