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New comment by fesens in "Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU"

fesens — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:23:01 +0000

His claims are indeed correct; Yes, you got my point tks!; AND the loop produced architecture gains that are not exclusive to the GoWin FPGA (CoreMark/Mhz is higher than VexRiscV)

New comment by fesens in "Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU"

fesens — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:19:51 +0000

Tks! Did you apply it to hardware design or to another field?

New comment by fesens in "Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU"

fesens — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:18:16 +0000

Whats your take on it? "If I read it, what point should I pay attention to?", I guess is what I'm trying to say

New comment by fesens in "Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU"

fesens — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:17:23 +0000

"Not at all, completely novel idea. What made you thought of such thing?" hahaha

New comment by fesens in "Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU"

fesens — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:15:37 +0000

Yeah, you are totally right. Its a work in progress, and the post was written by an LLM - Im trying to improve on it (dash pun intended).

Regarding the benchmark overfitting, absolutely, it's pretty much overfitted. This CPU will only be as good as it benchmark. If I have the time I will try to get some applications and optimize for those.

New comment by fesens in "Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU"

fesens — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:12:29 +0000

I genuinely laughed reading the first words. Yeah, its hard to be novel

New comment by fesens in "Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU"

fesens — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:10:27 +0000

For sure! The hypothesis generation gotta be improved. Your take on the "least likely" is interesting. In the beginning of the repo I was having problems with "hypothesis convergence", your idea may be a nice way to introduce the much needed variability

New comment by fesens in "Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU"

fesens — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:07:43 +0000

Is slop verifiable? If so we can throw it in the loop... The point is that this loop can be pointed at any verifiable work. Yeah you are seeing it raw, the verifier is the principle you talked about. Yes it was fully AI generated, It will be refined

New comment by fesens in "Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU"

fesens — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:04:11 +0000

Nice references! tks

New comment by fesens in "Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU"

fesens — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:46:18 +0000

Absolutely, today it's FPGAs.. Tomorrow can be whole companies

New comment by fesens in "Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU"

fesens — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:45:27 +0000

"I would LOVE somebody to bounce AI off of reversing the architecture and bitstreams for the stupid-ass closed-source FPGAs."

The only reason I'm using Gowin is because it has a slightly more mature opensource tooling. Maybe we can apply this loop to nextpnr also

New comment by fesens in "Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU"

fesens — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:44:11 +0000

The frontier is the verifier not in the sense of this project, but to every project. If we have a good verifier for a task, any task, this type of loop can be applied to it. Today LLMs are good enough to tackle FPGA projects, but what this type of loop will be applicable to many more things

Board should be arriving next week. I will let you know!

New comment by fesens in "Claude.ai is unavailable"

fesens — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:37:43 +0000

Ive been receiving rate limits even with full quotas... I guess compute isn't growing as fast as demand

New comment by fesens in "Show HN: Ragnerock, an AI data analysis tool"

fesens — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:31:24 +0000

I like the way its looking. Maybe because of the familiarity with the Jupyter Notebook

Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU

fesens — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:12:30 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/FeSens/auto-arch-tournament/blob/main/docs/auto-arch-tournament-blog-post.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937380

Points: 208

# Comments: 63

New comment by fesens in "[dead]"

fesens — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:34:10 +0000

Recently I've been noticing that claude "stalls" on a prompt and take minutes to finish, with no apparent work being done. Maybe they are rate limiting, even when you are well under the quotas.

New comment by fesens in "[dead]"

fesens — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:34:13 +0000

The moment that not releasing a model becomes more financially beneficial than releasing it, that's when AI becomes truly dangerous. Between doomerism and marketing, the release or rather lack of, Claude Mythos is the first model that really spooked me. Not because of its capabilities, but because of the gatekeeping. Yes, Anthropic is playing the good guys here, but what if they aren't? What if they gatekeep the next model to Mythos for their own benefit? They would pull so far ahead of society and other software companies, would acquire so much power (through hacking) and money (through arbitrage and trading strategies in the financial markets), that the next model might be the final frontier. The AI 2027 vision doesn't look so distant after all.

New comment by fesens in "Container GUI – Native macOS GUI for Apple's Container CLI"

fesens — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 01:40:50 +0000

Apple recently released https://github.com/apple/container, a CLI tool for running Linux containers natively on macOS with Apple Silicon. It's fast and lightweight, but it's terminal-only.

I built Container GUI — a native SwiftUI app that wraps the CLI and gives you a proper desktop interface for managing containers, images, volumes, networks, and more.

Features: - Containers: list, inspect, start/stop/kill/delete, live log streaming - Images: browse, inspect (config, platform, history), pull with streaming progress - Volumes & Networks: full CRUD - Builder & System: status, start/stop services, disk usage

  Tech: Pure SwiftUI + AppKit (for the log viewer), MVVM with @Observable, Swift 6 strict concurrency, zero dependencies. Wraps the CLI via Foundation.Process.

Install: brew tap FeSens/tap && brew install container-gui

Would love feedback!

Container GUI – Native macOS GUI for Apple's Container CLI

fesens — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 01:40:50 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/FeSens/container-gui

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47116995

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by fesens in "Opus 4.5 designed a political Magic the Gathering set"

fesens — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 03:42:49 +0000

Its based on the latest political and economic events. I think it may be better than many recent sets.