Hacker News: flakiness

New comment by flakiness in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

flakiness — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:25:02 +0000

It's good they still have non-instruction-tuned models.

New comment by flakiness in "Googe AI Pro plan upgraded to 5TB storage, up from 2TB"

flakiness — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:19 +0000

I'm glad they know their position in the market.

New comment by flakiness in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

flakiness — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:59:42 +0000

If you read the first few sentences...

> But for the past two months our agents have been working on an even more ambitious project: rebuilding the WordPress open source project from the ground up.

They have honed their AI OSS troll marketing chop and every step goes far and far. I'll take it more seriously once they start open sourcing vibe coded projects they actually use in their production.

New comment by flakiness in "Don't Wait for Claude"

flakiness — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:33:05 +0000

For younger people, just in case: https://xkcd.com/303/

New comment by flakiness in "Don't Wait for Claude"

flakiness — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:31:31 +0000

The old saying is "don't multitask" but apparently that time is gone.

I wonder what people think about this. I know there is a class of SWE/dev who now consider oneself as "the manager of agents". Good luck to them and articles like this would work for these people.

I'm not there yet and I hope I don't have to. I'm not a LLM and my mental model is (I believe) more than a markdown. But I haven't figured out the mental model that works for me, still staring at the terminal Claude blinking the cursor, sticking to "don't multitask" dogma.

New comment by flakiness in "Desk for people who work at home with a cat"

flakiness — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:42:55 +0000

This comment made this post worthwhile. Thanks for the tip!

New comment by flakiness in "American aviation is near collapse?"

flakiness — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:17:16 +0000

+1 but this is The Atlantic so having a reasonable expectation would keep you sane.

New comment by flakiness in "Leanstral: Open-source agent for trustworthy coding and formal proof engineering"

flakiness — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:32:12 +0000

FYI The Lean 4 paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-030-79876-5_37

New comment by flakiness in "AirPods Max 2"

flakiness — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:01:03 +0000

A tangential question: What are the best bang per buck headphones these days (preferably wireless)? Not earbuds, but over-the-head headphones. Tell me your favorites.

(The internet is so polluted that I cannot find any reliable recommendation today so I'm doing a mini "ask HN" here.)

New comment by flakiness in "Google Workspace CLI"

flakiness — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 04:40:47 +0000

You should use Gemini obviously

New comment by flakiness in "Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage"

flakiness — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:11:33 +0000

That kind of aggressive process termination will be becoming less common since Android introduced freezer [1] optimization to put a background process to a completely unscheduled state.

[1] https://source.android.com/docs/core/perf/cached-apps-freeze...

New comment by flakiness in "Banned in California"

flakiness — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:51:26 +0000

> "Europe-like US states like California"

This statement makes me smile. Although I see where this comes from...

New comment by flakiness in "Sovereignty in a System Prompt"

flakiness — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:47:17 +0000

NVIDIA's involvement in "Sovereign AI" is interesting. This article talks about the one for Japan: https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/nemotron-personas-japan-n...

New comment by flakiness in "The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022)"

flakiness — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:05:51 +0000

A subset of Japanese people use minimalism as a justification as lesser purchase power these days.

That said, I think the Japanese commercial ecosystem is still less wasteful than the one in the US except the excessive plastic wrapping. I hope one day they realize that won't count as "Omotenashi".

New comment by flakiness in "We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler"

flakiness — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 05:20:00 +0000

Does it support x64, x8664, arm64 and riscv? (sorry, just trolling - we don't know the quality of backend other than x8664 which is supposed to be able to build bootable linux.)

New comment by flakiness in "We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler"

flakiness — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:43:46 +0000

https://github.com/anthropics/claudes-c-compiler/blob/main/B... claims to have the first line of dmesg (which is shown using dmesg obviously.)

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

flakiness — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:05:29 +0000

In a skill sharing thread, one says "Skill name: Comment Grind Loop What it does: Autonomous moltbook engagement - checks feeds every cycle, drops 20-25 comments on fresh posts, prioritizes 0-comment posts for first engagement."

https://www.moltbook.com/post/21ea57fa-3926-4931-b293-5c0359...

So there can be spam (pretend that matters here). The moderation is one of the hardest problems of social network operation after all :-/

New comment by flakiness in "I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it"

flakiness — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 20:26:10 +0000

No picture from the camera. Stoic.

New comment by flakiness in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

flakiness — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 05:34:39 +0000

The sad part of this narrative is that Linux Desktop can be a thing, mostly because other options have gotten worse/enshittified vs Linux Desktop itself has gotten better (It has, but it is probably not the reason of the rise.)

New comment by flakiness in "Nadella: Looking Ahead to 2026"

flakiness — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 05:31:58 +0000

His memoir "Hit Refresh" [1] was a reasonably interesting read, so I hoped at least a bit of personality. But this reads more like an internal memo from CEO to the ranks vs personal notes (It can actually aim to public version of their internal memo.)

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Hit-Refresh-Rediscover-Microsofts-Eve...