<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: fxtentacle</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fxtentacle</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 02:58:29 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=fxtentacle" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fxtentacle in "Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"using Codex for inference" says the article</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:49:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49393616</link><dc:creator>fxtentacle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49393616</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49393616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fxtentacle in "Superpowers, Not Superintelligence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><s> I'm glad they are completely not creepy for a company that plans to make money by selling your private data. </s><p>"Capture the daily moments that define you. Voice the hidden details and tell the story only you can tell."<p>"We may sell, transfer or otherwise share [..] including personal information"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:19:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49350098</link><dc:creator>fxtentacle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49350098</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49350098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fxtentacle in "Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nuclear Toothpaste<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doramad_Radioactive_Toothpaste" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doramad_Radioactive_Toothpaste</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:17:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189137</link><dc:creator>fxtentacle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189137</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fxtentacle in "How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“many of Hollywood’s problems can be traced back to a single economic theory of everything: the rent is too damn high.”</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 08:30:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49180077</link><dc:creator>fxtentacle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49180077</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49180077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fxtentacle in "Transformer Transformer: A Unified Model for Motion-Conditioned Robot Co-Design"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Watching the video, 11:37 [1] made me feel very uneasy about the validity of those results. CMA-ES optimization times in seconds? That only works if you do no physics, no collision checks, no trajectory roll-outs. (Otherwise you're looking at 300+ iterations with 2000+ lanes each with 1000+ physics steps each, so millions to billions of simulation steps.)<p>And that really makes me wonder, if 30 tokens for a robot can be so expressive that they replace 600 mio simulation steps?<p>Or the alternative would be that they just assume that the given trajectory is equally optimal for each robot, which to me seems like a HUUUUGE assumption. But if that's the case, then the results of this technique would be highly misleading, as they would tell you the robot is excellent for 1 example movement, while you wouldn't know that a tiny change to your example movement might make the situation much better overall with a different robot.<p>[1] <a href="https://youtu.be/TTyjvPVFbNw?si=gU8zTfUyXVIMyvyp&t=697" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/TTyjvPVFbNw?si=gU8zTfUyXVIMyvyp&t=697</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:37:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49095646</link><dc:creator>fxtentacle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49095646</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49095646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fxtentacle in "How to Block Some of the Bots"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I like the idea of adding a fake cpanel subdomain for 169.254.169.254 so that script kiddies will start port-scanning their own hosting provider, which will likely get them flagged/banned.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:04:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49061273</link><dc:creator>fxtentacle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49061273</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49061273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fxtentacle in "My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I read "midlife crisis" as "old guy trying to impress much younger girls" and then a cheap-ish car modded to be fast, furious, and obnoxiously loud seems like it might just work. Plus it's probably an amazing toy that can also be enjoyed solo.<p>And as long as there's enough attractive women who are impressed by loud cars, there will be guys with loud cars. I also dislike loud cars. But I'm at a loss as to how one would fix the root cause. Pull requests welcome ;)<p>And, yes, I share your impression. That car is about him trying to enforce attention by subjecting other people to his car.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:38:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48926030</link><dc:creator>fxtentacle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48926030</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48926030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fxtentacle in "AI changes the economics of software rewrites"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Humans will typically learn after you have forced them to apologise for the same mistake for 20 times in a row.<p>AI won’t.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:15:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48842062</link><dc:creator>fxtentacle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48842062</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48842062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fxtentacle in "AI changes the economics of software rewrites"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fully agree. I tried to refactor parts of a large code base with Fable+ultracode and it just keeps accidentally merging distinct concepts and making up explanations/reasonings that the code base did not contain.<p>For example, the code base contains a physical controller. It’s closed loop in that it can react in realtime to changes. But it’s a slightly untypical implementation because this one can even look into the future through simulations. But Fable does not understand that. Instead, I need to remind it every 30 minutes that this is closed loop. It keeps wrongly claiming that the controller was open loop and then based upon that it will make up constraints that don’t actually exist.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:14:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48842050</link><dc:creator>fxtentacle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48842050</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48842050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fxtentacle in "Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Congratulations on the launch. The propeller demo looks good :) BTW, customising gears (which are then laser cut from sheet metal) is also a common request from untechnical people who need CAD help.<p>How do you differentiate from other open source AI CAD solutions? I’ve also had a good experience with Claude Code and CadQuery, which is a Python toolkit for generating CAD designs based on OpenCascade. I.e. what’s your moat?<p>And given that you’re YC funded .. what’s your plan for millions in MRR?<p>I’m asking because I would like to launch some useful open source tools myself (but for PIM, not CAD) and I just can’t figure out how to make open source sustainable, let alone profitable enough for hockey stick revenue growth. Any tips? Book recommendations?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:53:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48582207</link><dc:creator>fxtentacle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48582207</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48582207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fxtentacle in "The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The grab app shows un-skippable ads. And some taxis even have ads "based on your interests" playing on a TV in front of your seat. I found their "no marketing" ;) to be almost too much.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:45:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575822</link><dc:creator>fxtentacle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575822</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fxtentacle in "Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The thing that nobody talks about is how many EU citizens already are working on frontier models, just inside US companies. That’s why the prohibition was so crippling for Anthropic.<p>And, btw, the bang per buck that I got from OVH was better than EC2.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:52:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546894</link><dc:creator>fxtentacle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546894</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fxtentacle in "Finding Optimal Tokenizers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is an interesting approach with integer programming and then using an explicit solver. It’s probably very slow, but you only have to run this once and it produces the mathematically perfect result.<p>In the past, I got good results with trying to reduce the variance in entropy in-between tokens, which you can implement very easily by starting with each single character as its own token and then doing a greedy merge of the most numerous outlier token pairs in a loop until you reach your desired token count. <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.12693" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.12693</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:13:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48501730</link><dc:creator>fxtentacle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48501730</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48501730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fxtentacle in "If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>6</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:11:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438604</link><dc:creator>fxtentacle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438604</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fxtentacle in "If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“ and prove that Age of Empires II is functionally- and Turing-complete.”</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:10:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438600</link><dc:creator>fxtentacle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438600</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fxtentacle in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>SEEKING WORK: Fractional CTO as Freelancer (Kiel, northern Germany, own company => 100% remote & easy to hire).<p>I built 3 products from idea to paying customers. So I can help your startup with architecture, implementation plans, and writing specs that you need to keep vibecoding sane. Depending on whether I get into YC (or most likely not, applied with just an idea), I might have free time coming up in the upcoming months.<p><a href="https://hajo.me/cv/" rel="nofollow">https://hajo.me/cv/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:54:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48358555</link><dc:creator>fxtentacle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48358555</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48358555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask HN: What's KugelAudio's (YC P26) Moat?]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I originally started lurking around on HN to better understand how startups work. I just saw the KugelAudio (YC P26) launch announcement and I truly don't get it:<p>1. There's plenty of good open TTS models for EU languages: Fish, CosyVoice, Voxtral<p>2. KugelAudio claims to beat ElevenLabs, but so do Chatterbox-Turbo and Fish Audio S2 Pro.<p>3. Their 39ms latency is not a strong technical differentiator from Fish at 100ms.<p>=> It's a deployment business on top of a commodity model. In my opinion, there is no technical moat to defend them from competition.<p>Their angle is EU sovereignty, which I very much like, but I don't see how their API (where you need to trust them) could be better at sovereignty than an open model which can run air-gapped with no trust needed. But I mean YC is in the VC business so there must be some angle how KugelAudio could 100x their current valuation. Otherwise, they wouldn't be attractive to VC money.<p>Does anyone know what KugelAudio's unique angle is?</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48358446">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48358446</a></p>
<p>Points: 4</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
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<p>Me, too. I love that they have tables with return and warranty percentages so you can see which products other people kept and which products only keep breaking.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 11:49:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234578</link><dc:creator>fxtentacle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234578</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fxtentacle in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The last 2 LAN parties we didn’t play anything that didn’t work extremely well on my AMD CPU + NVIDIA GPU Pop!OS Linux workstation.<p>And I didn’t expect: VR streaming works flawless, too. I just had to buy a WiFi 6 usb dongle.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 10:39:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48146949</link><dc:creator>fxtentacle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48146949</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48146949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fxtentacle in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Maybe one day they will get around to unsuspending my account."  is increasingly how support feels with all big cloud companies.</p>
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