Hacker News: grohan

New comment by grohan in "Shopify acquires Tailwind"

grohan — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 23:52:36 +0000

"load-bearing" - lol, nice easter egg. no one likes the AI-isms in writing!

New comment by grohan in "How well do agents use test/verification techniques?"

grohan — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:19:54 +0000

Pretty good point - I would actually argue that the imperative nature of prompting takes some of the blame here too. Your initial goal gets "steered" by the agent system and follow-up messages take precedence.

Killing Coding Agent Slop with Adversarial Self-Play

grohan — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:41:11 +0000

Article URL: https://usetelos.ai/blog/killing-coding-agent-slop

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48924445

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by grohan in "Ctoc: Cloc, but for Claude Token Counts"

grohan — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:16:38 +0000

Here's a reverse engineer of the Claude token counter API as well as the model's vocabulary. Fast, offline, 96% accurate.

Ctoc: Cloc, but for Claude Token Counts

grohan — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:16:38 +0000

Article URL: https://grohan.co/2026/02/10/ctoc/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46969042

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by grohan in "Compressed filesystems à la language models"

grohan — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 04:19:30 +0000

Bellard has trained various models, so it may not be the specific 169M parameter LLM, but his Transformer-based `nncp` is indeed #1 on the "Large Text Compression Benchmark" [1], which correctly accounts for both the total size of compressed enwik9 + decompresser size (zipped).

There is no unfair advantage here. This was also achieved in the 2019-2021 period; it feels safe to say that Bellard could have likely pushed the frontier far further with modern compute/techniques.

[1] https://www.mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html

Compressed filesystems à la language models

grohan — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 15:03:09 +0000

Article URL: https://grohan.co/2025/11/25/llmfuse/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46058033

Points: 67

# Comments: 14

New comment by grohan in "Fire-Flyer File System from DeepSeek"

grohan — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 03:42:31 +0000

They appear to have Python bindings which seems reasonable from an API / usability perspective? https://github.com/deepseek-ai/smallpond

In terms of fast FUSE - also my first question, appears to be`io_uring` + FUSE :)

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/3FS/blob/main/src/lib/api/Usr...

Technical Debt Is Entropy in Software

grohan — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 21:09:21 +0000

Article URL: https://grohan.co/2024/12/27/entropy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42534757

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by grohan in "The Annual Cost of Technical Debt: $1.52T"

grohan — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 22:51:28 +0000

Impressive numbers. Does anyone have any read or anecdotes on how much a small/mid/large company loses from low quality of software/bad practices (or conversely profits from the opposite)?

Seems like a challenging metric to measure, but always been curious on what the numbers look like.

Factorials and Fun with Vim

grohan — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 18:43:13 +0000

Article URL: https://grohan.co/2023/08/10/vim/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37112821

Points: 2

# Comments: 0