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New comment by hoistway in "Show HN: Pac-Bench – How well can models one-shot a Pac-Man game?"

hoistway — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:51:55 +0000

Always assumed Pac-Man was an easy solve for modern AI. Guess those ghost patterns are trickier than they look for one-shot learning.

New comment by hoistway in "Self-Hosting on the Dark Web"

hoistway — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:53:52 +0000

Adds a whole new layer of paranoia, but for some things, it's probably the only way to genuinely stay off the grid.

New comment by hoistway in "Book review: Is parallel programming hard, and, if so, what can you do about it?"

hoistway — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 02:46:02 +0000

Spent days tracking down a deadlock that only manifested under specific load. Definitely hard, even with good tooling.

New comment by hoistway in "I Put Nam A2-Lite Inside an iRig HD X"

hoistway — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 02:28:02 +0000

Always great to see folks modding their audio interfaces. How's the power draw with NAM running on that hardware?

New comment by hoistway in "US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons"

hoistway — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:27:03 +0000

Guess someone finally pushed that 'deploy to production' button on orbital defense. Always assumed this was already live for years.

New comment by hoistway in "Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?"

hoistway — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:26:25 +0000

Skills files only help when the model can't infer the procedure from the repo. Most of the time a good prompt does the same job.

New comment by hoistway in "My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini"

hoistway — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:10:21 +0000

Been curious about the M4 Pro for local models. My M3 Max machine still chugs on larger LLMs, definitely eyeing an upgrade.

New comment by hoistway in "Version Control for Everything"

hoistway — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:09:22 +0000

The revert safety net is what makes agentic coding tolerable. Without version control, every AI mistake becomes permanent, and that alone kills the workflow.