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New comment by icelancer in "We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag"

icelancer — Tue, 19 May 2026 05:52:52 +0000

repo is cloned, AGENTS.md is auto-read into context, the doc says to not allow PR spam. think of it like a soft prompt hook.

New comment by icelancer in "Intel Arc Pro B70 Review"

icelancer — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:40:13 +0000

This is only true for some parts of the time cost function.

New comment by icelancer in "Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding"

icelancer — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:54:27 +0000

love this adversarial work

MoA-X: Mixture of Agents Orchestration Framework

icelancer — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:32:43 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/drivelineresearch/moa-x

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835807

Points: 2

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New comment by icelancer in "College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work"

icelancer — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 03:52:30 +0000

Lambda calculus?!

New comment by icelancer in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

icelancer — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:42:27 +0000

Handing over email metadata, or whatever your interrogator wants from you, will only cause them to shift the goalposts, or find something they want to find in the metadata even if it exonerates you.

There is no reason to cooperate with journalists with a slant.

New comment by icelancer in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

icelancer — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:39:35 +0000

All of us "olds" had this as a hobby. Or used it regularly.

Just a bunch of weird stuff in this article.

New comment by icelancer in "Cloud VM benchmarks 2026"

icelancer — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 05:02:56 +0000

No doubt. Especially for GPU inference at scale. We overclock/overvolt for training and tune way down for inference.

New comment by icelancer in "Cloud VM benchmarks 2026"

icelancer — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 02:34:22 +0000

Self-racking lets you rack a bunch of gear you'd never find in VM/dedicated rentals, like consumer parts or older, still very good parts. Overclocking options are available as well if you DIY.

If you need single-threaded performance, colo is really the only way to go anyway.

We have two full racks and we're super happy with them.

New comment by icelancer in "GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark"

icelancer — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:08:04 +0000

> What am I missing?

VRAM capacity given the Cerebras/Groq architecture compared to Nvidia.

In parallel, RAM contracts that Nvidia has negotiated well into the future that other manufacturers have been unable to secure.

New comment by icelancer in "Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt"

icelancer — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:08:03 +0000

Interesting - I'll try some other methods

New comment by icelancer in "Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors"

icelancer — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 02:47:08 +0000

I generally agree with you. But I put up with it since Notepad++ is good software. It is what it is.

New comment by icelancer in "Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt"

icelancer — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 02:31:14 +0000

I've had a lot of problems with even 10GbE via Thunderbolt 3/4. Bandwidth-wise it works fine, but latency and jitter are issues. This means that stuff like high-speed cameras that need to be synchronized over Ethernet using Precision Time Protocol (PTP) tend to simply fail with these devices.

New comment by icelancer in "Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors"

icelancer — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 02:21:13 +0000

Yeah, Notepad++ is known for political messaging in their updates. Taiwan, Ukraine, etc.

New comment by icelancer in "Unrolling the Codex agent loop"

icelancer — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:21:27 +0000

Their compaction endpoint is far and away the best in the industry. Claude's has to be dead last.

New comment by icelancer in "Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced"

icelancer — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:10:28 +0000

> sub 900 not possible though.

I performed a similar analysis to you and found it very difficult to imagine sub-1000. Your comment I think convinced me that it may be possible, though. Interesting.

I'm below the threshold for recruiting but not below Claude at the moment. Not sure where I am going wrong.

New comment by icelancer in "Why are my headphones buzzing whenever I run my game?"

icelancer — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:41:06 +0000

Yeah this is the main reason to use a USB DAC. I guess you get marginally better sound quality (more noticeable on expensive studio headphones that need more power to drive them) but better isolation/removal from the noise source is the main reason I use them. Especially relevant because in my travel I'm often in countries that don't have ground plugs in their power sources.

New comment by icelancer in "AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time"

icelancer — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:46:41 +0000

I've found this mostly to be the case when using lightweight open source models or mini models.

Rarely is this an issue with SOTA models like Sonnet-4.5, Opus-4.1, GPT-5-Thinking or better, etc. But that's expensive, so all the companies use cut-rate models or non-existent TTC to save on cost and to go faster.

New comment by icelancer in "Claude Code on the web"

icelancer — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:33:46 +0000

I just run the agent directly on separate testing/dev servers via remote-ssh in VS Code to have an IDE to sanity check stuff. Just far simpler than local dev and other nonsense.

New comment by icelancer in "Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it?"

icelancer — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 18:47:26 +0000

That's awesome!