Hacker News: iwhalen

New comment by iwhalen in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On?"

iwhalen — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:49:34 +0000

Implementing Tierra [1] in Zig a learning exercise. Trying to push all allocations to compile time and not use LLMs for coding. Repo: https://github.com/iwhalen/zierra

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierra_(computer_simulation)

New comment by iwhalen in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

iwhalen — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:45:12 +0000

uv supports the same for any Python developers out there: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/resolution/#dependency-co...

New comment by iwhalen in "Why are large language models so terrible at video games?"

iwhalen — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:08:24 +0000

To pile on, they're also bad at games that are 2D text based environments.

ARC-AGI-3 shows this: https://arcprize.org/arc-agi/3

I've done some work as well on Rogue (sorry for self-promotion): https://iwhalen.github.io/rogue-bench/

Show HN: Rogue-Bench – LLMs play the game Rogue

iwhalen — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:18:58 +0000

Article URL: https://iwhalen.github.io/rogue-bench/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278735

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by iwhalen in "Gemini 3.5: frontier intelligence with action"

iwhalen — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:09:37 +0000

I wonder why they didn't discuss price in the post?

Compare to the GPT-5.5 announcement: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/

New comment by iwhalen in "United Wizards of the Coast"

iwhalen — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:07:43 +0000

From the full letter[1]:

> Our Free Time is Our Own: Currently, if an employee makes anything creative in their free time, with their own resources, Hasbro may claim ownership. What we do in our free time should not be dictated by the company; neither should what we make in our free time be owned by the company.

How common is this in creative fields?

From my perspective this seems outlandish. Imagine doing FOSS work or a side project on your personal computer and your company tries to claim it. Odd...

[1]: https://unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/letter

New comment by iwhalen in "Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised"

iwhalen — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:05:03 +0000

What is happening in this issue thread? Why are there 100+ satisfied slop comments?

New comment by iwhalen in "Cursor: Frontier Models Moving to Max Mode for Legacy Team/Enterprise Plans"

iwhalen — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:30:42 +0000

Makes me wonder if the era of heavily subsidized tokens is ending.

Cursor: Frontier Models Moving to Max Mode for Legacy Team/Enterprise Plans

iwhalen — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:05:22 +0000

Article URL: https://forum.cursor.com/t/megathread-frontier-models-moving-to-max-mode-for-legacy-team-enterprise-plans/155053

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47425309

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

New comment by iwhalen in "GLiNER2: Unified Schema-Based Information Extraction"

iwhalen — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:46:30 +0000

Very cool stuff. Love the focus on CPU-first.

Would also love to see some throughput numbers on basic VM setup.

Edit: there are some latency numbers in the paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18546