Hacker News: iwhalen

Pseudo-Relevances with Jev

iwhalen — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 01:57:57 +0000

Article URL: https://iwhalen.com/jev-pseudo-relevance/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49973267

Points: 1

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New comment by iwhalen in "MiMo-v2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"

iwhalen — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:27:51 +0000

Was going to say the same thing. The announcement blog[1] has the flash benchmarks. AFAICT Artificial Analysis has not added it yet though.

Interested to see if it also beats DeepSeek V4.1 Flash.

[1]: https://mimo.xiaomi.com/mimo-v2-6

Evaluating AI Agents Live at the Grounded Reasoning Cup

iwhalen — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:46:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.databricks.com/blog/evaluating-ai-agents-live-grounded-reasoning-cup

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49376261

Points: 2

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Exploring Kendall's Tau

iwhalen — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:54:13 +0000

Article URL: https://iwhalen.com/kendall-tau/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313229

Points: 2

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Darwin as a Role Model for Aging

iwhalen — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:16:45 +0000

Article URL: https://telliamedrevisited.wordpress.com/2026/08/14/darwin-as-a-role-model-for-aging/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49304020

Points: 2

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New comment by iwhalen in "Show HN: Watch 14-Byte AI "brains" attempt to solve a 2D maze (Its hard)"

iwhalen — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:13:26 +0000

If your goal is to get the network as small as possible, you could try using NEAT[1]. A cool example of a small network for a hard task using NEAT is MarI/O[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroevolution_of_augmenting_t...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv6UVOQ0F44

The computer has been surprising us

iwhalen — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:11:48 +0000

Article URL: https://iwhalen.com/computer-surprise/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49043166

Points: 5

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New comment by iwhalen in "AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design"

iwhalen — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 18:08:31 +0000

I came to mention genetic antennae as well!

Since you beat me to it, I'll add something that relates relates you were saying on "realizing some pretty simple... ideas".

I think a big plus of computer aided design like this is "innovization"[1]. Somewhat awkward term. But, a system like this leading one to deeper understanding of a particular process is the general idea. It's a fun feeling in practice.

[1]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1143997.1144266

New comment by iwhalen in "Never talk to the police"

iwhalen — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:32:08 +0000

A lot of discussion in this thread about traffic stops. James Duane (the law professor from the video in the blog) himself makes a qualifier about traffic stops: https://youtu.be/-FENubmZGj8?si=bL_1vR0xFKQqkmC5&t=505

Roguelites and Gambling

iwhalen — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:43:37 +0000

Article URL: https://iwhalen.com/rougelites-and-gambling/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542056

Points: 2

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New comment by iwhalen in "Fox to buy Roku"

iwhalen — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:42:42 +0000

If you already have a gaming desktop, I can recommend Shield for both. Streaming services work out of the box of course. Then I use Sunshine[1] on my desktop to stream to Moonlight on the Shield. Both have wired ethernet connections. Latency is not noticeable in most cases.

[1]: https://app.lizardbyte.dev/Sunshine/

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

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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

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