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New comment by jalopy in "Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard"

jalopy — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 15:59:15 +0000

I’d love to see examples of this. Learning how to enhance local models to stay competitive would be a great skillset to develop.

Ornith-1.0: A family of open-source LLMs specialized for agentic coding

jalopy — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 10:45:38 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/ornith_/status/2070148887067963854

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697068

Points: 10

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New comment by jalopy in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

jalopy — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:04:51 +0000

This is a super helpful and productive comment. I look forward to a blog post describing your process in more detail.

New comment by jalopy in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

jalopy — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 14:58:30 +0000

This sounds very promising. Any link to more details?

New comment by jalopy in "The AI coding trap"

jalopy — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:26:47 +0000

Every time I read stuff like this I honestly wonder if the author is using the same tools I am.

I can have Claude Code bang out everything from boilerplate to a working prototype to a complex algorithm embedded in a very complex and confusing code base. It’s not correct 100% of the time but it’s pretty damn close. And often times it comes up with algorithms I would have never thought of initially.

These things are at least a 10x multiple of my time.

New comment by jalopy in "Up to date prices for LLM APIs all in one place"

jalopy — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:02:02 +0000

Super valuable resource - thanks!

What tools / experiments out there exist to exercise these cheaper models to output more tokens / use more CoT tokens to achieve the quality of more expensive models?

eg, Gemini 2.5 flash / pro ratio is 1 1/3 for input, 1/8 for output... Surely there's a way to ask Flash to critique it's work more thoroughly to get to Pro level performance and still save money?

New comment by jalopy in "The language brain matters more for programming than the math brain? (2020)"

jalopy — Sat, 03 May 2025 12:52:20 +0000

Interesting tidbit:

>>> In this study, high levels of these beta oscillations were associated with faster learning and more programming knowledge

This makes me think those binaural beat programs attuned to beta wave frequency might help with heavy coding sessions?

Can anyone point to studies that confirm/reject this?

New comment by jalopy in "The day I taught AI to read code like a Senior Developer"

jalopy — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 14:41:47 +0000

This looks very interesting, however it seems to me like the critical piece of this technique is missing from the post: the implementations of getFileContext() and shouldStartNewGroup().

Am I the one missing something here?

New comment by jalopy in "Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History"

jalopy — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 12:17:24 +0000

Digging in a bit more: Love this explainer of how it's done - https://www.maptiler.com/story/oldmapsonline/

New comment by jalopy in "Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History"

jalopy — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 12:15:34 +0000

This is awesome. Love this idea. What a great way to make history more alive. I've only spent ~30s with it so far but I hope to find ways to contribute to it (content and code/different visualizations)

New comment by jalopy in "My Time Working at Stripe"

jalopy — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 12:38:43 +0000

Great advice.

What books/resources do you suggest to follow more on this path of meditation (possibly also stoicism)?

New comment by jalopy in "Show HN: Visualize database schemas with a single query"

jalopy — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 11:48:30 +0000

This is great. Anyone know how hard it would be to adapt to Athena?

New comment by jalopy in "Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail"

jalopy — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 09:11:25 +0000

Do you have any open source examples (either your own or others) of simple Ruby + Sequel that are particularly elegant + productive that you could point to? Would love to see this.

I agree Ruby is the most elegant and enjoyable language to develop in.

New comment by jalopy in "Photographer captures ultra-rare red ring of light over Italy"

jalopy — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 15:42:39 +0000

How bad is it that one of my first thoughts was "This is a MidJourney / DALL-E embellishment"?

New comment by jalopy in "US annual inflation declines to 7.1% in November vs. 7.3% expected"

jalopy — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 16:58:04 +0000

It's more helpful to look at a graph to see trends: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=XCAY

As one can see, the CPI was fairly steep during the period from Jan 2021 till June 2022; from there it has visibly flattened.

EDIT: A rolling 6 month annualized rate makes the drop pretty obvious: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VCEwEDWCAaWhmbosXIcD...

New comment by jalopy in "Show HN: I made an app to help insomniacs learn how to sleep again"

jalopy — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 11:01:26 +0000

What is the difference between the $131 plan the the lifetime access for $29 I found here:

https://checkout.stripe.com/pay/cs_live_b1WrHao6Sw3In1xSCzhG...

New comment by jalopy in "Ask HN: MacBooks seems to be the only viable option these days"

jalopy — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 11:49:00 +0000

Wow. So if this is universally true - that all non-macs are garbage - why is it that review sites like Notebookcheck rate some non-macs machines close to (albeit not matching) a Macbook?

For instance:

2021 Macbook Pro 16" gets a rating of 93 (https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-MacBook-Pro-16-2021-M1-P...)

Lenovo ThinkPad P1 G4 has a 90 rating (https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-P1-G4-laptop-r...)

Are the reviewers just not evaluating machines on any real world basis? Grading on some ridiculous curve?

New comment by jalopy in "StarBook 14-inch"

jalopy — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 10:54:40 +0000

Any chance you'd be willing to share the spreadsheet (read-only)? That would be a great resource.

New comment by jalopy in "The Intel Split"

jalopy — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 23:54:56 +0000

Also with their packaging tech (EMiB and Foveros) they can mix and match chips from different fabs - ie, combine P-cores from TSMC fabs with E-cores from their own (possibly older) fabs. Alder Lake is the first real stab at the "chiplet" architecture, and it seems to be a very good outing. Future iterations will only improve, and at Intel's purchase scale economics they'll be able to manufacture chiplet designs that match market needs for the highest margin or pricing pressure to squeeze competitors, if needed.

New comment by jalopy in "The Intel Split"

jalopy — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 23:42:35 +0000

This is a "heads I win, tails I win" strategy. Give the fab business a chance to be independent and justify its massive capex and lower margin profile. Increase utilization of nodes to squeeze as much cashflow out of them as possible. If it continues to be a worthwhile cashflow endeavor, fantastic. If not, split the company and fetch a high price for a sophisticated and capable (if not #1) semi fab business.

Let the higher margin chip design business utilize whatever manufacturing process is most effective for its latest and greatest chip designs. Chip design and development won't be hamstrung by setbacks in manufacturing. Intel's scale will ensure most optimal pricing and deal terms with TSMC (if INTC doesn't use its own fab).

Along the way, there is additional upside optionality from government subsidies and support for a critical piece of infrastructure in the 21st century. Domestic fabs will be (if they aren't already) as high priority and critical to US national defense as the military hardware contractors (Boeing, Lockheed Martin, etc). That also ensures a floor to the price of the fab business should Gelsinger decide it should be sold.