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New comment by jdauriemma in "Show HN: Ive Sent It – online courier for files, with signed proof of delivery"

jdauriemma — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:44:29 +0000

At least 250% more pulsing dots!

Reasoning Yield: share of tokens spent resolving uncertainty

jdauriemma — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:37:24 +0000

Article URL: https://jeffauriemma.leaflet.pub/3mv6jnffo6k24

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49815972

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GraphQL-backed MCP tools are more token-efficient

jdauriemma — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:18:03 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/apollographql/graphql-mcp-benchmarks/blob/main/WRITEUP.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49741162

Points: 2

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New comment by jdauriemma in "Can we stop with the uptime percentages?"

jdauriemma — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:32:29 +0000

I think this idea is objectively good, but practically hazardous. "Four nines" is a meme at this point, and it's a helpful one: a commonly understood gold standard. Few people know that translates to roughly 4 minutes and 19 seconds of downtime per month. Since service quality is degrading, I fear that changing the way we express those uptime might also unintentionally provide convenient cover to reset expectations, e.g. 10 minutes of downtime is the new norm for reliability. Or 30 minutes. I don't think we should yield the Overton Window, so to speak, to this.

Categorizing AI inference: Initialization, Reasoning, Orchestration, Synthesis

jdauriemma — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:59:21 +0000

Article URL: https://jeffauriemma.leaflet.pub/3mv6jnffo6k24

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49702143

Points: 2

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A functional taxonomy for LLM inference in agentic tasks

jdauriemma — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:00:47 +0000

Article URL: https://jeffauriemma.leaflet.pub/3mv6jnffo6k24

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49646923

Points: 2

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New comment by jdauriemma in "Bob and Van"

jdauriemma — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:28:38 +0000

That's a narrower framing than I had in mind for my original comment. My whole point is that "politics" has transcended any single issue and has become indicative of a much broader world view. Sure, if you zoom in on any policy question you'll find plenty of places where reasonable people can honestly disagree. But that's not the way our political system functions.

New comment by jdauriemma in "Bob and Van"

jdauriemma — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 19:24:20 +0000

I do talk to people. A lot. I live in a politically mixed area, a lean-red town in a solid-blue US state. Most people keep their "political" leanings to themselves but it doesn't take very long to get a clue. I'm thinking of one friend-of-a-friend with whom I interact fairly frequently. I know their views on current events not because they've said anything directly to me but they're active on Facebook and other friends have shown me some posts. What do I do? Pretend it doesn't bother me that they have chosen to advance causes that I believe are actively undermining our society? Right now I'm polite to them. But I feel like it's dishonest on some level.

New comment by jdauriemma in "Bob and Van"

jdauriemma — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:31:39 +0000

I struggle with this. Where I live, it's harder nowadays to compartmentalize how someone votes from their core values. What we used to call "politics" now encompasses some fundamental aspects of how we observe and process our daily lives.

Hilbert's Paradox of the Grand Hotel

jdauriemma — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:27:53 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_paradox_of_the_Grand_Hotel

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49554434

Points: 2

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New comment by jdauriemma in "I wanna live an NPC life"

jdauriemma — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:28:47 +0000

I think this stretches the "NPC" term beyond its utility. It’s a cute little insult, but once you redefine it to mean “ignore status games, stop worrying about what other people are doing, and live according to your own priorities,” you’re basically just restating advice that’s been around for millennia. That’s Stoicism, Buddhism, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck, etc. I’m not sure this new metaphor is adding anything.

New comment by jdauriemma in "A2A: Adversary to Adversary?"

jdauriemma — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:02:04 +0000

You make a fair point, though I'm not sure how it might handle negotiation. MCP = RPC, and I'm not sure how you RPC your way into handling an open ended conversation

A2A: Adversary to Adversary?

jdauriemma — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:43:25 +0000

Article URL: https://jeffauriemma.leaflet.pub/3mtjopgdlps2w

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49377021

Points: 2

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Music notes are no longer the bottleneck (ca. 1600)

jdauriemma — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:10:39 +0000

Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/jeff.auriemma.xyz/post/3msvhsitaf22m

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49274679

Points: 3

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New comment by jdauriemma in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

jdauriemma — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:38:27 +0000

No doubt, but I'd expect that to be accompanied by something like "I know App X and App Y do $THING, but here's the distinction between how they do it and how my App Z does it." I don't think I've ever seen that sort of nuance expressed in this context, which makes me doubt that they grasp the ecosystem.

New comment by jdauriemma in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

jdauriemma — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:18:57 +0000

One can hope!

New comment by jdauriemma in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

jdauriemma — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:41:20 +0000

I see symptoms of this all the time. For example, it's a weekly annoyance for folks to pop into /r/strava to showcase their vibe-coded app that uses the Strava API to do $THING. Then someone invariably points out that an existing app (or even Strava itself) already does $THING, and often it's free. I don't mean to be negative, I think it's great that people are building useful niche software and I don't blame them for wanting to share it. A significant part of the problem is that it's much harder nowadays to find "prior art" because keyword/boolean web searches have been FUBAR.

Stateless MCP is cheaper to scale

jdauriemma — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:39:16 +0000

Article URL: https://jeffauriemma.leaflet.pub/3msdu742fik24

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184433

Points: 3

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New comment by jdauriemma in "You can't prompt your way into policy"

jdauriemma — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:53:44 +0000

Thank you! Yeah, I think a useful thought experiment is that controls made up of boolean inputs should never be expressed as prompts. Encapsulate those into a tool, ideally one that's generated from existing business nouns and verbs.

You can't prompt your way into policy

jdauriemma — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:18:14 +0000

Article URL: https://jeffauriemma.leaflet.pub/3msbfyqckyk2u

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171030

Points: 2

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