<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: jedbrooke</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jedbrooke</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 02:05:33 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=jedbrooke" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jedbrooke in "Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At this point I’m less worried about some malicious AI “taking over” control of critical systems and more worried about some rich doofus <i>giving</i> control to AI.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:26:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49851403</link><dc:creator>jedbrooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49851403</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49851403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jedbrooke in "ReBarUEFI: Resizable BAR for almost any UEFI system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>thanks for the throwback, I remember having to hand patch the bios on my x79 system to use a gpu with 12GB vram. Fun times. My motherboard also mysteriously stopped working shortly after…</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:02:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49809906</link><dc:creator>jedbrooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49809906</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49809906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jedbrooke in "Show HN: LiveWorld – Every 24/7 YouTube live camera on one globe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>23 live streams at null island [0] :)<p>cool idea, I like the round globe too, now with 3D rendering in the browser being trivial on modern devices, there’s no excuse for choosing compromising 2D projections of the globe.<p>[0]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 04:22:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763292</link><dc:creator>jedbrooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763292</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jedbrooke in "I don't like passkeys"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m a big dummy who commented before reading the article, this is actually called out there<p>> The last option is to use “Hybrid Transport”, where you scan a QR code and connect via Bluetooth simultaneously to the computer. Whilst this option is secure and works in theory, reality is plagued with edge-cases where connections fail or Bluetooth is straight-up unsupported.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:30:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49756745</link><dc:creator>jedbrooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49756745</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49756745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jedbrooke in "I don't like passkeys"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> But this still breaks the login flow for a very common use case: how do I log in on a device that I don't own?<p>at least in Apple land, if you try to sign on on a device that you don’t own (let’s say a work laptop where you’re not signed in to your apple id) it’ll give you a QR code to scan with your iPhone and it’ll do faceID on your iphone then do some bluetooth handshake to use your passkey on the other device. I’m not sure if this is Apple exclusive or if android/windows/linux would be able to do the same</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:07:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49756429</link><dc:creator>jedbrooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49756429</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49756429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jedbrooke in "Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Running at about 7-8 tok/s (~60 tok/s prefill) on a Mac Mini M2 16GB.<p>So far feels smarter than Bonsai 1 27B, it’s slightly larger than the Q1_0 quant. Super exciting stuff :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 23:30:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49748190</link><dc:creator>jedbrooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49748190</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49748190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jedbrooke in "HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I like to say with LLMs the real intelligence was inside us all along.<p>That said, system prompt (which to your point also comes from the human) matters a lot too. For example a coding harness that doesn’t a have a plan mode will keep trying to write underbaked ideas to code instead of working with the user on the plan. That said, a “system prompt” can also be the first prompt you send to the agent in a vanilla chat window, so I do like your point about the user being the real harness</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:08:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49742844</link><dc:creator>jedbrooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49742844</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49742844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jedbrooke in "Show HN: Ordewell – turn one goal into an ordered plan of coding-agent tasks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’ve had success with writing eg shell scripts that have a deterministic scaffold for the thing I’m actually trying to do, then call off to the agent for only the things that actually need it. For example I was trying to find a race condition flaky bug in my code, so the shell for loop ran the build N times, and called out to the agent to analyze the build logs if the tests failed, then the shell would ping me on slack when it was done, so the whole thing could run in the background.<p>I’ve been thinking more about how this deterministic + agents style could work, it’s kinda like the analogy of factories in the 1800s going from the central shaft to electric motors on each desk (where the central shaft in this case is a chat window, and the motor on a desk is calling the llm api from wherever you want just like a normal api call)<p>Of course, maybe in a few months the agents would just be reliable enough to do the shell part on their own too, but we’ll just have to wait and see</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:36:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49714171</link><dc:creator>jedbrooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49714171</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49714171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jedbrooke in "When anyone can build software, who decides what not to build?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>ok, what is taste? how does one acquire it?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 07:22:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49680990</link><dc:creator>jedbrooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49680990</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49680990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jedbrooke in "This Month in Ladybird – August 2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder if another path to “success” for ladybird could be rather than end users downloading it for the main browser, if it gains enough dev interest, we could get some kind of competitor to electron and it would end up getting bundled in that way as a lighter weight runtime to chromium for that use case.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 01:19:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49604652</link><dc:creator>jedbrooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49604652</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49604652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jedbrooke in "Fomu An FPGA board that fits inside your USB port"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>looks like it only has the physical connections for USB 2. Fun fact about usb 3, it’s really a completely separate physical standard from usb 2, just designed in such a way that a single port can have BOTH usb 2.0 and 3.0 connectors in it at the same time. In theory this would allow for devices to use the full bandwidth of 3.0 + the full bandwidth of 2.0, but as far as I know no device does that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:12:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570856</link><dc:creator>jedbrooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570856</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jedbrooke in "Ask HN: Why are OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down? Coincidence?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>according to <a href="https://downdetector.com/" rel="nofollow">https://downdetector.com/</a> Gemini is down too (and copilot, but that just uses ChatGPT right?)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:48:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49551980</link><dc:creator>jedbrooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49551980</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49551980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jedbrooke in "Show HN: Running 104GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 48GB Mac with at ~12 tok/s"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I tried this in my mac mini m2 16GB, unfortunately I have to use an usb disk for the model weights, and I’m getting 0.5 tok/s. Still, being able to run (heh maybe crawl is more accurate) a 100B model on this computer AT ALL is pretty cool.<p>I see disk maxing out at 400 MB/s, this disk should be able to hit 1GB/s (it hits that eg when verifying the check sum of the weights), so there might be some optimization to be done there (I’m guessing it’s because the weights access is not pure sequential reads but involves some randomness depending on which expert)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 04:24:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49545904</link><dc:creator>jedbrooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49545904</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49545904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jedbrooke in "Movie Scene Map – 13,312 films, series, games, anime and manga"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>surprised to see nothing at null island[0]. Good job cleaning your data<p>[0]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:37:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527843</link><dc:creator>jedbrooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527843</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jedbrooke in "Stopping the smart TV from being used against you"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have to say though as a xfinity customer, being able to get wifi basically anywhere urban is pretty nice</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:54:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484693</link><dc:creator>jedbrooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484693</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jedbrooke in "Previewing the Model Hardware Standard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://xkcd.com/927/" rel="nofollow">https://xkcd.com/927/</a><p>To actually add something to the discussion though: I guess getting LLMs to control robots is cool, but would potentially have more severe consequences than pure software since it interacts more with the physical world</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:14:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49469814</link><dc:creator>jedbrooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49469814</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49469814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jedbrooke in "Ask HN: What is one simple thing LLMs are insanely bad at?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>that and always putting the “current year” at the end of the search term (so the results are more recent, I guess?), except that “current year” consistently ends up being 2-3 years ago since I guess that’s what’s in the training data (even on a harness that injects the current date)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 04:24:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49444150</link><dc:creator>jedbrooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49444150</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49444150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jedbrooke in "C2PA Cameras Do Not Survive Contact with Reality"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>see also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecine" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecine</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 22:50:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49441743</link><dc:creator>jedbrooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49441743</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49441743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jedbrooke in "Show HN: Shoehorn – Quantize any model down to run on your machine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I gotta laugh at some of the models it suggests, for example:<p>> AnkitAI/Parable-Qwen3-4B-Claude-Fable-5-GGUF<p>you’re telling me you managed to fit Fable 5 into just 4B?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:02:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49392496</link><dc:creator>jedbrooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49392496</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49392496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jedbrooke in "I should have loved biology (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>maybe a stupid question, but, don’t you have access to all those things now? What’s stopping you from becoming Da Vinci now?</p>
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