Hacker News: jimmySixDOF

New comment by jimmySixDOF in "Dolly Parton has died"

jimmySixDOF — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:20:52 +0000

Her cover of Stairway to Heaven is definitely crossover at its best

New comment by jimmySixDOF in "OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell"

jimmySixDOF — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:52:42 +0000

I love how now you have to consider the possible s** posting motivation behind analysis of a trillion dollar industry being conducted at a world-class level by a bunch of ex Reddit and 4Chan adjacent mods -- it's one of the best stories in AI that SemiAnalysis is not cut from the same cloth as Gartner McKinsey et al

New comment by jimmySixDOF in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"

jimmySixDOF — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:57:01 +0000

I'm working with a lab that has a few Ampere GPUs on infiniband and they are just not compatible with the latest quants and vLLM updates. FP8 is about as low as you can go.

New comment by jimmySixDOF in "The coolest use for the Vision Pro"

jimmySixDOF — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:24:45 +0000

Freebird XR is available in blender plugins for VR display

New comment by jimmySixDOF in "Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks"

jimmySixDOF — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:12:43 +0000

Maybe similar to Instructor [1] which was a cool tool for json and structured output enforcement combining pydandic with ai retry loops very handy for when models don't have that covered

[1] https://github.com/567-labs/instructor

New comment by jimmySixDOF in "Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer"

jimmySixDOF — Sat, 16 May 2026 09:11:01 +0000

Unfortunately drag-scroll is not in enough places to make this work without a dedicated wheel but I do have an eye on these

New comment by jimmySixDOF in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

jimmySixDOF — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:47:53 +0000

They had a reddit with GPT2 back and forth I have to say I got suckered into a conversation before I figured it out -- it was definitely the OG Moltbook of non sequiturs

New comment by jimmySixDOF in "Show HN: Disputron – AI small claims court for petty disputes"

jimmySixDOF — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:18:31 +0000

As Agents become the true Internet of Things they are going to resurface crypto DAO ideas about code-as-law and sprinklings of blockchains onto LLM-as-Judge in this case for real!

New comment by jimmySixDOF in "Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text"

jimmySixDOF — Fri, 08 May 2026 09:48:48 +0000

Except Qwen already release their own fully baked interpretability SAE toolkit tuned on their models so deserve credit here and activation telescopes should be a standard part of every major release

[1] https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-scope

New comment by jimmySixDOF in "Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker"

jimmySixDOF — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:05:48 +0000

Is there a similarly bombastic take on Motorola somewhere?

New comment by jimmySixDOF in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"

jimmySixDOF — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:27:00 +0000

>at such as scale

Not to downplay the positive steps that are being taken but we are conveniently skipping over the denominator here at least in the case of Ethiopia and DRC who both have a grid that is only serving their full population at a fraction of the level needed to make this story one about geographical lotteries and abundance instead of one about poverty preventing them from access to the traditional carbon power generating routes to server the rest of the population.

New comment by jimmySixDOF in "Tofolli gates are all you need"

jimmySixDOF — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:57:26 +0000

These 3 way gates also seem to be part of the recent algorithmic advances in Quantum Computing that have put useful applications in reach sooner than previously expected and it kind of reminds me how AI made a lot of the real gains with math optimizations like dropping to NVFP4 etc it all seems like we have been feeling our way in the dark but just starting to touch things

New comment by jimmySixDOF in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

jimmySixDOF — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:41:48 +0000

Pine tar is used in topical medicine for dermatology around the world I don't think it's limited to anywhere particular.

New comment by jimmySixDOF in "We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant"

jimmySixDOF — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:59:45 +0000

There a lot of methods in IR/RAG that maintain structure as metadata used in a hybrid fusion to augment search. Graph databases is an extreme form but some RAG pipelines pull out and embed the metadata with the chunk together. In the specific case of code, other layered approaches like ColGrep (late interaction) show promise.... the point is most search most of the time will benefit from a combination approach not a silver bullet

New comment by jimmySixDOF in "Artemis II's toilet is a moon mission milestone"

jimmySixDOF — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 05:58:02 +0000

>toilets are the Brown M&M clause(0)

I have seen engineering shops where the conversation about fixing some small but simple thing before a deadline gets filed into "better to give the consultants reviewing this some low hanging fruit for the snag list."

(0) Actual backstage contract riders for rock stars : https://www.thesmokinggun.com/backstage

New comment by jimmySixDOF in "Show HN: Gemini can now natively embed video, so I built sub-second video search"

jimmySixDOF — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:28:41 +0000

How are you getting to $2.50/hr ? The price sheet says its 0.00079 per frame.

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing#gemini-embeddi...

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

jimmySixDOF — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:13:13 +0000

Not sure that Trivy was doing that itself but zizmor is probably better than starting with an LLM :

https://github.com/zizmorcore/zizmor

New comment by jimmySixDOF in "Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system"

jimmySixDOF — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:03:41 +0000

I'm a big fan of Research Plan Implement like this peak build-in-public multi foundation model cross check approach:

https://x.com/i/status/2033368385724014827

New comment by jimmySixDOF in "Show HN: AgentMailr – dedicated email inboxes for AI agents"

jimmySixDOF — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 06:48:18 +0000

Before there was OpenClaw (nee ClawdBot) the Beads project was multi-agent harness hotness and the agent-mail was part of its success and still getting some work to fix zookeeper type coordination problems with agent messaging sync/async workloads here is some of the new direction if you run into any of the same issues :

https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/cass-memory-system-agen...

New comment by jimmySixDOF in "Show HN: Rudel – Claude Code Session Analytics"

jimmySixDOF — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:53:39 +0000

Note: Linko currently only supports macOS.