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New comment by jptlnk in "How will the miracle happen today?"

jptlnk — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 16:49:44 +0000

If I may, I think that's actually part of the point, and (at least for me) part of the lesson.

I read him as saying that part of the miracle to him is that he has experienced something that makes him realize that it's a lot harder than it sounds to be loving and kind with no (or few) conditions, and to open your home and life to a stranger.

For me, a lesson of this piece is actually the juxtaposition of the relative ease of -accepting- help and the strange difficulty of -offering- help. It's worth reflecting on, and imo much more relatable.

I'm reminded of a friend who talks about primary and secondary wants. He wants to eat a burger, but he wants to want to eat a salad. Maybe KK wants to want to help people, and the challenge for him is connecting the dots.

New comment by jptlnk in "Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor"

jptlnk — Wed, 07 May 2025 15:41:38 +0000

I don't think it's obvious but in my own experiments with this it's things like permissions that can get a little hairy. It's all doable and IMO preferable to have an agent-as-daemon. aider is kind of like this.

New comment by jptlnk in "Get the hell out of the LLM as soon as possible"

jptlnk — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 03:56:54 +0000

What's 'this', do you mean the command pattern being described? If so, yes - I've used it to great effect, if the code around it is designed properly. It's even amenable to evals if you can write the LLM call as a function that operates on some state:

  (document, input) -> command  
  (document, command) -> document'  
  # assert something about document' relative to document

New comment by jptlnk in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)"

jptlnk — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 14:18:57 +0000

Pioneer Square Labs (PSL) | Principal Engineer | Onsite - Seattle, WA | Full-Time | psl.com

At the PSL studio, we build startups from zero to launch. Over the past 9 years, we've validated 450+ ideas and spun out north of 40 companies.

Our core team of engineers works to validate the technical feasibility of idea/seed stage companies and build prototypes for them once we've reached conviction on the market.

We have 3 principal engineers currently and have an opening for one more.

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New comment by jptlnk in "I keep a WTF notebook (2021)"

jptlnk — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 23:47:58 +0000

Without imputing any actual intention to the author, I agree with your points on tone. It feels focused on optics, not outcomes.

It's one thing to say that you want to get things done. It's another to say you want to be _seen_ as someone who gets things done.

Again, I don't intend to mind read here, and I think the author actually has some really good data gathering ideas. But the language definitely smacks of political motivation, which some folks (myself included) find off-putting.

New comment by jptlnk in "AI is powering the second renaissance of the semiconductor industry"

jptlnk — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 17:08:27 +0000

hey hn, I'm the lead engineer on this project. This was a super fun feature to build, and was incredibly challenging at a technical level.

Lots of fun stuff to figure out, from wrangling structured data, working around limited context sizes, and figuring out how to even write down sensible metrics to determine how well the models are doing.

AMA!

AI is powering the second renaissance of the semiconductor industry

jptlnk — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 16:58:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.flux.ai/p/blog/ai-can-now-create-components-for-you

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39469830

Points: 13

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New comment by jptlnk in "Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?"

jptlnk — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 18:32:13 +0000

I built the copilot for flux.ai, which allows LLM-driven interaction with circuit schematics and datasheets.

The stack is react / cloud run / job queue / LLMs (several) / vector db.

New comment by jptlnk in "The first observation of neutrinos at CERN's Large Hadron Collider"

jptlnk — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 21:00:21 +0000

relevant pre-print is here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.08665.pdf

that'll be my evening reading :)

New comment by jptlnk in "The first observation of neutrinos at CERN's Large Hadron Collider"

jptlnk — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 20:52:14 +0000

I haven't read the full article yet but the abstract has some hints: I think what they're doing is leveraging the fact that they know where and when the neutrinos were created to narrow down the search in the actual neutrino detector itself.

Because they can see the associated muon, they know when to look for a correlated neutrino signal.

Between that and the extremely hot source, they can get away with a relatively small active detector volume.

Again that's just based on my reading of the abstract, I need to see the full article to validate that guess.

New comment by jptlnk in "Show HN: Flux Copilot – Generative AI for hardware design"

jptlnk — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 20:23:45 +0000

hey, I'm the lead engineer on this project! I love that you did this :)

our experience thus far is that GPT4 definitely needs help when it comes to datasheet-like data. it's great at broad "functional" strokes, but details and particularly numerical details are not its forte.

we're working on it!

About the security content of iOS 14.4 and iPadOS 14.4

jptlnk — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 04:05:37 +0000

Article URL: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212146

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25924122

Points: 60

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