Hacker News: kmad

Token Capital Efficiency

kmad — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 21:01:59 +0000

Article URL: https://kmad.ai/Token-Capital-Efficiency

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48711616

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kmad in "Agents need control flow, not more prompts"

kmad — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:17:36 +0000

This is, at least in part, the promise of frameworks like DSPy and PydanticAI. They allow you to structure LLM calls within the broader control flow of the program, with typed inputs and outputs. That doesn’t fix non-determinism, hallucinations, etc., but it does allow you to decompose what it is you’re trying to accomplish and be very precise about when an LLM is called and why.

Achieving 20%+ improvement in structured extraction using DSPy and GEPA

kmad — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:58:41 +0000

Article URL: https://kmad.ai/DSPy-Optimization

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46289313

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Notes On: Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks

kmad — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:25:22 +0000

Article URL: https://kmad.ai/AI-Long-Horizon-Tasks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43821295

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by kmad in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

kmad — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 23:34:08 +0000

Awesome! Have you considered pyodide[1]? Pydantic uses this for sandboxing its AI agents [2].

1. https://pyodide.org/en/stable/ 2. https://ai.pydantic.dev/mcp/run-python/

New comment by kmad in "An LLM plugin to support Structured Outputs"

kmad — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 14:14:51 +0000

A plugin for Simon Willison's llm tool to support Structured Outputs using a simple YAML definition file.

An LLM plugin to support Structured Outputs

kmad — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 14:14:50 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/kmad/llm-structure

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42697428

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Measuring LLM Confidence with Structured Outputs

kmad — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 02:00:43 +0000

Article URL: https://kmad0.github.io/Measuring-LLM-Confidence

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42467581

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kmad in "Fiscal Dominance and the Return of Zero-Interest Bank Reserve Requirements [pdf]"

kmad — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 02:42:51 +0000

Abstract:

As a matter of arithmetic, the trends of US government debt and deficits will eventually result in an outrageously high government debt-to-GDP ratio. But when exactly will the United States hit the constraint of infeasibility and how exactly will policy adjust to it? This article considers fiscal dominance, which is the possibility that accumulating government debt and deficits can produce increases in inflation that “dominate” central bank intentions to keep inflation low. Is it a serious possibility for the United States in the near future? And how might various policies change (especially those related to the banking system) if fiscal dominance became a reality?

Fiscal Dominance and the Return of Zero-Interest Bank Reserve Requirements [pdf]

kmad — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 02:42:51 +0000

Article URL: https://files.stlouisfed.org/files/htdocs/publications/review/2023/06/02/fiscal-dominance-and-the-return-of-zero-interest-bank-reserve-requirements.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36781529

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by kmad in "Matrices and Graph"

kmad — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 14:04:20 +0000

This approach reminds me of RedisGraph[1] (which is now unfortunately EoL).

"RedisGraph is the first queryable Property Graph database to use sparse matrices to represent the adjacency matrix in graphs and linear algebra to query the graph."

1. https://github.com/RedisGraph/RedisGraph

New comment by kmad in "E3: Microsoft’s next Xbox: 8K graphics, SSD storage, and ray-tracing for 2020"

kmad — Sun, 09 Jun 2019 23:48:38 +0000

Sounds like a perfect application for Micron/Intel's (yet to be widely commercialized) 3D XPoint[1] :) Although I find it highly unlikely a new Xbox would be the place to debut the technology.

Regardless, claimed latency is between DRAM and NAND, so I wonder if it would be performant enough for a gaming use case. To mikeash's point, 3D XPoint is byte-addressable, so perhaps it's possible...

[1] https://www.micron.com/products/advanced-solutions/3d-xpoint...

New comment by kmad in "Why I don't like smartcards, HSMs, YubiKeys, etc."

kmad — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 19:48:11 +0000

How does something like the U2F Zero[1] compare?

As I understand it, the u2f zero acts as an HID device and not as a smartcard provider, but could one modify the firmware to do that? Isn't this basically an open source yubikey you can make yourself for < $25?

1. https://github.com/conorpp/u2f-zero

New comment by kmad in "Adblock Browser for Android"

kmad — Wed, 20 May 2015 14:47:56 +0000

Just going off memory, but something like this seems to work for me on rooted Android (or wherever your hosts file is):

curl http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts > /system/etc/hosts

Of course all the normal disclaimer stuff, make sure you look at what you're putting in there, etc. But Mr. Pollock's list has worked wonders for me

New comment by kmad in "Ask HN: You want Atom invites/you have invites to give?"

kmad — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:01:22 +0000

Would love an invite! - kmadura AT googlemail