Hacker News: larose

Show HN: Optiverse – Evolving Code with LLMs

larose — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:34:32 +0000

Hi HN,

After seeing DeepMind's AlphaEvolve [1], I wanted to try building something similar. This isn't the first open-source attempt [2] [3] [4], and it won't be the last, but I focused on making mine more modular and customizable to make experimenting with different evolution-based approaches or prompting strategies easier (e.g. balancing exploration and exploitation).

The vision is to make it easy to swap components and experiment, though there's still work to do.

I'd love any feedback.

GitHub: https://github.com/larose/optiverse

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985489

[2] https://github.com/codelion/openevolve

[3] https://www.saipraneeth.in/ml/building-evolve

[4] https://github.com/paperswithbacktest/pwb-alphaevolve

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44522181

Points: 1

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New comment by larose in "Ask HN: Will you help create a void-filler for the defunct hnbadges.netlify.app?"

larose — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 17:20:47 +0000

Regarding the HN to sqlite part, I'm writing a "syncer" that continuously updates data from HN to a local sqlite database. Its goal is to enable anyone to have a local copy of the HN dataset to build various projects (like yours) on top of it. I'm about to release it as an open-source project and would love to collaborate to make sure it supports your use case. I couldn't find an email address in your profile, so please reach out if you're interested.

Show HN: Git-Backup – Back Up Your Git Repositories to S3

larose — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 20:50:49 +0000

Article URL: https://mathieularose.com/git-backup

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40557118

Points: 4

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New comment by larose in "Show HN: Hacker Search – A semantic search engine for Hacker News"

larose — Thu, 02 May 2024 23:04:20 +0000

Not LLM-based, but I built https://hn.lixiasearch.com . Feel free to use it as a comparison point :)

New comment by larose in "Changelog-Driven Releases"

larose — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 13:21:01 +0000

Oops, that's just bad writing from me. Should be clearer now that they aren't cancelling each other. Thanks!

Changelog-Driven Releases

larose — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 17:23:29 +0000

Article URL: https://mathieularose.com/changelog-driven-releases

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40107442

Points: 1

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New comment by larose in "Ask HN: Do you also marvel at the complexity of everyday objects?"

larose — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:59:51 +0000

Same! You may enjoy "Everyday Engineering: Understanding the Marvels of Daily Life" from The Great Courses [0]. It's free on Kanopy through many libraries.

[0]: https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/everyday-engineering...

Show HN: Hacker News Search

larose — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 14:37:20 +0000

Article URL: https://hn.lixialabs.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39067935

Points: 2

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New comment by larose in "Ask HN: How do you backup your personal data? (2022)"

larose — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 21:22:30 +0000

I use Oak Backup (https://www.oakbackup.com) and backup to S3.

New comment by larose in "YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git"

larose — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 12:09:30 +0000

Indeed. And you don't even need to create a PR to "inject" commits into a GitHub repo. You just need to fork it and push to your fork. See https://mathieularose.com/github-commit-injection