Hacker News: mindcrime

New comment by mindcrime in "One Interface, Every Protocol"

mindcrime — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:20:05 +0000

Huh. This sounds really interesting. Will definitely give it a look later this evening. At first blush, this sounds like something I could use.

Tennessee is about to make building chatbots a Class A felony

mindcrime — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:17:30 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1slu23a/red_alert_tennessee_is_about_to_make_building/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47784650

Points: 33

# Comments: 11

New comment by mindcrime in "Ask HN: Why/how do you use LLMs to draft tech blogs?"

mindcrime — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:27:23 +0000

I don't. While I'm as big an advocate for AI as anyone you're likely to meet, there are very pointedly things I don't use AI for. And one is "writing for me". I refuse to do it as a matter of principle, because I consider it very important that anything I write is very authentic and written in my voice. I would rather accept some grammar and spelling mistakes, or an awkward sentence here and there, or whatever, than risk having my writing feel artificial.

Of course the downside is that I'm not able to churn out as much "stuff" as people who do use AI for that purpose. So my blog[1], for example, hasn't had a new post submitted in months. I have 5 or 6 posts in WIP status, but they'll be finished when they're finished.

NOTE: I will use AI to do background research, gather references, etc., etc. But the actual writing stays all me.

[1]: http://philliprhodes.name/roller

New comment by mindcrime in "Ask HN: What's the point in creating a startup when anyone can copy it in days?"

mindcrime — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:21:27 +0000

The important parts of your business cannot, in fact, be "copied in days". Things like trust, based on demonstrated reliability over time, human relationships based on being a decent human being and treating your customers with respect, your willingness to bend over backwards to accomodate special requests from customers, your ability to embed yourself into your customers' environment and build a genuinely deep understanding of their problems and challenges... etc., etc.

Copying technology is easy. But "business ≠ technology".

New comment by mindcrime in "Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug"

mindcrime — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:22:12 +0000

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth

New comment by mindcrime in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

mindcrime — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:20:03 +0000

I've been building an AgentRegistry. Right now it is mainly based on A2A Agents that run in Docker containers. There's an auto-register module that watches the Docker system event log (I'll add support for K8S eventually) and if it sees a container spin up with the right labels, it fetches the AgentCard from the Agent, then registers an Upstream and Route with APISIX, then updates the 'url' field in the AgentCard, and stores the AgentCard in the Registry.

The Registry in turn has two interfaces: one REST, and one A2A itself. If you hit /.well-known/agent-card.json on the Registry server, you get the AgentListerAgent, which supports searching for Agents by various criteria. Or you can search using the REST interface. In either case, you get an AgentCard that points to the correct APISIX endpoint to talk to the desired Agent.

Besides adding K8S support, other plans include adding support for other proxy providers (including Istio for the K8S case), supporting Agents that are not based on A2A and, allowing Agents to register themselves using the Registry API, and... uh, well, that's the main stuff I have in mind right now. Aaah, wait, I might do something along the lines of integrating an MCP Registry as well, not sure yet. Heck maybe I'll get bored and make it an all-out API registry for all sorts of endpoints... could integrate a UDDI server and bake in WSDL support for good measure! (Don't count on that last bit happening anytime soon).

Anyway, no repo to share right this second, but I do intend to make it open source. I'm just committing the cardinal sin right now of wanting to "make it presentable before releasing the code".

New comment by mindcrime in "Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'"

mindcrime — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:56:58 +0000

Last year, AMD ran a GitHub poll for ROCm complaints and received more than 1,000 responses. Many were around supporting older hardware, which is today supported either by AMD or by the community, and one year on, all 1,000 complaints have been addressed, Elangovan said. AMD has a team going through GitHub complaints, but Elangovan continues to encourage developers to reach out on X where he’s always happy to listen.

Seems like they're making some effort in that direction at least. If you have specific concerns, maybe try hitting up Anush Elangovan on Twitter?

Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'

mindcrime — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:38:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.eetimes.com/taking-on-cuda-with-rocm-one-step-after-another/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47745284

Points: 263

# Comments: 197

New comment by mindcrime in "Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6 (2010)"

mindcrime — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:32:04 +0000

Since we're talking about archive.org stuff, if y'all will permit it, I'd like to call attention to this thread as well

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47702136

It looks like CiteseerX from PSU is now effectively offline and everything is redirecting to the Wayback Machine. But many of those links are not in the Wayback Machine. Hopefully there is - or can be - some focused effort to get that content transferred over, if the citeseerx site is really going away for good.

New comment by mindcrime in "Citeseerx.ist.psu.edu Archived, Breaking Tens of Thousands of Links"

mindcrime — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:44:55 +0000

Aaargggh. That is terrible news. There's a metric shit-ton of good stuff in CiteseerX. If the site is gone for good, I sure hope there's a plan to properly move all that content to archive.org so it can remain accessible. :-(

New comment by mindcrime in "We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code"

mindcrime — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:38:17 +0000

It was definitely Madalaine.

New comment by mindcrime in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

mindcrime — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:53:22 +0000

> It describes most Blake Crouch and Peter Clines novels.

I vaguely recall liking Dark Matter. I've still got Recursion on a shelf around here somewhere waiting to be read. Still haven't read any Peter Clines. Now I'm not sure I want to. :-)

New comment by mindcrime in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

mindcrime — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:30:49 +0000

> Diaspora by Greg Egan

Basically anything by Egan is gold, IMO.

> Annihilation By Jeff VanderMeer

I wanted to like this, as the premise was fascinating and the word-smithing was pretty good. But something about it left me feeling a little disappointed at the end. More so the end of the entire trilogy, than Annihilation by itself though, IIRC.

New comment by mindcrime in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

mindcrime — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:23:34 +0000

Glasshouse[1] by Charles Stross

Permutation City[2] by Greg Egan

We Are Legion (We Are Bob)[3] by Dennis E. Taylor

Halting State[4] by Charles Stross

Singularity Sky[5] by Charles Stross

Dungeon Crawler Carl[6] by Matt Dinniman

Zero World[7] by Jason M. Hough

The Shockwave Rider[8] by John Brunner

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasshouse_(novel)

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City

[3]: https://www.amazon.com/We-Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse/dp/166822...

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_State

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_Sky

[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon_Crawler_Carl

[7]: https://www.jasonhough.com/book/zero-world

[8]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shockwave_Rider

Teens Sick of Their iPhones Are 'Mallmaxxing'

mindcrime — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:59:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-03-29/how-tiktok-got-teens-to-fall-in-love-with-the-mall-again

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653813

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by mindcrime in "The Technocracy Movement of the 1930s"

mindcrime — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 04:19:53 +0000

Huh. I wonder if any of this was at all part of (or all of) the inspiration for C.O.C.'s EP "Technocracy"[1]?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_(EP)

New comment by mindcrime in "Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU"

mindcrime — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 03:01:08 +0000

Nope. I've exceeded available VRAM a few times, and never had to do anything other than maybe restart Ollama. To be fair though, that's "exceed available VRAM" in terms of the initial model load (eg, using a model that would never load in 24GB). I don't know that I've ever started working with a successfully loaded model and then pushed past available VRAM by pushing stuff into the context.

I've had a few of those "model psychosis" incidents where the context gets so big that the model just loses all coherence and starts spewing gibberish though. Those are always fun.

New comment by mindcrime in "Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU"

mindcrime — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:37:48 +0000

> Been running local LLMs on my 7900 XTX for months and the ROCm experience has been... rough.

Just out of curiosity... how so?

I only ask because I've been running local models (using Ollama) on my RX 7900 XTX for the last year and a half or so and haven't had a single problem that was ROCm specific that I can think of. Actually, I've barely had any problems at all, other than the card being limited to 24GB of VRAM. :-(

I'm halfway tempted to splurge on a Radeon Pro board to get more VRAM, but ... haven't bitten the bullet yet.

New comment by mindcrime in "Raspberry Pi profit surges as AI boom lifts demand"

mindcrime — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:24:28 +0000

I remember reading a review of Neuromancer once, where people were making light of the thing with Linda Lee stealing Case's black-market RAM, on the basis that RAM is now a dirt-cheap commodity and not something that would hold great value.

My, how times have changed...

New comment by mindcrime in "Raspberry Pi profit surges as AI boom lifts demand"

mindcrime — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:20:54 +0000

> Are people really that stupid?

Donald Trump is President.

RFK Jr. is Secretary of Health and Human Services

Linda McMahon is Secretary of Education

...

Do you really have any doubts about the limits of stupidity? :-(