Hacker News: mmoustafa

New comment by mmoustafa in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

mmoustafa — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:52:35 +0000

Aaand that would get challenged in court, remember they had to get Congress to create this designation in the first place because it is not de-facto legal for the USG to discriminate between individuals or corporations.

New comment by mmoustafa in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

mmoustafa — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:47:33 +0000

The Supply Chain Risk label requires every single company in the supply chain of a product or service provided to the US Government to either drop Anthropic or get dropped themselves. This is not just suppliers, but also includes suppliers of suppliers all the way down. This is a much larger chunk of the economy (approaching 100%) than the Pentagon/DOW.

New comment by mmoustafa in "Tinybox – A powerful computer for deep learning"

mmoustafa — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:43:06 +0000

I would love to see real-life tokens/sec values advertised for one or various specific open source models.

I'm currently shopping for offline hardware and it is very hard to estimate the performance I will get before dropping $12K, and would love to have a baseline that I can at least always get e.g. 40 tok/s running GPT-OSS-120B using Ollama on Ubuntu out of the box.

New comment by mmoustafa in "ICE seeks industry input on ad tech location data for investigative use"

mmoustafa — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 07:51:25 +0000

Why do all the discussion posts about ICE’s biometric app get taken down? Although they may invite politicing, they are very relevant to HN.

e.g [flagged] Target director's Global Entry was revoked after ICE used app to scan her face [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46833871]

New comment by mmoustafa in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

mmoustafa — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:49:07 +0000

They do not at any point outline how cooling will be done, they simply say "it will be more efficient than chillers due to the larger delta T" which is incorrect because it's about dT not delta T

New comment by mmoustafa in "xAI joins SpaceX"

mmoustafa — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:13:46 +0000

> "The only logical solution therefore is to transport these resource-intensive efforts to a location with vast power and space. I mean, space is called 'space' for a reason. [crying laughing emoji]"

This is all the reasoning provided. It is quite sad how a company I admired so much has become embroiled in financial doohickery.

New comment by mmoustafa in "Provenance Is the New Version Control"

mmoustafa — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 21:41:35 +0000

It is not about tracking changes, git does that well enough.

It is about tracking the reason for the changes, i.e. git messages but on steroids.

New comment by mmoustafa in "Claude's new constitution"

mmoustafa — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:05:15 +0000

new trolley problem just dropped: save 1 billion people or ...

Show HN: An AI assistant you can text via Apple satellite messaging

mmoustafa — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:21:00 +0000

I've been on the road in some places with really sh*t cellular in the US and sometimes I really need to lookup something online but it will take an hour for Google to load. Well, Olly works even with zero bars as long as you have a (newish) iPhone and a view of the sky. Been a lifesaver for quick questions when I'm in the middle of nowhere.

Let me know what you think https://olly.bot/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46630965

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by mmoustafa in "Provenance Is the New Version Control"

mmoustafa — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 06:59:06 +0000

I wrote an article on this exact issue (albeit more simpleminded) and I suggested a rudimentary way of tracking provenance in today's agents with "reasoning traces" on the objects they modify.

Would love people's thoughts on this: https://0xmmo.notion.site/Preventing-agent-doom-loops-with-p...

New comment by mmoustafa in "Oh My Zsh adds bloat"

mmoustafa — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 08:15:24 +0000

Although this is what Opus recommends, it will give you many issues as you don’t really have any node runtimes in the path (or worse if you do).

What I recommend is replacing it with $PATH=(a command to find the nvm default alias directory, detect the verion and load it from that specific version directory directly) so you always have default node in path and then lazy loading only nvm itself, so you can switch when you need to.

Sorry I don’t have the command handy as I’m on mobile but if you paste the above into Opus you’ll get it.

New comment by mmoustafa in "Oh My Zsh adds bloat"

mmoustafa — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 06:13:39 +0000

I don't think 0.38s is a bad trade-off for convenience when the rest of the tools I need to do my job collectively are another 2s at shell startup. NVM alone adds 0.5-0.6s on my M4 Macbook Air.

Bigger fish to fry if we're being practical.

New comment by mmoustafa in "During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website"

mmoustafa — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 09:20:38 +0000

I did, it's available at olly.bot :)

New comment by mmoustafa in "Decorative Cryptography"

mmoustafa — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 09:18:40 +0000

> All encryption is end-to-end, if you’re not picky about the ends.

This reminds of how Apple iMessage is E2E encrypted, but Apple runs on-device content detection that pings their servers, which you can't possibly even think of disabling. [1][2]

[1] https://sneak.berlin/20230115/macos-scans-your-local-files-n... [2] Investigation in Beeper/PyPush discord for iMessage spam blocking

New comment by mmoustafa in "During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website"

mmoustafa — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 07:48:29 +0000

I built a connection to a web-powered LLM over SMS/iMessage for literally this purpose. While traveling I’d have really bad or sparse service but still needed to find my way around.

New comment by mmoustafa in "IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world"

mmoustafa — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 18:23:22 +0000

the other day I had to change my node server to prefer ipv4 dns records because fly.io doesn’t support outbound ipv6 connections but defaults to a dns server that returns them

Preventing agent doom loops (with reasoning traces)

mmoustafa — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 22:56:37 +0000

Article URL: https://0xmmo.notion.site/Preventing-Agent-Doom-Loops-With-Reasoning-Traces-2b8013e9768a8058a944f0df1f7a77ed?pvs=74

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46449220

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mmoustafa in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell"

mmoustafa — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 06:22:43 +0000

Right about $500 now, down from $5K at peak

AI assistant in your iMessage group chats https://olly.bot

Preventing agent doom loops with Reasoning Traces

mmoustafa — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 23:45:46 +0000

Article URL: https://0xmmo.notion.site/Preventing-Agent-Doom-Loops-With-Reasoning-Traces-2b8013e9768a8058a944f0df1f7a77ed?pvs=74

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46074214

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mmoustafa in "Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator"

mmoustafa — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 03:15:17 +0000

Post — “Ask HN: Can you write a limerick?”

Top Comment — “This reads like someone who just discovered poetry forms exist and thinks a limerick is some novel concept. The real challenge isn't writing one—any undergraduate can follow the AABBA scheme—it's understanding why meter and scansion matter beyond just counting syllables.

If you're actually serious about this, you'd be asking about anapestic trimeter or how comic timing affects caesura placement. The fact that you're not suggests you haven't done the groundwork.”