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New comment by mzl in "Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5"

mzl — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 09:21:51 +0000

Such releases often show weaknesses if the intelligence index, because the models that are ranked jointly do not have the same percieved level of quality.

New comment by mzl in "Protobuf has LSP support"

mzl — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:14:47 +0000

Conversely, LSP is quite limited in comparison to what can be done with a real IDE integration in JetBrains product suite, so it is not so clear cut. See this post for some details: https://matklad.github.io/2023/10/12/lsp-could-have-been-bet...

From constraint models to playable puzzle games

mzl — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:54:03 +0000

Article URL: https://zayenz.se/blog/post/constraint-generated-puzzle-games/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208477

Points: 1

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Gecode 6.3.0 and 6.4.0 are released

mzl — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:26:41 +0000

Article URL: https://zayenz.se/blog/post/gecode-6-3-and-6-4-released/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48932205

Points: 3

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New comment by mzl in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

mzl — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:18:23 +0000

Skills for creating good and repeatable benchmarking scripts.

A knowledge base for my research area, with tools for paper ingestion and search.

An md file to html presentation tool, there are several but this one helps me.

A review tool that splits a PR or branch intelligently into modules, and does per module reviews and global reviews for different aspects, and then summarizing that into a report. Can be used with multiple different harnesses. Written as a Python project, but build-time assembled into a single-file Python script with uv run --script shbang line.

New comment by mzl in "Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?"

mzl — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:13:40 +0000

If you modify the work, that creates a derived work from whatever copyright the original works has, not a new work that is fully copyrightable.

As the article says in the Tl;DR at the top the code may be contaminated by open source licenses

> Agentic coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex generate code that may be uncopyrightable, owned by your employer, or contaminated by open source licenses you cannot see

New comment by mzl in "DeepSeek v4"

mzl — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:38:03 +0000

Kimi K2.5 and K2.6 are both >1T

New comment by mzl in "DeepSeek v4"

mzl — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:21:10 +0000

It is tricky to build good infrastructure for prompt caching.

New comment by mzl in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

mzl — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:25:58 +0000

Which version of Kimi and served from where?

New comment by mzl in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

mzl — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:25:34 +0000

Composer-2 is based on Kimi K2.5, but with extensive RL. Cursor estimated 3x more compute on their RL than the original K2.5 training run (some details in https://cursor.com/blog/composer-2-technical-report).

Composer-2 seems very useful in Cursor, while K2.6 according to AA seems to be a really useful general model: https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/kimi-k2-6-the-new-lea...

New comment by mzl in "Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen"

mzl — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:26:20 +0000

I've been prescribed slightly more than 5g per day (2 x 650mg tablets every 6 hours) for pain after an operation jointly with ibuprofen, which is scarily close to the limits.

New comment by mzl in "Tesla concealed fatal accidents to continue testing autonomous driving"

mzl — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:56:13 +0000

I've heard people saying the study is bad, but whenever I've asked about why the answers have been pretty bad. Do you have a good source for why we should disregard it?

New comment by mzl in "Tesla concealed fatal accidents to continue testing autonomous driving"

mzl — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:53:57 +0000

Dan Luu had some interesting analysis about car safety, comparing how different auto-makers fared on newly introduced crash tests: https://danluu.com/car-safety/

The main take-away for me from that page is that very few manufacturers seem to design for actual safety (only Volvo had good results), and Tesla was angry that a new test had been introduced which feels indicative of a bad safety culture.

New comment by mzl in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

mzl — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:54:08 +0000

There was an interesting scandal in Sweden where Oracle managed to sell the Millenium system to a regions hospitals even though they did not fulfill the requirements, and then when it inevitably crashed and burned they had to do an emergency rollback to the previous system after just a few days.

Here is an article in English: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Scrapping-the-millennium-introd...

New comment by mzl in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

mzl — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:02:22 +0000

No, but a lot of AI-adjsuted wordings have the very idiosyncratic AI-style that is prevalent in the AI-slop that is everywhere, and that style has quickly become associated with writing that is generally void of content and insight. So it is natural to get gut-reactions to the typical phrasings that have become associated with AI.

New comment by mzl in "Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse"

mzl — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:14:49 +0000

As others have said, this is more of a constraint programming system than Wave Function Collapse. Whatever one wants to call it, I liked it.

For guiding the search, you might want to consider search steps that select only one feature, for example that a pair of adjacent tiles should be connected by a road, and just propagate that information. That could be used as a way to guide the search on high-level features first, and then later realize the plans by doing the normal search.

New comment by mzl in "Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse"

mzl — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:07:58 +0000

I have a (very slight) beef with the name Algorithm X, as it is more of a data-structure to manage undo-information for the backtracking than an algorithm. It is a very fun, useful, and interesting data-structure, but it doesn't really change what steps are performed in the backtracking search.

New comment by mzl in "My spicy take on vibe coding for PMs"

mzl — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:45:52 +0000

In my view, Scrum is a way to force dysfunctional teams to have some process, it is not useful for a team that is already delivering and working in a samll-a agile manner.

New comment by mzl in "Show HN: ZSE – Open-source LLM inference engine with 3.9s cold starts"

mzl — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:10:31 +0000

Are you using the Model GPU memory snapshotting for this?

SambaNova Unveils Fastest Chip for Agentic AI, and Raises $350M+

mzl — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:41:53 +0000

Article URL: https://sambanova.ai/press/sambanova-unveils-fastest-chip-for-agentic-ai-collaborates-with-intel-and-raises-350m

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47136375

Points: 2

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