Hacker News: nphard85

New comment by nphard85 in "US Government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

nphard85 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:39:30 +0000

exactly

New comment by nphard85 in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

nphard85 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:56:40 +0000

Will there be refund?

New comment by nphard85 in "India's surprise baby bust"

nphard85 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 02:38:21 +0000

You sound bitter. May be you don't realize that.

New comment by nphard85 in "I ran Gemma 4 as a local model in Codex CLI"

nphard85 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:47:12 +0000

To be fair, the author does mention the huge difference between Gemma 3 and Gemma 4 on Tau function calling benchmark.

Gemini refuses to depict astronaut without helmet on the Moon: 'not survivable'

nphard85 — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 13:59:33 +0000

Article URL: https://gemini.google.com/share/7cb8abccea81

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45052280

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Rsgpt: A generative transformer model for retrosynthesis planning

nphard85 — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 05:22:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62308-6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44753259

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nphard85 in "Optimizing Tool Selection for LLM Workflows with Differentiable Programming"

nphard85 — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 04:12:46 +0000

Very interesting. How does this approach work for complex agentic workflows where the LLM is expected to orchestrate across multiple tools (such as when using MCP)? Or is this mainly for simple cases like the ones presented in the blog post?

New comment by nphard85 in "ARC Prize – a $1M+ competition towards open AGI progress"

nphard85 — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 07:58:07 +0000

Dwarkesh*

New comment by nphard85 in "Hacker confirms access through infostealer infection [withdrawn]"

nphard85 — Fri, 31 May 2024 19:38:57 +0000

The current CEO is Sridhar Ramaswamy

Pallas: A Jax Kernel Language

nphard85 — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 19:18:12 +0000

Article URL: https://jax.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pallas/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38818064

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nphard85 in "India fails to re-establish communication with its Moon probe"

nphard85 — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 21:27:35 +0000

Interesting. Is there a source for this claim?

Sequoia China’s push into Singapore sets up fight against Indian arm

nphard85 — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 05:40:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/e007ce22-9763-4c9b-969f-ff4e97f320e1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36651883

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by nphard85 in "California Defaults on $18.5B Debt, Leaving CA Businesses Liable"

nphard85 — Mon, 08 May 2023 02:05:03 +0000

What does this mean for those holding CA municipal bonds and bond funds?

Memory Model Synchronization Modes

nphard85 — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 02:05:04 +0000

Article URL: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Atomic/GCCMM/AtomicSync

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31972782

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by nphard85 in "How to build a chess engine"

nphard85 — Sun, 03 Jul 2022 07:11:54 +0000

chessprogramming.org is a treasure trove of knowledge on building chess engines. With its help, I wrote one in C++ a few years ago that got quite good (2100+ rating on FICS but that's nowhere close to the likes of Stockfish). In fact, writing a reasonably strong chess engine is straightforward (and incredibly fun) but at the top end of strength, there's immense depth, and after a point making improvements gets increasingly resource intensive (tuning params, running experiments to verify strength gain all takes a lot of compute).

Chess programming is also extremely addictive. On forums like talkchess.com, you see folks hanging out who have been doing it for decades (most of them are also super helpful to newbies).

New comment by nphard85 in "Crafting Interpreters: A Review"

nphard85 — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 15:56:33 +0000

Just completed part 1 (used Python instead of Java to spice it up a bit) and it was a great experience! Looking forward to working through part 2, but it will be a while before I can get around to it. I hope more books follow this engaging writing pattern (when it makes sense). Kudos to Bob Nystrom for this great book.

Gas stoves are more hazardous than we’ve been led to believe (2020)

nphard85 — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 13:46:07 +0000

Article URL: https://slate.com/technology/2020/12/gas-stoves-hazardous-asthma.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31630946

Points: 92

# Comments: 122

New comment by nphard85 in "Ask HN: Why would anyone choose Haskell to develop applications?"

nphard85 — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 18:29:11 +0000

FWIW, SpaceX uses C++ for flight control software. It actually makes more sense for such hard realtime applications.

New comment by nphard85 in "Ask HN: Why would anyone choose Haskell to develop applications?"

nphard85 — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 16:31:54 +0000

And yet there are hardly any software written in Haskell or Ocaml that are widely used or have any notable positive impact on the modern digital world, compared to those written in languages like Go, C++ or Python.

edit: ps: Big fan of OCaml, but have since moved on to Go and Python for getting things done in the real world.

New comment by nphard85 in "Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021?"

nphard85 — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 02:11:13 +0000

The sci-fi novel "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir. Captivating, and a lot of fun.