<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: polynomial</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=polynomial</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:39:17 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=polynomial" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polynomial in "GPT-6 Astra"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is absolutely benchmaxxing. Looking forward to hearing from Chollet about it!</p>
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<p>My guess is Cloudflare</p>
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<p>Yo dawg I heard you liked transformers</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:36:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49543533</link><dc:creator>polynomial</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49543533</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49543533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polynomial in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Does that require ASI or only AGI? Asking for a friend…</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:27:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527689</link><dc:creator>polynomial</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527689</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polynomial in "U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>TIL people still assume.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:57:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49482875</link><dc:creator>polynomial</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49482875</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49482875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polynomial in "Harness Engineering"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes it was.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:55:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468666</link><dc:creator>polynomial</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468666</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polynomial in "Six months of writing code exclusively with agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>He closed his laptop. The work kept going.</p>
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<p>I hope you said yes</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:11:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467984</link><dc:creator>polynomial</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467984</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polynomial in "Six months of writing code exclusively with agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>  design issues that will cause problem down the road when the app gets more traffic.<p>Right but that is someone else's problem. Or if that's something you will be call upon to answer, "that's just LLM did" is a fine answer in most companies where AI use has been mandated.</p>
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<p>But it's "trendy"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:32:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49453673</link><dc:creator>polynomial</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49453673</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49453673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polynomial in "RAG Is Simpler Than You Think"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The enshittification of the web, now powered by AI.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:31:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49453654</link><dc:creator>polynomial</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49453654</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49453654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polynomial in "Felony Bench"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not to be confused with a similarly named project: <a href="https://github.com/MLOpsNYC/felonybench" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/MLOpsNYC/felonybench</a></p>
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<p>They can't help it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:30:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49365360</link><dc:creator>polynomial</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49365360</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49365360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polynomial in "DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Honestly they should all use their respective pelicans as their logos. Or maybe a browser plugin to do do that on the Hugging Face and OpenRouter sites.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 05:31:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49282087</link><dc:creator>polynomial</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49282087</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49282087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polynomial in "Delta"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"talking about code is how software gets written."<p>This is a good sound bite for our times but I'm not convinced it's not carrying a big secret.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 05:27:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49282071</link><dc:creator>polynomial</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49282071</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49282071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polynomial in "[dead]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's like two different posts, er, 'joined' together.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:49:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214748</link><dc:creator>polynomial</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214748</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shai-Hulud: What an NPM supply-chain hack reveals about the limits of provenance]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://ctolunchnyc.substack.com/p/the-latest-software-supply-chain">https://ctolunchnyc.substack.com/p/the-latest-software-supply-chain</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182391">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182391</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:11:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://ctolunchnyc.substack.com/p/the-latest-software-supply-chain</link><dc:creator>polynomial</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182391</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polynomial in "Agatha Christie's Disappearance: Amnesia, Suicide, or Despair?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>(Or a giant wasp.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:48:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49055721</link><dc:creator>polynomial</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49055721</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49055721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polynomial in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is HR aware you hold these dissident opinions?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:20:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49043236</link><dc:creator>polynomial</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49043236</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49043236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polynomial in "AIs don't do what you want. This is bad"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do they do what capital wants? That's the real question.</p>
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