Hacker News: punnerud

New comment by punnerud in "You can't unit test for taste"

punnerud — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:40:45 +0000

If you have enough examples you can train an AI on your preferences, then use that distilled AI as a unit test. Don’t combine multiple into one AI. If they don’t agree you want it to fail so you can decide and retrain the tests.

New comment by punnerud in "Midjourney Medical"

punnerud — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:42:41 +0000

Why not have 5,6 rings at different levels and do it live in 3D?

Show HN: ESP32 512kB – Tailscale, English to Python LLM and 8 containers local

punnerud — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:58:08 +0000

Article URL: https://punnerud.github.io/pyspell/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576793

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Route optimization engine, 100% in Rust and can run 100% offline

punnerud — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:00:19 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/m_punnerud/status/2066100400076337598

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530466

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

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

punnerud — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:50:27 +0000

Luckily I have a project with 200k lines of code, generating substantial revenue. Asked Fabel to run continuously through all features with up to 50 parallel agents, fix bugs, log improvements etc (just to max out tokens before the week reset)

New comment by punnerud in "Just me feeling that Mythos/Fabel just 1% there?"

punnerud — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:06:59 +0000

Not just experience or prior knowledge; more like a way to generalise knowledge and connect the dots with little training data.

Ask HN: Just me feeling that Mythos/Fabel just 1% there?

punnerud — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:38:13 +0000

I keep pushing the frontier models to the limits and have several projects they still can’t solve, I benchmark new models on. Every new model make it easier to “solve” the even harder problems, but still I have this feeling that they rely 99% on my ideas. They just don’t get the ideas and I have to hold their hand and help them.

Don’t get me wrong, anything that is close to done already they excel at and can combine existing techniques. I’m talking about new ideas models have never seen before.

Example I have this hobby project that push what’s possible with route optimization. Yes it’s close to SOTA and way more efficient than all (?) other solutions out there (punnerud.github.io/mpee/), but I have to hold the model in the hand and brainstorm ideas on how to compress a matrix.

And it’s just not a one time thing, happens like 40-50 times in few days.

The 1% there is this “new ideas” part. Why can I come up with all these, and not the model? A really hard reval to create. Now this project is open, later I am thinking about making a frontier project in the same way, keeping it away from the public and using it as a benchmark. It’s that the best way to test for new ideas in models?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486598

Points: 5

# Comments: 6

New comment by punnerud in "San Francisco offline route calculations in browser using Rust (live demo+MIT)"

punnerud — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:24:09 +0000

Its already 100% using Rust, the Python part is just a wrapper if people want to use it within Python. Also have made an iOS app I soon will release, and for browsers, using just Rust. There is documentations on how to use the Rust part.

San Francisco offline route calculations in browser using Rust (live demo+MIT)

punnerud — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:07:23 +0000

Article URL: https://punnerud.github.io/mpee/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48291599

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

Show HN: MPEE – Offline route calculations and optimization

punnerud — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:51:05 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/punnerud/mpee

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48286493

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

OpenAI Guaranteed Capacity

punnerud — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:26:48 +0000

Article URL: https://openai.com/business/guaranteed-capacity/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48213635

Points: 12

# Comments: 0

Boston Dynamics – How does Atlas learn?

punnerud — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:55:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKK5ze3FukQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48180766

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Man vs. Machine [Live]

punnerud — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:39:42 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/figure_robot/status/2056057735444394142

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173427

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Auk Mini 2

punnerud — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:09:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.auk.com/products/auk-mini-2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978817

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Auk Mini 2

punnerud — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:16:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.auk.com/products/auk-mini-2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47961958

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Link Wallet for Agents

punnerud — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:04:57 +0000

Article URL: https://link.com/en-no/agents

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959968

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by punnerud in "New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper"

punnerud — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:19:45 +0000

RTL8159 is way cheaper from Aliexpress in other products, and most is this small or smaller for 10G.

The article should maybe have been focusing on that piece?

New comment by punnerud in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

punnerud — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:18:33 +0000

Simon Willis (guy behind Django) told about this 5days ago (19min in): https://youtu.be/wc8FBhQtdsA?si=OeA5qzbWGqDY8Vu4

New comment by punnerud in "OCR for construction documents does not work, we fixed it"

punnerud — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:12:24 +0000

Thank you, I remember a lot of good discussions between architects and engineers. How to make it both beautiful and a good environment to be in

New comment by punnerud in "OCR for construction documents does not work, we fixed it"

punnerud — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:09:12 +0000

I had a job as HVAC engineer for the upgraded Oslo Airport back in 2011; started doing HVAC work for 3 weeks the rest was programming trying to make the rest of people more efficient. Made an Excel sheet with a lot of macros to manage all the drawing of the airport. That’s why I switched to programming when I continued to study, and did not want to come back before I got more experience.

They even gave me a big desk at Trondheim/Tyholt so I could help them with the software during my studies.