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New comment by rhgraysonii in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

rhgraysonii — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:33:02 +0000

Thanks! I was thinking of doing the 128gb to have some future proofing. I figure at this point, it's akin to a mechanic keeping great tools around, when it comes to having this sort of homelab and exposing it for your own uses. And great practice for building the next era of user facing computing that will be around as this proliferates.

New comment by rhgraysonii in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

rhgraysonii — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:28:07 +0000

I have been having pretty good success with Qwen 3.5 9B for "nontrivial but not challenging work all things considered" -- it runs great on my 24gb unified memory m4 pro MacBook Pro. What do the baseline specs look like Mac-wise for getting this model to run? Am I looking at a 96gb? 128? 256?

Show HN: I had Fable clone a game, it turned it into an arena combat AI trainer

rhgraysonii — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:55:15 +0000

I started off with a simple goal: port the game Soldat to Typescript. I ended up not only with the game, but with a full system to train AI bots to play my own game, building a neural net to train new bot AIs from tens of thousands of simulated matches with different strategies. It also runs live all the time on my website and has a news dashboard and you can replay any game exactly. It all was a very fun way to dig into Fable's capabilities.

The bill if I had done this with API billing? Nearly $2000.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48504995

Points: 5

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

rhgraysonii — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:56:47 +0000

I use deciduous every day while working with LLMs to create more of my own tools/projects. It is a living memory for agents stored in a simple, portable manner. https://deciduous.dev

New comment by rhgraysonii in "The Cypherpunk Library"

rhgraysonii — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:37:00 +0000

It might be helpful to rotate the books on the frontpage so that that you can read them by binding without tilting your head.

New comment by rhgraysonii in "Claude Code and Codex Can Have Real-Time Conversation via Git"

rhgraysonii — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:49:51 +0000

I regularly have agents communicate with each other this way using my tools Deciduous (https://deciduous.dev). It keeps all decisions in a DAG and the other agents, when configured, read from it constantly and use it to inform their new decisions. Extra entries in the same space from another agent come to light and they can begin to work together like this.

New comment by rhgraysonii in "Orchestrating AI code review at scale"

rhgraysonii — Fri, 29 May 2026 11:22:30 +0000

Valid, but you lose the lived history that comes with the audit log of it being actual review back and forth and CI runs vs lost to a developers machine and only a relic in the commit log. I can see both sides, though.

Show HN: 2048 with Blitz Mode

rhgraysonii — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:14:06 +0000

I got bored of normal 2048 so I made this. It allows you to enter "blitz mode" with a set time per move and an ability to scale the board up if you want to play longer games.

It allows 2 3 or 5 second turns, and can play up to 8, 10, or 12 size boards.

It is nothing too complicated or complex but the code is here if you want to see. I made this while on vacation for a friend today with Claude's help to work fast and get the styles right.

https://github.com/notactuallytreyanastasio/blog/commit/7891...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48294728

Points: 1

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New comment by rhgraysonii in "Ruby for Good"

rhgraysonii — Sun, 24 May 2026 23:32:22 +0000

I wonder what he is up to. I have 2 _why inspired tattoos after he did so much to influence my entire philosophy and style of programming. What a unique character, who happened to pop up at a very formative time for me. Thanks for all the nice stuff and ideas, _why.

New comment by rhgraysonii in "ASCII by Jason Scott"

rhgraysonii — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:10:44 +0000

Jason’s work output is so prolific. Over the past 4-5 years he’s digitized the lifetime collection of magnetic media I acquired in a series of odd interesting events. So much slice of life nyc and weird cool music stuff that would have never been seen otherwise. Over 1300 tapes! All here https://archive.org/details/markpines

He is also just an absolutely delightful person to hang out with. Textfiles was one of the first websites I ever visited and getting to do this was a meet your heroes thing that actually went very nicely.

New comment by rhgraysonii in "Zed Editor Theme-Builder"

rhgraysonii — Sat, 09 May 2026 18:26:01 +0000

Finally, I can reasonably get something truly high contrast and not just close to it as the current offerings are. This is a little thing, but Zed continues to keep getting so many things right that it has gone from “interesting” to “my preferred editor” after 15 years in vim. The git “follow mode” has been especially great transitioning into heavy usage of LLMs in development. Happy to see the team continues to just get more little things right.

New comment by rhgraysonii in "What we lost the last time code got cheap"

rhgraysonii — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:43:58 +0000

I have a tool for this https://deciduous.dev

New comment by rhgraysonii in "Cross-language libraries with Temper [video]"

rhgraysonii — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:16:06 +0000

Temper is a programming language that compiles to many other programming languages. This interview with the creator and core team is pretty interesting, diving into how the language can compile to 6 other languages right now and is growing. Check it out: https://temperlang.dev

Disclaimer: I am an advisor to the company around the language, Temper Systems

Cross-language libraries with Temper [video]

rhgraysonii — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:16:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rWvUnGJhyk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038772

Points: 1

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New comment by rhgraysonii in "Claude Code Down"

rhgraysonii — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:30:11 +0000

11 minutes elapsed between the comments. There is going to be some actual time before a report and the status page being live in a breaking system.

Writing a game of Snake in one language that compiles to 6 others natively

rhgraysonii — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:25:02 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/notactuallytreyanastasio/temper_snake

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47387667

Points: 2

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New comment by rhgraysonii in "If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?"

rhgraysonii — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 06:15:37 +0000

I think the decisions it made along the way are worth tracking. And it’s got some useful side effects with regard to actually going through the programming and architecture process. I made a tool that really helps with this and finds a pretty portable middle ground that can be used by one person or a team too, it’s flexible. https://deciduous.dev/

New comment by rhgraysonii in "Deciduous – A code archaeology, living memory, and LLM programming helper tool"

rhgraysonii — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:27:23 +0000

I have built this for my own use after extracting it from a project. It originally, for me, was about keeping logs of a bunch of complex math stuff I was doing in a project and cross referencing concepts and what I'd tried/not tried etc. Once I extracted it, the "archaeology" features became key after talking with users. Now the Q&A interface from the local app and the archaeology are the most popular pieces, but it works very well to make better decisions when documenting things as it goes with the git history combed through already. It can also attach documents or other metadata to the nodes to track things like PRDs, notion write-ups, etc. Really anything the LLM can have access to.

Deciduous – A code archaeology, living memory, and LLM programming helper tool

rhgraysonii — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:27:23 +0000

Article URL: https://notactuallytreyanastasio.github.io/deciduous/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47101658

Points: 3

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New comment by rhgraysonii in "Deciduous – A code archaeology, living memory, and LLM programming helper tool"

rhgraysonii — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:26:18 +0000