<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: serf</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=serf</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 02:20:17 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=serf" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by serf in "We still use paper"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>but then you're still limited to that set of glyphs.<p>I can fold the paper into origami.<p>I guess one could extrapolate a programming metaphor as the origami that notepad.exe enables.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:58:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50133356</link><dc:creator>serf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50133356</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50133356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by serf in "DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I like it because it does the thing I want it to do rather than moralizing.<p>No, I don't care about license provenance for all the components of a 30 line script that i'm using in my house, for myself to sync up some folders. No, i'm not going to find and archive the licenses for all the previous projects leading to this for future legal disclosure.<p>Yes, I own the DVD for the movie i'm transcoding. No I don't want to talk about the legality of rebroadcast.<p>Deepseek (and most chinese models as a whole) <i>don't care</i> . oAI and Anthropic models want to make it point #1.<p>... which is extra hilarious knowing the laws broken to create the damn models in the first place.<p>there's a literal meme about this floating around the harness/AI chats for the past few months[0]<p>[0]: <a href="https://i.ibb.co/SwH4Sgwq/796779070-28483090404651613-9200664598130323999-n.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://i.ibb.co/SwH4Sgwq/796779070-28483090404651613-920066...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:48:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50133265</link><dc:creator>serf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50133265</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50133265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by serf in "Making chicken transparent using Dorito dust"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>seeing the essentially un-cleanable calipers touching raw chicken irks me to hell, even if it is a cheapy pair.</p>
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<p>pregnancy would seem rare too if you only looked at the averaged per-incident chances (swings from 0% to 33%ish for about 2 days for a perfectly healthy breeding-aged couple); or if you were to compare the amount of heterosexual sexual encounters overall to the amount of pregnancies.<p>but that's not really how the risk should be considered.</p>
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<p>none of these games really require a lot of experimental feedback, the goals are well stated and known; experiments may drive optimization if thats the question.<p>as far as the on rails comment : there's no good way to know the provenance of an LLM output, but the LLM made bots generally look like very small, modular, sometimes functionalized versions of the human equivalents; the difference being that the LLM is calling the funtions often rather than a conditional loop in a main().<p>a factorio bot I worked on when Astra was first getting previewed was essentially a directory of very small argument-receiving functional and self-supporting programs that had very limited scope, and an agents.md file that directed the LLM  to where such capabilities existed to preempt a directory search every compaction/context-swap.<p>so you'd have things like "python walk.py N 40" for 40 units of northern travel. a watchdog that waited for HP to drop or movement to become inhibited, etc.<p>My very first experience with LLM driven bot development in the GPT3 days created huge unmaintainmable monoliths that kind of worked due to TDD but were essentially spaghetti. LLMs have been trending away from those paradigms into small self-encapsulated programs. probably because those are less abusive to ctx count and produce better results since they lose/compact less.</p>
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<p>a single color QT/mosaic interface is the definition of bland jurassic park UI and it's refreshing to use every after getting stuck dealing with modern machines and interfaces.</p>
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<p>"Whoever screwed up my egg should get the sack!"<p>at least thee 'hairy egg' one made me laugh; the alternate i've seen lately is a plea to avoid mentioning that they're furry if you're from HN using the HN referrer; that one is a bit more groan-inducing than the full page anti-capitalism nut scree.</p>
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<p>Argon is a 4$in/20$out model; how far do you expect a 20 dollar a month plan to subsidize?</p>
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<p>what the hell are you smoking? even the silly article earlier had the caveat "Yeah it downloads EXEs but its up to you or your family to run them"<p>and that's totally ignoring the fact that it's only a supremely naive user that hasn't yet refined their filters to exclude dangerous extensions (or, if they're too lazy to do that, rely on one of the many many pre-assembled filter/grabber settings across the net which already do so.)<p>what fear-mongering and FUD-spread.<p>You may also want to warn the public about the dangers of having curl, wget, python or gcc installed.<p><i>They expose a PLETHORA of attack vectors! you're probably already compromised, realistically!"</i><p>... and they're actually more dangerous than a free-floating EXE.</p>
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<p>I don't want weaponization of patents regardless of how much "Think of the Children!" and "We must defend the public!" is injected.<p>white knight with a sword made of patent lawsuits doesn't exist in my world.<p>It was good of them to decide to stay away from producing the product they realized they didn't want to exist, they should have stopped there instead of villainizing themselves by self-deputizing.</p>
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<p>yeah!<p>let's all join a private tracker!<p>that'll fix the problem, the bad actors won't chase the crowd, and it definitely wont end in a burning of the library of alexandria loss-of-history what.cd style event again and again if the public can't archive it.<p>/s<p>how about we just create an exe/bat/com exclusion on our dumb-as-dick media downloaders like sensible people have been doing for 30+ years?</p>
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<p>one thought : flux is open weight and available; krea is 'self-hosted capable with enterprise license agreement, contact us...' in the FAQ.<p>Maybe they don't want to make potential customers aware of competitive alternatives.</p>
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<p>fwiw this thing puts out results very fast even on max reasoning.<p>the results i've gotten so far have been a little braindead though. still playing around. bad luck with traversing filesystems remotely so far.<p>it seems to want to make concluding decisions very fast regardless of reasoning levels.</p>
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<p>>How many tokens/s do you need for a coding agent to feel like Claude or codex?<p>it's kind of a loaded question, this model gets a lot of tok/s but reasoning is forced on; the time-to-answer is really a combination of things like "how much does this thing want to over-reason" and "how much does this thing like tool use?" .</p>
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<p>i'm gettin between 200-320 tok/s on a 5070ti with 131k context on llamacpp and no tuning.<p>very nice.<p>I can't speak to the intelligence of it yet.<p>these small agentic-focused models are a lot of fun to play with if you haven't yet.</p>
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<p>I don't think fast gpu rendering terminals should be mandatory for this kind of thing, and if you should have an option that facilitates the need for one then might I suggest falling back to something sensible rather than stalling out for forever when the user doesn't render glyphs as fast as you want them to?<p>either that or fail outright; dont waste my time.</p>
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<p>the reality is that evil maid attacks, and more broadly (and realistically) physical access attacks are <i>exceedingly</i> rare. The vast majority of stolen credentials are phished or some other social-engineering trick, not James Bond sneaking in with his badusb.</p>
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<p>the picture galleries on that site are great, I wish I had chronicled things that way.</p>
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<p>having used both I think bonsai 2 is far ahead, but it still calls tools too often. This isn't always a bad thing, but it seems to have more tool calls per successful run than other equivalents; like it's in-grained to triple check things.<p>might be a good characteristic for a quantized model to have ..</p>
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<p>>Obviously you can prevent that from occurring with some extra infrastructure in-place, but at that point you're basically creating source control.<p>most of the harnesses are checkpointing most of the data of a git commit aside from the formal release and messaging, anyway; thats why they all have a similar problem with SQL dbs exploding in size after a bit of time.<p>Right now we're in this weird transition where most of the harness systems are layering git tool use w/ the constant snapshotting AND a memory subsystem often, probably leaves a lot on the table in saving wasted token use to just ditch the vcs all together and rely on the already persistent and existent checkpoints and memories for reconstruction.</p>
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