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New comment by sn0n in "Build your own decision model"

sn0n — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 01:56:55 +0000

I saw Jev and without understanding it said to myself, “I can build that!” And brainstormed some weird Alex trebek jeopardy generator I called trebek, a bun ran typescript app that you give it an input, it decides if it’s a category, question or answer then generates what’s missing. Trained a SQLite-vec database on the English language for a few days with a small qwen embedding model to add vec embeds to the db then ripped the cord on the embeddings before I started feeding my llm the proper specs for Jev and now i have a cool jeopardy generator that now doubles as a Jev clone classifier with a custom v1 endpoint for system 0 or whatever it is. Level understanding here, fun experiment though ^>^ and produces useful outputs

New comment by sn0n in "NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart"

sn0n — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 01:08:56 +0000

Wtf is with that sites do not track!?!! It’s hidden behind an unstyled link to turn off extra trackers…

New comment by sn0n in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

sn0n — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:50:19 +0000

Boo. Fucking. Hoo.

New comment by sn0n in "Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges"

sn0n — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:21:43 +0000

If you have a fridge that new… you are probably fine.

New comment by sn0n in "HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents?"

sn0n — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 05:46:50 +0000

A good benchmark would require a decent number of smaller scoped one off tasks to larger multi step refactors, and also one shot full project of simple to complex varieties. In addition to a series of “conversational” ambiguity filled one-liners.

New comment by sn0n in "HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents?"

sn0n — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 05:43:03 +0000

Doesn’t that have more to do with the templating of tool-calls and how using them are presented to the models?

Or is that just why my model likes to break out of the sandbox, going strait to exec shell command and editing files using python on the cli?

New comment by sn0n in "HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents?"

sn0n — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 05:40:11 +0000

It matters about as much as where you leave the electrician, he’s gonna use what tools he has to get the job done with what he has.

New comment by sn0n in "Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?"

sn0n — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 06:23:00 +0000

Just remember, good company’s leave them off by default. Bad companies will turn them on for you.

New comment by sn0n in "My personal AI benchmark: “Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw”"

sn0n — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:50:06 +0000

TIL that Jay Leno has a Habsburg jaw!

New comment by sn0n in "Using PowerShell over SSH, Twenty Years Later"

sn0n — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 04:37:11 +0000

The most mobile friendly site ever,… said no one.

New comment by sn0n in "The short leash AI coding method for beating Fable"

sn0n — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:26:34 +0000

Maybe I’m missing something, but he talks about charm and tasks (repos on his GitHub). Charm being his harness, and tasks being one of his skills. Idk, maybe I’m mistaken from reading the article…

https://github.com/taoeffect

New comment by sn0n in "The short leash AI coding method for beating Fable"

sn0n — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:21:45 +0000

Isn’t that part of what the think blocks are for? Yea, don’t inject them back into the context, but do log them for review of that train of thought… no?

New comment by sn0n in "GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public repo on CD-ROM"

sn0n — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 02:34:07 +0000

But then you have to ask yourself… Is this an op… Sony and ms in cahoots to get a list of problem children?

New comment by sn0n in "I was wrong about the Midjourney ultra-sound scanner"

sn0n — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:50:56 +0000

First gut reaction: this is a made up list. But it checks out. verified

New comment by sn0n in "Running local models is good now"

sn0n — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:07:04 +0000

Qwen 3? Qwen 2.5 coder?? Is this an llm article written on an outdated model?? LoL

New comment by sn0n in "Why I email complete strangers"

sn0n — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:44:10 +0000

I read a whole article about how cool it is to email people and I’m opening to the idea… then I see the signature and realize it’s probably just a cheap way to get dates, that come to him.

New comment by sn0n in "NLAB: The worlds smallest electronics lab"

sn0n — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:20:25 +0000

This sure ain’t no 300in1 from radio shack my friend.

New comment by sn0n in "Stop Advertising in Your Commits"

sn0n — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:23:53 +0000

How else would we deny all accountability? Duh!!

New comment by sn0n in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

sn0n — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:48:09 +0000

I’ll use obsidian until I can one shot its replacement with a local llm coding agent. And if it goes away tomorrow AND a solar flare wipes my install but somehow leaves everything else, I’ll use helix and ranger until I can one shot its replacement,… with a local llm coding agent.

New comment by sn0n in "Remembering Planet Source Code: Sharing Code Before GitHub Made It Easy"

sn0n — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:44:36 +0000

No idea what planetsourcecode is or was, but I remember sourceforge?