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New comment by stingraycharles in "How We Broke Top AI Agent Benchmarks: And What Comes Next"

stingraycharles — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:09:05 +0000

This is already well known, all these AI benchmarks use a different model to judge whether or not the solution was correct.

It’s… remarkably poor, and as demonstrated in the paper, easily gamed. Worst yet, these benchmarks teach AIs to be very short-sighted and hyper-focused on completing the task, rather than figuring out the best solution.

New comment by stingraycharles in "Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)"

stingraycharles — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:38:24 +0000

This implies anyone doing this using VMware violates the EULA?

New comment by stingraycharles in "Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)"

stingraycharles — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:36:25 +0000

Nah, Apple has been extremely restrictive about virtual machines in all kinds of ways, e.g. the minimum terms anyone is able to lease out a VM or Mac to someone else is 24h, making cloud-like workloads practically impossible. For some reason, Apple really doesn’t like virtual machines, and it’s much more intentional than just “probably multiple users”.

It’s extremely frustrating.

New comment by stingraycharles in "OpenClaw’s memory is unreliable, and you don’t know when it will break"

stingraycharles — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 01:55:30 +0000

Thanks for this suggestion, I installed it yesterday after seeing this comment and this surely is a breath of fresh air! It appears that everything is designed reasonably well from the ground up. It’s more limited, but what’s there works well.

New comment by stingraycharles in "BlueHammer abuses Windows Defender's update process to gain SYSTEM access"

stingraycharles — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:11:36 +0000

This website is one of the most user hostile I’ve encountered in a long time. On mobile it’s miserable.

New comment by stingraycharles in "OpenClaw’s memory is unreliable, and you don’t know when it will break"

stingraycharles — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:48:12 +0000

Yeah I’m amazed how much constantly breaks between every release, I’m dreading to update it. I’m using it as a kind of personal assistant that keeps track of all my outstanding work. Morning and evening briefing, can get an overview of what I did per week / month, it’s pretty solid for keeping track of all this.

But it’s so terribly unstable, it’s as if nobody actually tests things before pushing a release. I don’t need 2 updates per day, I just need one every few weeks that’s stable.

New comment by stingraycharles in "Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice"

stingraycharles — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:54:16 +0000

Why do you like rhe 96% layout? I prefer the full space, recently upgraded to a Q6 Ultra, I’m really happy I can get a wireless version of most of their models these days.

New comment by stingraycharles in "Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice"

stingraycharles — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:24:18 +0000

Keychron just open-sourced their design files, which I didn’t expect.

I’m a happy user of their keyboards.

Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice

stingraycharles — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:22:26 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Keychron/Keychron-Keyboards-Hardware-Design

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47720419

Points: 447

# Comments: 140

New comment by stingraycharles in "Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps"

stingraycharles — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:40:40 +0000

This is exactly it, and people trying to invent these new tools and formats (wasn’t there a “LLM optimized JSON alternative the other day) are seriously not understanding how LLMs are trained a tremendous amount on understanding JSON and XML and standard tools and frameworks.

New comment by stingraycharles in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

stingraycharles — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:31:18 +0000

Yes, this is the obvious solution. Multiple agents working on multiple features should use feature branches.

Can’t believe how this whole AI movement seems to want to reinvent software engineering, poorly.

New comment by stingraycharles in "Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real"

stingraycharles — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:11:47 +0000

This is already a thing for a year or so, SEO for AI results to make sure that your products are recommended in ChatGPT.

https://citeworksstudio.com/ is a decent one.

New comment by stingraycharles in "I still prefer MCP over skills"

stingraycharles — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:23:11 +0000

Obviously opaque binaries are hardly an improvement over MCP, but providing a few curl + jq oneliners to interact with a REST API works great in my experience. Also means no external scripts, just a single markdown file.

New comment by stingraycharles in "I still prefer MCP over skills"

stingraycharles — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:51:53 +0000

I often just put direct curl commands in a skill, the agent uses that, and it works perfectly for custom API integrations. Agents are perfectly capable of doing these types of things, and it means the LLM just uses a flexible set of tools to achieve almost anything.

New comment by stingraycharles in "We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2"

stingraycharles — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:34:15 +0000

Besides, most time is spent running tests anyway.

New comment by stingraycharles in "Understanding Traceroute"

stingraycharles — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:31:10 +0000

So these types of routers are typically running at 100% CPU and - likely - not keeping up with packets that are not in the fast path? Ie the operators really only care about the packets in the fast path, all others can be ignored?

Or are there other types of packets in the slow path that do get a delivery guarantee by the router?

I’m curious how these tradeoffs are made.

New comment by stingraycharles in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

stingraycharles — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:20:40 +0000

You need money to buy resources and manpower.

New comment by stingraycharles in "I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue"

stingraycharles — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:47:54 +0000

Yeah this would make a lot of sense to crack, given that customer support must be a huge potential revenue stream for them. Starting by fixing their own support would make sense, given that it’s a relatively limited in scope.

New comment by stingraycharles in "Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors"

stingraycharles — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:59:01 +0000

If you really think the value add by LLMs is comparable to email and calendar, I don’t understand why you don’t understand my point that you’re not the customer Anthropic cares about.

New comment by stingraycharles in "Your File System Is Already A Graph Database"

stingraycharles — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:54:32 +0000

Using the same logic, a key/value database is also a graph database?

Isn’t the biggest benefit of graph databases the indexing and additional query constructs they support, like shortest path finding and whatnot?