Hacker News: themichaellaihttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=themichaellaiHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 30 Apr 2026 02:18:30 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by themichaellai in "The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use"]]>I've also been defining agents as "LLM call in a while loop with tools" to my co-workers as well — I'd add that if you provide it something like a slack tool, you can enable the LLM to ask for help (human in the (while) loop).

]]>Fri, 16 May 2025 01:00:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44000846themichaellaihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44000846https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44000846<![CDATA[New comment by themichaellai in "Goodbye, Slopify"]]>Is the belief that these tracks are being generated and placed by Spotify themselves, or is it possible that third parties are uploading generated music? Are other streaming services liable to encounter the same issue?

]]>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 01:21:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42860327themichaellaihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42860327https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42860327<![CDATA[New comment by themichaellai in "Some ways to get better at debugging"]]>Does anyone have alternatives that work well on Mac? Right now, I keep a virtual machine so that I can use strace (among other reasons), which is workable but tough to use quickly.

]]>Thu, 01 Sep 2022 00:51:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32670378themichaellaihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32670378https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32670378<![CDATA[How do Promises Work?]]>Article URL: http://robotlolita.me/2015/11/15/how-do-promises-work.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10612516

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]]>Mon, 23 Nov 2015 02:24:08 +0000http://robotlolita.me/2015/11/15/how-do-promises-work.htmlthemichaellaihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10612516https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10612516<![CDATA[New comment by themichaellai in "Deep Neural Decision Forests [pdf]"]]>fwiw, Criminisi also was an author on this: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/158806/CriminisiForests_F...

]]>Sat, 14 Nov 2015 21:04:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10567241themichaellaihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10567241https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10567241<![CDATA[New comment by themichaellai in "Khan Academy's React style guide"]]>Yes: https://github.com/airbnb/javascript

]]>Wed, 21 Oct 2015 16:25:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10426516themichaellaihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10426516https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10426516<![CDATA[New comment by themichaellai in "Show HN: A Swift implementation of selected parts of Python standard library"]]>What's the purpose of this library? To have similar syntax to python? I don't think these concepts are unique to python.

]]>Mon, 07 Jul 2014 21:28:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8001542themichaellaihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8001542https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8001542<![CDATA[New comment by themichaellai in "Gaming Company Fined $1M for Secretly Using Players' Computers to Mine Bitcoin"]]>Looks like it was reduced: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/e-sports-site-set...

]]>Wed, 20 Nov 2013 00:21:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6765576themichaellaihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6765576https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6765576<![CDATA[HackDuke Live Stream]]>Article URL: http://www.justin.tv/hackduke

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6745986

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]]>Sat, 16 Nov 2013 19:01:01 +0000http://www.justin.tv/hackdukethemichaellaihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6745986https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6745986