Hacker News: tingletech

New comment by tingletech in "Pruning RAG context down to what the answer actually needs"

tingletech — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:39:53 +0000

I read “RAG Context” as “the retrieved content injected into the context window”

Supporting Ordering in Schema.org

tingletech — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:13:16 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.schema.org/2026/06/17/supporting-ordering-in-schema-org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48812150

Points: 2

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New comment by tingletech in "Poly/ML – A Standard ML Implementation"

tingletech — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 23:31:36 +0000

"Standard ML is a functional programming language, in the sense that the full power of mathematical functions is present." From a Pdf linked on the repo (I didn't know what Standard ML was, I was hoping for a mark up language)

Commits · antirez/ds4 glm5.2 branch

tingletech — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:43:43 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/antirez/ds4/commits/glm5.2/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48811461

Points: 3

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New comment by tingletech in "Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix"

tingletech — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:46:50 +0000

I just googled it a second ago https://martinfowler.com/articles/codemods-api-refactoring.h...

New comment by tingletech in "Protect your right to run local AI"

tingletech — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:18:32 +0000

Google ships a local LLM with chrome browser nowadays. Don't they also provide the weights for the LLM built into iOS and MacOS?

New comment by tingletech in "A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex"

tingletech — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:50:39 +0000

You could also produce special purpose applications this way, say to provide access to the online library catalog, or a run a gopher client for use in a public terminal lab. Telnetting to a unix account running some sort of restricted shell was how these often worked.

A sibling comment I can't reply to asks if you can do with with unix permissions.

These were really intended for anonymous guest access, or at least often used for this purpose. You couldn't do the same things with the file permissions systems at the time.

New comment by tingletech in "A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex"

tingletech — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:53:26 +0000

When I was an undergraduate biology student in 1991 a suitemate told me I should go to some desk in some building over by Muir and get an account on the VAX. There were strange rooms all over campus that were open 24/7 and were loaded with green and amber screen terminals with integrated keyboards. Lots of sessions for CS lectures were held in these rooms and there was always interesting notes on the white boards (most rooms still had black boards or green boards, but think the chalk was too dusty so these rooms usually had the white boards.

Once I saw an instruction that was circled with an arrow pointing to is that said:

  man man
  man -k -or- apropos

and that was how I learned about computers.

I just typed `man man` in a terminal on my Mac, and luckily its still there.

New comment by tingletech in "Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool"

tingletech — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:45:49 +0000

I do think it pays to be nice to the model. When the context window is running out I like to ask "please summarize what went well and what didn't work in this session. How could the user be more helpful?"

New comment by tingletech in "PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you"

tingletech — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:18:45 +0000

that article seems to suggest 20TB total over the dozen deployments in prod.

New comment by tingletech in "Liquid AI reveals 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T"

tingletech — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:30:47 +0000

Why would a model know that one washes cars at a car wash? We don't clean our bodies at the body wash or clean the kitchen at the kitchen wash.

New comment by tingletech in "Echoes (Live at Pompeii) (1972)"

tingletech — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:10:01 +0000

When I was about 4 years old, this was the first movie I saw in a theater, it was a double feature with fantasia. Next time I remember going to a theater when my parents took me and a friend out of kindergarten to see Star Wars on opening day.

New comment by tingletech in "Fc, a lossless compressor for floating-point streams"

tingletech — Wed, 13 May 2026 04:25:46 +0000

isn't sound a time series? I guess it's not usually 64-bit doubles.

New comment by tingletech in "Podman rootless containers and the Copy Fail exploit"

tingletech — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:44:15 +0000

is that no longer true?

New comment by tingletech in "SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format"

tingletech — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:22:18 +0000

I don't think it has had a BSD license this century, Sleepy Cat was selling licenses in the 90s before Oracle bought them.

New comment by tingletech in "AI didn't delete your database, you did"

tingletech — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:12:01 +0000

I wholeheartedly agree with these, and I think point 1 is a real danger.

An ai system can't lie, and it can't deliberately ignore your directions. The current frontier class does not have a model of the world or their action -- they live in a world of words. Scolding them or arguing with them has no point other than to scramble the context window.

I do think zoomorphizing them might be useful. These poor little buggers, living as ghosts in the machine, are pretty confused sometimes, but their motives are purely autoregressive.

New comment by tingletech in "For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day"

tingletech — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:32:39 +0000

It's who the dead heads follow around now.

New comment by tingletech in "ARC-AGI-3"

tingletech — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:18:37 +0000

I agree that anthropomorphizing is a real risk with LLMs, but what about zoomorphizing? Can feel bad for LLMs without attributing them human emotions/motivations/reasoning?

New comment by tingletech in "ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did"

tingletech — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:45:22 +0000

When ATMs first came out, they were mostly still only at the branch because they were big machines. I remember in the late 70s/early 80s, if you got a steady check (like social security or a paycheck from a steady job) you could cash them at the liquor store. The liquor store would even run my Dad a tab, and he would pay it off when he cashed the check. On paydays he would not be the only one doing that, they must have had to get a lot of cash on hand.

New comment by tingletech in "CasNum"

tingletech — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 21:20:38 +0000

Cool. I just learned of compass and straight edge calculations from this video on doubling a cube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96LbF8nn05c from Ben Syversen's channel a couple of months ago