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New comment by unphased in "Show HN: Lowfat – pluggable CLI filter that saved 91.8% of my LLM tokens"

unphased — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 02:48:58 +0000

great approach. I did that with my opencode based setup as well, it's neat and fun to tune skills and mcp loaders and stuff. Then i got fed up with opencode's design limitations. And then, my own harness work is on hold in favor of a harness-puppeteer paradigm, but that one has also been on hold! I'm mostly currently pulling on the thread of making it easier just to review the voluminous conversation turns!

New comment by unphased in "Show HN: Lowfat – pluggable CLI filter that saved 91.8% of my LLM tokens"

unphased — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 02:46:42 +0000

So often we will burn 20% of limit in a single ill conceived agent tool call that we're simply not going to be able to or want to be able to intercept. Where I see a tool like this being a real step forward is to add a decision point. it does not have to bubble up to hard-require user to provide permission, but it can let the LLM have an intermediate checkpoint to say that it's about to get blasted with 30k tokens and here is roughly the shape of it and do you wanna adjust or whittle it down if you know what you're looking for etc.?

There is definitely tons of value to extract from this line of thinking.

New comment by unphased in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

unphased — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 02:38:14 +0000

haha, that analogy says more about whoever wrote it than it ever could to get the intended point across!

New comment by unphased in "Human"

unphased — Thu, 15 May 2025 09:04:19 +0000

I think you might be vastly overcomplicating it because I didn't think there had to be any sort of "conservation of branching" in the MWI. each nondeterministic event (of which unfathomable quantities take place every moment) generates an infinite number of branches so to even conceive of the total geometry of all the branching (e.g. all that could ever take place, truly) is a bit of a mindfuck, and that's probably okay and the way it was intended. It's supposed to be comforting to know that regardless of how bad reality seems, if we could navigate arbitrarily through the branching space/time/universes then there would be unimaginable infinities of joyful utopias to visit.

New comment by unphased in "Human"

unphased — Thu, 15 May 2025 08:59:20 +0000

could you elaborate slightly on what is meant by ancestor simulation? My best stab is that you're saying we're the unknowing entities that they created for fun to get to meet or observe their own ancestors? This still seems far fetched.

New comment by unphased in "Human"

unphased — Thu, 15 May 2025 08:56:06 +0000

What is it about understanding the universe that makes it such an axiomatic global objective? Sure for many of us myself included it's as all pervasive as the air we breathe... But sometimes I do wonder if it is actually all that correlated with my well-being.

New comment by unphased in "AI Safety and the Age of Dislightenment"

unphased — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 17:21:38 +0000

Security is one area in which you can't really afford not to go down the tin foil hat rabbit hole. It's been like this for some time, where it's not really possible to know just how much capability is possessed by nation state actors, but with AI and other tools those capabilities will expand and become the baseline probably way sooner than we predict. No longer will experts be needed to do careful tracing to deanonymize, one of the true superpowers of AI will be its ability to extract the full power out of the big data we've been collecting. So the cost then of figuring something out that now might cost millions will soon cost a couple bucks.

New comment by unphased in "Vramfs – GPU VRAM based file system for Linux"

unphased — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 09:03:40 +0000

It's relatively fast (probably could be faster than NVMe if optimized, i did not rtfm) and it is available. it's not the most horrible of ideas. I am fairly fairly certain lots of applications will load assets into vram and then evict them from system memory. Why not leverage this for general purpose use if it makes sense (after taking into account the security implications of course)?

New comment by unphased in "What Are the Odds?"

unphased — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 09:08:41 +0000

This article started off really clear and straightforward, then it dove into stuff that I clearly wasn't going to be able to follow, and upon skipping it I arrived at the explanation which was was plainly obvious from common sense.

New comment by unphased in "The Disappearing Art of Maintenance"

unphased — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 09:30:16 +0000

We "bought" a Samsung fridge last black friday. Something extraordinary happened. Their system failed to deliver us the fridge. We had to reschedule the delivery since we were staying at the parents' for Thanksgiving a few extra days. It just never got delivered. It seemed like it was XPO's screwup, but it was hilarious to me that they could not get their system working well enough to even get the fridge to show up at our house.

Screw Samsung.

New comment by unphased in "FDA to order Juul e-cigarettes off U.S. market"

unphased — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 03:19:02 +0000

Great post.

Now you got me thinking about one thing in particular.

Suppose we will have quite soon portable and discreet technology that can, through monitoring your BAC, or what have you, warn you that you're about to be overly drunk. It would stand to reason that for many folks out there who have An Alcohol Problem that technology like this could materially enhance their lives. Now that I think of this, something like this could even become the first practical widespread form of cybernetic enhancement, not that we don't already have plenty of awesome ones in the form of prostheses.

Just makes me wonder what kind of hurdles a company developing such a product would face.

New comment by unphased in "The Grug Brained Developer"

unphased — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 23:50:40 +0000

I think it could actually be a pretty good strategy to optimize your job search for the degree to which you might be able to go rogue and get away with it.

New comment by unphased in "TUIs"

unphased — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 23:17:33 +0000

Mine's installed from homebrew and is a native process. 0.10.0-dev (1df7dc51) it reports.

New comment by unphased in "C Isn't a Programming Language Anymore"

unphased — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 19:52:47 +0000

The O would be capitalized if that were so. ;)

New comment by unphased in "macOS has become more reliable"

unphased — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 23:41:55 +0000

Pretty sure it does do this.

New comment by unphased in "Is Genetics “Dark”?"

unphased — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 23:41:07 +0000

The ethical dilemmas we face now will pale in comparison to those of tomorrow.

New comment by unphased in "Programmers’ emotions"

unphased — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 23:35:17 +0000

This explains well why it's so satisfying to delete code.

New comment by unphased in "Programmers’ emotions"

unphased — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 23:24:19 +0000

And to add on to that, you're lucky if your computer just tells you no. Often you get a yes and something blows up much later with precious little for you to follow and you've got to put your Sherlock hat on.

New comment by unphased in "Facebook Renames to Meta"

unphased — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 04:13:52 +0000

> Maybe it's easier to create an endlessly gratifying simulation than it is to build a starship.

You say this with a maybe as though it isn't already a certainty.

Nothing can stop it from happening. There will always be brainpower available, willing, and capable of contributing to computer aided fantasy and isolation. Not that it has to necessarily be a bad thing, mind.

OTOH plenty of things could make it impossible to succeed with a starship.

New comment by unphased in "Intel Betting the Farm"

unphased — Sat, 23 Oct 2021 02:44:38 +0000

We'll know for sure next week (or already just not me), but thunderbolt compliance means displayport compliance which means there should be no concerns along these lines. I'd be very pissed if I would be limited to 60 on these new machines.