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by akiselev 5mo ago
> Because proteins famously aren't molecules. Tertiary and quaternary protein structures are much more complex than molecules and have emergent properties.
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by akiselev 5mo ago
I only use it to help hold together some complex assemblies when putting them together so I can't speak to it's strengths, but: > Do you need a conductive substrate on both sides to apply the release voltage? Yes, you attach
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by akiselev 5mo ago
The vast majority of the time, you don't hear about it at all. Leveraged buyouts and the monopolistic strategies like buying out all the private doctors or veterinarians in a region get all the negative press but they're a tiny fr
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by akiselev 5mo ago
CPU cache space for code is much smaller than GPU memory for models (and the former is more important for performance since many CPU operations like pipeline parallelism are latency bound, not compute bound).
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by akiselev 5mo ago
Based on requirements.txt it uses build123d so OpenCascade is the geometric kernel (CAD engine backend)
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by akiselev 5mo ago
The real power with these kinds of tools isn’t prompting one shotted models but giving agents the ability to do the full workflow. You give them a description of the part and how it’s supposed to mate with parts from McMaster, Misumi, exist
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by akiselev 7mo ago
> Curious to hear if people have use cases where they find 1M works much better! Reverse engineering [1]. When decompiling a bunch of code and tracing functionality, it's really easy to fill up the context window with irrelevant n
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by akiselev 8mo ago
They can oneshot relatively simple parsers/encoders/decoders with a proper spec, but it’s a completely different ballgame when you’re trying to parse a very domain knowledge heavy file format (like the format electronics CAD) with
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by akiselev 8mo ago
Totally agreed. I’ve been reverse engineering Altium’s file format to enable agents to vibe-engineer electronics and though I’m on my third from scratch rewrite in as many weeks, each iteration improves significantly in quality as the previ
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by akiselev 8mo ago
I used the latest submissions from sites like crackmes.ones which were days or weeks old to guard against that.
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by akiselev 8mo ago
When I was developing my ghidra-cli tool for LLMs to use, I was using crackmes as tests and it had no problem getting through obfuscation as long as it was prompted about it. In practice when reverse engineering real software it can sometim
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by akiselev 8mo ago
There’s not much difference, really. I stupidly didn’t bother looking at prior art when I started reverse engineering and the ghidra-cli was born (along with several others like ilspy-cli and debugger-cli) That said, it should be easier to
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by akiselev 8mo ago
The book Brett uses as his main source, Waging A Good War , is an incredible book that I strongly recommend. It treats the Civil Rights movement as a military campaign and analyzes it from the perspective of a military historian. Not in
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by akiselev 8mo ago
Shameless plug: https://github.com/akiselev/ghidra-cli I’ve been using Ghidra to reverse engineer Altium’s file format (at least the Delphi parts) and it’s insane how effective it is. Models are not quite good enough t
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by akiselev 8mo ago
> We can finally get rid of all that middle work. That adapting layer of garbage we blindly accepted during these years. A huge amount of frameworks and libraries and tooling that has completely polluted software engineering, especially
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by akiselev 8mo ago
I think it’s an Adobe Flex app now.
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by akiselev 8mo ago
The real question is whether “debugging” the LLM is going to be as effective as debugging the code. IME it pays dividends but it can be really painful. I’ve run into a situation multiple times where I’m using Claude Code to write something,
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by akiselev 8mo ago
I'm self taught but used to work as an EE professionally doing high speed digital and RF mixed signal work. It honestly might have been easier without that experience because KiCad is open source and their S-expr file format is easy to
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by akiselev 8mo ago
> Most common question on HN seems to be "what are people building". Well, stuff like this. Hear, hear! I’ve got my altium-cli repo open source in Github as well, which is a vibe coded CLI for editing vibe reverse engineered
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by akiselev 8mo ago
> On the verification loop: I think there’s so much potential here. AI is pretty good at autonomously working on tasks that have a well defined and easy to process verification hook. It's scary how good it's become with Opus
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by akiselev 9mo ago
(Shamless plug) I've been using my debugger-cli [1] to enable agents to debug code using debuggers that support the Debug Adaptor Protocol. It looks like cuda-gdb supports DAP so I'd love to add support. I just need help from some
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Show HN: LLM-friendly debugger-CLI using the Debug Adapter Protocol(github.com)
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by akiselev 9mo ago
> Is most of the work on the schematics therefore done through this, or manipulating the binaries themselves? Why Altium and not text based kicad for this? I presume just for the ‘professional features’ Altium has I'm just manipul
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by akiselev 9mo ago
> If you're getting Opus or anything else to interact with SolidWorks from the CLI, can you say more about how you're getting it to interface effectively? I just have a Solidworks plugin that translates CLI calls to JSON to S
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by akiselev 9mo ago
> Very interested in your workflow - do you have anything online to share? Not yet but once I'm ready it's all going to be open source. > Also looked into automating altium more and found having to do a lot of GUI work to
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by akiselev 9mo ago
> How did you make Claude "know" the PCB layout/schematic specifics? Is just giving it a "reference prompt" enough to produce any interesting results? I have a mini query language in the CLI that implements a l
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by akiselev 9mo ago
I've been working on this exact same thing with both Solidworks and Altium! There has definitely been a step change in Opus 4.5; I first had it first reverse engineer the Altium file format using a Ghidra MCP and was impressed and how
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by akiselev 2y ago
I want to include interactive visualizations and other custom JS components in blog posts. I've worked with React and Svelte extensively as a frontend dev in the past so SvelteKit was the easy choice (much lighter weight than Next, et
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by akiselev 2y ago
SvelteKit using the static adapter to render everything to static HTML - except a few islands of with dynamic components like for the image gallery - and MDsvex to convert markdown to Svelte components with some extra remark plugins to simp
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by akiselev 2y ago
A crimes against humanity tribunal at the Hague?

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