hexer303

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by hexer303 1mo ago
It seems that the agentic search benchmarks have fallen victim to reward hacking, just like the coding benchmarks. It's good to see mitigation efforts being made to address this problem. What do you foresee in the future releases and i
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by hexer303 4mo ago
I just finished a similar project for fun and education. It was a 20-year-old codebase from my old game in win32 and DirectX 9. I first ported it to native and also switched to bgfx for rendering. This was the bulk of the work - converting
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Show HN: Agent that refuses to run commands without human approval(github.com)
12 points by hexer303 5mo ago|5 comments
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by hexer303 6mo ago
Thank you. Not many. I just use the Github copilot $40/month plan and it suffices. I run it in manual approve mode and review/adjust every edit. Mostly auto-select model at 10% discount, or Claude frontier for more complicated tas
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Show HN: A collaborative SSH copilot for on-calls/DevOps/MLOps(github.com)
8 points by hexer303 6mo ago|2 comments
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by hexer303 6mo ago
I find that the arguments of whether or not AI boosts productivity is not very productive. The more grounded reality is that AI coding can be a productivity multiplier in the right hands, and a significant hindrance in the wrong hands. Some
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by hexer303 7mo ago
Unix shells are conceptually simple but hide a surprising amount of complexity under the hood that we take for granted. I recently had build my own PTY controller. There were so many edge-cases to deal with. It took weeks of stress testing
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by hexer303 3y ago
A likely scenario is that software will become more expensive to consumers because the vendors will have to buy liability insurance in-house. Also, it will raise the barrier to entry for any small vendor or a solo dev trying to make a livin
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by hexer303 3y ago
"I haven’t looked at Flutter for other platforms than web so I cannot comment on it other than that the general principle of Flutter is a terrible idea." The author completely missed the point of Flutter. It is a mobile-first plat
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by hexer303 4y ago
It's all logical until you are dealing with an outage when your clients can't tell the difference between a wrong endpoint and a missing item. Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31849488