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by mstank 6d ago
Well, think of the near-future when tokens are so cheap that they’re not worth to meter.
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by mstank 6d ago
Exactly this. It’s a very effective way to integrate your app into Claude/openai. I was anti-MCP at one point when it was eating up a substantial amount of context in Claude code. That’s largely been fixed now. From my perspective, the
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by mstank 6d ago
Just realized this was written in 2023. Can’t believe how wrong we were about AI back then.
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by mstank 6d ago
It sounds like LLMs were pretty useful to them…
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by mstank 6d ago
This is a strange newsletter post. It’s harping against AI but seems AI-written itself. Its ultimate conclusion: “I’ve come to the conclusion that a language model is almost always the wrong tool for the job. I strongly advise against integ
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by mstank 17d ago
I assume as well. I’m concerned that it’s in development hell. Sean mentioned that they’ve been working on it for 7 years. In hindsight I think the great thing about NMS was that it shipped in such a raw state and they continually improved
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by mstank 17d ago
Spent a lot of time in this game… The team is excellent and they ship incredible ambitious work. I really wish they would just focus 100% on Light No Fire.
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by mstank 17d ago
I’ve yet to see a rational argument for how we go from super intelligent LLMs to human extinction or extermination. I understand that some smart people are worried about it. I just haven’t come across a believable or understandable argument
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by mstank 1mo ago
My mom was diagnosed with borderline stage-4 pancreatic cancer. Fortunately she had an aggressive surgeon willing to do a Whipple procedure, and survived almost 4 years after a 4-6 month prognosis. We were incredibly lucky to even have that
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Ask HN: Where to learn software engineering fundamentals?
14 points by mstank 1mo ago|7 comments
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by mstank 1mo ago
I have an open question for software engineers out there: As someone that has never studied CS but has written basic code most of my life (accelerated now with AI), where is the best place to learn software engineering fundamentals?
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by mstank 1mo ago
If anything, Iran has proved that is what they should be doing right now.
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by mstank 2mo ago
Your comment lead me down a rabbit hole of space micromanagement. OSTPV (onboard short-term planner viewer) is the software they use to basically schedule every minute of your space flight. Basically every day someone from earth decides wha
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by mstank 2mo ago
Do you think American companies will secretly distill frontier models to build open weight ones?
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by mstank 4mo ago
They obviously know how unpopular this is, or else they wouldn't be releasing on a Friday night. This is so unimaginably disruptive, I wonder who inside the administration is suggesting this.
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by mstank 4mo ago
Is it just me or is this happening way more frequently in the last 4 or 5 months? Coincidently around the same time the models got a lot more capable?
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by mstank 4mo ago
I think the opposite is true. To dethrone the top tech company, you need to be able to spend much less than them, at higher efficiency and faster growth. Google didn’t catch up to Microsoft and Apple by spending more, they caught up by deve
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by mstank 5mo ago
I always found it I eat them consistently, they would make me less gassy. But only after a couple of weeks.
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by mstank 5mo ago
Glad to see Searle's Chinese Room mentioned early on in the paper. "Syntax is not sufficient for semantics," no matter how much compute we throw at the problem. My very amateur view is that until the underlying compute archit
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by mstank 6mo ago
That happens to me all the time. My current working theory is when their servers are hammered there is a queueing system that invisible to end-users.
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by mstank 6mo ago
While I applaud her and wish her well — writing like this reminds me of a couple of things. First my aging father insisting on navigating using his unfortunately fading memory instead of Google maps. Some people just won’t pick up technolog
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by mstank 7mo ago
Is this just to encourage off-peak usage to get the most out of hardware investments?
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by mstank 7mo ago
Am I the only one that read this as "DeathClaw"?
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by mstank 7mo ago
I’m working on Green Tea. A open source note app built on Pi agent framework. Basically gives you the power of a coding agent harness for knowledge work in an electron app. No accounts required, all data is yours and lives on your computer.
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by mstank 8mo ago
VPS + Dokploy gives you just as much functionality with an additional performance boost. Hostinger has great prices and a one-click setup. Good for dozens of small projects.
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by mstank 8mo ago
Haven't been able to run any actions for the last 30 mins... also had two in progress that were cancelled. Are there any good OSS ways to self-host gh compatible runners?
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by mstank 8mo ago
Couldn't a human just use an LLM browser extension / script to answer that quickly? This is a really interesting non-trivial problem.
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by mstank 8mo ago
The pendulum is swinging back slightly, but I wouldn’t pronounce it dead just yet. We are seeing a decline of American hegemony, accelerated by this current regime. And the ascendancy of a non-democratic superpower. However, the largest chu
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by mstank 9mo ago
This is awesome, great work! There’s a huge audience for something like this based on the popularity of Kerbal Space Program. Biggest low-hanging fruit UI improvement would be mobile responsiveness. It was a bit challenging testing on my ph
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by mstank 9mo ago
This would be so cool… community contributed games with ratings and themes. So much potential for a platform like this. Great work!

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