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Curious if you've seen firstmate, built by a former bigtech principal engineer. It's like a sane version of gastown, essentially a meta-harness of sorts. https://github.com/kunchen…

Yeah, a bit surprised that the top comments aren't discussing losing Dean, he's been a figurehead for the company for decades. It's like Apple losing Ive in a way. EDIT: "figurehea…

Google as well.

And for me 10 years before that - not in the bay area but in my CS program at UCSD. Going into the junior year in '96 there was a clear inflection point, we suddenly had a flood of…

Updated to clarify reasoning effort.

Seems like it might be more advantageous to just adjust reasoning effort to retain cache. Maybe in some exceptional cases where there will be a ton more inference to solve the prob…

This sounds like a mashup of of several things I've been playing with lately... - pi-web ( https://pi-web.dev/ ): a web frontend for the Pi coding harness which can multiplex pi se…

Had this happen at the beginning of the pandemic. Did well on the full loop. The Friday of that week the recruiter reaches out to get references. A week goes by, I hear nothing. I …

He's had a wild life with an arc similar to Steve Jobs. Taliesen West was basically an architecture cult where he frittered away for nearly a decade before landing Falling Water fo…

And the HN denizens vote it right to the top.

Wow, listening to the Power Broker now, about 1/3 of the way through. Audiobooks completely changed things for me... in the past 2 years, 'read' about 40 books, almost entirely lis…

To be clear, Oh My Pi isn't simply batteries included like LaziPi. It's a fork with a bunch of foundational extra features built into the core.

It's hard to compare to the US as a big part of this is the very weak yen. I spent a couple years traveling the world and punctuated my travels with a 2 week stop in Japan (Tokyo/O…

From the top of their corporate website, there is a video explaining this: https://boomsupersonic.com/boomless-cruise And from the top of their wikipedia page: "is expected to reac…

Their claim is the boom won't actually reach ground level for overland flights due to how they're profiled. Of course that's the theory. The Trump Admin just allowed for a fairly a…

This is discussed in the article: "My personal impression is that within these quantizations Qwen 3.6 27B is as good as (or maybe slightly better than) DwarfStar4. Though, I won’t …

Curious why OpenCode instead of a more 'full-fat' version of Pi with the larger model? I feel like the amount of context bloat that OpenCode puts these small models into the dumb z…

Masterbuilts are closer to $10k now, fwiw. Plenty of shop built CS hover around $5k or more.