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samrolken

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About samrolken

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    Comment #49024028

    I tried for years to make handwriting on the iPad work, but it never clicked for me. I randomly encountered a reMarkable Paper Pro Move recently, instantly purchased it. For the fi…

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    Comment #47938082

    Cute how Apple is dinged for having a “proprietary” App Store but not Google.

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    Comment #47300312

    How can I retrieve an API key from ChatGPT to use my subscription in other tools then? This seems like it could be useful.

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    Comment #46555387

    Claude Code does a lot regarding optimizing context usage, tool output, sub-agent interactions, context compaction, and stuff like that. I don't imagine OpenCode has the same finan…

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    Comment #46555373

    Claude Code does a lot of work in optimizing context usage, how much output is included by tools and how that's done, and when to compact. This very well may make the cost of provi…

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    Comment #45786994

    Wow, thanks everyone. First HN post ever and it’s this intentionally terrible experiment that I thought was the dumbest weekend project I ever did, and it hit the front page. Perfe…

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    Comment #45786703

    This was an unserious experiment meant to illustrate the gap and bottlenecks that are still there. I agree that there's a lot that could be done to optimize this kind of approach. …

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    Comment #45785598

    Most of today’s top models do a decent job with assembly language!

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    Comment #45784116

    As an unserious experiment, I deliberately left this undefined for max hallucinations chaos. But in practice you could easily add the schemata for stuff in the application-defining…

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    Comment #45784047

    No, I wouldn’t say that my hypothesis is that non-deterministic behavior is good. It’s an undesirable side effect and illustrates the gap we have between now and the coming post-co…

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    Comment #45783887

    Exactly. It even includes built-in prompt injection as a "feedback form".

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    Comment #45783799

    I thought about doing that, or having the LLM create and save HTML components, but for this particular experiment I wanted to keep it as pure and unfiltered as possible.

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    Show HN: Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app experiment)

    I spent a few hours last weekend testing whether AI can replace code by executing directly. Built a contact manager where every HTTP request goes to an LLM with three tools: databa…

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    Comment #45554711

    As soon as they put a persistent Salesforce brand banner across the top which did nothing but waste space and put that ugly logo in our face every day, my team started our transiti…

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    Comment #44995394

    I might consider something like this, but I can connect four monitors to my MacBook Pro. How easy is it to find a Linux-friendly laptop which can also do this?

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    Comment #44619219

    I’d guess they are using Haiku for this.

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    Comment #43777558

    They are saving this for some future release I would guess. A “personalization”-focused update wave/marketing blitz/privacy Overton window shift.

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    Comment #42910215

    Not just that, but even: > However, tools developed for Hollow will need to be open source to be approved Weirdly contradictory.

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    Comment #42750958

    I have a lot of luck using 4o to build and iterate on context and then carry that into o1. I’ll ask 4o to break down concepts, make outlines, identify missing information and think…

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    Comment #42482916

    I think it’s possible that it can be a useful step. Fleshing out vocabulary can help with all the real-world use, because you’ll have more context and can fill in meanings, and get…

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    Comment #41733298

    Why must LLMs or “AI” beat or match the smartest and most capable humans to be considered to solve a real problem? There’s been a lot of technology invented and in widespread use t…

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    Comment #41499125

    I have a bash script which is very similar to this, except instead of dumping it all into one file, it opens all the matched files as tabs in Zed. Since Zed's AI features let you d…

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    Comment #41472821

    Context for LLMs, and use cases uniquely enabled by LLMs, mostly I think.

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    Comment #41323861

    Threshold cryptography might be what you're looking for.

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    Comment #41179352

    I’m not a fan per se of TE, but I did get the OP-Z as a continuation of playing with the POs. I still like it but I’m already trying to find something to eventually replace it with…