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Johnny_Bonk··on Ask HN: Is anyone using agents to test a better version of democracy?
This sounds interesting
Johnny_Bonk··on Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers
Looks awesome
Johnny_Bonk··on New Apple TV 4K
What about it is 4K?? I read their press release and even halfway down didn’t find it so I gave up…
Johnny_Bonk··on Mathematics of Geothermal Energy
I think i just saw Fervo delivered their 100MW facility a day ahead of schedule in 23 months.
Johnny_Bonk··on Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs
Yes, coming back to this thread after a few days, that is likely not a problem, I was talking about the ~km diameter nets.
Johnny_Bonk··on Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs
It's not my job on a forum to educate you. It takes two seconds for anyone to do research and evaluate literally any claim, especially now with AI. At this point, unless you live under a rock or never look at any ocean related news, one might have heard that casting massive nets and pulling anything with a pulse out of the sea isn't a great way to fish...
Johnny_Bonk··on Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs
Casting a net is actually one of the less sustainable ways to fish.
Johnny_Bonk··on DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp
Was this the ox alpha model?
Johnny_Bonk··on And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway
Yes good point and in theory that's how it should work and mostly does. The interesting thing we're seeing is how it's playing out at a societal level with regards to the manipulation, gaslighting, cheating and bullying. I guess what I'm trying to say is that in individual interpersonal relationships, it sometimes takes a while for the victim to fully understand what's being done to them because the abuser is not only doing harmful things but then they also gaslight, manipulate, lie, etc. There's usually a lag effect for first time victims to fully understand what's being done to them, and now at a societal level it's taking a while for groups to understand the same pattern. The most unfortunate part of it all though is how many people and institutions are 'in on it' perse and continously prop up horrible behavior because it also suits them or in the case of bullying, they go along with the bullying so as to shield themselves from being the target.
Johnny_Bonk··on NeoBrowser: An MCP server that drives real Chrome with your logged-in sessions
Interesting, I will have to check this out as a lot of what I do everyday involves asking claude and chat go use my signed in profile, I even built a skill for it with some other tools.
Johnny_Bonk··on Mistral OCR 4.1
How does this compare to Baidu Unlimited OCR. I've been very impressed with Baidu and it's essentially free to run on a decent computer, other than electricity costs.
Johnny_Bonk··on Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open
Yeah I was using cmux but it was Mac only and now I run herdr on my wsl and tunnel in from Mac and it’s awesome that it just mirrors everything. I like it and congrats to the founder
Johnny_Bonk··on Discovery Loop
For sure made with Claude code for front end, but I’m excited to see where they go
Johnny_Bonk··on Ask HN: When did we go from agentic loops to graphs?
Interesting you post this now because a few months ago I had read about agentic graph RAG or something like that, which was interesting for tracing agentic flows and then just today on Linkedin I came across https://polygres.com/ which now im going to try and excited to see if it has meaningful results for my codebases. To me i've always liked Direct corpus interaction more than rag.
Johnny_Bonk··on Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude
Great now can you make opus 5 work please
Johnny_Bonk··on Launch HN: Rise Reforming (YC S26) – Turning Waste Gases into Valuable Chemicals
Yeah I agree its also a worthwhile use case rather than flaring methane into the atmosphere
Johnny_Bonk··on Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench
like all good science, measure everything
Johnny_Bonk··on Launch HN: Rise Reforming (YC S26) – Turning Waste Gases into Valuable Chemicals
I disagree with this, I work in the same field and I left a startup for the exact same reason of what you're proposing. There are a subset of founders probably like these folks and myself who would rather not build anything at all then continue to create BAU and raise money/build a product with the intention of 'one day maybe we'll make it sustainable'. How about RIGHT NOW, how about building things FROM THE GET GO based on deep principles that what you introduce from the start is already more beneficial for the planet. And I doubt they're greenwashing because there are several 3rd party verified certifications that can attest to whatever theyre producing is what they say it is, and then it becomes a matter of which certification.
Johnny_Bonk··on Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench
yeah i agree
Johnny_Bonk··on Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench
I haven't joined your chats in a while but glad to see you put this together, I truly feel as though opus 5 is not much of an improvement. The only time i ever felt a wow factor was opus 4, 4.6 and fable pre trump admin lobotimizing
Johnny_Bonk··on Our position on open-weights models
Thanks for sharing, i agree no one should have absolute control of anything imo, and the mo greater the magnitude of implications the more important it should be stewarded democratically with clear and transparent principles with values adhering to things like human dignity, freedom, human, planetary & animal wellbeing etc etc. ill have to read the article
Johnny_Bonk··on Launch HN: Rise Reforming (YC S26) – Turning Waste Gases into Valuable Chemicals
It was using genetically modified bacteria via industrial fermentation. It's essentially a specialty chemical used in pharma, automotive, paints & adhesives and theoretically for biodegradable plastics but unfortunately PHB (the plastic you can make out of it) doesn't have great properties. All in all, the 3HB market was pretty small with tight supply chains and not a huge amount of growth. I'm sure you guys will have more success depending on your outputs.
Johnny_Bonk··on Our position on open-weights models
THiS! I'm pretty amazed how many people shoot them down without acknowledging the very real and somewhat probable risks they and other researchers have laid out. I don't agree with every point they make but folks really do just seem to think we should just keep building any technology and whine when we start to consider there are very real risks associated with powerful technology. checks notes see nuclear bombing of japan
Johnny_Bonk··on Launch HN: Rise Reforming (YC S26) – Turning Waste Gases into Valuable Chemicals
Not exactly similar technology* but similar domain.
Johnny_Bonk··on Launch HN: Rise Reforming (YC S26) – Turning Waste Gases into Valuable Chemicals
Congrats! I've worked on a similar technology converting waste syngas to 3-hydroxy-butyrate for further applications. Unfortunately in my case, we couldn't see any valuable and scalable end products from that particular molecule but I'm excited to follow your journey. Best of luck!
Johnny_Bonk··on French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time
Thank you for this
Johnny_Bonk··on Amid Increased Scrutiny, ICE Detention and Deportation Data Goes Dark
Man you’re really all over the place but ONE thing is for certain. You really don’t care about humans. Best of luck in this life :)
Johnny_Bonk··on Amid Increased Scrutiny, ICE Detention and Deportation Data Goes Dark
What about the extremism causing all of this, three years ago we didn't have folks with legal right to work here being executed in the street, separated from their families, deported right after getting out of a hospital for life threatening illnesses... politicians calling other people subhuman, animals, all criminals.. odd you dont mention THAT extremism.
Johnny_Bonk··on Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources
Thanks for the clarification lol
Johnny_Bonk··on Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources
Why would you say it’s useless data?
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