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clayhacks··on Show HN: c0admin – A terminal-based AI assistant for Linux sysadmins
How is this different from just using codex or claude code to generate commands? Would also like to use more than just Gemini as the backing model. OpenAI api compatible urls are pretty standard these days, as well as like AWS bedrock and google vertex
clayhacks··on Darwin Godel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents
Earlier discussion: A deep dive into self-improving AI and the Darwin-Gödel Machine https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44174856
clayhacks··on Denuvo Analysis
There’s definitely been plenty of denuvo games cracked, but I’d say most games that haven’t been cracked have denuvo. I think it also depends on the version of denuvo. Newer versions seem pretty well protected
clayhacks··on The Case for Terraform Modules: Scaling Your Infrastructure Organization
Well done terraform modules are super powerful. I’m forced to use cdk at work and holy shit is that so much worse. really not easy to pass modules or constructs around. Especially if you are switching between languages
clayhacks··on UX Debt: The Hidden Cost of Shipping Fast
Haven’t heard this framed this way before. I feel like AI development is gonna make this stuff way more common. Would love to see AI built to tackle this stuff, but seems unlikely for now. In theory an AI agent would be a good dummy user as they forget everything about the app with each iteration, but might be hard to get the scaffolding right
clayhacks··on Kagi status update: First three years
Keep up the great work! I can’t wait for their Orion browser to come to Linux. Would also love to see it properly open sourced
clayhacks··on Cinematography of “Andor”
There is politics in the original trilogy. It’s just more thematic than literal political manoeuvring. The story of a rag tag group of rebels fighting against a massive entrenched empire is a political one by nature. And Lucas has directly stated his inspiration for that dynamic was the Vietnam war. And spoiler alert America isn’t the rebels. I think Andor does a great job of fleshing out the more day to day feelings of being in an era of rebellion against an empire bent on domination
clayhacks··on Chatterbox, Resemble AI's production-grade open source TTS model
What’s the compute requirements, or like throughput min and max?
clayhacks··on How Often Do LLMs Snitch? Recreating Theo's SnitchBench with LLM
Yeah I’d love to see this replicated across various system prompts as well. They make a good point at the end that the system prompts encouraged high morality and high agency. I’m wondering if you just did one or the other, or neither if they’d exhibit the same behaviour.
clayhacks··on Why ChatGPT is unlikely to solve climate change
It does feel like an ASI with access to all the data and ideas around climate change would basically inevitably come to this conclusion. Perhaps it could change the exact definition of what’s in our means with more efficient resource production, recycling, and distribution, but at the end of the day it’s a fairly simple inputs vs outputs usually.
clayhacks··on Lossless video compression using Bloom filters
I see you put how to calculate the compression ratio, but do you have some examples of worst case, average, and best case compression ratios?

Edit: ok I see the photos in the repo. Putting them in the README would be helpful

clayhacks··on Kelp – simple replacement for homebrew on macOS
I recently started poking through more of mise and it’s so nice. I don’t know if it covers homebrews gui installs, but everything cli I’m trying to install with mise these days
clayhacks··on InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel
Ok that was super cool to see. I can see how clearly the process described in the paper has plenty of room for improvement
clayhacks··on Europe Built Trains. America Built Highways and Regret.
And how often are flights delayed in America for worse reasons? Like that’s gotta much more common than rail strikes
clayhacks··on OpenAI's planned data center in Abu Dhabi would be bigger than Monaco
I mean the other site is in Texas. We also have a lot of data centers in Arizona. I’ve heard the dry air is worth the extra power used for cooling but I’m not an expert
clayhacks··on OpenAI negotiates with Microsoft to unlock new funding and future IPO
https://archive.vn/1NIP8
clayhacks··on Psibase: Protocol that enables communities to "self-host" a web app ecosystem
Seems like a cool idea but not quite built out I guess? Lots of greyed out sections in the docs
clayhacks··on BART's Anime Mascots
Ok but when’s the actual anime coming? They need new revenue streams. I’d love a romanticised anime about these characters working to save Bart or the Bay Area or some nonsense
clayhacks··on Trust collapsing as job fears surge worldwide, warns UN
Yeah we’ve barely prevented outright monopoly in many industries, but instead allowed oligopoly to flourish. They don’t have to outright shake hands and say let’s all raise prices, but just have one raise prices and the others follow suit. This kind of gouging is far from new but seems to have dramatically accelerated in recent years.
clayhacks··on On loyalty to your employer (2018)
Yeah I think there’s a bit of regulatory and or legal hurdles, but I think the other part is co-ops aren’t as incentivised to grow so big. There are some smaller co-ops in tech they just usually do stuff more local scale. Less likely to hear about them and be spread widely
clayhacks··on Christianity was always for the poor (2024)
> Saying you shouldn't educate the lower classes or not educate girls would be met with huge resistance from most Republicans,

They are pushing for policies that would do that in effect if not in name. They are gutting public education (which the lower class uses) and trying to force women into motherhood by preventing abortions. Many women who have abortions do so because they are trying to get an education and a child would disrupt that.

I don’t think you understand leftism or American politics

clayhacks··on Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the first month on record
Capitalism hasn’t succeeded yet in this case. It’s set the stage for success, but success in my eyes is measured when we hit net zero. That’s still not inevitable at this point
clayhacks··on Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic
Work from home is great, but there’s more to life than work. Being walking distance or public transport distance to the rest of life’s activities is also great. And EVs aren’t saving the planet they are saving the car industry. They still cause tire particulate pollution, noise pollution, light pollution, and need tons of rare earth minerals
clayhacks··on AI 2027
But it also assumes China would never really catch up to American chip companies. China is already investing heavily in chip R&D and things like RISC-V, I think it’s very plausible that lag window shrinks over this horizon. Perhaps even flipping given their much larger willingness to use industrial policy for goals they want achieved.
clayhacks··on Aiter: AI Tensor Engine for ROCm
Not the GP, but I have a RX 7700S running Ubuntu and I cannot for the life of me get ROCm to play nice with my GPU. I tried all sorts of env vars but I keep getting seg faults when I try to run PyTorch. Or it just ends up running on my CPU
clayhacks··on Post Apocalyptic Computing
But that’s during training, not during inference. Also it’s more structured in where the dropout is happening. I do think that points to them being somewhat resilient but we haven’t had LLMs exist long enough for a good test
clayhacks··on Framework's first desktop is a strange–but unique–mini ITX gaming PC
Yeah I’m thinking it’s at least a few years off. But it’ll get better eventually. Framework is already on the RISCV train, so I have no doubt when a good RISCV SoC is available it’ll be in a framework ASAP. I’m hoping by the time my current 16 is feeling slow the RISCV option will be the obviously best choice
clayhacks··on Framework's first desktop is a strange–but unique–mini ITX gaming PC
I have the framework 16, and ROCm has been driving me nuts. The GPU in the 16 isn’t as meant for AI, but just shockingly bad
clayhacks··on Barcelona buys apartment building at center of eviction protests
I’ve heard of this project [0] creating a housing commons that owns the building and sells fractionalized “rent credits” to fund the initial purchase, with the plan of once one building is paid off they can purchase more. Not sure how it’s doing tho

0: https://www.lowimpact.org/categories/economy/housing-commons...

clayhacks··on Amazon Chime End of Life Feb/2026
They’re moving to teams and zoom and slack calls. In classic Amazon fashion I’m sure it’ll take a minute
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