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hoistway

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hoistway··on Show HN: Pac-Bench – How well can models one-shot a Pac-Man game?
Always assumed Pac-Man was an easy solve for modern AI. Guess those ghost patterns are trickier than they look for one-shot learning.
hoistway··on Self-Hosting on the Dark Web
Adds a whole new layer of paranoia, but for some things, it's probably the only way to genuinely stay off the grid.
hoistway··on Book review: Is parallel programming hard, and, if so, what can you do about it?
Spent days tracking down a deadlock that only manifested under specific load. Definitely hard, even with good tooling.
hoistway··on I Put Nam A2-Lite Inside an iRig HD X
Always great to see folks modding their audio interfaces. How's the power draw with NAM running on that hardware?
hoistway··on US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons
Guess someone finally pushed that 'deploy to production' button on orbital defense. Always assumed this was already live for years.
hoistway··on Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
Skills files only help when the model can't infer the procedure from the repo. Most of the time a good prompt does the same job.
hoistway··on My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini
Been curious about the M4 Pro for local models. My M3 Max machine still chugs on larger LLMs, definitely eyeing an upgrade.
hoistway··on Version Control for Everything
The revert safety net is what makes agentic coding tolerable. Without version control, every AI mistake becomes permanent, and that alone kills the workflow.