This approach is called "staged parsing":
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Maybe the models have a common internal representation for computations, and they're capable of consuming and producing computations in the syntax of neural network weights?
I believe you, but it's hard to tell when prose reads like something Claude generated.
LLMs make it so easy to blurt out hundreds of thousands of LOC with no effort. Too much to assess critically. So I've formed new heuristics for judging whether a project is worth my attention. One of those is LLM-flavoured prose, which I have come to view as a signal of low effort.
I don't want to read Claude's interpretation of why your project matters. I want you to tell me directly.
I think the core of it is: following my intuitive sense of "rightness" across time scales (seconds to decades). When I'm doing it, I feel peace, joy, contentment, and my life seems meaningful. When I'm not doing it, I feel dissatisfied, restless, and nihilistic.
I'm frustrated by how vaguely and abstractly I'm conveying this. But this intuitive rightness thing precedes language. It's like a bodily sense or an emotion, but deeper. Have you ever put a t-shirt on backwards and only noticed because something didn't feel right? Then you take it off and put it on the right way around, and it just feels right. It's a bit like that but for life in general.
I can give some examples of "what" I've done if you like but I'll leave them out of this comment.
> "living a fulfilling life" means other trade offs, and potential losses.
Part of how I know I'm doing the thing is that the trade-offs and losses don't concern me. If Y matters to me, and X really is necessary to have a life with Y, then I do X. X is simply the price of having Y, which I'll gladly pay.
In contrast, when I feel resentful of a price I'm paying, it's evidence that I'm not following my sense of rightness.
I felt similarly and had a "crisis" point at the start of 2025. I realised that living a fulfilling life had to become my top priority, no matter how difficult or uncomfortable it may seem. Otherwise, I might not survive another 30 years.
Now I can see a bit of the mechanism behind the dimming of the spark. I had gradually conceded the direction of my life to external forces, and let anxiety and self-doubt drive my decisions. It's a great way to end up with a life that you don't want. I shudder to think of what it's like to do that for 20 years instead of 5.
Which is why I minimise my use of these tools. I'm not going to delegate the fun/meaningful parts to a machine.
Fortunately this isn't true. Social media consists of a few big walled gardens, but the web itself is still open. Go forth and create a website!
This was written sarcastically, but I'm optimistic. The more crap that's out there, the more refereshing and noticeable it is when something is good.
My medium term goal is to draw a cursor and move it using a mouse.
I recently got the USB host driver to the point where it could recognise port connects/disconnects. Enumerating USB devices involves some waiting, so I decided to work on concurrency support so that the USB driver wouldn't block the rest of the system. This week I got preemptively scheduled threads working (super fun stuff).
Now I'm trying to make the driver code more self-contained by keeping the driver's message queue on its stack. I'm not sure if it's a good idea. I'll play around with it for another day or two and then get back to USB enumeration.
Wait, so is the browser running a JavaScript build of Qemu? /
Hacker News still has a feed (that's the only reason why I saw this thread). And Reddit gives you a feed for your subscribed subreddits.
That's a weird way to put it.
The commit activity looks unusual because it's a completed project whose files were individually committed in alphabetical order. There's no development history.
What have been the most helpful reference materials so far?
What's the most memorable challenge you overcame?
What's the coolest or most surprising thing you learned?
Any links?
> Maybe this is also why Smalltalk fiends are such fans.
I started getting interested in Smalltalk after I tried writing a MacOS program by calling the Objective-C runtime from Rust and had a surprisingly good time. A Smalltalk-style OO language feels like a better base layer for apps than C.
(I'm not the author) The easiest way to charge for this kind of software is to make it SaaS, and I think that's pretty gross, especially for a CLI tool.
> I'm skeptical and I may just release it all as OSS
It doesn't have to be one or the other: you could sell the software under libre[1] terms, for example.
I created a little GTK program to help: https://github.com/LightAndLight/gen-alias
A possible piece of the puzzle: I originally read the article on mobile, no issues. Then I opened it on my desktop, and found the design quite jarring. The margins are much too large for my taste, forcing the text into a single narrow column, and the header animations were distracting and disorienting (fortunately the page works perfectly with JavaScript disabled). Perhaps this triggered people?
Next up I'm moving my TODOs off Todoist to something local-first, and plugging that into my Syncthing setup.
> If you have a feed reader system there is no need to subscribe [via YouTube] in the first place. You’ve obviated that system.
This approach works, and it's a great way to subscribe to public channels without a YouTube account. The main reason I'm not doing it is that I want to subscribe via YouTube.
> It would be great if it was more discoverable
Oh, hopefully there's a browser extension that detects feeds on a page and lights up and provides a menu. Shame that the YouTube mobile app isn't similarly extensible.
It's not a "Show HN" because there's no way for others to try it (yet).
Some things I'm curious about:
* Is anyone else here doing something similar?
* Would anyone like to use this service?
* Are there other YouTube-meets-news-feed features that you'd love to see?
My main concern is that it will be hard for you to find people who could give you excellent feedback on this, because they probably have epistemic shields up around this topic due to all the surrounding crankery. I don't know how to solve this, but I wish you luck.