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nzjrs··on Google Described Its Agent Sandbox. I Built One with Firecracker and Measured It
This is a great idea but why write the post in Claudish slop!?
nzjrs··on Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI
I wish people would stop naming software after the implementation language.
nzjrs··on Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI
Thanks for mentioning gradia. That seems perfect actually
nzjrs··on The Components of Agent Memory
Very good reply.
nzjrs··on Building a Multi-Agent System from Scratch: Architecture Patterns
Slop
nzjrs··on North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist
I did this as a test in 2018! Compares to the leetcode screens now, it was a dream
nzjrs··on Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN
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nzjrs··on Almost every dumbphone worth knowing about
Nice idea but it's a shame the website text is in claudish
nzjrs··on How the Claude Code team does code review
So true.
nzjrs··on Show HN: Pizza Bot – An inbox for AI agents that work in the background
Why bother depending on DeepAgents and LangChain etc. My professional impression is such Middleware no longer brings anything if you primarily maintain the codebase with coding tools.
nzjrs··on Open Source Durable Objects for Postgres
Please at least write the announcement post by hand.
nzjrs··on Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents
If you just need a python+venv sandbox with dev-first UX, no container build step needed, and no startup cost then I am using https://github.com/nzjrs/sandbubble in prod.
nzjrs··on Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents
Your website text reads like Claude slop
nzjrs··on Show HN: I built a smart proxy so your coding agent can run loose
Your entire website was written by Claude and reads like slop. If you can't write a readme by hand then I don't trust your code.
nzjrs··on Single File Virtualenv-Native Sandboxed Python Execution Environment
I've been using this for a few months to provide a defensible sandboxed execution environment for internal software stacks.

It's basically a single file bwrap+AppArmor virtualenv wrapper with practically zero startup time and provides a easy way to provide your agent the ability to write code for, and run it against an internal virtualenv software stack.

No container build or equivalent overhead.

nzjrs··on Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI power deal
There has been a generation of activists and NIMBYs campaigning and protesting to artificially inflate the cost of nuclear, while having this delicious benefit of now being also able to claim about the cost of nuclear.

The ballooning of costs is not even significantly due to changing safety requirements, but often due to compliance and environmental requirements. Those are political requirements that could be removed in one fell swoop.

nzjrs··on Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI power deal
'have to' is a contested point here.
nzjrs··on London saw a surprising benefit to ultra-low emissions zone: More active kids
I'm not british either, but I understand the culture here is to disparage and discriminate against poor people in a slightly more polite and indirect way.
nzjrs··on London saw a surprising benefit to ultra-low emissions zone: More active kids
Now do LTNs
nzjrs··on ArcticDB: Why a Hedge Fund Built Its Own Database
Id be interested to hear how often you have your team use this to also store historical backtest results as people iterate on strategies.
nzjrs··on ArcticDB: Why a Hedge Fund Built Its Own Database
I think you just fundamentally misvalue what he is optimising for. It's live or die by alpha generation, and his tradeoffs are not HFT. There is going to be a whole other infra and opsec for executing the strategy.

Versioned dataframe native database hits perfectly for attracting productive quant researchers.

(Disclaimer, I'm also CTO of a quant fund and understand what he was optimising for)

nzjrs··on 'Don't vape. Don't use Juul': Juul CEO issues stark warning to non-smokers
It's the replacement part that I was referring to. More like if the friend was previously drinking too much whisky, and thought they should stop drinking so much alcohol, so got massively into craft beer.
nzjrs··on 'Don't vape. Don't use Juul': Juul CEO issues stark warning to non-smokers
Not being a xxxx, but I wanted to honestly ask about how you square or feel about those that start vaping in order to quit smoking, and then just massively become into vaping, talk about it all the time and the gadgetry and accessories, the community, etc.

I've got a few friends that went this way and it's a bit... odd.

nzjrs··on YouTube Blacklist Censors Content Containing Certain Keywords
You aren't wrong, but some of us have been here for 10 years or more. I have a very different measure of the cost / benefit of the increase in churn of online discourse as that which I would presume to find on YouTube
nzjrs··on YouTube Blacklist Censors Content Containing Certain Keywords
I'm continually surprised this isn't a major international scandal.

Some Americans don't like google interfering with their discourse and they spend their time using constitutional arguments as to how ok that is or not. International people watching these arguments look on with boredom.

Meanwhile, and american company per default explicitly shapes the dialog of the entire world and people shrug.

The international angle on this is absolutely scandalous and no one cares. Every international government acknowledges the problems of the great firewall of China, but this doesn't matter?

nzjrs··on All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people
Nice article, but every time someone mentions imposter syndrome it grinds my gears - it always strikes me as a thinly veiled humblebrag.
nzjrs··on Tokyo subway’s humble duct-tape typographer
I think you misread my Can't as Can...
nzjrs··on Tokyo subway’s humble duct-tape typographer
Literally no one thinks this can't be done another (automated) way. This is HN! This is a beautiful post about a true craftsman in another domain, as is appreciated here, and you really think no one has heard of laser cutters? We all know this.

Insight is also about calibrating ones response to the audience.

nzjrs··on Tokyo subway’s humble duct-tape typographer
I feel like this comment must me a satire of HN?
nzjrs··on The Banana Trick and Other Acts of Self-Checkout Thievery (2018)
False positives and the human reaction to being accused of theft will kill these. Honestly a sticker that says "automated theft detection system in operation" will be more effective
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