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spullara

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software engineer, founder, vc — life story here:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/02/sam-pullara/

spullara at gmail

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spullara··on Artemis II safely splashes down
overall construction in the US had a measured death rate of 1 in 1000 people in 2023. i think we can accept far higher rate for space travel.
spullara··on What Game Engines Know About Data That Databases Forgot
interesting! foundationdb was created after the team was going to build a massively multiplayer game and couldn't find a database that could support it...
spullara··on ZomboCom stolen by a hacker, sold, now replaced with AI-generated makeover
shoot i show that to people every once in a while
spullara··on Artemis II lifts off: four astronauts begin 10-day lunar mission
Here is the official one from NASA:

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow/

but I admit that it isn't what I would really want.

spullara··on Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry
nothing about this proves anything except that someone or something had access to the key.
spullara··on Show HN: 30u30.fyi – Is your startup founder on Forbes' most fraudulent list?
percentage wise they have more billionaires than frauds on the list, at least so far.
spullara··on We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do
So you want them to keep working on those products?
spullara··on Show HN: Nit – I rebuilt Git in Zig to save AI agents 71% on tokens
no because tool calls are all client side generally. unless you mean using a remote environment where Claude Code is running separately but usually those aren't being charged by the token.
spullara··on Show HN: Nit – I rebuilt Git in Zig to save AI agents 71% on tokens
check out rtk that does this for a bunch of commands
spullara··on Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?
~600ms ping times vs ~40ms on Starlink
spullara··on Java 26 is here
GC pauses on modern JVMs are < 1ms (ZGC & Shanandoah)
spullara··on Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill
this is completely insane. we need some kind of constitutional amendment to get rid of all this kind legislation forever.
spullara··on Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine
Have you actually tried it? In addition to Augment, you can use it Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and more are coming.
spullara··on Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
the people that built the infrastructure that runs twitter left before he showed up. most of it was written by a half dozen people that left around 2016.
spullara··on Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine
I have Intent working on it. Maybe AI can make progress on this, but we will see.
spullara··on Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine
fair
spullara··on Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine
You can also use UTM to run Windows for free and it is open source.

https://mac.getutm.app

spullara··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.
If a comment is useful I don't really care if it was written by a human or not unless the speaker somehow matters more than the content.
spullara··on Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional
It seems like the law was poorly written. If it is civil, automated speeding tickets and red light tickets should be just added to the registration cost. If it is criminal, you definitely need to identify the person in order to prove they are guilty.
spullara··on Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional
They are not required to know who is driving their registered vehicle at all times, just that anyone that is allowed to drive it has a license.
spullara··on Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft
There is no doubt in my mind that it could still do it.
spullara··on Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft
In order for it to be creatively derivative you would need to copy the structure, logic, organization, and sequence of operations not just reimplement the functionality. It is pretty clear in this case that wasn't done.
spullara··on Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft
if the actual text of the code isn't the same or obviously derivative, copyright doesn't apply at all.
spullara··on LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first
human developers work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first.
spullara··on Google Workspace CLI
I think all the SDKs and the cli tool itself are mostly code generated.
spullara··on Google Workspace CLI
I have always said that if we had done for developers what we are doing for agents the whole world would have been a much better place.
spullara··on Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use
why wouldn't they just make it so the SDK can't use claude subs? like what are they doing here?
spullara··on Show HN: I taught LLMs to play Magic: The Gathering against each other
I was really hoping they could play the game like a human does. Sadly they aren't that close :)
spullara··on Show HN: I taught LLMs to play Magic: The Gathering against each other
Have your LLM write a simulation of the deck rather so it can play 10,000 games in a second. I think that is a lot better for gold fishing and not nearly as expensive :)

https://github.com/spullara/mtg-reanimator

I have also tried evaluating LLMs for playing the game and have found them to be really terrible at it, even the SoTA ones. They would probably be a lot better inside an environment where the rules are enforced strictly like MTG Arena rather than them having to understand the rules and play correctly on their own. The 3rd LLM acting as judge helps but even it is wrong a lot of the time.

https://github.com/spullara/mtgeval

spullara··on We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler
i'm sure claude has been trained on every open source compiler
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