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MetaMonkon Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms

The first pre-release for Docker Swarm came out a decade ago, the first release of OpenAI swarm came out only a year ago, I guess I'm not sure what you're trying to say.

https://github.com/docker-archive/classicswarm/releases/tag/...

https://github.com/openai/swarm/commit/e5eabc6f0bdc5193d8342...

MetaMonkon Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms

He's really into APIary things

MetaMonkon Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms

A guy who worked at docker on docker swarm now works at Anthropic so makes sense

MetaMonkon Proof of Corn

Proof of corncept was right there!

MetaMonkon Apple introduces a universal design across platforms

Haven't been able to turn it off yet. It's so awful looking and distracting, even with "reduce transparency" and "reduce motion" enabled. I actually think these settings are making it stutter more. It's definitely slower than iOS 18.

MetaMonkon Show HN: Rad Type - Can we make gamepad typing fast?

Someone's been raiding inputs from Perlin's page

https://mrl.cs.nyu.edu/~perlin/experiments/quikwriting/

MetaMonkon Who's Afraid of Tom Wolfe?

One time he came to talk at my school, and he spent the whole hour talking about sports.

He demanded that we pay the cost for a private jet to transport him, as well as his hotel costs.

MetaMonkon I've acquired a new superpower

You can also cross your eyes the other way and make the pattern in a MagicEye pop the other way (in vs out, or vice versa)

MetaMonkon Daniel Dennett has died

Life and psychology are not neatly provable / disprovable structures all the way down though.

MetaMonkon What happens when prosecutors offer opposing versions of the truth?

We're all basically at the mercy of chance and the human default of iatrogenic solutioning.

MetaMonkon Wendy's Is Introducing Uber-Style 'Surge Pricing'

Nearly every computing system geared toward consumers has to provide some form of stimulation ("entertainment"), IMO, because the more time we spend on computers, the less human interaction we have, but our brains still need the simulated interactivity. I think it's why LLMs are so popular and will probably continue to be in the future, regardless of them ever getting "good".

MetaMonkon Berkeley's upzoning would be among nation's largest

https://www.payscale.com/cost-of-living-calculator/Californi...

"Berkeley's housing expenses are 198% higher than the national average and the utility prices are 30% higher than the national average. Transportation expenses like bus fares and gas prices are 34% higher than the national average."

MetaMonkon Is working from home about to spark a financial crisis?

Someone needs to write an article titled "Is Betteridge's Law Always Correct?"

MetaMonkon A man who collects lost pet posters

Lost: my lost dog poster, last seen here. White and covered with black patches of Calibri

MetaMonkon You can't do that because I hate you

At In-n-Out, you have to say a magic chant to have them make the food taste better (and even then it still tastes bad).

MetaMonkon Sarah Silverman Hits Stumbling Block in AI Copyright Infringement Lawsuit

What is the minimum copywritable unit?

It would vary across media, but a copyeme (like morpheme, grapheme, phoneme) is very hard to define.

Will it end up being some weird tensor, or something human recognizable?

MetaMonkon It's Stanislav Petrov day —40yrs ago he saved world by suppressing a tech glitch

What's with all the posts lately that have edited titles for submissions

MetaMonkon Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text model

LLMs will by necessity but unintentionally enforce phonotactics but more at the sentence / thought level.

MetaMonkon In This Essay I Will: On Distraction

The essay is self-referential in a sort of Hofstadter GEB way, with individual sections containing allegorical forms of distractions or diligence (the writer being distracted by videos of a skateboarder who therein is relentless and very not distracted).

He is attempting to write an essay (the word "essay" itself coming from the French word meaning "to try") about distraction, while being distracted yet somehow talking about other kinds of distraction or not. It's very good. It's like a fuller, less abstract version of the "This is the title of the story, which is also found several times in the story itself."

https://stuff.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/tit...

MetaMonkon A state official refused to release water for West Maui fires

It's too bad the sirens don't allow an ascending of frequency to mean "go to higher ground" and descending to mean "go to lower ground"

MetaMonkon The Alexander Piano

I love these thematic submissions to HN and wish the site had a way of cataloging /grouping them. This and Ravenchord were really cool to read about.

MetaMonkon The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

A new sequence should be added to the OEIS that comprises the unix timestamps of each individual submission of the OEIS to HN.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&query=The%20On-Line%20...

MetaMonkon Show HN: Crul – Query Any Webpage or API

Could use a cruller as a logo.

MetaMonkon Congressmembers Tried to Stop the SEC’s Inquiry into FTX

Didn't know about that scandal, but it's also just standard to uncreatively (but tersely) name important events etc. with a structure of <noun/adjective> <number> (Boston Six, Gang of Four).

MetaMonkon Congressmembers Tried to Stop the SEC’s Inquiry into FTX

"Blockchain Eight" when you coulda had "Chain Gang"? Cmon.

MetaMonkon Wait vs. Interrupt Culture