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daralthus··on Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights
omp+0x-alpha beat both cc+fable and codex-sol in creating/refactoring a big eval setup. the former just knows where things should belong and completed the task all the way while the other two failed on both metrics.
daralthus··on Midjourney Medical
quite the opposite. it feels refreshing that ppl with talent and money can do inspiring things with it.
daralthus··on Apple Foundation Models
ppl pay for this?
daralthus··on Building durable workflows on Postgres
how are you handling schema updates? do you migrate jobs or handle worker deployments in a specific way?
daralthus··on Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app
that's because it's an acquisition (http://usegalileo.ai/)
daralthus··on The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to "The Office" (2009)
This is broadly accurate, but if anyone feels like freaking out and quickly needs an antidote to the "high" class of sociopath grifters, perhaps could find some solitude in Wim Wenders' Perfect Days for a few hours.
daralthus··on The Brand Age
While I mostly agree with the grim conclusion, I think there's an important aspect ignored that in every domain the very first and very best brands could leverage as good design and purpose: art and fun.

Remember winamp skins?

"The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known. The technique of art is to make objects 'unfamiliar', to make forms difficult, to increase the difficulty and length of perception because the process of perception is an aesthetic end in itself and must be prolonged." - Shklovsky on defamiliarization

What pg is really writing about is enshittification, consumerism.

daralthus··on Privilege is bad grammar
ppl are so sensitive. it's not impolite to be direct. why would you be wasting each other's time by "dear, sincerely etc" every single time.
daralthus··on How to take a photo with scotch tape (lensless imaging) [video]
Honestly this is the best way to learn about inverse problems and it's what made convolution click for me a few years ago.
daralthus··on Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out
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daralthus··on Recursive Language Models
sub-agents that access (and manipulate) the SAME context (a file system or variables in the REPL)
daralthus··on Open Source and Local Code Mode MCP in Deno Sandboxes
File system access is a must tho, that's where half the power of coding agents come from: efficiently managing context files.
daralthus··on Your data model is your destiny
I 100% agree in the importance of the data model, and the examples show that it often makes more sense to start from the user's perspective of it rather than your db schema.

Interestingly AI Agents are all about disrupting the hard bounds of existing data and interaction models and it turns out the lowest common denominator is often the winner. Eg.: file system > database, grep > embeddings, markdown > pdf, generative ui > portals, computer use > api-s etc.

There simply is no need for all that abstraction / interface / infrastructure to eg. answer questions about documents or to keep track of todo lists, workflows or sending messages etc. when you have glue that can translate between the data models.

daralthus··on SWE-Grep and SWE-Grep-Mini: RL for Fast Multi-Turn Context Retrieval
this would be useful outside of coding. could you release a benchmark so we can have more models tuned for this?
daralthus··on Leading artists reveal the fabricators they entrust with their creations
I would
daralthus··on Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference
I thought this was pretty well known (at least in the JAX/XLA world). I've hit this many times and got batch variance explained to me before: https://github.com/google-deepmind/penzai/issues/82 and https://github.com/jax-ml/jax/issues/20047#issuecomment-1975...
daralthus··on ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes
If that helps, I get burnt out on just red bull already...
daralthus··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
A simple tool to continuously vectorize your PostgreSQL tables with the flexibility of your own embedding pipelines.

https://github.com/BarnacleLabs/RAGmatic

daralthus··on Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth
> No real human would go four links deep into a maze of AI-generated nonsense.

sure... sure nobody.

daralthus··on TinyKVM: Fast sandbox that runs on top of Varnish
yes that's the durable objects ~ durable agents model that cloudflare is building
daralthus··on Ex-Facebook director's new book paints brutal image of Mark Zuckerberg
To be fair, it's more likely they just looked you up on FB.
daralthus··on Gemini Robotics
inference speed of the models is probably the bottleneck
daralthus··on Gemini Robotics
just pet bottle recycling by itself is a multi-billion dollar industry globally [1]

[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PET_bottle_recycling)

daralthus··on Yoke: Infrastructure as code, but actually
or you could just compile pulumi js to webassembly?
daralthus··on Hard problems that reduce to document ranking
What if u embed `askLLM("5 thins this Diff could fix" + chunk)` instead of `chunk`? That should be closer in the latent space.
daralthus··on Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything
I have seen numbers come differently in JAX just depending on the batch size, simply because the compiler optimizes to a different sequence of operations on the hardware.
daralthus··on Show HN: DBOS TypeScript – Lightweight Durable Execution Built on Postgres
So this is like aws step functions and cloudflare workflows and temporal? What are the differences, how is deployment handled?
daralthus··on Show HN: DBOS TypeScript – Lightweight Durable Execution Built on Postgres
I don't think the processing happens in postgres at all, it's just handling the transactions and queues.
daralthus··on An interactive core memory electronic kit
cool now do delay lines!
daralthus··on GitHub Models: A new generation of AI engineers building on GitHub
Is this just Azure AI Studio?

My experience is that Azure OpenAI is waay behind on API and model parity compared to the same thing from OpenAI.

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