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johnsutor··on English ↔ Claudish Translator
Maybe it's a play on the abysmal uptime of Claude Code?
johnsutor··on French musician Kavinsky found dead
Not exactly new but newer, Polo and Pan are great.
johnsutor··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
I'm working on so101-nexus, an open-source sim-to-real stack for the SO-100/SO-101 robot arms where you can record teleop demos, behavior-clone a policy, then fine-tune with RL. The goal is to be very compatible with Gymnasium, MuJoCo, and LeRobot.

https://github.com/johnsutor/so101-nexus

johnsutor··on How Alberta Eradicated Rats
There was a Joe Pera episode where they made a musical about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LEJSMm1qpM.
johnsutor··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
https://johnsutor.com
johnsutor··on GPT-5.2
https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-5.2 More information on the price, context window, etc.
johnsutor··on Inside the Apollo "8-Ball" FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator)
Brings me back to playing Kerbal Space Program
johnsutor··on Structuring Competency-Based Courses Through Skill Trees
It looks pretty akin to mathacademy.com, which is fantastic for brushing up on math concepts.
johnsutor··on Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms
https://bloomberg.github.io/foml/#home This course is my personal favorite.
johnsutor··on Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app
This license is called a Fair-Source License https://fair.io/
johnsutor··on DynaSaur: Large Language Agents Beyond Predefined Actions
Interesting idea. Similarly, recent work appears to have used MCTS to explore sequential multi-agent systems (see https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.10762, https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.17238).
johnsutor··on Boring Tech Is Stifling Improvement
There are plenty of "newer" technologies that closely mimic more "boring" tech too. For example, Svelte feels a lot like writing vanilla HTML and JS, Supabase is all built entirely on PostGRES instead of a shiny, noSQL database.
johnsutor··on Do AI companies work?
Seems like this is already being answered:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.10930 https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.04439

johnsutor··on Hacking Kia: Remotely controlling cars with just a license plate
With the advent of "Kia Boys" and now this, it's a miracle people still buy Kias.
johnsutor··on Cloudflare's new marketplace lets websites charge AI bots for scraping
Or, you know, just create your own API for your platform and charge people per request to that.
johnsutor··on The Cheating Device (ChatGPT on a TI-84) [video]
I remember there being a way where you could stash in memory even if the memory was cleared (my calc teacher used to clear memory before exams but I was able to retain some functions)
johnsutor··on Moshi: A speech-text foundation model for real time dialogue
Lots of recent development in the speech-enabled LM space recently (see https://github.com/ictnlp/LLaMA-Omni, https://github.com/gpt-omni/mini-omni)
johnsutor··on Streaming every NFL game this season requires 7 different services, costs $2,500
Or just use Stream East...
johnsutor··on Show HN: An open-source, local-first Webflow for your own app
Would love to have something like this for Svelte.
johnsutor··on Gemlite: Towards Building Custom Low-Bit Fused CUDA Kernels
This would be great to have for the Triton language as well.
johnsutor··on A new type of neural network is more interpretable
From the KAN repo itself, it appears they already have GPU support https://github.com/KindXiaoming/pykan/blob/master/tutorials/...
johnsutor··on Want to spot a deepfake? Look for the stars in their eyes
I know there are murmurs that synthetic data (i.e. using rendering software with 3D models) was used to train some generative models, including OpenAI Sora; seems like it's the only plausible way right now to get the insane amounts of data needed to capture such statistical regularities.
johnsutor··on Electra: Pre-Training Text Encoders as Discriminators Rather Than Generators (2020)
BERT isn't dead for smaller tasks (think NER, Sentiment Analysis) where low latency is needed.
johnsutor··on Show HN: FiddleCube – Generate Q&A to test your LLM
How does this differ from Ragas? https://docs.ragas.io/en/latest/index.html
johnsutor··on How A.I. Is Revolutionizing Drug Development
https://archive.is/UnVyG
johnsutor··on Pay $1 to Hear Wu-Tang Clan’s Secret Album (Eventually)
Last weekend, had a listening event at the Angel Orensanz Foundation, where they took the original photos for the 36th Chambers album release. Was a cool experience.
johnsutor··on Medieval Icelanders were likely hunting blue whales before industrial technology
Long industrial technology, Short pre-industrial technology
johnsutor··on Can we RAG the whole web?
They're only trained up to a certain point in time, so adding RAG should hypothetically allow such LLMs to access the most up-to-date information.
johnsutor··on The Hot New Luxury Good for the Rich: Air
I've got a dust allergy and swear by the Levoit Core air purifier. It's crazy how much dust accumulates in such a short period of time (I live in a building with central air that doesn't have filters on the vents). I also try to open the windows for at least 10 minutes daily, even in winter.
johnsutor··on Microlino boss: Most cars are far too big for what they're being used for
Main thing I would be concerned about is safety (I’m an avid Volvo fan) but it appears to be (relatively) safe as well: https://microlino-car.com/en/service/faq/how-safe-is-the-mic...
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