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Where is the Astra benchmark?

Have been following this for a while, but honestly still not exactly clear to me who/what this tool is meant for

After all, we already have safe conccurent edits, etc via regular git tooling

To me it this seems a bit backwards looking. Increasingly code review is more on verifying the functional requirements, and less about reading every line an agent has written (or watching it write those lines live)

karma_daemonon The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020)

Maybe the core reasons are buried in this, but the amount of empty statements makes it hard to find

karma_daemonon Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts

I've been thinking the same! Haha

Even for like token efficiency it could make sense - like imagine if the representation were more compact

Agents acn already translate languages quite well. It doesn't seem crazy that they could work and think in a model specific language, and then translate back to English or something for the user

karma_daemonon The real prices of frontier models

The "Honest size of the effect"

Honestly, haha

karma_daemonon Amber the programming language compiled to Bash/Ksh/Zsh

unclear use case imo - this sacrifices the ergonomics of actual bash scripting, and hides it behind another language

If your script is complex enough to need a higher level language you might as well just switch to python

karma_daemonon GPT-5.6

I wish model launches were like proper product releases

it's impossible to _try_ it out on release!

it's not on their codex subscription, or the web/mobile chatgpt interfaces, or aws bedrock, etc. I just cant find a working endpoint with the latest model after they announce

karma_daemonon Fable is not a useful model

I've had fable disengage on anything related even tangentially to "biology"

Even questions about like my heartrate nunbers while running seem to run into the bio weapon filter

karma_daemonon The only moat left is money?

Not sure I agree with this - if productivity is going up, then it seems like the value of thinking would _also_ go up

Each thought is just worth so much more

karma_daemonon Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

A glorious new era of bespoke industrial code

karma_daemonon Coup Attempt in Bolivia

From the article

"Bolivia is among the world’s most politically turbulent nations, having had nearly 200 coups and revolutions since it won independence from Spain two centuries ago. Morales was ousted by the army as recently as 2019 after a disputed election."

karma_daemonon Ask HN: Does there exist a read-optimized distributed K-V store?

you could try clickhouse

karma_daemonon The wealthiest 10% of Americans own a record 89% of all U.S. stocks

I'm not sure you need to be very rich, or an institution to diversify. In fact, it's never been easier to own hundreds, or thousands, of stocks as an individual. All you need to do is buy etfs.

karma_daemonon Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust

I wish the article would show a graph of the golang heap usage. I'm reminded of this cloudflare article [0] from a while back where they created an example that seemed to exhibit similar performance issues when they created many small objects to be garbaged collected. They solved it by using a pooled allocator instead of relying solely on the GC. Wonder if that would have been applicable here to the go version.

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/recycling-memory-buffers-in-go/

karma_daemonon Ask HN: Best replacement for Skype

Discord for sure

I switched and never looked back. They have pretty slick apps for desktop and mobile too.