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kovek··on Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use
Does https://happy.engineering/ need to use the API keys or can use oauth? It's basically a frontend for claude-cli.
kovek··on Show HN: Skill that lets Claude Code/Codex spin up VMs and GPUs
I think railway deserves a mention here: https://docs.railway.com/ai/mcp-server
kovek··on I'm not worried about AI job loss
All of those technologies of the past can be managed by humans. Once computers can manage themselves AND other technologies and people, I think it'll be a different situation.
kovek··on Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere
Thanks for answering my questions! I see that Happy Coder is not far from Omnara. I hope Omnara can be not too far from E2E encryption. The lack of E2E encryption was why I didn't chose Omnara.
kovek··on Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere
I can voice chat with Happy coder. Also, I run happy coder in a sandbox of mine on my computer. What do you mean by syncing? Happy coder syncs sessions between all my happy coder clients. I can even see in real time how happy coder in my browser's conversations progress as well as on my phone, in parallel.
kovek··on Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere
Like what? I like it a lot...
kovek··on Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere
https://happy.engineering/ says that they have E2E encryption. Is that true?
kovek··on Show HN: Bunqueue – Job queue for Bun using SQLite instead of Redis
I know people who don't speak English fluently who like to use LLMs to translate to English.
kovek··on [dead]
Keep Instagram but delete X, because your reach is on Instagram? This just shows how difficult it is to unsubscribe to any and/or many of the products listed... I get the idea but it doesn't seem like it's helpful
kovek··on “Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI”
I'm wondering how do people come up with these mathematical challenges?
kovek··on Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone
I'm looking at Opencode and it might be better because it allows you to abort a task. VPN needed.
kovek··on Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone
I recommend https://happy.engineering/ . It is very easy to set up. I can have an instance in a container which contains my repository and lots of packages/binaries necessary for the work. I can then use the different binaries to run commands in the container. I was able to easily do `ls -la` in the container and email that to myself, all done from my phone. You can also connect it to applescript and whatnot in order to send sms messages, or you can connect to whatsapp. I was able to make it extract the top 5 headlines on hacker news, get the top ideas being discussed in the comments for each submission, and send all of that into my Apple Reminders for me to read on my phone.

No VPN needed.

kovek··on Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone
Is it easy to move the text cursor around in the text input in blink shell?
kovek··on You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving
Yes, I believe thinking can be hampered by depression...
kovek··on Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
I thought the traffic went pretty well tonight in San Francisco considering we had this major issue.
kovek··on Nano Banana Pro
See the third diagram in https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/18/6049 . There are elements of noise, of input embeddings in the form of images, or in the form of text.
kovek··on I think LLMs can do multiplication?
What does that have to do with all the discussions in the conversation I shared?
kovek··on Why can't transformers learn multiplication?
> It doesn't show it can execute it at scale. Without writable state and bit exact ops,

Well, modern LLM coding agent products (eg. Claude Code) are able to store state in files in the current repository. So, you could have the model keep the "CPU State", and the files in the repository be the "RAM".

Also, could this https://arxiv.org/html/2402.17764v1 possibly reduce errors when doing inference? There is no floating point operations

kovek··on Why can't transformers learn multiplication?
Well, the LLM may re-infer the whole state fully on every instruction. Temperature 0 is deterministic and that's what we are looking for. If the model is trained properly on how the CPU state + instructions should be handled, then it should be able to produce the next state.
kovek··on Why can't transformers learn multiplication?
Well, if the model can reliably keep in context CPU cache plus CPU registers plus CPU instructions and is able to do operations based on those, then we pretty much solved computation using LLMs, right? It could use RAG to operate on RAM and SSD.

Here we can see the amount of data a high end traditional non-SOC CPU holds:

> For a recent high-end non-SoC desktop CPU: > Cache: ~40-100 MB total (L1 + L2 + shared L3) > Register files: tens to few hundreds of KB total across cores (e.g., ~200-300 KB or so) > Combined: So you're looking at ~40-100 MB + ~0.2 MB → roughly ~40-100 MB of total on-chip caches + registers.

I'm sure we can reduce these caches to fit in the context windows of today's LLMs (~500,000 tokens).

Then, with temperature 0 we get more "discrete" operations. Now, we still have the rare problem of hallucinations, but it should be small with temperature 0.

kovek··on Why can't transformers learn multiplication?
I tried to ask a model to tell me what is the "long multiplication algorithm". It gave it to me. I asked it to follow that algorithm to solve eg. 12987318927 * 12098102983, and it followed the algorithm, and it got the right answer. It DOES fail more when the numbers are longer (because it results with more text in the context), but that can be improved by having the model focus on the right subset of the text, right?
kovek··on Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents
There's many different definitions of "AGI" that people come up with, and some include dreaming, quantum world, creativity, and some do not.
kovek··on Show HN: Firm, a text-based work management system
With cursor you can hit Cmd+K in the terminal and give a prompt for the agent to convert to a command in the terminal. Would be good if it could allow to do the same to generate SQL queries based on the databases schemas available. Then it would be a generic solution that would cover this use case.
kovek··on Show HN: Autism Simulator
> a bit whiney

> owning your problems

What do you mean? That makes me think about how people react to others having depression symptoms, saying that they should "just" get better... The best course of action is to ask for help.

kovek··on Lithium compound can reverse Alzheimer’s in mice: study
Could you share some sources that show this to be true?
kovek··on We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness
Why are you socializing with humans on Hacker News right now?
kovek··on Dumb Pipe
> It's a problem that's been solved in hundreds of different ways over the last 40 years

I guess now you can find the solution that you need by telling the requirements to LLMs who have now indexed a lot of the tradeoffs

kovek··on America’s incarceration rate is in decline
This is interesting. I don't know why it's happening. However, this book deserves a mention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Natur... . It shares statistics on how violence has been decreasing throughout the history of humanity.
kovek··on Self-Adapting Language Models
What if you can check if the user responds positively/negatively to the output, and then you train the LLM on the input it got and the output it produced?
kovek··on Show HN: iOS Screen Time from a REST API
This is great! I am really interested in trying this out. Also, I am wondering, are there solutions similar to this but on MacOS?
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