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recroad··on Cf: The Agentic CLI for the Cloudflare API
This is cool, but I've never had an issue with agents working on Cloudflare by just making REST calls. With the rest docs, it knows pretty much everything about what kind of operations it can do. Is the CLI a subset of that or does in encompass everything?
recroad··on Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things
This is just for me, but I don't think I want to get into the business of specifying placement in that much detail. It would too cumbersome and I'd rather focus on what I want the diagram to convey, rather than how.
recroad··on Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things
Seems a little buggy, I added this line:

edge parser -> renderer "test edge" from: left to: right

and it wasn't smart enough to make a curved arrow

recroad··on Plan mode is dead
“Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential” - Churchill
recroad··on Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school
Yup. Brown Muslims from another country are barely considered human. It's like killing an ant.
recroad··on I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago
This is awesome OP - very impressive. I'm definitely going to be using it to classify customer support tickets and log error classification. Thank you!
recroad··on OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework
I use this to produce the task list which I then feed into a Ralph loop using a bash script. I save a lot of tokens since each tasks context is so small.
recroad··on Who Aligns the Aligners?
American presidents/power structures come from a small credentialed network of people. The congress is entirely bought and paid for since the early 70s, and the will of the people isn't represented in the policy. For sure the US (and China, and India) have a "checkered past", that's why I group them together and don't really differentiate the quality of their democracy. I'd argue India is probably the most democratic country with good results, simply based on the amount of people they have lifted out of poverty in the last two decades (Kishore Mahbubani's lectures are quite informative).

Back to US presidents/power structures: HW Bush was the son of Sen. Prescott Bush, and became president 8yrs after he left office. His other son Jeb was the 2016 establishment favorite and Florida governor. Al Gore was the son of Senator Albert Gore Sr. Mitt Romney was the son of George Romney (Michigan governor and 1968 presidential candidate). Dan Quayle's family owned the Indiana newspaper chain that helped make him. Hillary was Bill's wife before she was a senator, Secretary of State, and nominee. John McCain was the son and grandson of four-star admirals.

Biden and Obama were 2008 primary rivals, Biden became his VP. Harris went from attacking Biden over school busing and became his VP. Hillary Clinton had many racist attacks against Obama through 2008 and became his Secretary of State. John Kerry, who lost in 2004 then took the same job.

If this is a healthy democracy, then we definitely have different definitions of that word.

recroad··on Who Aligns the Aligners?
What's up with this split or democratic vs non-democratic countries? It doesn't even add-up because you can easily make a case that China is a democratic country with a far better system of governance and ability to control this problem than "Western" governments. Highly suggest this quick read on the different types of democracy in our glorious world[1].

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/2193933.The_Real_Worl...

recroad··on Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
That’s what one must resort to when defending genocide. No shame in these people.
recroad··on Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
Still waiting
recroad··on Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?
I use the Ecto connection pool when using Elixir/Phoenix.
recroad··on Show HN: Mole – Deep research agent for your terminal
That is a LOT of code for a pretty basic feature.
recroad··on The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models
RFC 2119 style requirements have proven to be quite effective for me.
recroad··on The short leash AI coding method for beating Fable
That may be true but it’s still capable of nuanced discussions.
recroad··on Working With AI: A concrete example
Have to disagree with this as it's excellent at helping you wide and broad before converging. I suggest trying OpenSpec and use /ospx:explore to state your problem and go from there.
recroad··on Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM)
This has been working for me

https://lookscanned.io/en/scan

recroad··on US and Iran announce deal to end military operations
No, they tried to negotiate a new deal, not go back to the one they had agreed to. Why would Iran trust any new negotiations?

Iran was naive enough to trust the US twice in the last year and HAD THEIR NEGOTIATING TEAM BOMBED! I'm shocked they even trust the US to hold up to the deal they signed today. I'm guessing US concessions on frozen assets was just too much to pass up.

recroad··on US and Iran announce deal to end military operations
You left out the part that they went past the 3.5% after Trump pulled out of the deal. While they were in it, they were complying fully as per IAEA and the US State department themselves.
recroad··on US and Iran announce deal to end military operations
Iran was fully abiding by the JCPOA (Obama Iran deal) until Trump pulled out in his first term. Trump hates Obama so that was entirely out of spite.

What is surprising is how co-opted the Biden admin was by Israel, that they didn't even bother to even consider reentering it despite it being a Democratic party "win" when it was first announced.

recroad··on Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models
Snitches be bitches
recroad··on MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second
Woah - what’s the prompt and what’s the PR?
recroad··on Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language
I use Elixir not because of typed/untyped, but because of BEAM and OTP.
recroad··on I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
Mostly brownfield systems in Java, Elixir and TS. I use OpenSpec in explore mode and point the agent to all the different repositories (when not working in a monorepo) to identify changes. Once done, i switch to propose mode and spend at least 15 minutes there iterating over the plan until I'm satisfied with the TDD approach (agents need tests to verify their work). Then apply and review. This also auto generates docs etc.
recroad··on I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
I just don’t understand how people are getting negative value out of AI or even only 20% productivity boost. I can only conclude that people don’t know how to use agents.
recroad··on Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card
There's also this:

https://www.stridelikeaboss.com/

recroad··on Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent
“Nepo babies don’t cheat” seems like a contradictory philosophy
recroad··on We let AIs run radio stations
By donating whatever money they wasted here to literally anything.
recroad··on We let AIs run radio stations
This is why we need more data centers?
recroad··on HTML Lists

    <BLINK>
      <MARQUEE>
        <OL>
          <LI>One</LI>
          <LI>Two</LI>
          <LI>Three</LI>
        </OL>
      </MARQUEE>
    </BLINK>
FTFY
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