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someoneonteneton Scaffolding to Superhuman: How Curriculum Learning Solved 2048 and Tetris

Curriculum learning helped me out a lot in this project too https://www.robw.fyi/2025/12/28/solve-hi-q-with-alphazero-an...

someoneonteneton Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot

How did I know this was gonna be speed lol

someoneonteneton Show HN: RULER – Easily apply RL to any agent

Love these write ups!

someoneonteneton Ask HN: Does it make sense to be in SF if you are bootstrapped?

Come visit for a few weeks and see if it’s right for you :)

someoneonteneton JSLinux

I’ve tried to set this up and get a little bogged down on some of the finer points of compiling nixos to wasm. It’s not very straightforward unfortunately :/

someoneonteneton JSLinux

My dream is have a in browser nixos vm on wasm. If I could have a bare vm, I can bootstrap it easily with a nixos config. From there I can start thinking about running web services in browser tabs instead of physical hardware.

someoneonteneton Bonobos use a kind of syntax once thought to be unique to humans

I think that you might be taking that example in bad faith.

someoneonteneton Ask HN: Does anyone still use code snippets?

At that point you may as well use a typewriter

someoneonteneton Relax while watching bouncing particles making connections when they get closer

Neat, I’ve also made something like this with processing https://robw.fyi/constellation.html

someoneonteneton Agentic patters from scratch using Groq

The readme was the most important part for me!

someoneonteneton Sanding UI

Sounds like op is manually fuzz testing.

someoneonteneton Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Interactive Tutorial

I talk to ai like a caveman mostly. Instead of over optimizing my prompt I just try to find the minimal amount of representation to get the llm to understand my problem and solve it for me and I have been very productive with this strategy. What would someone like me get out of prompt engineering? Or is it more for things like agents, bots, and assistants?

someoneonteneton Neon Postgres vs. Supabase

Seems weird to compare them since I see them as complimentary services.

someoneonteneton Three years in North Korea as a foreigner (2021)

I’m sure some countries are more willing to treat guests to the vegetable treatment than others.

someoneonteneton Don't use booleans (2019)

How is this done for js?

someoneonteneton Five common English words we don't know the origins of–including 'boy' and 'dog'

Fantasize?

someoneonteneton My Python code is a neural network

Newtons Method approximates square roots. Its useful if you want to approximate something like that without pulling in the computational power required of NN.