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txhwind··on DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)
Competitors will try to touch everyone on the list.
txhwind··on Plan mode is dead
Why is a plan "mode" needed? I really hate reading plans in conversation UI. One line in AGENTS.md is always better, and you can customize it to fit your document convention. From the communication perspective, the planning process is most about creating clarity and alignment, on things like scope, constraints and decisions, among people (and agents now), often requiring multiple rounds. The planning tool built in Codex or Claude Code is not persisted, version-controlled, nor well accessible. In practice, My AGENTS.md contains an instruction about writing a document before starting implementation. Usually I won't read that document, because I don't want to micromanage agents. That document mostly serves a historical purpose like ADR, helping me find out what agents missed, made mistakes on or misaligned on, if needed.
txhwind··on California is chasing wealth that has feet
every tax can be expaned to a infinite series of rent.
txhwind··on California is chasing wealth that has feet
However, the bank is happy to extend the loan infinitely for people with enough assets. It's questionable that whether such loans are cash flow neutral.
txhwind··on Back and shoulder surgery is often worse than useless
Most back and shoulder pains are caused by bad habits. Cutting something from your body doesn't help a lot. Go to gym or physical therapist first.
txhwind··on ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit
A free-to-read PDF host site is valuable enough. Most academic publishers have a pay wall.
txhwind··on The new CC, an AI agent built for families
I guess they want to use the email CC concept showing the agent is a side assistant.
txhwind··on Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof, on CPU and GPU
I'm interested in how to integrate formal verification with existing software libraries. For example, https://github.com/verus-lang/verus integrates proof with macro in Rust. What's the plan for Bend?
txhwind··on Introducing System One Models and Jev
It looks like a Transformer encoder post-trained on classification and regression tasks. The encoder-only model is less noticed in recent years, but this product finds a nice application for it.
txhwind··on Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"
In imperative languages, it's a leaky abstraction not reducing the cognition overhead, compared with the plain loop.
txhwind··on Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"
If the contraint is not in the signature, and cannot trigger a test failure with typical implementation, it doesn't exist.
txhwind··on Backprop Alternative: Augmented Lagrangian Predictive Coding
other questions:

- can it be used to relax timing order requirement in pipeline parallelism? Each node update lambda on communication, and optimize weights at other time. - given that BP is using SGD, can batches and T share the same timeline in optimization, while keeping the descent direction?

txhwind··on Backprop Alternative: Augmented Lagrangian Predictive Coding
Backprop can also be viewed L local signal passing, but it requires global timing coordination. The Lagrangian enables out-of-order update.
txhwind··on Backprop Alternative: Augmented Lagrangian Predictive Coding
Nice introduction to a simple but useful idea! The Lagrangian works like a time-smoothed optimizing direction state, but it can be placed on any wire, even at non-differentiable boundary! Can it be better than existing training methods for discrete components like argmax, MoE or VQ-VAE? Maybe networks can be composed by a lot of learnable discrete components, or even bits and gates finally.
txhwind··on Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025
Human hackers would be put into jail. LLM hackers would be rewarded.
txhwind··on No country for mediocre mathematicians
Funded positions are much less than PhD number. However, people can fund themselves with a job. In a country, if it's easy to to get a part-time job with enough payment, mathematicians can continue work.
txhwind··on The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later
With agent asssistance, we don't need writing annoying formal spec and proof anymore. Then formal verification can be a practical and useful tool in daily programming, especially for "deep module" whose spec is much simpler than implementation.
txhwind··on Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript
I also wrote a Monkey script to save clicks when reading papers: just embed PDF webview into the Arxiv abstract page. https://github.com/OneMoreSecond/FileSave/blob/master/arxiv_...

It seems the software productivity has exploded in the agent era. However, do we treat every point of daily experience seriously enough? Do we recognize such pains actively and try to eliminate them (often easy), or just tolerate infinitely?

txhwind··on Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot
This is the first shoelace knot my parents taught me. We call it "butterfly knot". It's always my default choice with muscle memory, unless the shoelace is not long enough to create the "bufferfly wings". It's secured enough for daily use, and easy to release. Also the best choice for apron knot.
txhwind··on Show HN: Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface
Does the official relay server cost a lot on network?
txhwind··on Show HN: Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface
Very nice! an open-sourced alternative of Codex Remote Control, allowing full customization
txhwind··on Claude Opus 4.8
I prefer synthetic dataset since the first day hearing distillation. The engineering friction is much lower than soft logits, and I have not observed or heard performance loss (in Speech and language area).
txhwind··on Claude Opus 4.8
Could you share some latest articles or papers comparing both methods, especially on lanuage modelling case? I was not conviced by this claim when reading the original Knowledge Distillation paper. ChatGPT said there are some later works showing: 1. the gain may come from label smoothing; 2. soft logits are more meaningful for students much smaller than teacher.
txhwind··on Building Pi with Pi
How is the water animation implemented?
txhwind··on Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]
I'm curious on the use of rsync in version control. What's the source and destination?
txhwind··on Prolog Coding Horror
now we may have a more powerful "Prolog" - LLM Agent, though not precise and correct somtimes.
txhwind··on Solar-based sleep patterns compared to modern norms
I really hate modern time schedule. It's nightmare to be forced to get up 6am or 7am every workday since childhood. The only relief is natural wakeup on weekend.
txhwind··on First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5
another "obscurity": I'm not valuable enough to be attacked, compared with the cost. But what if cost has been reduced a lot?
txhwind··on A few words on DS4
Fucking abbreviations. Who knows it's DeepSeek, Dark Souls or DualShock? All possible on HN.
txhwind··on What Gödel Discovered (2020)
The proof will be more friendly to nowadays programmers if we treat all "Gödel numbers" as bytecode of a programming language. It's trivial that functions like "prove" and "subst" can be implemented based on abilities like bytecode parsing and expression tree manipulation.