programd

Joined 16 years ago

Karma
2,558
Submissions
506
Member since
Dec 16
I consult on designing and developing modern, performant API servers running in Kubernetes/Docker or virtual machine environments. Mostly Go, but PHP, C/C++, and Rust also. Contact me at [email protected] if you have a project you need help with.
View on Hacker News

Recent submissions

Comment · 14 days ago
Comment · 21 days ago
Rimworld, of course. You'll keep discovering creative new ways for your colony to die for years.
Comment · 1 month ago
So there are a lot of ad-hoc solutions everybody is using for agent isolation and Drop looks well thought out. But the obvious question is what do the pros use? What does Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, Google and Amazon do in house to deal with the isolated agent environment problem?

Based on past experience I'm guessing everybody is using Kubernetes, but what are the details? Stripped down VMs on Kubernetes? Hardened containers on Kubernetes? Can the rest of us spin up something comparable on K3s?

Anybody knows the answers and can share?

Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 2 months ago
The hardware is a helmet with a buch of sensors and IR LEDs on the inside. There's a writeup of the process and a picture of the outside here:

https://condu.it/thought/10k-hours

Their data acquisition routine was driven by Claude and they were recruiting random people off Craigslist pretty aggressively a few months back. I know a couple of folks who responded out of curiosity and described a very janky setup in the rented basements of a couple of residential houses in SF. From what I heard about the setup the data they got must have been incredibly noisy.

To the people who are sceptical here, I wouldn't count them out yet. They almost certainly can get funding with what they captured, which would get them better hardware. And given the state of brain scanning - people have captured images from scanned brain activity some years ago as I recall - I'd say they have a good shot. But yeah, it's not telepathy.

Previous HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46195109

Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 4 months ago
The feedback from the VC crowd is that the historical 5 year startup timeline is down to 18 months these days. That means finding PMF, funding rounds, hiring and scaling to $25 mil/year. That's the VC playbook changer which has them all worried about businesses which don't go all in for AI.
Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
His RISKS Digest should be required reading for anybody studying computer and software engineering. RIP Peter.
Comment · 7 months ago
It's partly the weight that made the 11" MacBook Air great:

  MacBook Air: 1.08 kg (2.38 lbs)
  MacBook Neo: 1.23 kg (2.70 lbs)
Comment · 8 months ago
Thomas Wake: "Hark Triton, hark! Bellow, bid our father the Sea King rise from the depths full foul in his fury! Black waves teeming with salt foam to smother this young mouth with pungent slime, to choke ye, engorging your organs til' ye turn blue and bloated with bilge and brine and can scream no more - only when he, crowned in cockle shells with slitherin' tentacle tail and steaming beard take up his fell be-finned arm, his coral-tine trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest and plunges right through yer gullet, bursting ye - a bulging bladder no more, but a blasted bloody film now and nothing for the harpies and the souls of dead sailors to peck and claw and feed upon only to be lapped up and swallowed by the infinite waters of the Dread Emperor himself - forgotten to any man, to any time, forgotten to any god or devil, forgotten even to the sea, for any stuff for part of Winslow, even any scantling of your soul is Winslow no more, but is now itself the sea!"

Ephraim Winslow: "Alright, have it your way. I like your cookin'."

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton