knuckleheads (u/knuckleheads)

knuckleheads commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026) · Posted by u/david927

I've been working on the demo for Globs, a daily puzzle game about finding the hidden theme behind a jumble of tiles:

https://threeemojis.com/en-US/play/globs

It was inspired by 2025 by thomaswc, a 45x45 connections-like puzzle. Globs jumped off from there and it's been very fun to make. I have AI generating the puzzle groups and it keeps surprising me everyday with what it comes up with. I've got demos up for over 20 different languages, and many different sizes of puzzle. Just recently, I got the puzzle to be generated daily for American English, British English, High German and European Spanish. It can also do custom theme puzzles like the following:

Big YC https://threeemojis.com/en-US/play/globs/en-US/demo?size=big...

Jumbo HN https://threeemojis.com/en-US/play/globs/en-US/demo?size=jum...

There is still some bugs I am tracking down (open the page in a private browser if you hit stale data) but the game has really come together lately and been a lot of fun, I hope you all like it!

knuckleheads commented on Software factories and the agentic moment factory.strongdm.ai/... · Posted by u/mellosouls

jaytaylor · a day ago

(DTU creator here)

I did have an initial key insight which led to a repeatable strategy to ensure a high level of fidelity between DTU vs. the official canonical SaaS services:

Use the top popular publicly available reference SDK client libraries as compatibility targets, with the goal always being 100% compatibility.

You've also zeroed in on how challenging this was: I started this back in August 2025 (as one of many projects, at any time we're each juggling 3-8 projects) with only Sonnet 3.5. Much of the work was still very unglamorous, but feasible. Especially Slack, in some ways Slack was more challenging to get right than all of G-Suite (!).

Now I'm part way through reimplementing the entire DTU in Rust (v1 was in Go) and with gpt-5.2 for planning and gpt-5.3-codex for execution it's significantly less human effort.

IMO the most novel part to this story is Navan's Attractor and corresponding NLSpec. Feed in a good Definition-of-Done and it'll bounce around between nodes until it gets it right. There are already several working implementations in less than 24 hours since it was released, one of which is even open source [0].

[0] https://github.com/danshapiro/kilroy

knuckleheads · a day ago

Are the digital twins open source anywhere, or available as a service somehow? They sound useful to use!

knuckleheads commented on We mourn our craft nolanlawson.com/2026/02/0... · Posted by u/ColinWright

knuckleheads · 2 days ago

December a few years ago, pre-ChatGPT I did Advent of Code in Rust. It was very difficult, had never done the full month before, barely knew Rust and kept getting my ass kicked by it. I spent a full Saturday afternoon solving one of the last problems of the month, and it was wonderful. My head hurt and I was reading weird Wikipedia articles and it was a blast. Nothing is stopping me from doing that sort of thing again, and I feel like I might need to, to counteract the stagnation I feel at times mentally when it comes to coding. That spark is still in there I feel, buried under all the slop, and it would reappear if I gave it the chance, I hope. I have been grieving for the last years I think and only recently have I come to terms with the changes to my identity that llm's have wrought.

knuckleheads commented on The Great Unwind occupywallst.com/yen... · Posted by u/jart

jart · 5 days ago

Every group that showed up in the park and was working on a project, they could come to me and ask that their donation link be posted on the OccupyWallSt.org donate page. I'm a tech person. I registered a domain. I play it neutral. I included everything from basket weaving to aspiring governments. One of these groups called itself NYCGA or the NYC General Assembly. They were the political organization that claimed dominion over Occupy Wall Street and the public elected to give them the lion's share of donations. The guy who ended up with most of their money, if memory serves me right, is a tattoo artist named Pete Dutro. So these days I'm a lot more opinionated. The Pete Dutros of the financial community took out trillions of dollars of loans from Japan and the economy is crashing right now because of them. We should be focusing on reallocating that capital.

knuckleheads · 5 days ago

What a fall from grace, trying to fashion buying calls on FXY as a revolution! Put this on your own personal website and redirect that page, let the domain maintain some dignity.

knuckleheads commented on The Great Unwind occupywallst.com/yen... · Posted by u/jart

jart · 5 days ago

What resources? OccupyWallSt.org only accepted enough donations to keep the 1-800 number and website online. I was smart enough to understand back then that an unemployed 26 year old activist living in a park wasn't qualified to manage the capital that was being offered to us. So what did I do? I gave you about twenty different links for various projects on the donation page to choose from.

knuckleheads · 5 days ago

Thank you for another example of why Occupy was doomed to fail, I had not considered that you had control over the donation flow. Instead of working together as a group and finding somebody more responsible than yourself to manage the incoming capital, you diverted it away from the movement and dispersed it to the winds. Was that decision made collectively by the group? Or did you take it upon yourself to do so? Control over the domains and twitter account, along with the incoming flow of donations are the resources that you had and Occupy let you squander.

knuckleheads commented on The Great Unwind occupywallst.com/yen... · Posted by u/jart

jart · 5 days ago

I was the one who registered it. Occupy as a movement has always been inclusive of people with different points of view. My job running the website and twitter has always been to give the people a voice. I think that's important, don't you? The only guy with more credibility than me in Occupy is Micah White but he's been growing vegetables in Oregon ever since he visited Davos a few years back. So I'm the best you've got.

knuckleheads · 5 days ago

You in particular are my main criticism of Occupy as a movement. They lacked any sort of structure, shunned it in fact, that would have ripped control of these resources away from you once it became clear that you disagreed politically with the vast majority of the people involved. That you were allowed to keep control of those resources is emblematic of how Occupy could let all that energy dissipate into nothing.

knuckleheads commented on The Great Unwind occupywallst.com/yen... · Posted by u/jart

knuckleheads · 5 days ago

It is a shame that jart got control of @OccupyWallSt and occupywallst.com and never gave it up. It seems like her politics and views are very out of line with many of the people who were originally involved in that movement. Repurposing occupywallst.com for something like this compared to it's origin is a big disappointing contrast. https://web.archive.org/web/20111021162924/http://www.occupy...

knuckleheads commented on A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words forkingmad.blog/wordle-cr... · Posted by u/cyanbane

amluto · 8 days ago

$200? Does this use reasoning? Does it involve forgetting to use KV caching?

This should cost well under $1. Process the prompt. Then, for each word, input that word and then the end of prompt token, get your one token of output (maybe two if your favorite model wants to start with a start-of-reply token), and that’s it.

knuckleheads · 7 days ago

Yes, it uses reasoning. I tried without it, and at the time with OpenAI's api, it was not giving such good answers. Reasoning improved it a fair amount.

knuckleheads commented on A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words forkingmad.blog/wordle-cr... · Posted by u/cyanbane

trothamel · 8 days ago

If I remember correctly, the original version of wordle used a word list that was run past the creator's wife, who had learned English later in life. The result was a really accessible game - none of the words felt like ones you wouldn't know. It probably makes sense to reuse words than risk losing that accessibility.

(I kept a copy of original wordle, and it seems to have 2,315 words that are possible answers.)

knuckleheads · 8 days ago

Yes, that's correct! Took her about a year off and on, he had made a little app for her to go through and categorize everything.

As an aside, for about $200, you can ask a true/false question of every word in the English language with a frontier LLM, and get mostly good answers. I make word games in my free time and was sort of shocked when I realized how cheap intelligence has been getting.

knuckleheads commented on Trump raises US tariffs on South Korea imports to 25% bbc.com/news/articles/cwy... · Posted by u/tartoran

lenerdenator · 13 days ago

Where's the case on him not being allowed to do that anymore? I remember there being at least one lawsuit over all of this foolishness.

knuckleheads · 13 days ago

It'll be another 3 weeks or so I think. Arcane supreme court release schedule.