The way to do this would be to come together and design a common W3C-like standard.
Readit Newsmentalgear commented on A2UI: A Protocol for Agent-Driven Interfaces a2ui.org/... · Posted by u/makeramen
Neat!
There's also:
mentalgear commented on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/chirau
Should have been done 20 years ago, all the millions of miseries that could have been prevented, if politicians hadn't fallen for the Zuckerberg/Sandberg narrative.
mentalgear commented on Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI mistral.ai/news/devstral-... · Posted by u/pember
Just tried it out via their free API and the Roo Code VSCode extension, and it's impressive. It walked through a data analytics and transformation problem (150.000 dataset entries) I have been debugging for the past 2 hours.
mentalgear commented on Jujutsu worktrees are convenient (2024) shaddy.dev/notes/jj-workt... · Posted by u/nvader
Re Worktree/Spaces alternative: Why not just open up a new editor window ?
> I usually use it when I’ve got one task I’m working on, but for some reason I cannot proceed on it while eg the CI is running, but I also don’t want to leave the commit and close my code editor etc. It would be simple to just stash everything and later pop the stash, but it still feels disruptive.
Hey everyone, I work on PGlite. Excited to see this on HN again.
If you have any questions I'll be sure to answer them.
We recently crossed a massive usage milestone with over 3M weekly downloads (we're nearly at 4M!) - see https://www.npmjs.com/package/@electric-sql/pglite
While we originally built this for embedding into web apps, we have seen enormous growth in devtools and developer environments - both Google Firebase and Prisma have embedded PGlite into their CLIs to emulate their server products.
Yupp, this has big potential for local-first !
mentalgear commented on Accepting US car standards would risk European lives etsc.eu/accepting-us-car-... · Posted by u/saubeidl
Compelling arguments, particularly regarding the proliferation of oversized American trucks - such as the Tesla Cybertruck monstrosity - which are predominantly used in urban areas and designed less for practicality and more to assert dominance on the road, at the expense of other users.
Adopting such standards in Europe risks accelerating the "bulkinzation" and "truckification" of our roads. This would not only strain already limited space for essential transportation and parking, but also severely increase risks to pedestrian and standard vehicle safety, and in general bring a more hostile road/societal environment a la American "predator capitalism" exemplified.
mentalgear commented on Mistral 3 family of models released mistral.ai/news/mistral-3... · Posted by u/pember
I use large language models in http://phrasing.app to format data I can retrieve in a consistent skimmable manner. I switched to mistral-3-medium-0525 a few months back after struggling to get gpt-5 to stop producing gibberish. It's been insanely fast, cheap, reliable, and follows formatting instructions to the letter. I was (and still am) super super impressed. Even if it does not hold up in benchmarks, it still outperformed in practice.
I'm not sure how these new models compare to the biggest and baddest models, but if price, speed, and reliability are a concern for your use cases I cannot recommend Mistral enough.
Very excited to try out these new models! To be fair, mistral-3-medium-0525 still occasionally produces gibberish ~0.1% of my use cases (vs gpt-5's 15% failure rate). Will report back if that goes up or down with these new models
Thanks for sharing your use case of the mistral models, which are indeed top-notch ! I had a look at phrasing.app, and while a nice website, I found the copy of "Hand-crafted. Phrasing was designed & developed by humans, for humans." somewhat of a false virtue given your statements here of advanced lllm usage.
And so the enshitification of LLMs/chatbots happen because of ads - ironic as chatbots main rise to popularity was due to the enshitification of web search engines (mainly google, amazon, ...) because of blatant ad-pushing and people not being able to fibnd stuff anymore.
Where do we move from here when we actually want to find good/fair information?
Something like private/paid search engines like DuckDuckGo/kagi as last hold-outs?
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Sounds like agents are suddenly able to do what developers have failed at for decades: Writing platform-independent UIs. Maybe this works for simple use cases but beyond that I'm skeptical.
[1] https://a2ui.org/renderers/