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tcdent commented on Speed up responses with fast mode   code.claude.com/docs/en/f... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
maz1b · 2 days ago
AFAIK, they don't have any deals or partnerships with Groq or Cerebras or any of those kinds of companies.. so how did they do this?
tcdent · 2 days ago
Inference is run on shared hardware already, so they're not giving you the full bandwidth of the system by default. This most likely just allocates more resources to your request.
tcdent commented on Show HN: I'm 15 and built a free tool for reading ancient texts.   the-lexicon-project.netli... · Posted by u/breadwithjam
tcdent · 2 days ago
Major unlock I see coming with the advent of AI is the ability to access knowledge that has dropped out of the sociosphere because of obscurity and language barriers. This is a cool move in the right direction.
tcdent commented on New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers   blog.adafruit.com/2026/02... · Posted by u/ptorrone
pjc50 · 6 days ago
This is insanely stupid stuff. Even the UK with our weird panic over Incredibly Specific Knives hasn't tried to do this kind of technical restriction to prevent people printing guns. Why not? Because nobody is printing guns! It's an infeasible solution to a non-problem!

Someone should dig into who this is coming from and why. The answers are usually either (a) they got paid to do it by a company selling the tech, which appears not to be the case here, or (b) they went insane on social media.

(can't confirm this personally, but it seems from other comments that it's perfectly feasible to just drive out of New York State and buy a gun somewhere else in the gun-owning US? And this is quite likely where all the guns used in existing NY crime come from?)

I would also note that the Shinzo Abe doohickey wasn't 3D-printed.

tcdent · 6 days ago
Is this even a problem that needs to be solved? How many people have 3d printed guns and used them?

Preemptive regulation is absurd.

tcdent commented on Agent Skills   agentskills.io/home... · Posted by u/mooreds
iainmerrick · 6 days ago
This stuff smells like maybe the bitter lesson isn't fully appreciated.

You might as well just write instructions in English in any old format, as long as it's comprehensible. Exactly as you'd do for human readers! Nothing has really changed about what constitutes good documentation. (Edit to add: my parochialism is showing there, it doesn't have to be English)

Is any of this standardization really needed? Who does it benefit, except the people who enjoy writing specs and establishing standards like this? If it really is a productivity win, it ought to be possible to run a comparison study and prove it. Even then, it might not be worthwhile in the longer run.

tcdent · 6 days ago
Skills are for the most part already generated by LLMs. And, if you're implementing them in your own workflow, they're tailored to real-world problems you've encountered.

Having a super repo of everyone else's slop is backwards thinking; you are now in the era where creating written content and verifying it's effectiveness is easier than ever.

tcdent commented on Trinity large: An open 400B sparse MoE model   arcee.ai/blog/trinity-lar... · Posted by u/linolevan
tcdent · 12 days ago
It's super exciting to see another American lab get in the ring. Even if they're not at SOTA on the first release, the fact that they're trying is incredible for open source AI.
tcdent commented on Tesla ending Models S and X production   cnbc.com/2026/01/28/tesla... · Posted by u/keyboardJones
tcdent · 12 days ago
Nobody here seems to remember that this was always the plan: release expensive cars to bootstrap the company which allows them to release progressively cheaper cars until everyone can afford one.

Not a fanboy, but this seems like it went exactly according to plan.

tcdent commented on Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot   github.com/moltbot/moltbo... · Posted by u/philip1209
tcdent · 13 days ago
Could have just called it "clawbot" and maintained some of the hype while eliminating the IP concerns.

Instead they chose a completely different name with unrecognizable resonance.

tcdent commented on Ask HN: Burned out from tech, what else is there?    · Posted by u/bleosh
tcdent · 20 days ago
I spent a couple years doing physical stuff professionally.

Pro audio system design and install, commercial interior design and fabrication, event production.

These pulled from skills I learned from hobbies I did to get away from programming.

I kept myself relevant by making programming the hobby I did to get away from physical work. After a couple years I got the professional programming bug back.

You definitely have other interests that can cross over into an alternate profession. And if you don't, picking up creative hobbies definitely contributes to work life balance and might prevent you from going to an extreme in the first place.

tcdent commented on What came first: the CNAME or the A record?   blog.cloudflare.com/cname... · Posted by u/linolevan
mdavid626 · 21 days ago
I would expect, that dns servers like 1.1.1.1 at this scale have integration tests running real resolvers, like the one in glibc. How come this issue was discovered only in production?
tcdent · 20 days ago
Agreed. Seems like a pretty risky optimization that fundamentally changed behavior; like it or not the ordering of vectors is often part of the data structure.

Could have just used a prepend to preserve behavior instead pf going down the rabbit hole of re-interpreting the RFC (which is a cop out IMO; it worked before, a change broke it).

tcdent commented on Ask HN: What is the best way to provide continuous context to models?    · Posted by u/nemath
dtagames · a month ago
There is no such thing as continuous context. There is only context that you start and stop, which is the same as typing those words in the prompt. To make anything carry over to a second thread, it must be included in the second thread's context.

Rules are just context, too, and all elaborate AI control systems boil down to these contexts and tool calls.

In other words, you can rig it up anyway you like. Only the context in the actual thread (or "continuation," as it used to be called) is sent to the model, which has no memory or context outside that prompt.

tcdent · 25 days ago
Furthermore, all of the major LLM APIs reward you for re-sending the same context with only appended data in the form of lower token costs (caching).

There may be a day when we retroactively edit context, but the system in it's current state is not very supportive of that.

u/tcdent

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