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Comment on: Fixing Tool-Call Accuracy in vLLM

HanClinto —

Yes. All you need is a formal grammar that defines the syntax of the text being generated. The llama.cpp repo has a decent writeup on the way that grammar-constrained decoding works in general [0], and it includes a bit of a simplistic example for generating…

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Comment on: This I Believe (1952)

HanClinto —

It's not automatic, but it is the trend. https://ourworldindata.org/much-better-awful-can-be-better

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Comment on: A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE

HanClinto —

I've been using 98.css [0] as a foundation for building many of my personal projects lately -- I think it's pretty great, and a really refreshing return to some older paradigms. [0] - https://jdan.github.io/98.css/

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Comment on: A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE

HanClinto —

I mirrored the bug report on the author's Github project [0], so if it helps, you can view the screenshot there. [0] - https://github.com/wieslawsoltes/VB6/issues/39

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Comment on: Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met

HanClinto —

It's not a complete list, but it really reminds me of the parent comment's criteria. If AI isn't achieving superhuman performance in all of these areas, I'm not sure we can actually call it "Humanity's Last Exam" -- it feels like a bit of an overextension.

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Comment on: Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met

HanClinto —

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new…

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Comment on: ModRetro + Codex

HanClinto —

But play-testing on a real Chromatic requires a firmware update and API key that came in the box with the DevDay devices That's too bad! Those blank DIY cartridges in the DevDay bundles look really sweet. Here's to hoping that they make it more general-release!

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Comment on: Pirating the Pirates

HanClinto —

Yes!! I remember reading this book at the library as a kid, and for years afterwards I wondered if I had just hallucinated the whole thing. I think it's a really important scene, and I'm sad that it was cut from the movie. Side note: the (extremely well-done) Star Wars Radio…

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Comment on: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash

HanClinto —

No. It's not limited to 3rd-party guardrails. Given how restrictive the native public-facing OpenAI guardrails are, this feature wouldn't be worth very much if it just slacked back off to the level of "regular" filter paranoia offered by the native models, would it? This is…

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Comment on: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash

HanClinto —

Yes, this is well-documented and publicly advertised. In Azure Foundry, the feature to modify (or completely remove) safety guardrails and content filtering is called "Limited Access" [0], and one must submit a form to request permission to use this feature. This is one of the…

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Comment on: Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

HanClinto —

The upcoming RTX Spark [0] is aiming to fill that space -- consumer GPUs with tons of memory. [0] - https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/products/rtx-spark/

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Comment on: The entire city of San Francisco as a video game

HanClinto —

Very impressed with the Watch Dogs series of games for this purpose. We recently used Watch Dogs Legion to prep for a trip to London to get more familiar with the city. Set the game on peaceful mode and just walked around and did virtual sight-seeing instead of playing missions.…

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Comment on: Hacking with Claude on a $27 smart watch

HanClinto —

Maybe "Claude" is the new "Xerox", but for coding agents instead of copiers?

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Comment on: Qwen 3.8 27B

HanClinto —

And yours got the chain!

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Comment on: Spaghettifying DRAM

HanClinto —

Likewise -- also had zero issues going over this with Sol. Seemed to give solid advice for how to test it -- use an expendable bare-metal AMD family 16h test system w/ usual standard checks that apply. Run first and do not use casually. Start with the read-only and , then .…

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Comment on: Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones

HanClinto —

This brings up an interesting topic of atypical compounds that can visibly affect skin coloring -- whether temporary or more long-lived (such as elevated methemoglobin levels in the Blue Fugates of Kentucky). It's fascinating to learn that melanin and haemoglobin are the two…

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Comment on: Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model

HanClinto —

Well once I've got an outdoor-capable robot that can drive around the acreage and generally find its way around, the first step would just be inventorying the property and doing things like surveys of plant or animal species (birdsong recognition, etc). But for interaction with…

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Comment on: Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model

HanClinto —

In case anyone else is interested in following along with what I've discovered so far, I went on the Mistral Discord and asked their Miscord bot. Here is what it answered me: Hey there, fellow robot enthusiast! (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ:・゚ So, you’re itching to get your hands on Robostral…

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Comment on: Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model

HanClinto —

What is the realistic path to getting to play with this? I would love to hook this up to OpenClaw for hobbyist exploration. My dream has been to embody OpenClaw into a farm robot (been looking at adapting one of those RC lawnmowers that is tracked and built for mowing steep…

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Comment on: Show HN: Neil the Seal Game

HanClinto —

This is pretty hilarious. :D Feels like a combination of Untitled Goose Game and Goat Simulator. Vibe-coded? It's pretty impressive.

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