Hi HN, I built this because I wanted a privacy-focused alternative to LangChain/Zapier that runs entirely on my RTX 3080. It uses Qwen 2.5 and handles urgency detection and routing without any API calls.
You even have to be careful with bringing meals. When we lost a family member and all kinds of food started showing up, it was very sweet of people. But it became just one more hassle to deal with at a time when we already had too much to deal with.
In the simulated discussion guest book entry, simulated Douglass Engelbart wrote:
>Doug Engelbart (Augmentation):
"Bootstrapping. The tools that build the tools. Your adventure compiler should be able to compile ITS OWN documentation into an adventure ABOUT how it works. The manual is a playable game."
That is exactly how the skill directory/room works -- it's a room with subdirectories for every skill, which form a network you can navigate around via k-lines (see also tags).
Here is the skill dir, with the ROOM.yml file that makes it a room (like COM QueryInterface works: multiple interfaces available for a class, for multiple aspects of it):
# ROOM.yml — The Skill Nexus
#
# This is a ROOM — a metaphysical library where all capabilities live.
# Every skill is a book that teaches itself when you read it.
# Every cluster is a shelf of related knowledge.
# Every ensemble is a team that works together.
And here is a session taking a tour of the category and skill networks by hopping around through k-lines! There are currently 103 Anthropic compatible but extended skills (with 7 MOOLLM extensions, like CARD.yml).
>Eight luminaries have been summoned as Hero-Story familiars — not puppets, but conceptual guides whose traditions we invoke. Each carries the K-lines they pioneered.
IMO, the problem is that you must learn what "research" actually entails before attempting it, so that you don't fall into the trap of that fallacy.
Most people… eh. I don't know about the rest of the world, and my experience was in the 90s, but for me GCSE triple science was a list of facts to regurgitate in exams, and although we did also have practical sessions those weren't scored by how well we did Popperian falsification (a thing I didn't even learn about it until my entirely optional chosen-for-fun A-level in Philosophy; I don't know if A-level sciences teaches that).
Crazy stupid ideas like cars with only touchscreens have still taken a decade to come in and then to get considered ill-advised even though anyone driving a car could tell how bad of an interface it is. We are still not fully out through the other side.
So while OpenAI or Anthropic are maybe not profitable today, they've got at least 5 years to figure it out. And there is already talk of inserting ads into the "chat", but hopefully that does not work!
But really, LLMs are useful (yes, sometimes only in appearance, but sometimes for real), and with that, there will continue to be investment into them until they are made profitable.
Yes, one can only hope Ken Shirriff eventually happens to come across one of those models, but I guess they are probably very rare these days.
Besides the multiplication, the 386 had quite a number of teething problems[1], including occasionally broken addressing modes, unrecoverable exceptions, virtual address resolution bugs around the 2G mark, etc...
A while ago, there was also an article post here that analyzed how Windows/386 detected early, broken CPU steppings[2]. Interestingly, Windows simply checks a pair of instruction (XBTS/IBTS) that early 386 steppings had, but was later removed, raising an invalid opcode exception instead.
Raymond Chen also wrote a blog post describing a few workarounds that Windows 95 had implemented[3].
I've been using this for a couple of years in my home now, with the same German Gigacopper devices. It's rock solid, very much unlike my attempts at power-line ethernet in the past. I used ethernet over coax in my last house too, which was also great.
I think many (most?) UK houses could get gigabit ethernet to at least some rooms without any new wiring. It's strange that the devices for doing it reliably are hard to get, but powerline ethernet modems are sold everywhere despite barely working in most houses.
> in 2026 I cannot imagine why they are continuing to, except inertia.
Because there is no where else for that debt to go. No one else wants to take on so much debt.
Meanwhile there are a bunch of asset managers who are paying the mortgage on their beach home in the Caribbean with the bonuses they earn by investing in US debt. If the US defaults on that debt 10 tears from now that means they still earned 9 years of million dollar salaries, and anyways they won’t be blamed for something the entire industry suffered from at that point.
If they do the prudent thing and ask for a higher price they will end up investing fewer dollars which reduces their 2% commission on invested capital, money that might go to their international equity golfing buddy instead.
Entities where the money is managed by the investor itself (for example, foreign national governments) do indeed appear to be cutting back.
> All the stock lane keep that I have used in cars, if you fail to nudge the wheel they just disengage and you keep going at full speed in a straight line...
is this true for current EVs as well? My 2015 Tesla S brings the car to a controlled stop with hazard warnings on.
I'd say "meh" to VCVRack. Just like you, I got into music production to get away from the computer so I avoid software when I can, I basically only have hardware for production, so I can use my hands and not stare at screens, only do mastering in a DAW.
Like you, many people along the years been telling me that I'll love modular synths, and I should try it out VCVRack to get a taste. So I did, maybe once or twice a year. It never felt fun for me, even one bit. Never sure why.
Then at some point I borrow my friend's modular setup as he was going to play in places where he couldn't bring it, and I finally understood what's so fun about it. The hardware is what makes it fun and relaxing for me, not the concepts themselves, and seemingly for me, they don't translate into the digital realm.
I guess the point is: I'm kind of similar to you and I couldn't get into VCVRack but actual real modular synths are fun as hell. Maybe it's the same for you, so don't lose hope if VCVRack ends up not feeling fun :)
H/L/M - would be helpful (High/Low/Medium)
Escape as finish a game is pretty annoying (that's what you press after 'i')
f1/2/3.. would be nice to - go to the next number in the row
open all unflagged around current cell would be useful
