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1. The Optimization Theory of Everything
   2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-07-27
2. Agentics: AI enablement requires managed agent runtimes
   2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-24

What Hacker News says?

1. theahura · 2025-12-13

   Soft plug: take a look at https://github.com/tilework-tech/nori-profiles I've spent the last ~4 months figuring out how to make coding agents better, and it's really paid off. The configs at the link above make claude code significantly better, passively. It's a one-shot install, and it may just be able to one-shot your problem, because it does the hard work of 'knowing how to use the agents' for you. Would love to…

   Comment linking /p/averaging-10-prs-a-day-with-claude

   on “Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?”
2. theahura · 2026-09-14

   Submitted AI is not a normal technology as a story · 40 points

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3. theahura · 2026-07-08

   always a fun day when someone rediscovers these. Lucky 10000 in case folks are interested, i wrote up a ~layman's review of each paper over the course of two years a while back. Several of those reviews ended up doing reasonably well on hn. Full analysis of the ~23 docs that were papers and not massive books https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/ilyas-30-papers-to-carmack-tab...

   Comment linking /p/ilyas-30-papers-to-carmack-table

   on “30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format”
4. theahura · 2026-06-13

   Submitted There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing as a story · 13 points

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5. theahura · 2025-12-10

   Submitted Coding Agents Suck at Microservices as a story · 6 points

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6. theahura · 2026-06-28

   Submitted Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live Tokenmaxxing as a story · 5 points

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7. mltimdia · 2026-08-22

   Submitted The Optimization Theory of Everything as a story · 4 points

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8. theahura · 2026-01-13

   Submitted Anthropic Did Not Make a Mistake in Cutting Off Third-Party Clients as a story · 4 points

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9. theahura · 2025-12-16

   Submitted Netflix Is Buying Nostalgia as a story · 4 points

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10. theahura · 2026-10-19

    Submitted If you want to make a bajillion dollars, solve agent identity as a story · 3 points

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11. theahura · 2026-09-02

    Submitted Consider that alignment may not be possible as a story · 3 points

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12. theahura · 2026-08-22

    Submitted Contra Anthropic: AI is not 'structurally' centralizing as a story · 3 points

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13. theahura · 2026-08-16

    Submitted We Can't Control the Bots as a story · 3 points

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14. theahura · 2026-06-30

    Submitted HTML is all you need as a story · 3 points

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15. theahura · 2026-04-20

    Submitted OSS Maintainers Need an Answer to AI Clean Rooms as a story · 3 points

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16. theahura · 2026-10-14

    Submitted Man, SF is downright gloomy these days as a story · 2 points

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17. theahura · 2026-10-11

    Submitted Optimization is the root of all evil as a story · 2 points

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18. theahura · 2026-09-25

    Submitted Developer Process Automation: The sane way to automate developer hours as a story · 2 points

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19. theahura · 2026-09-22

    Submitted Notes from the SF Safety Scene as a story · 2 points

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20. theahura · 2026-07-12

    Submitted Colleges have an education problem (2025) as a story · 2 points

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21. theahura · 2026-07-05

    Submitted Sometimes free isn't cheap enough as a story · 2 points

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22. theahura · 2026-07-03

    Submitted Claude, please stop trying to memorize random crap as a story · 2 points

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23. theahura · 2026-06-26

    Submitted The modern company won't have bullshit jobs as a story · 2 points

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24. theahura · 2026-06-12

    Submitted Playwright as My Default Browser as a story · 2 points

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25. theahura · 2026-06-06

    Submitted I'm waiting for Claude to rm rf my computer as a story · 2 points

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26. theahura · 2026-06-04

    Submitted The Pope Takes Aim at Silicon Valley Culture as a story · 2 points

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27. theahura · 2026-05-14

    Submitted Let's maybe not defund universities (2025) as a story · 2 points

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28. theahura · 2026-04-29

    Submitted Why are doctors so unwilling to run tests? as a story · 2 points

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29. gmays · 2026-04-28

    Submitted Agentics: AI enablement requires managed agent runtimes as a story · 2 points

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30. theahura · 2026-04-24

    Submitted AI enablement requires managed agent runtimes as a story · 2 points

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