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Percepta
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Percepta is the company blog at percepta.ai, writing about ai and programming. Since 2026, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Can LLMs Be Computers?”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Percepta's posts, including 'Can LLMs be computers', as examples of getting deterministic computation, such as a WebAssembly or RISC-V CPU, to run inside transformer weights.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Percepta is a General Catalyst transformation company helping critical institutions actualize AI transformation.
Most-linked posts?
- Can LLMs Be Computers?7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2026-03-11
- Constructing an LLM Computer3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-03-25
What Hacker News says?
https://www.percepta.ai/blog/can-llms-be-computers They implemented wasm in transformer with cpu decoding for the wasm part.
Comment linking /blog/can-llms-be-computers
on “Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5”Submitted Spotlight Memory as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI think we can soon include "recursive depth" strategy that Astra is employing, which (I suspect) is using recursive internal state changes in the transformer as opposed to full forward-pass + sampling which has traditionally been the case with thinking/CoT. Similar method was used here (but different context - encoding tools inside the transformer weights for fast execution): https://www.percepta.ai/blog/can-llms-b…
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on “The efficient frontier of LLM inference”Submitted Can LLMs Be Computers? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI do. This is the newest thng i'm aware of: https://www.percepta.ai/blog/can-llms-be-computers But there were papers in 2023 with a different approach requiring external memory https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04589 too
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on “Claude Opus 4.8”Submitted Constructing an LLM Computer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionRelevant to your comment is this link from today's HN front page, about adapting LLMs to perform deterministic calculations. https://www.percepta.ai/blog/can-llms-be-computers
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on “ATMs didn't kill bank Teller jobs, but the iPhone did”Submitted Constructing an LLM-Computer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionthis reminds me of this other flavor of "program as weights" I saw few months ago, putting deterministic programs inside the weights of an LLM https://www.percepta.ai/blog/constructing-llm-computer
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on “Program-as-Weights: A Programming Paradigm for Fuzzy Functions”Submitted Executing programs inside transformers with exponentially faster inference as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 30k Tok/S (Allegedly) as a story · 1 points
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