Building your own CLI coding agent with Pydantic-AI
The wave of CLI Coding Agents If you have tried Claude Code, Gemini Code, Open Code or Simon Willison’s LLM CLI, you’ve experienced something fundamentally different from ChatGPT or Github Copilot. These aren’t just chatbots or autocomplete tools – they’re agents that can read your code, run your tests, search docs and make changes to […]
VLT observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS II
Abstract:We report VLT spectroscopy of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1) from $r_{rm h}!simeq!4.4$ to $2.85$ au using X-shooter (300-550 nm, $R!simeq!3000$) and UVES (optical, $R!simeq!35k-80k$). The coma is dust-dominated with a fairly constant red optical continuum slope ($sim$21-22%/1000Å). At $r_{rm h}!simeq!3.17$ au we derive $3sigma$ limits of $Q({rm OH})
Making Minecraft Spherical
Blocky Planet is a tech demo I created in the Unity game engine that attempts to map Minecraft’s cubic voxels onto a spherical planet. The planet is procedurally generated and fully destructible, allowing players to place or remove more than 20 different block types. While much of the implementation relies on common techniques you’d expect […]
Uncertain
You know what’s wrong with people? They’re too sure of themselves. Better to be wrong and own it than be right with caveats. Hard to build a personal brand out of nuance these days. People are attracted to confidence — however misplaced. But can you blame them? (People, that is) Working in software, the most […]
Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
– Tor. Pros: Reasonably user friendly and easy to get online, strong anonymity, free. Cons: a common target for censorship, not very fast, exit nodes are basically universally distrusted by websites. – Tailscale with Mullvad exit nodes. Pros: little setup but not more than installing and configuring a program, faster than Got, very versatile. Cons: […]
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Launch HN: Dedalus Labs (YC S25) – Vercel for Agents
Hey HN! We are Windsor and Cathy of Dedalus Labs (https://www.dedaluslabs.ai/), a cloud platform for developers to build agentic AI applications. Our SDK allows you to connect any LLM to any MCP tools – local or hosted by us. No Dockerfiles or YAML configs required. Here’s a demo: https://youtu.be/s2khf1Monho?si=yiWnZh5OP4HQcAwL&t=11 Last October, I (Windsor) was trying […]
Service members deserve the right to repair
“The generator is down, and we don’t have enough ice to continue icing the remains of soldiers killed in action. How much longer, ma’am?” That’s the message I received while deployed to Balad, Iraq, as an Air Force second lieutenant. I was overseeing generators in theater, and the one powering the mortuary facility had failed. […]
Bash Prompts Collection
This web page is a child of the Bash Prompt HOWTO that I’m maintaining for the Linux Documentation Project. The HOWTO explains a lot more than I’m going to here. My interest in Bash Prompts developed when I found “The BashPrompt Themes Project (now long deceased). Some of their prompts show up here, and a […]
Optimising for maintainability – Gleam in production at Strand
Strand is a marketing agency based in London, UK. The company specialises in copywriting and content creation for many of the world’s largest enterprise technology companies, running marketing programmes that produce hundreds of white papers, case studies, blog posts and articles every year. Challenge For many years, Strand has relied on a custom-built project management […]