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Stackoverflow for Agents Sofa

Hacker News - Mon, 06/15/2026 - 1:09am
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Demystifying Noise Contrastive Estimation

Hacker News - Mon, 06/15/2026 - 12:58am

Article URL: https://jxmo.io/posts/nce

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48536796

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Ask HN: How can we democratize agentic coding

Hacker News - Mon, 06/15/2026 - 12:37am

One of the beauties of the tech industry is that anyone can learn how to program. Most languages are open source and a lot of the foundational software that make up the bedrock of the most powerful tools today are also free and open source. It’s telling that agents were primarily trained on effective unix.

I think no one can deny that frontier models, especially playing around with Fable, that institutions will be separated by those that are willing to spend and those that can’t afford to. The dynamic feels dramatically different from the previous age where anyone learn how to Google effectively to be frontier productive. Will open source models eventually be good enough or will compute be cheap enough that this won’t be a concern? For some reason this is keeping me up at night. Fable feels like an end of an era for what was solidly a democratized profession.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48536656

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Show HN: Prela – A Compositional and Controllable Query Language

Hacker News - Mon, 06/15/2026 - 12:32am

I'm excited to share "take 2" of the Prela query language.

After sharing the previous version here, I've received some valuable feedback, the main one being the weird unicode-based syntax throwing people off.

Prela now has a more familiar SQL-like syntax while adhering to the algebraic principle, which makes the language compositional and controllable, all the while keeping the core engine under 1k lines of code.

The engine has also been rewritten from Julia to Rust, resulting in both simpler code and faster performance (not just because "Rust fast Julia slow", but for some pretty deep compiler-level reasons that I'll hopefully write about at some point).

In the long run, I think the value of Prela is not as a single query language, but as a demonstration of the power of relation combinators which can be implemented in any language, just like iterators.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48536625

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