New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What makes a good Product Manager

Ask HN: What makes a good Product Manager
7 by chairhairair | 2 comments on Hacker News.
The tech PM role is… difficult to define, but we’ve all worked with good PMs and bad PMs - it’s usually quite quick to tell where someone falls on the spectrum once you’ve worked with them for a few weeks. But, I find it difficult to describe the difference.

New Show Hacker News story: Show HN: How context engineering works, a runnable reference

Show HN: How context engineering works, a runnable reference
4 by linsys | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I've been presenting at local meetups about Context Engineering, RAG, Skills, etc.. I even have a vbrownbag coming up on LinkedIn about this topic so I figured I would make a basic example that uses bedrock so I can use it in my talks or vbrownbags. Hopefully it's useful.

New ask Hacker News story: Claude UI Feature Request

Claude UI Feature Request
2 by simon_acca | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Putting this here in the hope that someone at Anthropic reads it. Searching through old conversations is difficult with the current app and web interface. Could you have the model provide a bunch of tags relevant to the conversation like “cooking” or “purchase advice” or “music”, so that we are able to browse conversations by topic? Thanks!

New Show Hacker News story: Show HN: Newsmaps.io a map of how news topics are covered by different countries

Show HN: Newsmaps.io a map of how news topics are covered by different countries
2 by mkoh | 0 comments on Hacker News.


New Show Hacker News story: Show HN: Coelanox – auditable inference runtime in Rust (BERT runs today)

Show HN: Coelanox – auditable inference runtime in Rust (BERT runs today)
2 by Shark1n4Suit | 0 comments on Hacker News.
PyTorch and ONNX Runtime tell you what came out. They can't tell you what actually ran to get there — which ops executed, in what order, on what inputs. A model gets packaged into a sealed .cnox container. SHA-256 is verified before a single op executes. Inference walks a fixed plan over a minimal opset. Every run can emit a per-op audit log: op type, output tensor hash, output sample — cryptographically linked to the exact container and input that produced it. If something goes wrong in production, you have a trail. Scalar backend today — reference implementation and permanent fallback when hardware acceleration isn't available. Audit and verification is identical across all backends. SIMD next, GPU after that. Input below is synthetic (all-ones) — pipeline is identical with real inputs. github.com/Coelanox/CLF Audit example: { "schema": 2, "run": { "run_id": "59144ede-5a27-4dff-bc25-94abade5b215", "started_at_unix_ms": 1776535116721, "container_path": "/home/shark/cnox/models/output/bert_base_uncased.cnox", "container_sha256_hex": "184c291595536e3ef69b9a6a324ad5ee4d0cef21cc95188e4cfdedb7f1f82740", "backend": "scalar" }, "input": { "len": 98304, "sha256_hex": "54ac99d2a36ac55b4619119ee26c36ec2868552933d27d519e0f9fd128b7319f", "sample_head": [ 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0 ] }, "ops": [ { "op_index": 0, "op_type": "Add", "out_len": 98304, "out_sample_head": [ 0.12242669, -4.970478, 2.8673656, 5.450008 ], "out_sha256_hex": "19f8aa0a618e5513aed4603a7aae2a333c3287368050e76d4aca0f83fb220e78" }, { "op_index": 1, "op_type": "Add", "out_len": 98304, "out_sample_head": [ 0.9650015, 0.23414998, 1.539839, 0.30231553 ], "out_sha256_hex": "7ae2f025c8acf67b8232e694dd43caf3b479eb078366787e4fdc16d651450ad4" }, { "op_index": 2, "op_type": "MatMul", "out_len": 98304, "out_sample_head": [ 1.0307425, 0.19207191, 1.5278282, 0.3000223 ], "out_sha256_hex": "44c28e64441987b8f0516d77f45ad892750b3e5b3916770d3baa5f2289e41bdd" }, { "op_index": 3, "op_type": "Gelu", "out_len": 393216, "out_sample_head": [ 0.68828076, -0.0033473556, 1.591219, -0.16837223 ], "audit_elided": "hash_skipped: len 393216 > max 262144" }

New Show Hacker News story: Show HN: Sostactic – polynomial inequalities using sums-of-squares in Lean

Show HN: Sostactic – polynomial inequalities using sums-of-squares in Lean
2 by mmaaz | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Current support for nonlinear inequalities in Lean is quite limited. This package attempts to solve this. It contains a collection of Lean4 tactics for proving polynomial inequalities via sum-of-squares (SOS) decompositions, powered by a Python backend. You can use it via Python or Lean. These tactics are significantly more powerful than `nlinarith` and `positivity` -- i.e., they can prove inequalities they cannot. In theory, they can be used to prove any of the following types of statements - prove that a polynomial is nonnegative globally - prove that a polynomial is nonnegative over a semialgebraic set (i.e., defined by a set of polynomial inequalities) - prove that a semialgebraic set is empty, i.e., that a system of polynomial inequalities is infeasible The underlying theory is based on the following observation: if a polynomial can be written as a sum of squares of other polynomials, then it is nonnegative everywhere. Theorems proving the existence of such decompositions were one of the landmark achievements of real algebraic geometry in the 20th century, and its connection to semidefinite programming in the 21st century made it a practical computational tool, and is what this software does in the background.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How do you search the web programmatically these days?

Ask HN: How do you search the web programmatically these days?
2 by coreyp_1 | 2 comments on Hacker News.
For the first time in a long time, I need to query a search engine programmatically, and found that most of them block the use of curl, etc. So, my question is simple: how do you solve the problem? I've tried searxng with mediocre success, but it seems a bit heavy to have to be running a complete separate service for this one thing that I only need every once in a while. I haven't tried using a service that requires an API key, simply because I'm not sure which direction to go or who to go with. Just thought I would ask here first.