Hacker News: 112233

New comment by 112233 in "Temu is advertising filet mignon on X"

112233 — Wed, 13 May 2026 06:54:54 +0000

Before everyone piles on this comment with "whoosh" and "it was sarcasm" and such — have you noticed that reacting to ironic, sarcastic comments as if they were meant literally is what real LVL 80 trolls do oftener and oftener? On internet, you can never know who is pulling leg...

New comment by 112233 in "Forking the Web"

112233 — Sat, 09 May 2026 16:59:54 +0000

why for? the reply is about factual historical experience with webpage hard errors.

Would you like to have a law that forbids you, under penalty of fine, to read any book you buy or borrow that is lacking or has damaged pages?

New comment by 112233 in "RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google"

112233 — Thu, 07 May 2026 07:10:43 +0000

I'd much prefer correct sitemap.xml to an RSS. Please let me keep up to date with your site/blog/homepage without scraping it!

New comment by 112233 in "Odin's Fiasco with Wikipedia"

112233 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:36:57 +0000

I have been carefully following the following personal rule:

Never edit or comment or contribute to stack overflow or english wikipedia or linux kernel.

It kind of feels like being non-smoker and reading about issues people who smoke have. Only the damage wikipedia causes appears to be much more random and severe.

I understand not all other language wikipedias are like the english one, but it's not worth the risk to your mind.

New comment by 112233 in "Claude Opus 4.7"

112233 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:50:44 +0000

The addiction research has terms like LDWs and near-misses. It is massively researched topic. Even cursory reading helps to understand why table saw makes really bad slot machine. Really bad 3d printer? Maaaybe. But LLMs are, either by intelligent design or coincidence of worst outcomes, excellent slot machines! They almost succeed, produce small payouts, create suspense and anticipation, and their operation is unpredictable. Table saws have a long way to go

New comment by 112233 in "Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them"

112233 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:33:27 +0000

C is about the safest language you can choose, between cbmc, frama-c and coccinelle there is hardly another language with comparable tooling for writing actually safe software, that you can actually securely run on single-core hardened systems. I would be really interested to hear the alternatives, though!

New comment by 112233 in "NanoClaw's architecture is a masterclass in doing less"

112233 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:01:38 +0000

> web proxy

do you know of a mitm proxy that "just works"? meaning, is able to spoof/intercept/modify running processes well enough that most stuff would run without manual modification?

New comment by 112233 in "What happens when a destructor throws"

112233 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:25:19 +0000

"Prevent exceptions from leaving destructors." — thank you for providing well known sources that support my point! Although sadly we all have to eat Sutter Meyers bread, at least it explicitly tells you to not worry about the way exceptions are handled during object destruction — by simply avoiding such exceptions.

No C++ "bread and butter" I have seen so far goes into depth on this subject.

New comment by 112233 in "What happens when a destructor throws"

112233 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:59:40 +0000

What book covers in depth *throwing* from destructors? Even more sane thing — throwing from constructors and function arguments — is mentioned in passing ("unwind will take care of everything, don't think too hard about it") unless you are in a language lawyer mailing list. But exceptions *during destruction*? What book discusses that? That's like covering use of NaN values as map<> keys...

New comment by 112233 in "The back story behind the first "$1.8B" dollar "AI Company""

112233 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:36:13 +0000

yeah, but AI played crucial role in this fraud. It turbocharged and spearhedded. Thanks to AI, you can now fraud too!

New comment by 112233 in "What happens when a destructor throws"

112233 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:29:55 +0000

If you noticed, the article did not actually tell you what happens when destructor throws. It was only about double-exception case and throwing in nothrow() function (both perfectly valid things to know when jobbing).

What state are members left in when destructor throws? If exception happens in virtual base? If member destructor throws, what other class members have they destructor executed? will delete[] be called?

The author possibly does not care to know themselves! As you say, totally irrelevant to any normal programming. Unless you are writing clang or gdb

New comment by 112233 in "Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years"

112233 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:50:55 +0000

this is always overlooked. AI stories sound like "with right attitude, you too can win 10M $ in lottery, like this man just did"

Running LLM on 1000 functions produces 10000 reports (these numbers are accurate because I just generated them) — of course only the lottery winners who pulled the actually correct report from the bag will write an article in Evening Post

New comment by 112233 in "GitHub has DMCA'd nearly all forks of the official Claude-code repo"

112233 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:44:59 +0000

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/05/anthropic-to-pay-1point5-bil...

New comment by 112233 in "The Claude Code Leak"

112233 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:51:14 +0000

If lossy-compressed transcodes of ripped movies are not "transformative works" and can get people even jailed, then lossy-compressed text of ripped books and websites is neither.

There is a lot of knowhow going into a good divx rip too, you know.

And it enables so much novel uses such as popcorn time, with fluorishing business opportunities.

You wouldn't download a car. They did.

New comment by 112233 in "AI Isn't Killing Developers–It's Creating a $10T Maintenance Crisis"

112233 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 06:04:45 +0000

Nothing gives programmer bigger sense of future job security than trying vibe-coding with a "frontierest" model and looking at the code. Especially once it starts changing existing code. Ah. And the fake tests. And those grandiose coments. Oh. It is quite marvellous.

I just wonder if companies will just instantly fold and sink once their internal slop pressure causes hull breach, or will they call slopbusters.

New comment by 112233 in "RX – a new random-access JSON alternative"

112233 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 05:46:50 +0000

But... what sort of storage device does not allow your computers to use all 256 byte values? Why is random access data stored on teletype?

New comment by 112233 in "2% of ICML papers desk rejected because the authors used LLM in their reviews"

112233 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:48:31 +0000

Not to water down the snark, but isnt cause of situation described in the article the exact mentality you are mocking?

New comment by 112233 in "Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework"

112233 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 08:14:31 +0000

Sorry, I tought you meant "support infrastructure" in a much wider sense — yeah, LLMs are frighteningly good at lockpicking tests using source code shaped inputs. It's just that they are also frighteningly good at finding insane ways to game the tests, too. I wouldn't say that LLMs are very "G" in the AI they do — present them with confusing semantics, and they fall off the self-contradiction cliff. No capability of developing theory systematically from observations.

New comment by 112233 in "Kagi is contemplating the removal of the assistant from its professional tier"

112233 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:03:47 +0000

So how much Kagi without AI costs? It should me much cheaper subscription, right?

New comment by 112233 in "Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework"

112233 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:58:01 +0000

Ah yes, the 0.50$/h support infrastructure from the places that cannot refuse the deal. "frontier" LLMs currently cosplay a dunk with google and late alzheimer's. Surely, they speed up brute-forcing correct answer a lot by trying more likely texts. And? This overfed markov chain doesn't need supporing infrastructure — it IS supporting infastructure, for the cognitive something that is not being worked on prominently, because all resources are needed to feed the markov chain.

The silence surrounding new LLM architectures is so loud that an abomination like "claw" gets prime airtime. Meanwhile models keep being released. Maybe the next one will be the lucky draw. It was pure luck, finding out how well LLMs scale, in the first place. Why shouldn't the rest of progress be luck driven too?

Kerbal AGI program...