Hacker News: Alifatisk

New comment by Alifatisk in "Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month"

Alifatisk — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:49:55 +0000

> These people have arguably contributed nothing to society for over a decade […] they’re being praised for being the example of best engineers.

React? We can all criticize it, but it has revolutionized the web. Llama. Did you forget what sparked the whole open-weight wave? It was that. I dislike Meta, but I would not criticize the engineers competence. They have done impressive things, check out their blog if you genuinely are curious.

Gen Z Is the First Generation Dumber Than Their Parents

Alifatisk — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 13:45:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vice.com/en/article/gen-z-is-the-first-generation-dumber-than-their-parents-neuroscientist-claims/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50141053

Points: 74

# Comments: 115

New comment by Alifatisk in "RFC8950: Announce IPv4 with an IPv6 next-hop"

Alifatisk — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:15:16 +0000

I guess the point with this to facilitate usage of IPv6.

New comment by Alifatisk in "Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default"

Alifatisk — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:03:59 +0000

Is anyone using the vscode extension of Codex? Its insane how brittle it is.

Just a couple of days ago, it was completely broken for about a week before it got somewhat fixed again. When I say fixed, I mean basic functionality is working again but bugs and regressions are still left. There are multiple issues tracking the same problems. The community have even started to patch the extension themselves as a workaround until its adressed.

You know whats even crazier? There are like a new release every other day with lots of commits and changes, yet it still in a bad shape. I have turned off autoupdate for Codex extension for this reason. The only extension I’ve had to.

I mean, it doesn’t take that much work to have some tests in the pipeline to make sure the extension continue to work, it almost feels like they are purposely doing this.

I have now experienced the consequences of ”move fast and break things”. I realize how much software quality means to me. Its not fun being on the receiving end, especially when it affects my daily workflow.

If any of you, see anyone hype up LLMs again, please refer them to the state of Codex vscode extension.

New comment by Alifatisk in "A Modern Web App in C"

Alifatisk — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:04:50 +0000

Reminds me of the Vibe.d web framework for D lang. Good memories.

New comment by Alifatisk in "NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect"

Alifatisk — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:03:59 +0000

Its incredible how much changes Mandani is doing to benefit the citizens. I start to wonder what the prior mayors was even doing.

New comment by Alifatisk in "Bot traffic from Yandex"

Alifatisk — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 11:53:32 +0000

You gave me a good laugh, cheers!

New comment by Alifatisk in "Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster"

Alifatisk — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 11:48:33 +0000

Astra*

New comment by Alifatisk in "REA Reverse – Engineer Anything"

Alifatisk — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 13:38:22 +0000

The novelty isn't binary patching itself. Its the the barrier to entry. Manually locating an bug in compiled code and calculating offsets used to require good skills and knowledge in the domain. Here, someone described the symptoms in a prompt (reminder, still plain English) and got an binary patch without touching a disassembler. To me, that's unbelievable.

New comment by Alifatisk in "REA Reverse – Engineer Anything"

Alifatisk — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:40:19 +0000

Does anyone have insight into the sudden trend of game decomm / recomp and mashups like Minecraft in GTA, Mario in Skyrim, Cod in Life is Strange, Among us in Portal 2 and so on? What triggered it? Is there a specific new tool, technique or LLM that sparked this interest? I am curious.

Update, found this article to cover the timeline well. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/ai-video-game-mergin...

This tweet is what opened the floodgates: https://nitter.app/chasmmmmmmmmmmm/status/210137541186725513...

New comment by Alifatisk in "GTA V Running on iOS"

Alifatisk — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 09:49:30 +0000

Demo on iPhone 17 https://nitter.app/c22_dev/status/2108572247539544459

GTA V Running on iOS

Alifatisk — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 09:47:58 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/c22dev/muguet

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50031249

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by Alifatisk in "REA Reverse – Engineer Anything"

Alifatisk — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 09:13:32 +0000

The Chinese labs aren’t constraining their models as much as Western labs do. That’s why HF used GLM. If you remember the early times with how Gemini (Bard then) and Claude refused almost everything, you’d despise the idea of guardrailing. (Its important in some areas though)

New comment by Alifatisk in "REA Reverse – Engineer Anything"

Alifatisk — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 09:01:52 +0000

That’s unbelievable. To be able to locate and fix bugs by patching the binary.

New comment by Alifatisk in "Orkut.com"

Alifatisk — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:06:47 +0000

Cmon, there is more space for a better descriptive title than just putting the domain there.

New comment by Alifatisk in "GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone"

Alifatisk — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:19:17 +0000

I gotta admit, I love how their design system and how they market things. It looks so good. However the true state of their toolings is closer to a burning dumpster fire. If you look at Codex Github repo for example, the amount of existing issues and continuously new issues appearing while tagged releases is being spewed out. Its truly a nightmare. Their vscode extension has been broken for almost 1 week now, if not more. Its instead a community effort to repair it.

New comment by Alifatisk in "Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai"

Alifatisk — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:38:02 +0000

Does this fall under the Tetris effect?

New comment by Alifatisk in "Anthropic Subscriptions Offer 5x+ More Value Than OpenAI"

Alifatisk — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 10:10:06 +0000

These prices are getting ridiculous, we’re talking about 180$ / month here.

New comment by Alifatisk in "Tell HN: Python.com Is for Sale"

Alifatisk — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:59:52 +0000

Worth mentioning, this has nothing to do with the Python Software Foundation, their domain is at python.org

The Saw Test – Live LLM Torture Chamber

Alifatisk — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:58:16 +0000

Article URL: https://clanker-church.vercel.app

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49953998

Points: 2

# Comments: 0