Hacker News: Bootvis

New comment by Bootvis in "Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word"

Bootvis — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:21:48 +0000

Rendering followed by OCR and making sure that the computer doesn’t see more or less than the user does. Tricky and computionally more expensive.

New comment by Bootvis in "It's getting harder to focus every day"

Bootvis — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:25:34 +0000

Excellent reason to stand up and take a short walk.

Fil-C: Garbage In, Memory Safety Out [video]

Bootvis — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:37:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F-2Y1LPRek

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49026933

Points: 173

# Comments: 186

New comment by Bootvis in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

Bootvis — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:38:28 +0000

For him, the cost of editing was much larger. Condensing your writing in his time meant rewriting it more concisely, requiring strictly more time than collecting his thoughts as he went.

With LLM's, we are in a new state of the world: it can expand any one sentence off hand remark in an essay.

New comment by Bootvis in "I was just scammed by Polymarket"

Bootvis — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:12:33 +0000

It’s a terrible adage. There are thousands of ways to cheat honest people that place bets. For example, they definitely cheated everyone that only placed bets before June.

New comment by Bootvis in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

Bootvis — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:45:47 +0000

He went to prison, served his time, paid his debt to society. There is no need for further punishment.

New comment by Bootvis in "The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble"

Bootvis — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:30:23 +0000

But do they use it when their homework is due?

New comment by Bootvis in "Show HN: Daemons – we pivoted from building agents to cleaning up after them"

Bootvis — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:49:33 +0000

I do really like the idea.

But pardon my ignorance, but one could quite easily roll this themselves? Script the hooks and fire off a headless agent with a hook specific prompt.

New comment by Bootvis in "France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain"

Bootvis — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:56:20 +0000

What is the benefit of realizing the gains for France? They had gold, they still have gold. They don't pay tax on their gold or gains.

New comment by Bootvis in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

Bootvis — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:05:24 +0000

> Nice

< Look at the tasteful colouring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God.

New comment by Bootvis in "A single-file C allocator with explicit heaps and tuning knobs"

Bootvis — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:55:47 +0000

On the other hand, others don’t have to adopt, use or like your stuff which would be the reasons to publish it.

One big commit definitely doesn’t help with creating confidence in this project.

New comment by Bootvis in "Atlassian says it had right to fire engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk'"

Bootvis — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:48:01 +0000

Proving her point.

VolaDynamics/vtz: A C++ timezone library offering performance for date and time

Bootvis — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:37:22 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/VolaDynamics/vtz/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47375619

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Bootvis in "Show HN: The Mog Programming Language"

Bootvis — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:08:20 +0000

Also for a * b + c ? I know clang tidy wants me to do this but I think it is overkill.

Ibex – Typed DataFrame DSL

Bootvis — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:11:53 +0000

Article URL: https://bobjansen.github.io/Ibex/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47171416

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Ibex: A Typed DataFrame Language with C++ Code Generation

Bootvis — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 13:32:38 +0000

Article URL: https://bobjansen.net/ibex-a-typed-dataframe-language-with-c-code-generation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110873

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Trump's Global Tariffs Struck Down by US Supreme Court

Bootvis — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:06:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-20/trump-s-global-tariffs-struck-down-by-us-supreme-court

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47088902

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by Bootvis in "Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship"

Bootvis — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:06:26 +0000

From the Stockfish docs at https://official-stockfish.github.io/docs/stockfish-wiki/Sto....

> Rating Stockfish against a human scale, such as FIDE Elo, has become virtually impossible. The gap in strength is so large that a human player cannot secure the necessary draws or wins for an accurate Elo measurement.

[1]: https://computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/

Intel and SoftBank Subsidiary Saimemory Collaborate to Advance Next-Gen Memory

Bootvis — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:24:09 +0000

Article URL: https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Intel/Policy-Intel/Intel-and-SoftBank-Subsidiary-SAIMEMORY-Collaborate-to-Advance/post/1735559

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873942

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Bootvis in "xAI joins SpaceX"

Bootvis — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:38:09 +0000

A large telecommunications satellite operates at about 15kW. A Blackwell GPU consumes 1kW so you would be at 15 Blackwells per satellite. The cooling surface needs to scale linearly so there is little return to scale.

This doesn't sound like a good idea to me.