Hacker News: Chaosvex

New comment by Chaosvex in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

Chaosvex — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:22:01 +0000

> Do you think it's impossible for someone to have a 25K line PR / diff but not know what's going on in the system?

If you didn't write any of it? Yes, you only think you know what's going on.

New comment by Chaosvex in "Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth"

Chaosvex — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:10:06 +0000

Given the decades of consumer and enterprise GPUs often being identical or near identical hardware, it'd be interesting to see if there's any evidence of this actually being true.

New comment by Chaosvex in "How GitHub gave every repository a durable owner"

Chaosvex — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 22:44:04 +0000

Too slow to edit this post but *morale. I'm blaming lazy phone typing.

New comment by Chaosvex in "How GitHub gave every repository a durable owner"

Chaosvex — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 23:51:40 +0000

On complex codebases, I've seen this strategy absolutely decimate team moral.

A large tech company decided to stop having subteams responsible for particular features or areas of the code for one of their products. The result was developers having to spend inordinate amounts of time researching highly complex spec documents and reference manuals on a daily basis for even the smallest of fixes. It drove moral into the ground and developers started a mass exodus to other teams or tech companies.

After some changes of management for the team, the policy had to be reversed to stem the bleeding. Turns out that developers don't like permanently being in unfamiliar territory.

New comment by Chaosvex in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

Chaosvex — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:47:38 +0000

Razer was always low quality garbage at premium prices. Gamer marketing for you.

New comment by Chaosvex in "Learning to code is still worthwhile"

Chaosvex — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 01:45:18 +0000

Funny but also not true unless you have low standards, potentially as a result of just not being very good yourself.

New comment by Chaosvex in "Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter"

Chaosvex — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 01:56:42 +0000

Drink your Mountain Dew verification can to continue.

New comment by Chaosvex in "Building relationships with customers through support didn't turn out as hoped"

Chaosvex — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 09:42:40 +0000

Everybody on HN knows better than OP how to run their own business and could absolutely please 100% of customers or potential customers 100% of the time. Apparently.

Idealism doesn't survive contact with reality.

New comment by Chaosvex in "Ford rehires human engineers after AI fails to match quality checks"

Chaosvex — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 11:21:57 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674446

New comment by Chaosvex in "My AI-built PHP engine in Rust passes 17% of PHP-src tests, renders WordPress"

Chaosvex — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 01:58:53 +0000

What do you mean? What's cost effective about this?

New comment by Chaosvex in "Fable created novel 4D splat format"

Chaosvex — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 01:30:20 +0000

I don't think their writing is supposed to be an exercise in saving bytes. Per se.

New comment by Chaosvex in "Captcha proves you're human. HATCHA proves you're not"

Chaosvex — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:20:49 +0000

Let’s say the goal is a human-only social network.

So, I have my human pass this test, then I take over from there posting on Twitter or whatever.

New comment by Chaosvex in "GloriousEggroll's Proton has been rebased on Proton 11"

Chaosvex — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:16:38 +0000

On the other hand, it'd be absolutely fascinating to see how that'd play out. The ramifications could be huge.

New comment by Chaosvex in "Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors"

Chaosvex — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:55:37 +0000

Ray tracing says hello.

New comment by Chaosvex in "Steam Machine launches today"

Chaosvex — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:46:29 +0000

It doesn't.

New comment by Chaosvex in "Epoll vs. io_uring in Linux"

Chaosvex — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 06:59:30 +0000

Asio also comes in standalone form and both versions are header-only. Not necessarily directly related to your comment but adding it on, anyway.

New comment by Chaosvex in ""No Feigning Surprise""

Chaosvex — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:13:29 +0000

"has been a perfect hook to get people to read and understand what it means"

"Joke's on you. I worded it poorly intentionally!"

New comment by Chaosvex in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

Chaosvex — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:57:50 +0000

Sure wish the UK could get some of this cheap renewable energy you're referencing.

New comment by Chaosvex in "Orthodox C++ (2016)"

Chaosvex — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:13:23 +0000

It's a tiny website with low value AI generated content and a very quick look revealed that you've linked to multiple articles from there. It's a fair enough observation that you might be affiliated. I don't think you are, though, hence the 'if'.

New comment by Chaosvex in "Firewood Splitting Simulator"

Chaosvex — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:38:46 +0000

The new model is so good at splitting firewood that it's too dangerous to release to the public without safeguards to stop it from splitting things that aren't actually firewood. The old models are terrible - I can't believe we ever thought they were good.

Remember: this is the worst that splitting firewood will ever be.