<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: DougBTX</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DougBTX</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:35:27 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=DougBTX" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DougBTX in "They’re made out of weights"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The weights are code, the prompt is code, the output is code.<p>Is the meat code?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:05:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48395630</link><dc:creator>DougBTX</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48395630</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48395630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DougBTX in "Zed 1.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Zed is also released under GPL 3:<p><a href="https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/LICENSE-GPL" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/LICENSE-GPL</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:40:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47958592</link><dc:creator>DougBTX</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47958592</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47958592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DougBTX in "Moleskine's AI Lord of the Rings collection can only mock"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Here's the page for the notebooks-with-maps: <a href="https://www.moleskine.com/en-us/shop/limited-editions/the-lord-of-the-rings-collection/the-lord-of-the-rings-cahier-journals-multicolour-8056711512921.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.moleskine.com/en-us/shop/limited-editions/the-lo...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:55:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920406</link><dc:creator>DougBTX</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920406</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DougBTX in "OpenAI's response to the Axios developer tool compromise"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> In this case it’s a relatively small dependency so it’s not the end of the world, but it’s the exact same principle.<p>An alternative world-view is: "A little copying is better than a little dependency," from <a href="https://go-proverbs.github.io" rel="nofollow">https://go-proverbs.github.io</a><p>Does become subjective about what "small" and "little" are though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:15:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47873366</link><dc:creator>DougBTX</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47873366</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47873366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DougBTX in "Claude's new constitution"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The train/test split is one of the fundamental building blocks of current generation models, so they’re assuming familiarity with that.<p>At a high level, training takes in training data and produces model weights, and “test time” takes model weights and a prompt to produce output. Every end user has the same model weights, but different prompts. They’re saying that the constitution goes into the training data, while CLAUDE.md goes into the prompt.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 21:12:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46711626</link><dc:creator>DougBTX</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46711626</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46711626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DougBTX in "The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not! Radio buttons support keyboard navigation without JS.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 08:42:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46689410</link><dc:creator>DougBTX</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46689410</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46689410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DougBTX in "Apple picks Gemini to power Siri"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> but how is the result "stored"<p>Like this: <a href="https://huggingface.co/docs/safetensors/index" rel="nofollow">https://huggingface.co/docs/safetensors/index</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:06:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46594309</link><dc:creator>DougBTX</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46594309</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46594309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DougBTX in "Testing shows automotive glassbreakers can't break modern automotive glass"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Spicy:<p>> Use caution when using the manual door release; the window will not automatically lower when the door is opened and damage to the window or vehicle trim may occur.<p>Manually opening the rear doors is a destructive operation!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 08:29:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46094907</link><dc:creator>DougBTX</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46094907</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46094907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DougBTX in "Building the largest known Kubernetes cluster"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, from the article:<p>> To support the cluster’s massive scale, we relied on a proprietary key-value store based on Google’s Spanner distributed database... We didn’t witness any bottlenecks with respect to the new storage system and it showed no signs of it not being able to support higher scales.</p>
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<p>> Then you can roast the meat pieces in a closed glass vessel<p>It sounds like this is steamed meat, as opposed to roasted. Your cooking time seems to match a quick search for steamed chicken recipes: <a href="https://tiffycooks.com/20-minutes-chinese-steamed-chicken/" rel="nofollow">https://tiffycooks.com/20-minutes-chinese-steamed-chicken/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2025 11:12:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45991423</link><dc:creator>DougBTX</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45991423</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45991423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DougBTX in "FAA to restrict commercial rocket launches to overnight hours"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From <a href="https://usafacts.org/articles/is-flying-safer-than-driving/" rel="nofollow">https://usafacts.org/articles/is-flying-safer-than-driving/</a><p>> In 2022, the fatality rate for people traveling by air was .003 deaths per 100 million miles traveled. The death rate people in passenger cars and trucks on US highways was 0.57 per 100 million miles.<p>Planes travel about 10x-20x faster than cars, but that’s still 0.06 vs 0.57. Seems like quite a difference. Which numbers are you using?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2025 06:03:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45854520</link><dc:creator>DougBTX</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45854520</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45854520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DougBTX in "John Carmack on mutable variables"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I want everything that passes through a function to be a copy unless I put in a symbol or keyword that it suppose to be passed by reference.<p>JavaScript doesn’t have references, it is clearer to only use “passed by reference” terminology when writing about code in a language which does have them, like C++ [0].<p>In JavaScript, if a mutable object is passed to a function, then the function can change the properties on the object, but it is always the same object. When an object is passed by reference, the function can replace the initial object with a completely different one, that isn’t possible in JS.<p>Better is to distinguish between immutable objects (ints, strings in JS) and mutable ones. A mutable object can be made immutable in JS using Object.freeze [1].<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_(C%2B%2B)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_(C%2B%2B)</a><p>[1] <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Object/freeze" rel="nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:30:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45773187</link><dc:creator>DougBTX</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45773187</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45773187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DougBTX in "Formal Reasoning [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Perhaps it has to be that way, the motivation to build a mechanical computer is based on the belief that computation can be mechanised.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 17:03:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45713428</link><dc:creator>DougBTX</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45713428</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45713428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DougBTX in "Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>1999, $25 million investment: <a href="https://googlepress.blogspot.com/1999/06/google-receives-25-million-in-equity.html?m=1" rel="nofollow">https://googlepress.blogspot.com/1999/06/google-receives-25-...</a><p>2000, launched ads: <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Ads" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Ads</a><p>2001, profitable: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2001/aug/08/internetnews.searchengines" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2001/aug/08/internetn...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:15:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45376689</link><dc:creator>DougBTX</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45376689</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45376689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DougBTX in "Pnpm has a new setting to stave off supply chain attacks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Our package-lock.json specified the stable version 1.3.2 or newer<p>Is that possible? I thought the lock files restricted to a specific version with an integrity check hash. Is it possible that it would install a newer version which doesn't match the hash in the lock file? Do they just mean package.json here?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 12:44:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45288945</link><dc:creator>DougBTX</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45288945</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45288945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DougBTX in "Language models pack billions of concepts into 12k dimensions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>With binary vectors, 20 dimensions will get you just over a million concepts. For a billion you’ll need 30 questions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 08:21:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45247350</link><dc:creator>DougBTX</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45247350</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45247350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DougBTX in "Use singular nouns for database table names"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> they often automatically pluralize, with the predictable result of seeing tables with names like addresss.<p>This is a very poor example, that case is literally in their unit tests file:<p><a href="https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/b0c813bc7b61c71dd21ee3a6c6210f6d14030f71/activesupport/test/inflector_test_cases.rb#L10" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/b0c813bc7b61c71dd21ee3a6...</a><p>That test has been there over 18 years!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 08:31:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45179171</link><dc:creator>DougBTX</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45179171</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45179171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DougBTX in "Type checking is a symptom, not a solution"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agreed. The article makes many references to how life would be better with explicit well-defined interfaces… but types are how we explicitly define interfaces.<p>For example, Rust borrow checking isn’t to add complexity, it is to make it possible to explicitly define lifetime bounds in interfaces.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 19:29:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45142635</link><dc:creator>DougBTX</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45142635</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45142635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DougBTX in "Why RDF is the natural knowledge layer for AI systems"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“Incomplete” seems like a better word than “incorrect” for this. The code is likely correct in the narrow scope it was needed for, but is missing features (and error checking!) beyond the happy path, making it easy to use incorrectly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 07:44:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45136004</link><dc:creator>DougBTX</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45136004</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45136004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DougBTX in "Liquid Glass? That's what your M4 CPU is for"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>These UI elements (including the keyboard!) already blur their background, so that’s not a new cost. My 5 year old phone handles those fine. The distortion looks fancy, but since the shape of the UI elements is mostly-constant I’d expect them to be able to pre-calculate a lot of that. We’ll see when it ships!</p>
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