<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: HansHamster</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=HansHamster</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:07:57 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=HansHamster" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HansHamster in "DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, that was directly from deepseek. And it happened very consistently (3 or 4 times in a row, clean session every time, and across 2 harnesses). Guess I'll give it another try when v4.1 flash is available.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:04:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49629723</link><dc:creator>HansHamster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49629723</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49629723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HansHamster in "DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I must be doing something wrong. I gave v4 pro a try a couple of days ago, gave it a simple prompt like "clean up functions x and y in file z" and it would always start off promising, just to quickly get sidetracked, start hallucinating problems in the code, and just get stuck for hours until I interrupt it:<p>— hmm — 0x2D696370 — little-endian bytes: 70 63 69 2D = 'p','c','i','-' — hmm — WAIT — WAIT — !!!!! — *WAIT — WAIT — WAIT — WAIT — WAIT — WAIT — *HOLD ON — HOLD ON — HOLD ON — WAIT — WAIT — WAIT — WAIT — WAIT — WAIT — WAIT — !!!!!!!! — *WAIT — WAIT — WAIT — WAIT — WAIT — WAIT — WAIT — WAIT — *OK — WAIT — I THINK I FINALLY SEE THE WHOLE PICTURE — I NEVER READ IT — AND — THE LAYOUT — hmm — !!!!! — *WAIT — WAIT — WAIT — WAIT — WAIT — WAIT — WAIT — WAIT — WAIT — HOLD ON — HOLD ON — HOLD ON — HOLD ON<p>Then gave the same to Sonnet 5 and it was done 15 - 30 minutes later.
I tried v4 pro both in claude code and codewhale with similar results. Haven't tried the new deepseek harness.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:08:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49625945</link><dc:creator>HansHamster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49625945</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49625945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HansHamster in "Long Island's decommissioned nuclear power plant"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Interesting. You can see the building from the beach and I always wondered what's inside. And while it's the only (decommissioned) nuclear power plant on Long Island, it's not the only nuclear reactor. There was also the High Flux Beam Reactor at BNL that was decommissioned in the 90s:<p><a href="https://www.bnl.gov/hfbr/" rel="nofollow">https://www.bnl.gov/hfbr/</a><p><a href="https://www.bnl.gov/hfbr/hfbr-complex.php" rel="nofollow">https://www.bnl.gov/hfbr/hfbr-complex.php</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:32:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740114</link><dc:creator>HansHamster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740114</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HansHamster in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, I'm still concerned about crystalline entities suddenly showing up. Have they ever fixed it? I don't see anything in the issue tracker, probably because no one was left last time to report it...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:58:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571446</link><dc:creator>HansHamster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571446</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HansHamster in "The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe their CRTs had horrible burn-in and they had to erase everything 9 times before it was gone...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:57:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48556287</link><dc:creator>HansHamster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48556287</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48556287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HansHamster in "Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would expect all RNG algorithms to be deterministic and stable with their seed,
but the cryptographically secure ones to have some additional properties like making it unfeasible to reverse the seed from the output, having a very long period or strong guarantees on the distribution of the output.
It's just that using a 'secure' algorithm is often overkill for a game when you don't really need those extra guarantees.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:20:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555745</link><dc:creator>HansHamster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555745</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HansHamster in "Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It feels a bit unfair to say that it is faster by being able to tell the total length from the first byte and capping it at 64 bit, while some of the other formats can store arbitrarily large integers.
I guess you could use another variable length encoding for the prefix at the cost of some performance and using even more space...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 16:00:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324960</link><dc:creator>HansHamster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324960</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HansHamster in "Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Eh... unfortunately they shut down their forums a couple of years ago. So good luck getting any form of support as a free user even if you run into real bugs in their software (believe me, I tried...)<p>That being said, I have used their ice40 and ECP5 FPGAs with Yosys for a couple of small projects and that worked perfectly fine.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 16:34:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258710</link><dc:creator>HansHamster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258710</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HansHamster in "The Surprisingly Long Life of the Vacuum Tube"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And Hamamatsu (and some others) still produce and sell photomultiplier tubes.
The microchannel plate PMTs are pretty nifty things [1]. You can get single-digit picosecond time resolution out of them.
[1]: <a href="https://www.hamamatsu.com/us/en/product/optical-sensors/pmt/pmt_tube-alone/mcp-pmt.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.hamamatsu.com/us/en/product/optical-sensors/pmt/...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 19:13:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113004</link><dc:creator>HansHamster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113004</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HansHamster in "4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>bacon!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:35:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47929906</link><dc:creator>HansHamster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47929906</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47929906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HansHamster in "SI Units for Request Rate (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Clearly, we should place a radioactive source, a Geiger counter, and a computer in a sealed box. Every time the counter registers a decay, the computer performs a HTTP GET. Thus, we end up with Schrödinger's webserver...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:03:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823394</link><dc:creator>HansHamster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823394</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HansHamster in "Study: 'Security Fatigue' May Weaken Digital Defenses"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At least you can tick the "stay signed in" checkbox and... get kicked out a few hours later with a smug "you successfully signed out" message.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:45:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494235</link><dc:creator>HansHamster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494235</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HansHamster in "AI Bot crabby-rathbun is still going"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Obligatory Futurama reference: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4vIBijzg4w" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4vIBijzg4w</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 23:53:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009510</link><dc:creator>HansHamster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009510</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HansHamster in "The Codex app illustrates the shift left of IDEs and coding GUIs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> which is faithfully translated by the (hopefully bug-free) compiler.<p>"Hey Claude, translate this piece of PHP code into Power10 assembly!"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:17:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46893886</link><dc:creator>HansHamster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46893886</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46893886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HansHamster in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> You have to be the one who reaches out.<p>But that's the whole issue. Who am I supposed to reach out to? The 2 people at work I occasionally talk to because they happen to sit in the same office as me?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 04:49:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46643089</link><dc:creator>HansHamster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46643089</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46643089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HansHamster in "Linux is good now"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Funny how it went from "just get an Nvidia card for Linux" and "oh my god, what did I do to deserve fglrx?" to "just get an AMD card" and "it's Nvidia, what did you expect?"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 22:13:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46458669</link><dc:creator>HansHamster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46458669</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46458669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HansHamster in "Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could possibly imagine’ (2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Recently, GPT informed me that the strong force is really a tiny after-effect of the "QCD force"<p>Maybe you should not take everything GPT tells you at face value? I have no idea what this QCD force is supposed to be. The strong force is _the_ force of QCD.
The Standard Model still considers the electromagnetic, weak and strong force. The description of the weak and EM force can be unified into the electroweak force and there are theories that try to also unify it with the strong force and even gravity, but there are issues on the theory side and no clear evidence on the experimental side as to which direction is the correct one.<p>The Standard Model and General Relativity are still our most successful theories. It is clear that they don't tell the whole picture, but (annoyingly?) it is not clear at all where this is going.<p>Just for dark matter there are probably a dozen proposed hypothetical particles, but so far we have found none. But maybe it's something completely different...</p>
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<p>that was the joke</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:53:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46119522</link><dc:creator>HansHamster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46119522</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46119522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HansHamster in "Intel could return to Apple computers in 2027"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Should be fine as long as the chips have ECC</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:51:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46113785</link><dc:creator>HansHamster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46113785</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46113785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HansHamster in "Ubuntu LTS releases to 15 years with Legacy add-on"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Isn't Incus/LXD separate from and running on top of LXC?
People sometimes seem to use the names interchangeably which can be annoying because I run just plain LXC but when looking stuff up and come across "this is how you do XYZ on LXC" they are actually talking about LXD and it doesn't really apply.
I can't recall what is was last time, but this has happened a couple of times already...</p>
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