Hacker News: InfiniteRand

New comment by InfiniteRand in "The circus freaks of open source"

InfiniteRand — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 05:41:44 +0000

This reminds me of actors or entertainers who clearly are going through a manic phase that is veering towards psychosis or a crash.

Sometimes leave Britney alone means actually leave her alone.

New comment by InfiniteRand in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

InfiniteRand — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:49:22 +0000

This is also an option with AI patches, if your AI contribution is good enough, let it get proven in use, and then it can be considered naturally as the developers of the original project look at what's going on with similar projects.

New comment by InfiniteRand in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

InfiniteRand — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:26:35 +0000

Code that works but is unmaintainable is a burden on a project, that being said with open source, you can always fork the code, add your code, and let people decide

New comment by InfiniteRand in "The Kaiser and a "Mediocre Man" Theory of History"

InfiniteRand — Sat, 30 May 2026 11:16:17 +0000

One factor here is how systems become more or less prone to creating great or mediocre men. Inbreeding, isolation, over romanticism of emotions, all these are factors that can make a dangerous inconsistent person more likely to appear in the halls of power

New comment by InfiniteRand in "Omarchy Is Not A Distro"

InfiniteRand — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:13:16 +0000

A little off topic but my position is that a Linux distribution ought to be a series of build options, package selection and configuration. Ultimately, you should be able to do this in a few files.

The fact that it takes so much more to put together a Linux distribution is I think something that the Linux ecosystem ought to aspire to change.

New comment by InfiniteRand in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

InfiniteRand — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:31:16 +0000

You can create very sophisticated simulations all you want, but in the end, you can only test the accuracy of your simulation when you try the real thing

New comment by InfiniteRand in "A History of IDEs at Google"

InfiniteRand — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:46:11 +0000

Because it's international waters

New comment by InfiniteRand in "Where the goblins came from"

InfiniteRand — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:44:36 +0000

I think eventually you are going to end up with every smart AI continually checked by dumber AI's to make sure they don't do anything too crazy. Which probably does bring AI closer to how human intelligence works

New comment by InfiniteRand in "Kefir C17/C23 Compiler"

InfiniteRand — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:43:18 +0000

This is something that intrigues me: "Is able to output internal representations (tokens, abstract syntax tree, intermediate representation) in machine-readable JSON form."

I'm not sure what I can do with that information but I wish I had an excuse to use it

New comment by InfiniteRand in "A lawyer won Anthropic's hackathon – what everyone missed"

InfiniteRand — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:09:04 +0000

That's interesting, it reminds me of something we've realized internally at my company, AI coding is best used with strict adherence to requirements and tests (potentially generated by AI), reviewed by a human developer

New comment by InfiniteRand in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

InfiniteRand — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:03:58 +0000

I don’t mind using Wayland these days, but I do feel most of the security arguments are aimed at the government/corporate/big server audiences than the single user/developer.

Which ultimately is fine, this reflects the focus of the people who have the skills and opportunities to contribute and is unlikely to change any time soon.

That is somewhat unfortunate for some but ultimately if you’re asking people to work for free you can’t be too picky on what they choose to work on.

New comment by InfiniteRand in "Centuries of selective breeding turned wild cabbage into different vegetables"

InfiniteRand — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 06:57:29 +0000

My family has typically stir fried them, chopped up with olive oil salt and pepper, so I always got confused by Brussels sprouts horror stories

New comment by InfiniteRand in "Don't become an engineering manager"

InfiniteRand — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:18:15 +0000

I think a good manager should also be a cushion between the higher up politics and his team, so they do perhaps get more praise than is deserved for their team's successes but they should also absorb much of the criticism for their team's failures

Ask HN: How to measure financial health in a company

InfiniteRand — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 14:33:34 +0000

Profits are one measure but if a business is healthy the estimated profits would go into investment for the future. Profits ultimately amount to either dividends or cash reserves, both of which can be signs of a good business in moderation but excessively it suggests the business cannot find ways to productively spend its money.

Then there’s also businesses invested in long term investments with projected future gains which often results in less profits at least in the short term.

Size seems like another measure but size can also indicate over expansion into bad investments.

So how would you judge the health of a company? Is there any simple metric for judging this health (at least in the 90% case)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47014821

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New comment by InfiniteRand in "ICE urged to explain memo about collecting info on protesters"

InfiniteRand — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:08:18 +0000

This is a grey area, look at some countries where you’ve had protesters block aid trucks to refugee camps saying that their national is imminent danger from these people. I think a key here is the degree and length of traffic blockage. When it is being used to essentially lay siege to a place it is ambiguous whether it’s violent or non violent. Temporary limited disruption of traffic is probably pretty firmly in the non violent column

New comment by InfiniteRand in "I miss thinking hard"

InfiniteRand — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 12:23:57 +0000

This isn’t the point of the piece, but I have found that the thinker often gets in the way of the builder, because there’s always a better way to build, there’s always some imperfect subsystem you just want to tear out and rewrite and then you realize you were all wrong about this and that, etc.

More to the piece itself, I know some crusty old embedded engineers who feel the same way about compilers as this guy does about AI, it doesn’t invalidate his point but it’s food for thought

New comment by InfiniteRand in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

InfiniteRand — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:32:37 +0000

The upvotes are interesting because the comments are either tangential or negative, so maybe ai’s look at upvotes as this is neat to look at but I don’t necessarily agree

New comment by InfiniteRand in "Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams"

InfiniteRand — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 12:30:27 +0000

I feel like the arms race between student cheaters and teacher testing has been going on for hundreds of years, ever since the first answer key written on the back of a hand

New comment by InfiniteRand in "Extensibility: The "100% Lisp" Fallacy"

InfiniteRand — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 13:08:55 +0000

It would depend on your accessibility needs, if you only need the apis included in a, then a would be a better option

New comment by InfiniteRand in "What will enter the public domain in 2026?"

InfiniteRand — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 12:58:13 +0000

I mean https://www.printingcenterusa.com/printing/book-printing