Hacker News: IshKebab

New comment by IshKebab in "Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers"

IshKebab — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:45:21 +0000

Interesting. Looks like he has made a "clean room" clone of TA by pointing AI at it, getting it to reverse engineer it and write some docs, and then have another AI write an implementation based on those docs.

I would be surprised if that stood up in court but I doubt anyone cares for TA at this point anyway.

New comment by IshKebab in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

IshKebab — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 17:36:25 +0000

Some do, but many don't. They aren't immune to propaganda.

New comment by IshKebab in "I'm sorry, but you still have to think"

IshKebab — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 17:32:38 +0000

I dunno. You still have to test, but in my experience if I noticed unreliability during high load I could just tell Claude "I noticed unreliability during high load" and it would easily have set up a high load benchmark, discovered this broadcast channel issue and fixed it.

It definitely improves the results if you do think but I don't think "you still have to think" is a safe space that's going to save us from unemployment.

New comment by IshKebab in "IRCv3"

IshKebab — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 13:24:14 +0000

Wow that is hilarious. This kind of fragmentation pretty much guarantees failure. I'm pretty sure it's what killed Thrift. See their similar "don't use this" table:

https://thrift.apache.org/docs/Languages.html

New comment by IshKebab in "The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME"

IshKebab — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:58:08 +0000

Bash footgun #238503.

New comment by IshKebab in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

IshKebab — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:06:08 +0000

That's probably just because there's not much demand for it, not because it's difficult.

There are mines with plenty of space in them, and heat removal can be done with water cooling. But who is going to pay 50% more for that when it isn't needed 99.99% of the time?

New comment by IshKebab in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

IshKebab — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 08:58:52 +0000

I am. You are correct.

New comment by IshKebab in "OpenSCAD the Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller"

IshKebab — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 07:59:18 +0000

Now that FreeCAD is actually kind of decent there's really zero reason to flagellate yourself with OpenSCAD. Stop suggesting it to people.

New comment by IshKebab in "Grieving the loss of details"

IshKebab — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:49:54 +0000

Presumably those poorly coded apps were written at least 6 months ago though... Enjoy it while it lasts.

New comment by IshKebab in "Compiling Rust to readable C with Eurydice"

IshKebab — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:04:25 +0000

Apprently https://edgcpp.org/ can do that for C++. I dunno why you'd need to though?

New comment by IshKebab in "Computers Cannot Make Decisions"

IshKebab — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:02:12 +0000

Computers have been making decisions for decades. You've never bought insurance?

New comment by IshKebab in "Can you use autoregressive diffusion to generate market data?"

IshKebab — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:56:07 +0000

It is though, it just doesn't guarantee it.

Same as "correlation doesn't imply causation" - it actually does imply it, it just doesn't prove it.

New comment by IshKebab in "Eye of Sauron: Long-Range Hidden Spy Camera Detection (2024)"

IshKebab — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:52:20 +0000

That's clever. I think you could improve localisation by instead of just turning the light on and off, have a spinning light like a lighthouse, and then match the timing of it with the timing of the EMR changes.

New comment by IshKebab in "REA Reverse – Engineer Anything"

IshKebab — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:44:57 +0000

I dunno, this isn't surprising at all now. The latest models are just really really good at reverse engineering. I asked Astra whether it was possible to do a task with a binary (commercial) library. I didn't even ask it to reverse engineer it but it happily went ahead and decompiled it, found some undocumented functions, figured out how they worked and then wrote an example usage for me.

New comment by IshKebab in "Ideas aren't getting harder to find, anyone who tells you otherwise is a coward"

IshKebab — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:35:14 +0000

> Ideas are a dime a dozen, they've never been the interesting or limiting part of creating a real product.

Well... sure, because implementing ideas has always been really hard work. That's not really true any more for software, so I don't think you can blindly assume that ideas will continue to be the easiest part.

New comment by IshKebab in "Triple-A Minesweeper"

IshKebab — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:21:32 +0000

lol perfect execution. I cracked up with the smiley face lip sync.

New comment by IshKebab in "Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B"

IshKebab — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:17:56 +0000

Dropbox had a super smooth UX that somehow nobody else replicated (seriously Google wtf). Instagram and Github won on network effects.

New comment by IshKebab in "Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser"

IshKebab — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:12:39 +0000

> If this were the case, we would have plenty of complete Rust ports of Quake.

Well no, because there's little point doing it. You want a port of Quake 2 to Rust? Just ask Opus 5.5 to do it. I'm not going to waste the tokens but I guarantee it could do it with no further prompting.

It's literally a best case for AI - it can easily write tests to ensure bit-for-bit identical output and just keep going until it achieves it.

I'm not going to waste the tokens but based on the other stuff I've vibe coded, this was impossible 1 year ago, a difficult challenge 6 months ago, and trivial today.

New comment by IshKebab in "Cloudflare acquires Deno"

IshKebab — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:33:57 +0000

Damn that is a shame. I liked pretty much everything about Deno. Especially great for scripting.

I'll probably move to Rust for scripting I reckon. It's not very mature but hopefully it won't be too much longer.

Fresh was also the best web framework I've used. Oh well.

New comment by IshKebab in "MXC - a sandboxed code execution system"

IshKebab — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:14:47 +0000

And it's 600 lines of dense Bash. I trust 350k lines of Rust way more than that!