Hacker News: LtWorf

New comment by LtWorf in "Codex for open source"

LtWorf — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 08:05:25 +0000

The bank mails me a new one automatically.

New comment by LtWorf in "Automating myself out of development"

LtWorf — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 07:55:24 +0000

He's talking about exercises for school. So very limited size, scope, and extremely well specified.

Completely different from a real world scenario.

New comment by LtWorf in "The computer science degree isn’t dead"

LtWorf — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 07:52:18 +0000

That shows what one university out of thousands does? How does this answer the question in any meaningful way?

New comment by LtWorf in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

LtWorf — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:58:15 +0000

Most people should just be using debian stable really.

New comment by LtWorf in "Automating myself out of development"

LtWorf — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:48:04 +0000

Architectural considerations are easy. Figuring out what to actually do from the super vague requirements is even worse I think.

New comment by LtWorf in "Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases"

LtWorf — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:45:46 +0000

Ah yes training the AI with more data to represent me even more accurately.

New comment by LtWorf in "The computer science degree isn’t dead"

LtWorf — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:57:41 +0000

All I ask is they are willing to learn to use git decently.

New comment by LtWorf in "The computer science degree isn’t dead"

LtWorf — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:56:49 +0000

USA never ceases to astonish me regardless of the presence of compulsory mathematics courses in computer science programs. I guess you didn't take logic :)

New comment by LtWorf in "The computer science degree isn’t dead"

LtWorf — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:07:56 +0000

Isn't it normal to study mathematics in a computer science bachelor program in USA?

That country never ceases to astonish me lol.

New comment by LtWorf in "The computer science degree isn’t dead"

LtWorf — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:04:20 +0000

> who built a product with actual paying users

How could this possibly signal competence? I think it just signals capital and free time.

New comment by LtWorf in "Active AUR malicious packages incident"

LtWorf — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:39:36 +0000

Probably this is easier to understand although not the primary source: https://lwn.net/Articles/1077718/

New comment by LtWorf in "AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere"

LtWorf — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:34:19 +0000

It's a bad signal. Someone who is lazy and using an LLM was probably too lazy to do another number of things you want a contributor to do.

New comment by LtWorf in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

LtWorf — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:59:26 +0000

Good luck with that, I think the chance that your phone is supported and works are very slim unless you bought it on purpose for that.

New comment by LtWorf in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

LtWorf — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:49:24 +0000

I mean… yes… but you still have a laptop sitting there :D

New comment by LtWorf in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

LtWorf — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:35:39 +0000

I use two rpi4 with a touchscreen and some relays connected to gpio to control my lights, speakers, heater, and with some USB-powered speakers I have internet radio (usable also as alarm) and I can see when the bus comes and set timers for cooking. Since the USB-powered speakers emit noise when not in use, I power down the USB port entirely when they are not in use. I use openbox to start my software and have a couple of python daemons to control the relays and decide what to turn on and off. Also they don't have a battery so I'm not in need to keep an eye on something that might explode.

New comment by LtWorf in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

LtWorf — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:32:14 +0000

But the result is huge, you cannot 3d print a custom case for that and put it somewhere at home…

New comment by LtWorf in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

LtWorf — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:59:30 +0000

But no ethernet port, no GPIO, no fanless.

It's comparing two completely different usecases.

New comment by LtWorf in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

LtWorf — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:56:04 +0000

Except that a rpi is a device made for learning things and a Neo is a device made to be a door to a shop.

New comment by LtWorf in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

LtWorf — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:55:07 +0000

Phones don't have any I/O and android is a pain in the ass to experiment with. Plus by default it will do things like powersave.

New comment by LtWorf in "Who Runs Your Rust Future? Hands-On Intro to Async Rust"

LtWorf — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:51:50 +0000

The problem with all these async things is that people don't understand what's actually happening.

It's just doing a loop and a call to poll(), that's it.

It's way way way less expensive than using threads. Of course you must give control to your main loop every once in a while, so if you have a long computation you either create a thread or split it and return control to your main loop.

It's how all GUI programming has always been done.