<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: RetpolineDrama</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RetpolineDrama</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 16:54:48 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=RetpolineDrama" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RetpolineDrama in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Rust is perfect for writing all of code using LLM. It's strict type system makes is less likely to make very dumb mistakes that other languages might allow.<p>100%. I've been telling everyone who will listen this for 2 years. LLMs are infinitely more productive with swift code like<p>let engineCycleCount: Int = 5<p>vs<p>let eC = 5<p>They still make mistakes, but forcing _explicit_ typing in a strongly typed language makes them make far fewer mistakes + the compiler is catching >90% of what you try to catch with a billion rspecs in trash languages like ruby.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 14:32:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48084312</link><dc:creator>RetpolineDrama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48084312</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48084312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RetpolineDrama in "All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>but living in an environment with background radiation levels 50x higher than on Earth<p>We can park a big honkin magnet at the mars-sun lagrange point and cut that down massively.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:06:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47816488</link><dc:creator>RetpolineDrama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47816488</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47816488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RetpolineDrama in "Claude Opus 4.7"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Came here to post this. 4.7 is absolutely useless for binary/firmware analysis on our own freakin products.<p>Anthropic needs to get their ish together I've got real work to do.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:22:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806280</link><dc:creator>RetpolineDrama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806280</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RetpolineDrama in "Inside the M4 Apple Neural Engine, Part 1: Reverse Engineering"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>I worked on the Xcode team for years<p>Why did you guys remove the ability to detach the console and move it to another window?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:58:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47221548</link><dc:creator>RetpolineDrama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47221548</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47221548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RetpolineDrama in "The political effects of X's feed algorithm"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>How is it illegal? It is their platform to do what they want with it.<p>It was illegal for the officials who did it, not for Meta/Google to follow their orders. That part was merely unethical.</p>
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<p>>The law was written specifically to allow blocking imports from a country.<p>The precise wording is regulate. The idea that "regulate" means you can turn it on or off with no in-between is beyond parody. Absurd. Hilarious. Farcical.<p>That said the headline is misleading and should be renamed, nothing is changing from this ruling.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:02:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47093127</link><dc:creator>RetpolineDrama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47093127</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47093127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RetpolineDrama in "The political effects of X's feed algorithm"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Or from the other perspective: Meta and Google have had their finger on the scale for more than a decade (along with old twitter).<p>In twitters case, you had regime officials directing censorship illegally through open emails and meetings.<p>It's no surprise that the needle moves right when you dial back the suppression of free expression even a little bit (X still censors plenty)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:08:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47066415</link><dc:creator>RetpolineDrama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47066415</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47066415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RetpolineDrama in "There is an AI code review bubble"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>The SOTA isn't capable of using a code diff as a jumping off point.<p>The low quality of HN comments has been blowing my mind.<p>I have quite literally been doing what you describe every working day for the last 6+ months.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:31:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46772515</link><dc:creator>RetpolineDrama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46772515</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46772515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RetpolineDrama in "VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>the slippery slope fallacy<p>I see the slippery slope fallacy-fallacy more than the base fallacy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2025 17:43:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44713302</link><dc:creator>RetpolineDrama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44713302</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44713302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RetpolineDrama in "There is no memory safety without thread safety"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Swift 6 is only painful if you wrote a ton of terrible Swift 5, and even then Swift 5 has had modes where you could gracefully adopt the Swift 6 safety mechanisms for a long time (years?)<p>~130k LoC Swift app was converted from 5 -> 6 for us in about 3 days.</p>
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<p>We need to apply sanctions, and end all intelligence sharing with the UK until they stop this nonsense.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 20:55:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44640317</link><dc:creator>RetpolineDrama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44640317</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44640317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RetpolineDrama in "Nano-engineered thermoelectrics enable scalable, compressor-free cooling"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>HN hasn't been a good place for technical discussion in at least 5-6 years, maybe longer.<p>X is much better for this kind of stuff these days (just follow the right people and stick to the following tab)</p>
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<p>Not in most of the US, but the ones in Alaska can mummify a water buffalo in under 5 minutes.<p>Running joke is that the mosquito is "Alaska's state bird"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 18:19:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44161556</link><dc:creator>RetpolineDrama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44161556</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44161556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RetpolineDrama in "Retreating Glaciers Expose 1,500 Miles of Coastline"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Only 1500 miles? Obviously they didn't measure it precisely.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2025 13:54:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43505458</link><dc:creator>RetpolineDrama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43505458</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43505458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RetpolineDrama in "Tesla Hate Is Making Insurance More Expensive for Owners"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nothing MB has is anywhere close to FXD 13.2.x<p>So if the SAE standards don't reflect that, they are poor standards</p>
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<p>Today I saw a diesel truck roll coal on anti-tesla protestors.<p>We've gone full circle.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 18:41:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43403152</link><dc:creator>RetpolineDrama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43403152</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43403152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RetpolineDrama in "MacBook Air M4"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>I'm not sure why you want 4k resolution with a 14 inch screen<p>You do realize we had 1440p phones in 2015-2016 right?<p>HiDPI is not new, and it's clarity amazing. Stop buying huge low res screens for ripoff prices in 2025</p>
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<p>I pulled a fresh 20A (120V) circuit just for my 5090 build.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2025 19:09:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43016926</link><dc:creator>RetpolineDrama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43016926</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43016926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RetpolineDrama in "Boom Supersonic to break sound barrier during historic test flight today"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you lost? Do you know where you are?</p>
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<p>It's a gross miscarriage of justice.<p>The gov should have to prove you committed a crime before that information is admissible at sentencing.</p>
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