<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: SAI_Peregrinus</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=SAI_Peregrinus</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 03:54:08 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=SAI_Peregrinus" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SAI_Peregrinus in "Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>mrustc generates (ugly) C from Rust. And doesn't borrow check or otherwise add any bounds checks. It only supports the parts of Rust that the Rust compiler itself needs, but that's quite a lot of it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:28:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49970226</link><dc:creator>SAI_Peregrinus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49970226</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49970226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SAI_Peregrinus in "Questions for believers in AI consciousness"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Question 1: Do you believe that AI is conscious?<p>I can't tell. I experience something I choose to define as consciousness, but can't tell if <i>anything else</i> has the same experience.<p>Question 2: Do you believe that AI has an internal world?<p>Trivially yes, the current state of the model and context in latent space is such a world. I don't think it's aware of its own state any more than humans are aware of their own neuronal action potentials.<p>Question 3: Can you tell me what particular kind of thing you’re referring to as ‘AI’, when you say you believe that AI has an internal world?<p>Large language models using a transformer architecture, with a working "context" memory.<p>Question 4: Do you think that a group of things can share an internal world?<p>I do not think the distinction between an internal world and an external existence is well-defined. Mu.<p>Even if it were well-defined, my own brain is composed of numerous neurons, so my internal world is constructed from a large group of things acting in concert. Unless single subatomic particles have an internal world then I don't see any way to not have an internal world be shared among a group of things.<p>Question 5: Are you sure that the kind of thing you’re referring to is the kind of thing that could have an internal world?<p>Trivially yes.<p>Question 6: Do you think perhaps you should be clarifying further when you say you believe that AI is conscious? Do you think you might be contributing to current confusion?<p>I don't know how to say whether AI is conscious, because I don't know how to tell whether any consciousness other than the one I can directly experience actually exists. I suspect it's a universal property of computational systems above a certain complexity computing certain sorts of algorithm, so something like a blue jay is conscious but a rock isn't, and a computer may be depending on which program it's running. If that's the case, current AI systems are likely complex enough and the right sort of algorithm to be conscious.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:04:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49969895</link><dc:creator>SAI_Peregrinus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49969895</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49969895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SAI_Peregrinus in "Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's the same reason IDEs have been largely supplanted by plugin-based editors & discrete toolchains. Integrating everything the user <i>might</i> want wastes lots of resources and includes things the user will never want.</p>
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<p>And when it only sells to government customers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:12:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49948703</link><dc:creator>SAI_Peregrinus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49948703</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49948703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SAI_Peregrinus in "Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tautologically every bug can legitimately be assigned a CVE, since every bug prevents some feature from working as intended. It's therefore a denial of service, which by the definition of the CVE system using CVSS means every bug is at least a 1/Low level vulnerability to CVSS v4.0.<p>If you're willing to stretch, missing but planned features also deny the use of said features since they haven't been added yet, and so are CVSS 1/Low vulnerabilities.<p>Resume-driven development for security researchers has never been easier!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 01:12:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49928866</link><dc:creator>SAI_Peregrinus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49928866</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49928866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SAI_Peregrinus in "Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Git hashes are not supposed to be a security mechanism.<p>Commit signing indicates otherwise.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:58:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49927551</link><dc:creator>SAI_Peregrinus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49927551</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49927551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SAI_Peregrinus in "Commit description as a thinking tool"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Also branch names are extremely limited in what they can describe.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:34:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49914003</link><dc:creator>SAI_Peregrinus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49914003</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49914003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SAI_Peregrinus in "Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Total ego death is impossible. We still have to argue about flakes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 23:21:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49885842</link><dc:creator>SAI_Peregrinus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49885842</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49885842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SAI_Peregrinus in "Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> you have to assume everything you put out on the internet never goes away<p>Only applies if you regret posting it later. If it's something you want to find later, it will inevitably have bit-rotted and not been archived.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 23:14:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49885776</link><dc:creator>SAI_Peregrinus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49885776</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49885776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SAI_Peregrinus in "OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website's API fields"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I love how perfect the word "sandbox" is as a metaphor for the security controls they have. A sandbox is a wide, shallow box filled with sand for kids to play in. Even toddlers can crawl or step out of one on their own, it doesn't contain them at all without an adult constantly watching. Kids only stay in a sandbox if they're having more fun playing inside than they think they'll have outside it. AIs only stay in a sandbox if they're having more success inside than they think they'll have outside it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:19:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868078</link><dc:creator>SAI_Peregrinus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868078</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SAI_Peregrinus in "CEO of Mistral: AI is software. It can be controlled"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They gave it access to the internet, so how can that incident prove it's not as clear cut?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 17:46:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858834</link><dc:creator>SAI_Peregrinus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858834</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SAI_Peregrinus in "Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Lack of a feature is a bug. After all, it's intended functionality that doesn't work!<p>It's also a denial of service, since the feature doesn't work yet, and thus should get assigned a CVE.</p>
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<p>Peofle often complain that Trump is a "Russian asset" when he's done far more to boost China's success than Russia's.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 22:02:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49794049</link><dc:creator>SAI_Peregrinus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49794049</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49794049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SAI_Peregrinus in "T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97°F"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, religion requires faith. Faith is belief <i>without or in direct contradiction of evidence</i>.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 23:12:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49748005</link><dc:creator>SAI_Peregrinus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49748005</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49748005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SAI_Peregrinus in "Ask HN: How to recover Google auth after phone stolen?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The same way you recover any other deleted data for which you didn't make a backup: you don't. You eat the loss & make new accounts. Then you remember to make and test backups for the future.<p>Even if they had customer support, if that customer support had a backdoor to unlock your account it would be regularly used by malicious parties to steal people's accounts & data.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:34:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49743219</link><dc:creator>SAI_Peregrinus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49743219</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49743219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by SAI_Peregrinus in "Pangram – AI detector for text and images"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tools like Pangram can detect whether text is written by AI or a human with a probability non-negligibly different from 0.5. Therefore, the Turing test in its strictest form (that there must not exist such a distinguisher) has not been passed.</p>
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<p>Yes, because you don't have to pop in order. "zoxide <subpath>" is "search the history of working directories for a path ending in <subpath> and cd to that".</p>
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<p>I remember when the Pause key did that! It's long enough ago that I don't remember which systems did so, and most laptops don't even have a Pause key any more, but it was often very handy for reading fast-moving console output.</p>
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<p>Or you can start typing and press up arrow to search with that. Atuin (or some Zsh extensions, etc.) fix the bad UI of having to remember a different key for "search history by order and text" and "search history by order".</p>
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<p>Beauty has a function in improving the emotional state of people observing it. Ignoring this function in favor of all other functions can result in getting trapped in a suboptimal local maximum, where a more beautiful design could sacrifice only slightly in other domains and have a greater overall utility.</p>
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