<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: _bent</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=_bent</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:06:14 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=_bent" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by _bent in "US Government designates host of noblogs.org a "global terrorist""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>sounds anti free speech to me!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:47:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466746</link><dc:creator>_bent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466746</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by _bent in "Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The encoder currently isn't using a lot of format features like curves or layers (which would partially also require deeper integration in for example Photoshop to pass such information to the encoder).</p>
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<p>after years of German political culture just being US culture wars 10 years delayed, it's great to see the Exportweltmeister contributing back by bringing "Technologieoffenheit" to the states</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:08:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374776</link><dc:creator>_bent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374776</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by _bent in "A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The other day the system prompts for Claude (chat not code) hit the frontpage and they included a bit that something along the lines of "Claude should avoid saying honestly, because Claude is always honest".
So how come that these Claudisms still are so frequent in LLM output?
Do the system prompts just not work?
Don't the postprocess the output to deal with such policy violations?</p>
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<p>I had to mark LinkedIns marketing and notification emails as spam and block their sender since all their opt out toggles are broken</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:07:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49224861</link><dc:creator>_bent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49224861</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49224861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by _bent in "SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There should probably be a forum rule to forbid AI written articles or atleast editoralize the title to add an [AI] tag.
Would've saved me the click</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:45:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096197</link><dc:creator>_bent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096197</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by _bent in "Show HN: Formally verified 3D CSG: Trust 93 lines spec, not 1000 lines AI code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Would you still be able to deal with coplanar faces if you were to expand this to floats?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:56:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49086761</link><dc:creator>_bent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49086761</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49086761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by _bent in "Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>the fifth labour of Hercules was cleaning the Augean stables, which this undertaking seems very much alike</p>
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<p>F looks incredible, H is also great. They are all pretty good, except for maybe A and E which I find dull. I prefer the birds and buildings, though of the finalists with people on them I find C rather striking.
Hopefully whichever wins will look like the original design after being finalized for printing, it would be a shame if they had to dull the colors or rearrange the layout for security features etc</p>
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<p>It goes against Postels law, but it's much simpler and less error prone to only accept data in the representation you actually use for further processing, vs writing an ad-hoc parser and normalizer.</p>
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<p>yes, this is called 'effective altruism'</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 02:04:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47372557</link><dc:creator>_bent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47372557</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47372557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by _bent in "Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>just a quick example from the backtracking section:<p>"Here's the dirty secret of WFC: it fails. A lot. You make a series of random choices, propagate constraints, and eventually back yourself into a corner where some cell has zero valid options left. Congratulations, the puzzle is unsolvable."</p>
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<p>It's extremely distracting to read heavily ai edited texts like these because every single aism throws me a curveball.<p>It doesn't help that the figures of speech ai loves to use are those that stress things and create tension and drama. And it uses one in every single paragraph, rendering the text into the literal equivalent of a deepfried faux HDR jpg (or a dialogue scene in a Michael Bay movie).<p>And beyond those practical concerns it's just hard to gauge how much the author truly understands of what he's writing about (and transitively if it's worth to continue reading)</p>
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<p>Every single privately run company is authoritarian.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 02:18:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47146475</link><dc:creator>_bent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47146475</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47146475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by _bent in "Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>yeah I just wanted to contest the very idea that a car could be clean.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 17:34:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46756101</link><dc:creator>_bent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46756101</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46756101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by _bent in "Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>you still have tyre rubber, which is a major source of microplastics</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 14:52:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46754503</link><dc:creator>_bent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46754503</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46754503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by _bent in "European Alternatives"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wero is a land grab by the banks who fumbled building a PayPal alternative for 20 years, now desperately trying to stop the digital Euro.<p>Sure I'd rather use Wero than PayPal -if it was decent- and building it on top of SEPA instant transactions is neat. But the lack of buyers protection is a deal breaker for me!
And quite frankly I'd rather use a digital Euro governed by the ECB than some rent seeking hobby project by a bunch of private banks. Especially because they will inevitably enshittify it with ads and hostile BNPL like PayPal.</p>
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<p>I think it would be better to defer the Workspace trust popup and immediately open in restricted mode; maybe add an icon for it in the bottom info bar & have certain actions notify the user that they'd have to opt in before they'd work.<p>Because right now you are triggering the cookie banner reflex where a user just instinctively dismisses any warnings, because they want to get on with their work / prevent having their flow state broken.<p>There should also probably be some more context in the warning text on what a malicious repo could do, because clearly people don't understand why are you are asking if you trust the authors.<p>And while you're at it, maybe add some "virus scanner" that can read through the repo and flag malicious looking tasks & scripts to warn the user. This would be "AI" based so surely someone could even get a job promotion out of this for leading the initiative :)</p>
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<p>thanks for the dietary advice, b00ty4breakfast</p>
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<p>Untrue, there is a game (however it's not very good): <a href="http://cleancoder.com/space-war" rel="nofollow">http://cleancoder.com/space-war</a></p>
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