Hacker News: airstrike

New comment by airstrike in "Surelock: Deadlock-Free Mutexes for Rust"

airstrike — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 01:39:36 +0000

I use em dashes a lot and I'm chronically online, so that defense doesn't apply here.

It's things like "perfectly invisible in code review, happy to pass CI a thousand times, then lock your system up at 3am under a request pattern that no one anticipated." which are a dead tell it was written by ChatGPT

I'll bet you 2 beers the LLM you used to proofread the post was indeed ChatGPT.

New comment by airstrike in "Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found"

airstrike — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 01:37:27 +0000

While I agree this is true of coding, there are other domains and paradigms in which the loop is more involved than a bash loop.

Realizing this fact explains:

1. why software development is first to get disrupted by AI

2. other domains that are easily loopable like contract review are also quite easy to deploy AI into, so you get all these "AI for Law" running around doing essentially the same thing

3. domains that are not easily loopable are much harder to figure out leading people to believe AI can't be useful, when in fact it's a failure of the application layer

New comment by airstrike in "Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file"

airstrike — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:19:12 +0000

This is both pretty cool and pretty frustrating as the physics don't really match reasonable expectations.

New comment by airstrike in "Surelock: Deadlock-Free Mutexes for Rust"

airstrike — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:39:29 +0000

I'd read this, but I can't stomach this ChatGPT voice. It's absolutely grating.

New comment by airstrike in "OpenClaw’s memory is unreliable, and you don’t know when it will break"

airstrike — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:50:15 +0000

> I think this is probably the most interesting field of research right now. Actually understanding in depth how the brain learns, and figuring out a way to build a model that implements this.

This field of research has been around for decades, so who's to say when there'll be a breakthrough.

In fact, LLMs are great despite our very limited understanding, and not because we had some breakthrough about the human brain.

New comment by airstrike in "Polymarket gamblers betting millions on war"

airstrike — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:44:47 +0000

Capitalism is just a projection of our natural competition for scarce resources onto an economic system.

New comment by airstrike in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

airstrike — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:27:27 +0000

Matches my experience. I've been resorting to `Window > Move & Resize` in the menubar to get those rogue windows back which is faster than restarting but still quite annoying...

New comment by airstrike in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

airstrike — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:59:44 +0000

No, that is not well established at all, and generalizing all open models under that inaccurate umbrella doesn't really help anyone.

New comment by airstrike in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

airstrike — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:21:25 +0000

> So now when I hear him play, the super villain trying to destroy the world is always named Reed Hastings.

That is absolutely hilarious and it totally sounds like a villain's name

New comment by airstrike in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

airstrike — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:04:49 +0000

Aerospace with opt+key to go to that space, cmd+opt+key to send a window to that space, then just make a mental map of where everything is. I use mnemonics like always putting discord on workspace "D" so it becomes quite fast

New comment by airstrike in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

airstrike — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:01:21 +0000

I wonder how this compares to Aerospace, which I use daily but ultimately has felt a bit janky and slow

New comment by airstrike in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

airstrike — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:00:55 +0000

250k is still massively more than 100k and 1M prevents it from having to compact

New comment by airstrike in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

airstrike — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:38:19 +0000

I mean it's so obvious at this point and yet everyone falls from it every month. There's an IPO coming, everyone.

New comment by airstrike in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

airstrike — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:53:03 +0000

100k tokens it's basically nothing these days. Claude Opus 4.6M with 1M context windows is just a different ball game

New comment by airstrike in "Every GPU That Mattered"

airstrike — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:06:32 +0000

it's Claude's design language just FYI

New comment by airstrike in "We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code"

airstrike — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:10:33 +0000

^ This is slop. Typical platitude that really means nothing.

Have the patents for H.264 MPEG-4 AVC expired yet?

airstrike — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:40:20 +0000

Article URL: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Have_the_patents_for_H.264_MPEG-4_AVC_expired_yet%3F

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47657667

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by airstrike in "Copilot is 'for entertainment purposes only', per Microsoft's terms of use"

airstrike — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:15:49 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

Copilot is 'for entertainment purposes only', per Microsoft's terms of use

airstrike — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:07:54 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/05/copilot-is-for-entertainment-purposes-only-according-to-microsofts-terms-of-service/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655329

Points: 163

# Comments: 37

New comment by airstrike in "Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI"

airstrike — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:50:49 +0000

I hear you about "it just works" mattering infinitely more than some arbitrary code quality metric

but I'm not judging Claude Code by how it looks. I kinda like the aesthetics. I'm talking about how slow, resource hungry and finnicky/flickery it is. it's objectively sloppy