<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: akazantsev</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=akazantsev</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 20:48:12 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=akazantsev" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akazantsev in "Grep beats LSP? Why coding agents ignore your fancier tools"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The author is not a native speaker.<p>As a non-native speaker, I really hate how people use this as an excuse. LLMs are good at fixing grammatical errors, so I use them daily as spell checkers. Using LLMs for rewriting is just lazy.<p>Try:
I'm learning English as a second language. I will provide you with a text, and you have to print the corrected text in a code block so that I can copy it. Under it, there should be two lists: one containing the errors and brief descriptions of them, and another containing tips for improving the text. Do not give your opinion about the text. Focus on grammar.<p>Format:
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C: [CONTEXT]</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:01:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563418</link><dc:creator>akazantsev</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563418</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akazantsev in "LLMs: Intelligence vs. Cost"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> This is fine in most cases, but for open-weights models it can be a lot more expensive than what the exact same model can be rented for from third-party API providers.<p>Filter by quantization, and most providers will have the same price. There is some "base" price even for open-weight models. Anything cheaper means some tricks on the provider's side.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:31:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49542865</link><dc:creator>akazantsev</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49542865</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49542865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akazantsev in "Vivaldi for Android now supports some Chrome extensions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hopefully, they will do just what Brave did - embed an ad blocker compatible with uBlock lists right into the browser. This way, Manifest V3 might blow up in Google's face if a sufficient number of browsers come with ad blockers out of the box.<p>That being said, they are not talking about Manifest V3 extensions. It's just that they can't test all the extensions and will have to work out the issues as they implement the extension API for mobile.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:24:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49528446</link><dc:creator>akazantsev</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49528446</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49528446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akazantsev in "New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's not open source.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LM_Studio" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LM_Studio</a></p>
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<p>> Java also used to have a big standard library, with many useful things including GUI programming which has been neglected a little bit.<p>Swing was replaced with JavaFX, then JavaFX was removed from JDKs. Long live Swing! But yes, it's extremely nice to have a GUI library out of the box.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:26:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49387065</link><dc:creator>akazantsev</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49387065</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49387065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akazantsev in "Canonical backs new project to translate large C codebases into safe Rust"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Demanding others to pick up Rust "for fun" is not fun at all.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:45:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49376241</link><dc:creator>akazantsev</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49376241</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49376241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akazantsev in "Canonical Backs New Project to Translate Large C Codebases into Safe Rust"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> capable engineers can pick up any language<p>Sure, given that they are getting paid for it. How many people will be interested in learning a programming language with insignificant job availability, in addition to contributing for free?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:32:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49375143</link><dc:creator>akazantsev</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49375143</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49375143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akazantsev in "Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The submission’s title (open weights 30B local coding model) is luckily wrong: This is meant to be a general agentic model.<p><a href="https://xcancel.com/alexandr_wang/status/2086756152034066792" rel="nofollow">https://xcancel.com/alexandr_wang/status/2086756152034066792</a><p>It's correct. See the OpenCode demo. Generic models are good enough for coding without necessarily being designed specifically for coding.</p>
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<p>Those are just the default settings. Here, you can force it not to use emojis and to be much less verbose: <a href="https://chatgpt.com/?no_universal_links=1#settings/Personalization" rel="nofollow">https://chatgpt.com/?no_universal_links=1#settings/Personali...</a></p>
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<p>The "glue" he is mentioning on contacts probably isn't glue at all. There is no reason for glue to be there. Most likely, it was a waterproof coating.</p>
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<p>> To me, the argument against a proprietary driver seems extremely weak if you're running Windows anyway, but I guess they see it more that if more game devs can run the RADV driver, they can get wider testing (or a simpler story for devs to test at least) and backdoor improvements into the Linux side?<p>Are you using an AMD driver?<p>Let me share my experience. One day, you wake up and your GPU driver is gone for no reason. I'm not even joking here—the recent driver update broke the driver for many users. Launch Battlefield 6, and your driver is... gone. A new driver update comes out... Launch Battlefield 6, hard freeze. Improvement. I'm still running an older "blessed" driver version for this reason, and I'm scared to update.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:45:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099004</link><dc:creator>akazantsev</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099004</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akazantsev in "Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Would also be trivial for the author to add a warning for users that have that setting enabled. Something like "Heads-up: you have requested reduced motion, and this library disabled animations as per your request"<p>They already do exactly this. The commenter wants a switch to force animations anyway, so he can check the demo without changing system settings.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:02:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48990206</link><dc:creator>akazantsev</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48990206</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48990206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akazantsev in "Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Dunno. Apple makes exceptions for big companies and might do so for something as big as Minecraft. Also, SDL3 supports far more platforms
<a href="https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL3/README-platforms" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL3/README-platforms</a> Now they can release a Java edition even for PlayStation and Xbox. At least porting to SDL3 opens the door to consoles and mobiles if they want to do so.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 16:02:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48969289</link><dc:creator>akazantsev</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48969289</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48969289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akazantsev in "Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I'm always wondering whether or not SDL would be better<p>SDL supports mobile; GLFW doesn't. Maybe they're unifying codebases between the platforms.<p>Edit: BTW SDL3 still works even on Android 4.2. I made an app using it and ImGui, without any Java.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 15:28:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48969027</link><dc:creator>akazantsev</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48969027</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48969027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akazantsev in "Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Gemma isn’t very good at agentic execution<p>I had no issues with it for C++ development with <a href="https://pi.dev" rel="nofollow">https://pi.dev</a>. I'm yet to try it with Zed Editor. I don't rely on agents too much. However, I used it on Chromium's codebase to research some functionalities, let's say for searching. Requests like: check my last commit and do the same for SetterA and SetterB; it also ran without any errors.</p>
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<p>Google makes Gemma 4 31B QAT; that's not a small lab. It's one of the better models out there for consumer hardware. Allows me to run it on a 7900XTX with 64k context.</p>
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<p>A week ago, the Windows AMD drivers auto-updated and stopped working. I had to reinstall them. I am not sure if that counts, because this is not the first time this has happened.<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDHelp/comments/1udaj4w/new_amd_update_2662_issue_fix_7000_series_amd/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDHelp/comments/1udaj4w/new_amd_up...</a></p>
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<p>That's because sandboxing is quite hard. I use `cco`, but even then, the home folder is exposed. You are one prompt away from the agent sending the browser passwords with curl.<p>To prevent this, you need a fake home and a networking whitelist for the agent to access the provider (llama cpp, OpenAI, etc.)<p>There is no cross-platform solution that is easy to use for this. And no, a Linux box with Docker won't do. I develop a cross-platform native app and want the agent to compile and fix the platform-specific errors.</p>
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<p>> Now why do I have to care about "cloning templates" every time I render some html template?<p>You do not have to. It's a self-sustained injury by the author. You can compile the templates once and just execute them.<p>The issue is that author wants to specify page titles in the main templates. If you pass titles as a context, you can split base.tmpl into BASE_BEGIN, BASE_END and use them in the final templates.<p>Yes, you will have to pass the title depending on the page template during the But his tactics will break anyway when you try to support different languages.</p>
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<p>Unlikely Linux will become mainstream until people stop saying "install Linux" and not a particular distro. I recently installed Ubuntu on a new laptop: something doesn't work because I need a more recent kernel, so... I installed the second "user-friendly" distro - Fedora. Scrolling is 10x faster in Chromium-based browsers, making it unusable. The fix - install KDE... Then I had to make hardware video acceleration work so that playback wouldn't drain the battery. That was a pain in the ass.<p>So, Linux won't consume LESS unless you spend your time configuring different stuff.<p>I can't imagine users want to mess with this instead of buying macs.<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/1qqyh2z/scrolling_with_a_trackpad_on_linux_is_way_way_too/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/1qqyh2z/scro...</a></p>
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