<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: alanfranz</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alanfranz</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 03:26:19 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=alanfranz" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alanfranz in "Muse Wonder"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> executioner<p>I suppose you're not a native English speaker, btw: besides the dubious statement, probably "executor" is the word you wanted to use.</p>
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<p>Kafka also has inkless with diskless topics that run off object storage!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 20:40:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49926821</link><dc:creator>alanfranz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49926821</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49926821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alanfranz in "The Painful Truth: The RAM Crisis Is Only Just the Beginning"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What kind of article is that? No explanation, no thoughts, just an empty "trust me bro" prediction from a website that usually publishes consumer hardware reviews.<p>And the article doesn't even appear in their homepage.<p>And the author is somebody from a company that "provides you with quality RAM"<p>Flagged. How did this even get to HN ?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 05:20:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49736697</link><dc:creator>alanfranz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49736697</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49736697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alanfranz in "What Linux does when you malloc()?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The “subtle” difference in expectations implies overcommit. Malloc would be easier to understand without overcommit.</p>
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<p>I also think that many allocators nowadays can use mmap besides brk.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:44:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49635654</link><dc:creator>alanfranz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49635654</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49635654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alanfranz in "Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s a standard term for a role during an incident.</p>
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<p>Probably AI generated.<p>But, what bars are clearly off? I couldn't spot any.</p>
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<p>I don’t think it would have been possible for the last 12 years. But should be possible <i>now</i>.<p>Only the 2021 spec for usb pd supports 36v (common bike battery voltage) and more than 100W delivery. My bosch ebike charges at 36v 4A.<p>I also think that a small usb c connector could easily break when used in an ebike. But this should not prevent standardizing a “bigger usb c” to be used in ebikes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 22:21:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324330</link><dc:creator>alanfranz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324330</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alanfranz in "Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them using it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From: <a href="https://support.claude.com/en/articles/16266773-how-claude-marks-ai-generated-content" rel="nofollow">https://support.claude.com/en/articles/16266773-how-claude-m...</a><p>> We'll support users and other third parties to detect Claude’s marks<p>This is the part that I fear most. What happens with false positives? Will I need to change arbitrary parts of my text if they are flagged as AI generated? Will I be forced to add mistakes?<p>And then, since LLMs are trained on existing, human-written, quality content, it may be that well-written text gets accidentally flagged more often?<p>And, if all the providers do this, and they use different watermarks, will I be forced to change things at random until I get a negative from all of those?<p>I very much think this will yield the wrong signal. There were already some academic plagiarism checkers around that would return false positives, and were blindly trusted by teachers and professors. I suppose AI checkers are all around now, and there will be more of those.<p>Proofreading is one of the best uses of LLMs that I can think about - I still write my text, then an LLM fixes some of my "errors" since I'm not a native speaker. It usually improves clarity. But now I risk my text to be classified as AI written with potentially bad outcomes.<p>I don't know whether I should blame the EU, though :-)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:07:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49284760</link><dc:creator>alanfranz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49284760</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49284760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alanfranz in "Ten Ways NAS Is Getting Enshitified"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But form factor and energy efficiency may be helped by some of the changes that producers are doing.<p>Why complain about those, then?<p>Diy is still possible. Looks like nas is becoming more specialized.</p>
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<p>Looks like a bad offsite handling, both in your case and linked article.<p>I feel that offsites work best when you let people interact on their own schedule, pace and topics. Trying to force hands via a lot of activities can kind of backfire.<p>Relationships happen. They are not programmatically built.</p>
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<p>What's the risk of NOT doing this?<p>That's the problem. That's the risk that few (if any) hyperscalers want to take.</p>
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<p>But this is Rust, not safe Rust, right? So, you still have a lot of ways to shoot yourself in the foot.<p>Of course, the C -> unsafe Rust -> safe Rust is more likely to happen than just going straight to (mostly) safe Rust (I doubt a 100% safe dbms would make sense).</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/sony-just-killed-discs-physical-disc-production-to-end-january-2028-for-new-games-releasing-on-playstation-consoles">https://www.ign.com/articles/sony-just-killed-discs-physical-disc-production-to-end-january-2028-for-new-games-releasing-on-playstation-consoles</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48747267">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48747267</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
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<p>> How good are you at writing assembly?<p>This is a false equivalence.<p>A compiler is a predictable, testable, deterministic piece of software.<p>An LLM is not.<p>Sure, all abstractions leak; so, at some point in time, for some reason, you may need to check its compiled code ( <i>cough</i> <i>cough</i> gcc 2.96 ). But, if today your code compiles properly, it will properly compile tomorrow as well.</p>
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<p>they are not bricking the units. just kindle store won't be available anymore, and the azw/epub version which is supported on your kindles won't be provided anymore by amazon anywhere.<p>what is on the kindle will stay and keep working.<p>if you reset the kindle, DRMed content won't work anymore.</p>
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<p>Looks like they'd like something git repositories (maybe with transparent compression on top) rather than .tar.gz files. Just pull the latest head and you're done.</p>
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<p>And?<p>Did I claim something different? I just didn’t use that feature on other OSes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:21:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234729</link><dc:creator>alanfranz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234729</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alanfranz in "Why does C have the best file API"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well...<p>I'm not sure what the author really wants to say. mmap is available in many languages (e.g. Python) on Linux (and many other *nix I suppose). C provides you with raw memory access, so using mmap is sort-of-convenient for this use case.<p>But if you use Python then, yes, you'll need a bytearray, because Python doesn't give you raw access to such memory - and I'm not sure you'd want to mmap a PyObject anyway?<p>Then, writing and reading this kind of raw memory can be kind of dangerous and non-portable - I'm not really sure that the pickle analogy even makes sense. I very much suppose (I've never tried) that if you mmap-read malicious data in C, a vulnerability would be _quite_ easy to exploit.</p>
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<p>You are right. I linked a differently formatted article with the same content. I don’t know why I didn’t initially notice such text.</p>
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