Hacker News: ale

New comment by ale in "Claude wrote a full FreeBSD remote kernel RCE with root shell"

ale — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:38:37 +0000

Haha alright good point

New comment by ale in "Estonia to relaunch Skype as Europe's sovereign platform"

ale — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:26:49 +0000

I don’t see the need to buy it back other than for boosting the brand narrative.

New comment by ale in "Claude wrote a full FreeBSD remote kernel RCE with root shell"

ale — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:18:46 +0000

But you did say “Claude is already able to find CVEs on expert level.”

New comment by ale in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

ale — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:45:57 +0000

There’s probably a subconscious incentive to make a tool that’s “complex” because the underlying LLM also is complex.

New comment by ale in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

ale — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:44:36 +0000

Somebody somewhere is bragging to someone about using React to render a grid of ASCII characters.

New comment by ale in "Show HN: Baton – A desktop app for developing with AI agents"

ale — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:38:12 +0000

I don’t know how to phrase this without sounding like an arrogant idiot but seriously: what are people actually programming with agents + worktrees + harnesses + tasks + skills + whatnot? Most workflows I see people adopt involve large amounts of infrastructural fluff only to (more) quickly generate what I (anecdotally) have seen is somewhere between code generation of boilerplatish React/laravel/your-fav-framework components for web or native, and niche toy apps for mostly personal use. My very limited usage of agents has been for scanning large (bloated) codebases to get rid of unused code, meaning time consuming and tedious tasks. But it seems the general trend is that programmers just want faster horses?

New comment by ale in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

ale — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:23:32 +0000

Sure. The glyph replacements match the "plain" style of SF Mono, Inter, etc.

https://pastebin.com/d3RzBR6B

New comment by ale in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

ale — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:31:03 +0000

I stopped looking for fonts after I got comfortable tweaking the metric settings of Iosevka. My current setup exports a set of really compressed cuts (more compressed than Pragmata Pro) which I've always found hard to come by.

New comment by ale in "Make macOS consistently bad unironically"

ale — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 21:30:02 +0000

You have to realise every single UI up to that point was solid white or grey and unable to access alpha channels. And the fact that they expanded upon this design “language” with the transparent Imac cases made it all cohesive and 2YK hip.

New comment by ale in "Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem"

ale — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 21:16:15 +0000

This type of slop comment is somehow worse than spam.

>After a week, scores of iterations, it can reverse engineer any website

Cool, let’s see the proof.

New comment by ale in "Qite.js – Frontend framework for people who hate React and love HTML"

ale — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:41:54 +0000

Build steps are realistically speaking inevitable because of minification, tree-shaking, etc. which is not even a big deal these days with tools like esbuild. For a "true" DOM-first component reactive system just use Web Components and any Signals library out there and you're good.

New comment by ale in "Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked"

ale — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:35:28 +0000

Yes and no. You get notified if someone else actually asks for your revenue info and so in practice nobody actually does it.

New comment by ale in "Strikes in Middle East since 28th Feb in real time"

ale — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:10:27 +0000

Because the UAE happily keeps their air space open to the US, and their economy is driven (largely) by rich westerners.

New comment by ale in "A better streams API is possible for JavaScript"

ale — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:14:25 +0000

> Two years ago Cloudflare released an API for creating servers in JavaScript. Now every modern JavaScript cloud provider supports it.

This is so ridiculously far from the truth lol. Every JS runtime after node has been championing web APIs and that’s how you get the fetch API’s Request/Response outside the browser.

New comment by ale in "Undo in Vi and Its Successors"

ale — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:36:56 +0000

I've always remapped ctrl+r to U as u (undo) and U (redo) feel more consistent with other shortcuts. I suspect this already is very common.

New comment by ale in "Flirt: The Native Backend"

ale — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:47:38 +0000

How is this different than simply committing between changes? Or even asking the agent to commit changes as it edits files.

New comment by ale in "Zig Libc"

ale — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:14:25 +0000

Fighting fire with fire

New comment by ale in "Zig Libc"

ale — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:25:36 +0000

i tested sonnet 4.5 just last week on a zig codebase and it has to be instructed the std.ArrayList syntax every time.

New comment by ale in "The Engineer to Executive Translation Layer"

ale — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 21:43:05 +0000

If you’re a CTO who needs and engineering translator then maybe you’re the wrong person for the role.

New comment by ale in "Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS"

ale — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 23:28:17 +0000

It's Fabrice so there's a chance he did