<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: alwaysbeconsing</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alwaysbeconsing</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:35:51 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=alwaysbeconsing" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Relevant to some extent it dictate our approach. When human does lying or cheating, certain tool can be deployed (social shame, ostracise) that cannot be effective towards LLM.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:55:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49287902</link><dc:creator>alwaysbeconsing</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49287902</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49287902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I've put some serious work into vibe-coding them. Months of work, infinite polish, infinite revisions, without writing a single line of code.<p>Not being pedantic, but this is not "vibe-coding", as other commenter and blog post means it at least. Parent <i>emphasize</i> lack of work, polish, revisions:<p>> They don't care about the code they push. They generate, prune, generate, prune in 10kloc increments. They're apathetic to others who might need to use this code and expect some kind of consistent architecture/interface.<p>> This isn't to say all LLM users don't care about their work, but that there are far more people who are happy to push slop and take credit than the reverse.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:20:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029401</link><dc:creator>alwaysbeconsing</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029401</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Andrew's job isn't to make a JS runtime<p>Most likely too late for edit, but Jarred is who work for Anthropic, not Andrew.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 23:55:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48854083</link><dc:creator>alwaysbeconsing</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48854083</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48854083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "Rewriting Bun in Rust"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> You can be reckless even if everything ends up being perfect in the end.<p>This. Something I expect any person who think they are "engineer" to understand without thinking.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:55:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48853501</link><dc:creator>alwaysbeconsing</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48853501</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48853501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Quite right. I bemoan shortsightedness of managerial types often, but too many fellow techies had assume that gravy ride will last forever. In eyes of management we have not the same leverage now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 18:40:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48327511</link><dc:creator>alwaysbeconsing</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48327511</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48327511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Competition. Using my open source projects directly doesn't kill my employment. AI company explicitly say they want to put me out of work, using my code aginst me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:34:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47371965</link><dc:creator>alwaysbeconsing</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47371965</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47371965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Problem come when a third-party code do that swizzling, looking at you every iOS analytics framework to this day.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:32:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077258</link><dc:creator>alwaysbeconsing</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077258</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "Apple enters the generative AI race"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Siri original release came four or five years before Google assistant.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 17:42:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40400594</link><dc:creator>alwaysbeconsing</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40400594</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40400594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "I organized a 20-acre game of Capture the Flag"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you have time, people, resources for such you might also interest in more elaborate variation, my favorite <a href="https://killerqueenarcade.com/fieldgame" rel="nofollow">https://killerqueenarcade.com/fieldgame</a> Three different win condition, and one player have special role as "queen bee". Myself have only played arcade version unfortunately.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 17:31:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40400515</link><dc:creator>alwaysbeconsing</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40400515</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40400515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "Design docs at Google (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Need time and effort to ensure junior docs are thorough. Usually multiple revision in my experience. This require acceptance from management that "just write code fast" is not a success path.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 17:06:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40288453</link><dc:creator>alwaysbeconsing</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40288453</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40288453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "Stack Overflow and OpenAI are partnering"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not a good look. But to precise, user had already second-highest score long prior to period of posting AI work. In that case AI answers did not affect ranking.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 15:40:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40275916</link><dc:creator>alwaysbeconsing</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40275916</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40275916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "How I stopped worrying and loved Makefiles"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> it's on pretty much every system<p>Some system have GNU, some BSD.<p>> at least trivial to install<p>Then same for `just`, package manager have it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 17:32:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40190224</link><dc:creator>alwaysbeconsing</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40190224</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40190224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "Passkeys: A shattered dream"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Incorrect. 1P orginally offer direct LAN syncing among machines.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 16:12:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40181060</link><dc:creator>alwaysbeconsing</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40181060</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40181060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "Bayer is getting rid of bosses and asking staff to ‘self-organize’"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> but in an implicit structure that 'leader' is quickly sidelined when people figure out the quality of their decisions are poor<p>More likely to end up in turf war unless exist legible means to transition leadership. Some members will stick with old leader for various reason, some will push for new, some will be unawares and courted to choose their side. Person in leadership does not most likely give it up quietly and immediately.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2024 16:25:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40115871</link><dc:creator>alwaysbeconsing</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40115871</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40115871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "Bayer is getting rid of bosses and asking staff to ‘self-organize’"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Mashup of Dunbar's Number with "The Magical Number 7 Plus or Minus One"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2024 15:40:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40115426</link><dc:creator>alwaysbeconsing</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40115426</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40115426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>+1 Can see from project homepage <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20240329165859/https://xz.tukaani.org/xz-utils/" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/20240329165859/https://xz.tukaani...</a> they have some release responsibility from 5.2.12.<p>> Versions 5.2.12, 5.4.3 and later have been signed with Jia Tan's OpenPGP key . The older releases have been signed with Lasse Collin's OpenPGP key .<p>It must be assume that before acquiring that privilege, they also contributed code to project. Probably most was to establish respectable record. Still could be malicious code going back someways.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2024 18:31:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39867431</link><dc:creator>alwaysbeconsing</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39867431</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39867431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "Programmers are bad at managing state (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sum type is key, called "discriminated union" sometimes generally. In Rust this is an `enum`. Simulated in some languages as tuples with tag first element. Discrete number of states, attaching information only relevant to each single state. Thus, never have invalid combination of other fields.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2024 17:49:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39808837</link><dc:creator>alwaysbeconsing</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39808837</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39808837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "Cwerg: C-like language that can be implemented in 10kLOC"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Precedent for Python-like but C-level language in Nim; will be interested to see how yours develops too. Good luck!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2024 00:53:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39796370</link><dc:creator>alwaysbeconsing</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39796370</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39796370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "An alternate pattern-matching conditional for Elisp"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agree, it is Curse of Lisp mixed in NIH syndrome. Syntax of cond* is no more straightforward than that of pcase. As was pointed out on mailing list. Awkward decision by maintainers to keep both into core.</p>
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<p>Looks readable with Reader Mode for me.</p>
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