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New comment by aomix in "Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59"

aomix — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:31:08 +0000

If you listen closely you can hear the thousands of CI jobs that just pull latest UV failing all at once.

New comment by aomix in "Transcribe.cpp"

aomix — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 02:32:05 +0000

What good timing to spot this. I've been reading more and more people talk about bringing TTS into their prompting toolkit and wanted to give that a try. The idea of rambling brain dump into a doc -> edit pass -> send to the robot loop sounds appealing.

New comment by aomix in "Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?"

aomix — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:34:04 +0000

Not responsible for those systems.

The last time this came up I thought “smearing” the second over the course of a day kind of solved the problem a discrete +/- 1 second suddenly appearing on the clocks.

New comment by aomix in "Does code cleanliness affect coding agents? A controlled minimal-pair study"

aomix — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:26:56 +0000

In my experience this has an obvious answer (yes). LLM’s yes-and whatever patterns are present in the code base no matter how insane. If you don’t tend to your code garden it will be overcome with weeds in an instant.

At work we had largely moved off of some old hardware but kept partial support for it in the code because normally that would be zero cost. But the constant overhead of bullying, bribing, and threatening the LLMs to leave that code alone was way more work than just excising it and reimplementing it if needed.

New comment by aomix in "Never talk to the police"

aomix — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:02:26 +0000

James Duane, the lawyer from the famous video about never talking to the police, wrote a book called You Have the Right to Remain Innocent. It’s a great read if you want to feel very sad.

New comment by aomix in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

aomix — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:50:14 +0000

I credit randomly deciding to take Latin in high school as a huge change in the trajectory of my life. It didn’t even happen all at once. Just a little different perspective on how words are formed. Oh they’re often combination of simple root words.

Right after I graduated the one Latin teacher they had retired and that was it.

New comment by aomix in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

aomix — Tue, 26 May 2026 02:21:38 +0000

Talking the problem to death with the AI before implementation is a nice zone for me. I feel productive, get good results out of the AI, and still largely understand the code. That’s the part of the AI revolution that I feel has made me a better engineer because I argue about design and architecture all day with a robot.

New comment by aomix in "Myths about /dev/urandom (2014)"

aomix — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:00:05 +0000

It started looking a whole lot like OpenBSD’s random number system. Private entropy pool from good system entropy seeds a ChaCha20 stream with random reseeds for forward secrecy in case of compromise. I think Linux is even more paranoid in the early boot environment where even in the presence of a seed file it prefers to get system entropy mixed in before confidently saying it can do crypto activities.

New comment by aomix in "Jeffrey Epstein's Money Mingled with Silicon Valley Startups"

aomix — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:23:49 +0000

The Wire's eternal wisdom "You start to follow the money, you don't know where the fuck it's gonna take you"

New comment by aomix in "Embassy: Modern embedded framework, using Rust and async"

aomix — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 12:24:34 +0000

I haven't had a chance to do embedded work but people damn near fall to their knees and weep when talking about how nice the experience is using embassy. Which makes me want to give it a try.

New comment by aomix in "Are we tired of social media? (2025)"

aomix — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 02:41:55 +0000

I find it interesting that the same process that played out in the forums to feed transition also took place in video games with dedicated servers to matchmaking. I joined a random Counter Strike server in 2005 and ended up becoming close friends with regulars on the server and I'm still in touch with some of them this day.

New comment by aomix in "Nike's Crisis and the Economics of Brand Decay"

aomix — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:22:16 +0000

I’m not even an athlete but I hike fairly often and walk 3-4 miles a day with my dog. If I get a pair of so-so boots they’ll last less than a year. I got recommended boots by a friend that lasted me 6 years until I finally had to replace them with an identical pair this Christmas. Nothing has been an issue in the two weeks I’ve had them but when companies get gutted by PE their quality goes down sharply. If I have to find a new boot company I’ll be very sad.

New comment by aomix in "A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote"

aomix — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:37:56 +0000

I keep believing there’s a web of trust type future for social media but I can’t articulate it.

New comment by aomix in "I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me"

aomix — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 03:12:35 +0000

"I would have written a shorter letter, but did not have the time." is my favorite quote for that

New comment by aomix in "Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros"

aomix — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:19:47 +0000

I want Netflix to lose. After living with their binge release schedule for however long now I think we're all worse off for it. So I want less of the industry to use it.

New comment by aomix in "The "Mad Men" in 4K on HBO Max Debacle"

aomix — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:55:51 +0000

I never watched the widescreen version of The Wire they put out years ago but now I'm curious again. That show was a bone deep 4:3 product and the show plays with it constantly. Here is an interesting breakdown that made me really appreciate how clever they got while trying to be pretty subdued with the cinematography on The Wire https://vimeo.com/39768998

New comment by aomix in "How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time"

aomix — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 21:06:19 +0000

I was coming in with the Walmart example too. The onboarding meeting told us he overheard it at a Korean manufacturer and liked it.

New comment by aomix in "People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads"

aomix — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 23:20:05 +0000

I’m afraid to upgrade from my ~6 year old LG OLED with a damaged corner because I pair it with an Apple TV and only see Apple ads occasionally on the Home Screen. I don’t know if a newer tv would give me the same experience.

New comment by aomix in "Tokyo has an unmanned, honor-system electronics and appliance shop"

aomix — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 12:56:46 +0000

While driving through upstate New York on a camping trip I found a maple syrup shop run on the honor system. Leave the money in an unlocked box. It was shocking. I bought a gallon.

New comment by aomix in "The Framework Desktop is a beast"

aomix — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 15:13:32 +0000

I’ve been agonizing over getting the Framework Desktop for weeks as a dev machine/local LLM box/home server. It checks a lot of boxes but the only reason to look at the Framework Desktop over something like a Minisforum MS-A2 is for the LLM and that seems super janky right now. So I guess I’ll wait a beat and see where we are later in the year.