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New comment by asp_hornet in "7.1 Earthquake in Japan"

asp_hornet — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:15:05 +0000

Thank you for this update.

New comment by asp_hornet in "How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust going?"

asp_hornet — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:18:26 +0000

> the team of engineers would have produced idiomatic rust

Not necessarily. Didn’t Microsoft port the TS compiler to Go and they did it by translating the TS? It wasn’t idiomatic Go.

New comment by asp_hornet in "Elixir-lang.org has a new design"

asp_hornet — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:28:46 +0000

I picked up Elixir this year. I’m gobsmacked on what the language and BEAM offer. Such a slept on ecosystem. I’m full convert.

New site looks great.

New comment by asp_hornet in "Solod: Go can be a better C"

asp_hornet — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 01:56:34 +0000

Not sure of your exact constraints but is something like this useful?

https://hyperview.org/

New comment by asp_hornet in "Show HN: Sx 2.0 – Share AI skills with your team through a Dropbox folder"

asp_hornet — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:06:58 +0000

I landed on this too.

An advantage of this is when you got to hotfix an old customer, the skills align with how the code was authored at that point in time.

New comment by asp_hornet in "Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter"

asp_hornet — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:33:36 +0000

Yes, arguably a worse one because you can’t stop to think.

Doesn’t stop it from being really cool though.

New comment by asp_hornet in "My AI-built PHP engine in Rust passes 17% of PHP-src tests, renders WordPress"

asp_hornet — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 02:39:12 +0000

Is this the “taste” I keep hearing people say they bring?

New comment by asp_hornet in "Maybe you should learn something"

asp_hornet — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 09:28:58 +0000

Don’t be fooled, the first few years you get spoiled with “the first moments” of things. Then suddenly the “last moments” start creeping in, “the last nappy”, “the last car seat”, at first they seem like a god send but then they accumulate like an avalanche.

One day you will pick them up and, and most likely neither of you will know it, but it will be the last time you ever do.

Treasure everything, even the insanity.

New comment by asp_hornet in "New serious vulnerabilities spiked around release of Claude Mythos Preview"

asp_hornet — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 05:00:21 +0000

Disclosure of a vulnerability doesnt mean a bad guy found it.

New comment by asp_hornet in "Polaroid just dropped the most iconic anti-AI ad of the year"

asp_hornet — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:56:18 +0000

“Company pleads that we’re analogue creatures and should pay them $1 a photo to save our souls.”

I want to like the message but it just leaves a bad taste.

New comment by asp_hornet in "Reflections on software engineering in the age of AI"

asp_hornet — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 01:57:36 +0000

I think language, frameworks, domain and style can all influence the quality of the output. I think it’s hard to compare experiences.

New comment by asp_hornet in "Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak"

asp_hornet — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 03:43:26 +0000

I think OP’s point is that it was bought not made similar to Instagram.

New comment by asp_hornet in "The 100k whys of AI"

asp_hornet — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 07:01:13 +0000

> This is a fuzzy signal, so you shouldn’t fire your intern when they say “it’s not this — it’s that”.

The author literally points to that tell in the article.

In a weird twist, I wonder if you’re an LLM?

New comment by asp_hornet in "Companies rein in AI usage as costs strain budgets"

asp_hornet — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 06:38:56 +0000

Yeah, it sucks man.

There was a good moment where I thought it wouldn’t come for my org but here I am.

Not saying the tech doesn’t have merit but if you’re not blasting the slop cannon constantly and praising Dario for the pleasure, you’re on the list.

New comment by asp_hornet in "Companies rein in AI usage as costs strain budgets"

asp_hornet — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:32:52 +0000

No OP but I can tell you exactly where I find my peace:

4 dependents, a cost of living that keeps rocketing and an industry that’s decided “the people who don’t glaze this shit don’t get to continue”.

Maybe Ive sold out but what’s the alternative, I’m 17 years in, I can’t figure how I pivot my expertise and still support the family’s demands.

New comment by asp_hornet in "Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?"

asp_hornet — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:15:46 +0000

> will programmers write

Who’s going to tell them?

New comment by asp_hornet in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

asp_hornet — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:59:06 +0000

> the more people you have using your models, the more training and fine-tuning data you're accumulating, so the faster you can develop the next frontier model

I’ve wondered this but then wouldn’t a large amount of input now just be AI output from a previous PR/client email/spec document/chat. Training of that would be an issue leading to distillation?

New comment by asp_hornet in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

asp_hornet — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:55:33 +0000

As an Australian, I’m not particularly surprised by this. From purely a capacity perspective, it seemed fair to reason, if AI is so powerful and capacity is an issue, why wouldn’t you prioritise domestic and restrict foreign usage.

It’s a massive betrayal for foreign entities and it would be silly to continue with all my eggs in anthropic basket but I get it.

New comment by asp_hornet in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

asp_hornet — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:15:09 +0000

Agreed. But I think it’s also important to realise if you sent this article back to 2020 people would say it was pure fantasy that a tool could do this. Hype aside, there’s a bit of cool magic here.

New comment by asp_hornet in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

asp_hornet — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:31:09 +0000

The author just wrote an anecdote about how a prompt to fix an issue played out. Their conclusion wasn’t about cost or gushing at its ability but that it’s dangerous:

> Fable is arguably smarter and hence more suspicious of potentially malicious instructions. But that smartness is very much a two-edged sword: if it does get subverted by instructions, the amount of damage it can do given its relentless proactivity is terrifying.