<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: avadodin</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=avadodin</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:40:33 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=avadodin" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by avadodin in "How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thank you for the context. But still.<p>You have a desirable performance optimization feature —used in every Linux program— that happens to interfere with a lousy exploit mitigation.<p>No one should ever need more than 64kBs for a stack anyways.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:20:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343607</link><dc:creator>avadodin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343607</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by avadodin in "Shattered skeleton is first confirmed death from trebuchet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Let me show you its features".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:37:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49342127</link><dc:creator>avadodin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49342127</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49342127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by avadodin in "A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Genuinely curious which class of laws that would be.<p>I assume you mean in the US but the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act makes no mention of race and anti-miscegenation laws speak of Mongolians(presumably to mean people of East Asian ancestry in general).<p>I think Oriental in the US like the alternative Asiatic applied to all Asians from Istanbul to Vladivostok.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:21:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49341216</link><dc:creator>avadodin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49341216</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49341216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by avadodin in "Anthropic's 'watermark' text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is the obvious solution to watermarking text in a way that isn't easily removed by a dumb tool.<p>The output quality will likely suffer as stated in the article although this can be mitigated to an extent by only enabling it on more irrelevant filler text while leaving the more functional sections untouched.<p>The solution using Unicode tricks amounts to malicious compliance as only the most unsophisticated users are going to fail to remove the AI watermarks when trying to pass off AI slop as their own prose.<p>The real solution here is not having stupid EU–tier laws in the first place.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 11:56:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329439</link><dc:creator>avadodin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329439</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by avadodin in "Has the hallucination problem in AI been solved?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"hallucination" is a term specific to LLMs like ChatGPT and has virtually nothing to do with visual hallucinations.<p>It is conceivable that agentic edge LLMs are used for the logic of killer drones but I don't think we're there yet.<p>Machine learning in general does have classification errors so it may mistakenly see an enemy where there is a pile of rocks(right next to the children's hospital).<p>To the user of the drone, this represents an error rate and wasted munitions(unless they were planning on bombing the hospital later). So it is something they want to minimize.<p>Again, I'd be more worried about becoming a "legitimate" target to someone's killer drone than an accidental one.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:41:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328880</link><dc:creator>avadodin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328880</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by avadodin in "A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Asian to Brits definitely means South Asian(probably includes West Asians but I'm not sure about that). They were already bitching about this 30 years ago when the net was standardizing on American English where Asian means East Asian.<p>The term for East Asian was Oriental which is now  considered racist/passé for some obscure reason.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 22:50:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324570</link><dc:creator>avadodin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324570</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by avadodin in "Has the hallucination problem in AI been solved?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The "AIs" being used by these drones have little to do with ChatGPT at the moment. And you should be more worried about "AIs" that do aim at the intended target, anyways.</p>
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<p>I didn't expect the congressfolks' trades to be mostly done and over before disclosure.<p>Many of the biggest moves have a small lead of presumed insider trades and then a large move that may last months while never revisiting the initial trading range.</p>
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<p>op implies the issues in c89 were fixed with c99 not c11.<p>it may seem like a slightly more ridiculous claim, given the infamous features added in c99, although, in hindsight, every version after c89 was less C–like than the previous.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:46:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296148</link><dc:creator>avadodin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296148</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by avadodin in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A common belief right now in the US military is that even the blast of a high caliber ammunition round may scramble your brain and give you "PTSD".<p>It does line up with "PTSD" only becoming a thing after WWI.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:57:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49255680</link><dc:creator>avadodin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49255680</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49255680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by avadodin in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What?<p>I'm just beginning to enjoy the release of Gemma E4B why are you giving me a cold shower here telling me there may be no Gemma 5?<p>Here's hoping the supreme leader of the US does a speech like Chairman Xi.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:49:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49255609</link><dc:creator>avadodin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49255609</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49255609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by avadodin in "Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The reason NFTs "failed" is that the "assets" were jpegs with infinitesimal intrinsic value(pre–ai slop) and even less market appeal.<p>We have people wasting money on jpegs and people wanting to own things outside of game inventory screens even today. Something akin to NFTs could still become a part of the economy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:40:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49255499</link><dc:creator>avadodin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49255499</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49255499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by avadodin in "How to Increase OpenBSDs Resilience to Power Outages"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have some knowledge of the BSDs and they all are but OpenBSD is particularly belligerent about Licenses and they consider ZFS "non–free" on par with the GPL(I know I know) which is a huge barrier to entry into the kernel. They only begrudgingly accepted clang after they changed their license because there was no real alternative. Before that they had been using some ancient GPLv2 gcc.<p>Truth is, I've never had a catastrophic data loss on traditional filesystems like ext2 and ufs and the devs probably haven't had one either so they don't feel like the situation is the same as with lacking a compiler.<p>I read the article about why they removed soft updates and the gist of it was that the maintainer moved on and no one else was willing to understand the complex system anymore.<p>I'd imagine ZFS is at least on the same level of complexity.<p>So, two pretty tall hurdles to clear.<p>If someone gave them a filesystem with the right license, ideas from 20+ years ago and a promise to maintain it on OpenBSD forever, I'm sure they'd take it.</p>
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<p>The alternative hypothesis is that their 100yo are healthy enough to scam the state out of their "120yo" parents' pension.<p>I've been in many of these miracle health countries and seen many 90yo walking around.<p>They all have some just–so story about a particularly awfully–tasting vegetable or drinking English gin every morning or whatever.<p>It most likely entirely genetic but we aren't ready to accept that we are what our genes are.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 06:35:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49254155</link><dc:creator>avadodin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49254155</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49254155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by avadodin in "Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Source available is of little use for many of the current breed of languages and libraries. Even standard C support is starting to break down as incompatible "standard" newC is being pushed because some C++ guy didn't like K&R function definitions.<p>Linux's remarkably stable kernel ABI is the only reason we can still use a lot of unbuildable dependency hell stuff on Docker containers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 01:24:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238198</link><dc:creator>avadodin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238198</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by avadodin in "How Did Rogue Generate Its Random Dungeons?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thank you.<p>I think the algorithm used and the seeding method are very relevant in procedurally generated games like Rogue, Elite and Minecraft so I was disappointed when the author just used Random().<p>And yes I could have read the code or remembered a previous time whence I might have learnt the same bit of information but instead I read the article.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:10:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49207789</link><dc:creator>avadodin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49207789</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49207789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by avadodin in "How Did Rogue Generate Its Random Dungeons?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I missed a definition for "random".<p>Did it have a specific PRNG and seed?<p>Was it platform–dependent?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 23:10:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49203880</link><dc:creator>avadodin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49203880</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49203880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by avadodin in "I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> One of those is way thicker than the other, at least.<p>I bet there's at least one brand with extra–thick plastic insulation.</p>
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<p>I loved botany and going outside before, but I loved it even more when he became popular(reference).<p>I haven't watched him for years because I don't want to miss any of the botany.</p>
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<p>Most plant–related crimes are pie–on–the–windowsill–on–Sunday tier.</p>
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