Hacker News: bch

New comment by bch in "Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years"

bch — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:58:07 +0000

> This is expected in the normal population

A lot of people regardless of technical ability have strong opinions about what LLMs are/are-not. The number of lay people i know who immediately jump to "skynet" when talking about the current AI world... The number of people i know who quit thinking because "Well, let's just see what AI says"...

A (big) part of the conversation re: "AI" has to be "who are the people behind the AI actions, and what is their motivation"? Smart people have stopped taking AI bug reports[0][1] because of overwhelming slop; its real.

[0] https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/07/curl_ai_bug_reports/

[1] https://gist.github.com/bagder/07f7581f6e3d78ef37dfbfc81fd1d...

New comment by bch in "Live: Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

bch — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:26:29 +0000

Is anybody aware of audio-only coverage of this mission? I'd have loved to just tuned into most of the launch like radio, rather than having my unwatched youtube running.

New comment by bch in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

bch — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:50:07 +0000

What a horrible (preventable) position to be in, though.

New comment by bch in "The Cost of Indirection in Rust"

bch — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 04:18:35 +0000

New pasta paradigm unlocked. Sounds like a case of premature optimization, leaning too hard on DRY.

Am reminded also of a discussion of software engineering between John Ousterhout (of whom I'm a big fan) and Robert Martin[0][1].

[0] https://github.com/johnousterhout/aposd-vs-clean-code

[1] https://youtu.be/3Vlk6hCWBw0

New comment by bch in "An old photo of a large BBS (2022)"

bch — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:55:43 +0000

> do you think "wow, cool, they got to wrangle all of that", or do you think "OMG they had to wrangle all of that"?

I touch on similar point of view discussing digital audio work I do for fun. I use CSound, which I've heard described as "assembly language for audio", and I think that's accurate.

Anyway, when I first, FIRST started, and got a tiny bit familiar, I thought "Wow, I can do anything!" but quickly realized I was also responsible for everything. No free lunch.

New comment by bch in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

bch — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 05:59:47 +0000

I've got value over the years from Desiderata. At once both economical and powerful.

I already mentioned this to @sillysaurusx but will post here in case it yields interesting comments.

https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html

New comment by bch in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

bch — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 05:52:34 +0000

Same. I loathe gyms, actually. Perhaps Ive been absent for too long to have an honest loathing, I've no attraction to them though (I don't begrudge anybody who likes them or uses them though - easy to see their value).

A bicycle, on the other hand... a thing of beauty.

New comment by bch in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

bch — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 04:57:52 +0000

+1 for physical exercise. Curious though why you (or anybody else) would separate running and/or cycling from the gym? Gym gets its own (emphatic!) category and the sports are separate. Not a criticism, genuinely curious.

New comment by bch in "Closure of the Weatheradio service in Canada"

bch — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:40:36 +0000

Maybe @dang can setup a roll-call for entertainments sake.

New comment by bch in "Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV"

bch — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:41:20 +0000

> you have your car when you get there

Depending on the destination of course, I often find having a car in a city like having an albatross around my neck. The benefits or features get outweighed by traffic and parking. I'll take good public transit and a set of headphones.

New comment by bch in "Military models Canadian response to hypothetical American invasion"

bch — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 18:54:01 +0000

Hrmm - this loads (better than original article), but is nuked shortly thereafter. :(

New comment by bch in "Military models Canadian response to hypothetical American invasion"

bch — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 18:48:22 +0000

Archive - https://web.archive.org/web/20260120184214/https://www.thegl...

New comment by bch in "Scientists discover beer bottle in the Mariana Trench (2024)"

bch — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 17:07:25 +0000

Not worth it for the $0.10 return. Put more down there to incentivize.

New comment by bch in "The Origins of APL (1974) [video]"

bch — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 08:35:01 +0000

In the intro I liked the precursors to the IBM "Thinkpad" name.

New comment by bch in "Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS"

bch — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 00:50:11 +0000

Or 0. Lua is in superposition, ready for the quantum computing age.

New comment by bch in "Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS"

bch — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 07:08:59 +0000

Tcl too, fwiw[0].

[0] https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/NRE

New comment by bch in "Japanese four-cylinder engine is so reliable still in production after 25 years"

bch — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:55:04 +0000

I wouldn't believe it either unless I heard it directly from my earnest friend who learned at that moment:

1) cars have oil

2) said oil should be changed regularly

New comment by bch in "Japanese four-cylinder engine is so reliable still in production after 25 years"

bch — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:04:09 +0000

I had a friend who had a Honda (edit: actually, Toyota iirc) for ~15 years that didn’t know it had oil; So when they sold it and was asked how often the oil was changed, the potential buyer was met with a quizzical look. Tires and gasoline and window washer fluid was its maintenance.

New comment by bch in "PYREX vs. pyrex: What's the difference?"

bch — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 17:03:35 +0000

I thought preheated was the LEAST shocking to devices in the oven, otherwise they're in the cold oven (fine) until you start heating and they take the full energy from the elements trying to get the env to temp(not good). I guess too it would depend what the dishes are being set on in the oven - wire rack versus pizza stone/steel, ... I wouldn't think the hot air (poor conductor) would be as shocking as the direct energy from the full-on elements.

Unless your mac&cheese was premade, put into the fridge, then directly into the oven at cook time?

New comment by bch in "Undefined Behavior in C and C++ (2024)"

bch — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 07:58:32 +0000

> Rusts tooling is hands down better than C/++ which aids to a more streamlined and efficient development experience

Would you expand on this? What was your C tooling/workflow that was inferior to your new Rust experience?