<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: bfung</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bfung</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 08:52:52 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bfung" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bfung in "EVE Online moves to Python 3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>1/2 troll side-galley comment: use AI and translate to Rust.<p>If the outcome or outputs / test cases are known, AI is great at language translations.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 20:56:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49493272</link><dc:creator>bfung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49493272</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49493272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bfung in "Karpathy’s Pelican"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don’t know what datasets are available to these LLMs, but I’d imagine if there was training on CAD code, text, and images, a prompt steered towards that probably could get it pretty good.<p>I am not a mechanical engineer, so even prompting well with ME lingo probably will take some effort.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:11:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49148358</link><dc:creator>bfung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49148358</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49148358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bfung in "Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s not really feasible, in my opinion.<p>US Gov could make US companies comply, like have Huggingface take down models out of compliance.<p>But most likely, a foreign-to-US Huggingface replacement would be made and everyone would go there instead. Lose-lose for US.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:22:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49051161</link><dc:creator>bfung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49051161</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49051161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bfung in "Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“It’s a Unix system. … I know this” XD<p>Back in the days when it was an MS-DOS world…</p>
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<p>Anyone see how Opus did? lol<p>Also, eerily accurate timeline!</p>
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<p>Correction: facts are facts.<p>How a person perceives facts categorizes them into a political bias bucket.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:08:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48838575</link><dc:creator>bfung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48838575</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48838575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bfung in "Completing a computer science degree on Coursera"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Congrats!<p>> Group projects were also a common complaint. You were randomly assigned a group, but it was often unclear if the participants were even doing the course - many people were in completely ghost groups.<p>I see that nothing has changed in 20 years. Even when attended the courses physically in person, group project usually had 1 or 2 people doing all the work and the rest nowhere to be found, or just hanging out. :p</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:11:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48798877</link><dc:creator>bfung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48798877</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48798877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bfung in "Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Totally agree, misleading.<p>The syntax looks like rust, but esp w/the memory management model (reference counting), it’s going to have more overhead than rust when it’s running, more like Swift or at worse, Python.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 23:41:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48693468</link><dc:creator>bfung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48693468</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48693468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bfung in "Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh we’ve been ready and it’s been known.  We’re just too stupid to do anything else.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:49:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48551991</link><dc:creator>bfung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48551991</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48551991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bfung in "Every Frame Perfect"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> waiting for an animation to complete before the app will start acknowledging my keystrokes.<p>Or you find out you can input as the animation happens, but when the animation finishes, you’ve lost where your input ended up and don’t know if you can backspace/delete and retype.<p>(Yes, I’m expressing multiple issues here w/ui & animation & input)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:23:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48521060</link><dc:creator>bfung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48521060</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48521060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bfung in "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Meta: so many words to say - save local first & sync in background.<p>Feels like AI slop.<p>Doesn’t address the concurrent update problem except for “optimistic”.  At least provide some data why that’s ok.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:47:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438385</link><dc:creator>bfung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438385</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bfung in "They’re made out of weights"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How does one choose what sequence of bytes constitutes a token?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:09:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48406390</link><dc:creator>bfung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48406390</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48406390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bfung in "They’re made out of weights"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And you know what the tokenizer is made of?<p>Weights.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:36:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48394423</link><dc:creator>bfung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48394423</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48394423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bfung in "Backpressure is all you need"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Test Driven Development.  There's more than several /tdd skills that are popular.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 23:34:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350902</link><dc:creator>bfung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350902</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bfung in "YAML? That's Norway Problem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Really? Putting quotes around strings is called escaping now?<p><pre><code>    One workaround is to escape the string, like this:
    
    countries:
      - DE
      - FR
      - "NO"
      - PL
      - RO
</code></pre>
Comon, it’s 2026, yeah yaml’s design can lead to odd type casts, but a whole essay on this? Keep it under 140 chars pls.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 02:04:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48243835</link><dc:creator>bfung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48243835</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48243835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bfung in "ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just follow the man, not the brand. He’s still doing his thing: <a href="https://www.natesilver.net/" rel="nofollow">https://www.natesilver.net/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 02:56:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48156432</link><dc:creator>bfung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48156432</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48156432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bfung in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just reporting what I’ve experienced.  No need to go with the ad hominem attack.  I happen to lead a team with a major Rust infra project and I stand by the experience with usage across all the LLM models.</p>
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<p>1. Amount of Rust training data isn’t as much as Go.<p>2. Golang syntax and style is very verbose yet simple. There’s not as many options nor programming language to domain mapping needed as in Rust. Leads to needing less sophisticated LLM to spit out Golang than Rust successfully and efficiently.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 02:47:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48103617</link><dc:creator>bfung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48103617</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48103617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bfung in "How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One simply does not [“provision” more hardware|(reboot systems)|(redeploy software)] in space.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:59:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47712699</link><dc:creator>bfung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47712699</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47712699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bfung in "Costco sued for seeking refunds on tariffs customers paid"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As a Costco member and customer, I’d actually trust the leadership more than most companies. Use the tariff money and keep that $1.50 hotdog ~ enough avg Americans can use that break for lunch, even if not the healthiest.</p>
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