Hacker News: blastonico

New comment by blastonico in "Running Doom on Our Custom CPU and Going Viral"

blastonico — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:08:23 +0000

> but I guess that's just a 486

*just* a 486. :-(

New comment by blastonico in "Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke"

blastonico — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:37:05 +0000

There are billions of lines of garbage code out there written in C, C++, Java, you name it. So much garbage, it has driven people to create languages with tighter guardrails to help programmers.

Yet, I've never seen those language creators blame anyone else. I don't recall Bjarne Stroustrup lashing out at people migrating from C++ to Java, Rust, or anything else.

Maybe humility is just a generational thing.

New comment by blastonico in "Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)"

blastonico — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:14:22 +0000

Who are those "top" researchers? and how many?

New comment by blastonico in "The C to Rust migration book"

blastonico — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:30:43 +0000

> there's been a massive increase in people migrating from C to Rust due to LLMs.

Strange. I was expecting the opposite move as LLMs know the C pitfalls and traps well enough to write corrected code.

New comment by blastonico in "Boffin claims Microsoft’s “quantum leap” is invalid due to “basic Python errors”"

blastonico — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:04:23 +0000

No idea whether the claim is right or wrong, but this processor package is beautiful.

New comment by blastonico in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"

blastonico — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:51:24 +0000

Back in 2017, I had this theory that Google was run from the Vatican and the Pope himself was the CEO.

New comment by blastonico in "Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents"

blastonico — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:22:36 +0000

But... it's memory safe. Not that git has any important memory issue, but now people with skill issues in C can contribute to it without breaking stuff.

New comment by blastonico in "AI misidentification results in wrongful arrest; man seeks justice"

blastonico — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:16:21 +0000

Three "racist" in a sentence is a bingo. Congratulations.

New comment by blastonico in "AI misidentification results in wrongful arrest; man seeks justice"

blastonico — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:13:08 +0000

Do you prefer human identification, like picking the suspect among a group lineup? More accurate I guess?

New comment by blastonico in "Remove .zig Files from Bun"

blastonico — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:32:48 +0000

Does anybody know what model they are using? Is that Mythos?

This is impressive. I honestly don't know what to think about programming careers, need to reflect on my role in this area. The only thing that comes to mind the that quote from Cypher (Matrix):

"Buckle your seat belt, Dorothy, because Kansas is going bye-bye."

New comment by blastonico in "DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding"

blastonico — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:04:23 +0000

Why has it gotten worse? are there more PhDs in Hyderabad?

New comment by blastonico in "A Eulogy for Vim"

blastonico — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:03:11 +0000

Garbage in, garbage out. Most of the code out there is already crap, I'm just embracing it.

New comment by blastonico in "A Eulogy for Vim"

blastonico — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:10:30 +0000

I prefer VS Code with Claude Opus 4.6, it makes me more productive during my working hours so I can take more quality time with my family.

I know that my point of view is considered .+(cist|phobic) (based on the post). I'm sorry for that.

New comment by blastonico in "How long can it take to become a US citizen?"

blastonico — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:46:46 +0000

9 months - from conception to birth

New comment by blastonico in "How we rooted Copilot"

blastonico — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 23:22:42 +0000

Not really. You're referring to agents, but the model doesn't always require agents, and the public chatbot is not connected to a shell freely evaluating arbitrary commands.

New comment by blastonico in "How we rooted Copilot"

blastonico — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 19:48:30 +0000

Oh boy, this really seems to be hallucination.

Guys, chatbots are mostly token generators, they don't run programs e give you responses...it's not a simple shell program, it computes things in GPU and return tokens, in which are translated back to English.

New comment by blastonico in "How we rooted Copilot"

blastonico — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 19:35:57 +0000

How does he know that the response isn't just hallucinations?

I'm telling it because I work there and I don't recognize any of those processes.

In fact I found one script named keepAliveJupyterSvc.sh in a public repo: https://github.com/shivamkm07/code-interpreter/blob/load-tes...

New comment by blastonico in "The American Weather Forecast Is in Trouble"

blastonico — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 00:23:54 +0000

ok, I'm sorry, I think that politics are consuming me, it's driving my thoughts more than it should.

I'll take some time off, breath some fresh air, and improve.

Again.. sorry.

New comment by blastonico in "The American Weather Forecast Is in Trouble"

blastonico — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 23:24:00 +0000

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New comment by blastonico in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

blastonico — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:44:54 +0000

Exactly, Trump should have given him more $100 billion.