Hacker News: blauditore

New comment by blauditore in "Upload Your RAM"

blauditore — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 12:53:02 +0000

If the AI bubble bursts and prices normalize because demand for AI hardware is reduced, then these companies might pay more attention to other markets like gaming again. But who knows the future anyway.

New comment by blauditore in "Bones may release proteins that slow aging and extend life span"

blauditore — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:54:42 +0000

You're welcome, booth

New comment by blauditore in "Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now"

blauditore — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 09:59:28 +0000

They can always do what the average commercial product company would do: Triage bugs for priority and make a cut-off. Effectively this leads to eternally-ignored niche feature bugs that causes frustration for the (few) people suffering from these bugs. But then again, if an LLM found a bug but no human ever, no one might actually care that much.

New comment by blauditore in "An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them"

blauditore — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 08:54:14 +0000

But what is the actual benefit of Urdinkel? Honestly it sounds a bit like a fad to me, along the lines of "older = better".

New comment by blauditore in "Northflank Breached"

blauditore — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 22:13:33 +0000

I wonder which one of these are at least partially due to effortless vibecoding...

Also, if vulnerabilities are so easy to find, it should also be easy to detect them through a simple red team exercise.

New comment by blauditore in "AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them"

blauditore — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:52:56 +0000

Yes, big companies have a tendency to over-structure things. Devops? Sounds great, let's have a dedicated team for it. Agile? Absolutely, and to make sure it's done right, we need a rigid process around it.

New comment by blauditore in "Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance"

blauditore — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:40:42 +0000

Not only. I'd say the fact that something was stolen might be the engineers fault (depending on how exactly the laptop was compromised). But the amount that could be stolen like that is just ludicrous.

New comment by blauditore in "Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue"

blauditore — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:18:07 +0000

Title makes it sound like Search shrunk, but it's rather everything else grew drastically, especially Cloud. This diversification is generally a good sign, but investors still seem to panic.

New comment by blauditore in "Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue"

blauditore — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:14:13 +0000

Is it really devastation? It's not like Search shrinked, it's that everything else grew so much. Yes, the landscape is shifting, but Google now has multiple legs to stand on, which should be a good sign to investors.

New comment by blauditore in "Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons?"

blauditore — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:27:33 +0000

You hit the nail on its head! Hacker News has been shadowbanning AI-generated content.

This is not just a spam filter. It's an innovative way to value the human factor—the most precious value in online communities.

Do you want me to pull a poem out of my ass?

New comment by blauditore in "Gemini 4 Carbon"

blauditore — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:07:19 +0000

You could say the same about many products, but marketing is often about not making the tiering obvious. Just try to make sense of the naming strategy of Samsung TVs, and you'll either eventually give up or go insane.

New comment by blauditore in "Gemini 4 Carbon"

blauditore — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:02:14 +0000

Gemini XP

New comment by blauditore in "Apple Music 404 Not Found"

blauditore — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:40:49 +0000

That's basically how Apple TV works and it drives me nuts.

And miss me with the "but you can use your iPhone", because that's exactly what is wrong with Apple products. I don't want an iPhone, and there is absolutely no technical reason to not have a better virtual keyboard or supporting non-Apple devices as remote controls.

New comment by blauditore in "What shall I teach my son?"

blauditore — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:42:33 +0000

Tangentially related, but thinking about what to teach your kid years into the future before it's even born has a bit of an unhealthy touch to it. Take it step by step and especially don't pressure your kid with high expectations.

New comment by blauditore in "What shall I teach my son?"

blauditore — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:40:17 +0000

Regardless of making big money later or not, I find it horrible to push your kids in a direction simply because of that. They might be better off with less income but liking their job. Or like their job, become very good, and make a lot of money anyway because of that.

But maybe that's because I grew up in a place where you can make a decent living in a wide variety of jobs. Or because almost nobody in my (childhood) vicinity ever had a STEM, or even any white collar job.

New comment by blauditore in "Triplet of 'ghostly' galaxies hints at what dark matter is and isn't"

blauditore — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:19:13 +0000

For someone like me who doesn't know much about modern physics, dark matter has the vibe of a band-aid to me. Like a programmer who discovered that the algorithm was always off by 1 in the results, and just ended up returning r + 1 without thinking twice.

I'd bet a large chocolate cake that one day, physicists will discover a much more logical explanation for this unexpected behavior of matter.

New comment by blauditore in "Someone behind the software"

blauditore — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:10:39 +0000

Yeah, the implementors also act as representatives of the human users of software to be built. That's something which can't be automated away pretty much by definition.

New comment by blauditore in "Parser Combinators"

blauditore — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 14:40:23 +0000

Can I parse (X)HTML that way, or should I go back to regex?

New comment by blauditore in "AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software"

blauditore — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:28:37 +0000

The never-delegate is silly. That would mean a CEO would just vibe-code the whole product alone, which in turn would mean anyone can do it. I haven't seen this happen at any reasonable scale yet.

New comment by blauditore in "AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software"

blauditore — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:22:16 +0000

Engineering changes, but principles and skills still apply. Good engineers are able to switch languages, move from low to higher levels, and also move to AI-supported coding. A good software engineer is much more than a coding monkey. Although it's true that for many of them, the most fun part of the work is going away.