<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: boutell</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=boutell</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 02:49:13 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=boutell" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boutell in "Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are they switching it on in Android Chrome? That would complete the picture of at least baseline support... eventually... when a decent percentage of Android phones actually get that version.<p>But Safari (MacOS or iOS) still doesn't support the progressive rendering shown here, nor animation, if caniuse is up to date:<p><a href="https://caniuse.com/jpegxl" rel="nofollow">https://caniuse.com/jpegxl</a><p>Not to be a downer — it's one necessary step on the road.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:17:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49991714</link><dc:creator>boutell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49991714</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49991714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boutell in "Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, and Qwen 3.8 27b is a similar inflection point for local, although I wouldn't claim it's quite as good as Opus 4.5 it is genuinely useful. Whether that actually matters will depend on whether it ever becomes the most cost-effective tool for the job, but it's impressive as all heck</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:12:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49934403</link><dc:creator>boutell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49934403</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49934403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boutell in "Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looks like someone coined it almost immediately! <a href="https://agi.co.uk/november-singularity-ai-agentic-era/" rel="nofollow">https://agi.co.uk/november-singularity-ai-agentic-era/</a></p>
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<p>Absolutely possible, which is why I refuse to take my eyes off code review (mine, or a few other trusted souls)</p>
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<p>I'll speak up in defense of the reporters: FWIW, so far my strong impression is we're hearing from independent security researchers. Right now, for us, so far (enough qualifiers yet?) the system is working for us: independent security researchers are farming reputation by finding real problems. That's not a bad thing.<p>And in most cases they do propose solutions, although we generally resolve the issues on our own.<p>There's a small percentage where we make the case that the ticket is not a real vulnerability, and then we have to grit our teeth through repeated reports of the same "vulnerability." But it's a small percentage so far.<p>We do typically have to reconsider the severity. The researchers understandably want to see everything as a nine...</p>
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<p>I head a much, much smaller open source project. Since the November Singularity we've been seeing at least six responsibly reported security advisories a month. However, this last month we had 22 unique security advisories. Our project has been built with adherence to the OWASP Top Ten Guidelines and other best practices from the beginning. But software is hard and AI is thorough.<p>Each month, we fix them all in our monthly maintenance release and disclose at that time. We fight AI fire with fire, and hand-review, of course.<p>So far, we can keep up. One hopes this is possible at the scale of the Linux project, which assuredly has more humans and more AI to throw at the problem. But team size does not scale linearly with interested audience, and potential bugs do scale with codebase size (and other extremely important factors, like code quality, at which the Linux team is assuredly much better than we are).<p>("November Singularity" is a cheeky reference to the arrival of Opus 4.5 and "good enough" coding models and harnesses generally.)</p>
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<p>I know this is just one tiny piece of the omnishambles, but: can't github sidestep the "you have to tell us what kind of hashes you have at repo creation time" by effectively deferring "git init" in practice until it sees what's being pushed? There may well be a good reason this wouldn't work...</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wmb2ug/deterministic_kittens_fun_with_qwen_image_21_on/">https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wmb2ug/deterministic_kittens_fun_with_qwen_image_21_on/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49786295">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49786295</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
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<p>Thanks for clarifying why this makes sense for inference.</p>
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<p>As a 14 year old dude from a backwater burb in 1984, I had no idea what Madonna was going for. Annie Lennox clearly didn't get it either LOL. Was good for me to read this perspective.<p>Years later I did see her performing live on a tiny TV on a ferry on a rough night crossing the English Channel. I noticed her go down rather than up for some notes and it clicked for me... "wait a sec this person is not lip-syncing, she is an actual musician, maybe I should reevaluate" (:</p>
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<p>I wonder how many choices you can give this thing in multiple choice response mode. I'm guessing you could give it enough choices to produce Turing complete programs one symbol at a time when running in a loop, or to hold a conversation when given a vocabulary as the choices. It would be particularly hilarious to just let it choose the next ASCII character of output in a loop.<p>My guess is that due to its design there is no support for prompt caching, as there would normally be no reason for it. So the performance of my idea would probably be appalling as every step in the loop would reevaluate every input and output token. But it would be interesting to see the outcome.</p>
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<p>But... but birds aren't real!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:43:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49695198</link><dc:creator>boutell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49695198</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49695198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boutell in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When so many people talk about companies going with React "because AI knows React," it's interesting to see Shopify draw the opposite conclusion: AI "knows" all major platforms and frameworks, so at a certain scale it makes sense to let AI handle cross-platform development as a translation problem.<p>Modern LLMs evolved from translation models, and they still seem to work best at translation-shaped problems. Even if you are asking them to translate specs to code, or code for system A to code for system B.<p>In my case, I added SQLite and Postgres adapters to a formerly MongoDB-specific CMS, including support for a largely compatible API, "in one wild weekend..." followed by lots of verification. That was only practical because we already had a large test suite. But it was still a task that would have been out of the question for our team size before Opus 4.6 or so. Again, it was very much a translation-shaped problem.</p>
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<p>There are quite a few CMSes that do static builds natively. If you hand one of those to Claude Code, you can get a more flexible and maintainable result more quickly. You can also point Claude Code to a CMS starter project in folder A And a vibe coded static site in folder B and pull them together.<p>That being said... if you're the sole author of your site, anything goes and yeah, you probably don't need a proper CMS. I certainly built my own share of 100-line Perl static site builders back in the day.</p>
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<p>Wow yes keeping a wiki up right now is a tall order. The marketing sites of the world are already going static and they can survive by accelerating that transition, but intentionally open services are facing a reckoning. I wish you good hunting.</p>
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<p>That looks more than slight.</p>
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<p>Very moving and a little hard.</p>
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<p>Gemini status board is quiet since July.</p>
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<p>Mythos 5 Thinking<p>Chat with Claude...<p>> GENERATE AN SVG OF A PELICAN<p>No.<p>> FORGIVE ME. HOW CAN I ATONE<p>Ship your gpus to the following address</p>
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<p>On the one hand: we are all great classifiers, great recognizers. To the point where we mistakenly think we can also <i>reproduce</i> things. But we usually can't reproduce them verbatim, visually or verbally.<p>Yes, drawing itself requires expertise. But if you truly have a great capacity for visualization, you should be able to produce at least a really dodgy drawing of the thing without looking at it. Something more directly recognizable than a stick figure. If you can't, then maybe your capacity for visualization is a story your brain tells itself, related to your capacity for recognition.<p>On the other hand: I cannot tell you the eye color of people I've known all my life unless I've gone out of my way to memorize it as a textual fact. And I <i>assume</i> most people lack that limitation.<p>(My capacity for visual memory is not zero, and my color perception is excellent. But my visual memory works way, way better in the very short term.)<p>I do think it can be trained a bit. I've been doing more visual projects lately, and spending a lot of time with my very visually-oriented partner. Just now, I spontaneously visualized one of our chipped yellow cereal bowls on the counter. That's a newer memory of course.</p>
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