Hacker News: bsaul

New comment by bsaul in "Scaling to 1M concurrent sandboxes in seconds"

bsaul — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:47:11 +0000

how complex is maintaining a firecracker cluster over bare metal in practice ?

New comment by bsaul in "A road to Lisp: Why Lisp"

bsaul — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:22:13 +0000

never understood why people say that: the syntax for defining code seems quite different from the syntax defining data structure. There's no homoiconicity in javascript..

New comment by bsaul in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

bsaul — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:12:14 +0000

Not a really nice post. It reads like someone refusing to accept bitter feelings (which is absolutely understandable given the circumstances), and then go on to personally attacking the person who hurt you.

He should have kept the "horrible manager" parts away, as it really doesn't have anything to do with the point of the post.

New comment by bsaul in "Postgres transactions are a distributed systems superpower"

bsaul — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:06:33 +0000

i don't understand the last point of UDF. Either you need the state to be updated atomically across different systems or you don't. But writing a row in a system in order to update the second one at any random time in the future isn't really much different from enqueuing a job in queue.

New comment by bsaul in "AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design"

bsaul — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 20:35:22 +0000

I wonder if our common expectation that true theories somehow had to be beautiful and elegant is going to survive the coming century. What if "real" nature phenomenon were actually best described by horrible mess of impossible equations, that only machines could actually manipulate and reason about ?

That would be really sad..

New comment by bsaul in "Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say"

bsaul — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:29:58 +0000

if this was the case, there would be no state sponsoring palestinian terrorism for a long time.

Look at what happened after 9/11, it's pretty clear there's a wide difference between how US consider its own security matter vs israel's one.

New comment by bsaul in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

bsaul — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:57:15 +0000

"Because this version of AI is worth 10 trillion dollars."

i wonder how much the real version of AI is worth. I've got a hinch we're going to find out pretty soon.

New comment by bsaul in "Haiku"

bsaul — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:58:56 +0000

wondering : apart from the aesthetics, is there still some technology from beos that would be still considered an improvement compared to what today's OS provide ?

New comment by bsaul in "France moves to break encrypted messaging"

bsaul — Sun, 10 May 2026 04:33:17 +0000

of course, nothing magically prevents the app from sending keys or decrypted content to a third party.

That's why if you're really serious about e2ee you have to install the app from source.

New comment by bsaul in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

bsaul — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:39:03 +0000

i think using AI is going to transform our definition of programming into something more abstract, but it's still going to require human.

We're going to start thinking in terms of program general properties ( termination conditions, invariants, symetries, etc), and code quality indicators, to drive our work into certain directions, depending on the project.

Then in 20 years we're going to consider the task of actually typing code something of really low value and uninteresting.

I can feel it's already happening to me after just a few months of vibe coding.

New comment by bsaul in "I’m spending months coding the old way"

bsaul — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:23:20 +0000

yes miro is also what i'm using. It's really a digital whiteboard.

New comment by bsaul in "I’m spending months coding the old way"

bsaul — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:20:37 +0000

"used to be" ?? What are engineering team doing nowadays when discussing architecturing their systems ?

New comment by bsaul in "Claude Opus 4.7"

bsaul — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:58:28 +0000

i tried to find an API pricing for GLM 5.1 but couldn't find any on the homepage. How are you using it ?

New comment by bsaul in "Agent - Native Mac OS X coding ide/harness"

bsaul — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:48:28 +0000

you forgot the memory model. Which is an absolutely essential and hard to design part of the agent.

New comment by bsaul in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

bsaul — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:22:53 +0000

could it be that anthropic is experiencing a massive shortage of compute capacity, and is desperately trying to find means to overcome it ?

All the news i hear about this company for the past weeks made it sound like they're really desperate.

New comment by bsaul in "Session is shutting down in 90 days"

bsaul — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:20:40 +0000

nope, iphone here, and quite recent. But it's not just me, all the people i communicate with on this app have the same kind of problems. With a group of friends we even had a totally weird ordering of messages, making the conversation quite absurd.

There's something deeply wrong with the way signal delivers messages...

New comment by bsaul in "Session is shutting down in 90 days"

bsaul — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:11:46 +0000

signal is really crappy. It fails at the most basic feature which is : deliver the message on time.

New comment by bsaul in "Goodbye to Sora"

bsaul — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:30:17 +0000

same here... The API costs are absolutely insane for any real usage. This is either high prices to make sure no profitable competitor to claude workspace or other agent system emerges, or heavily sponsoring of their own soluions.

New comment by bsaul in "The dead Internet is not a theory anymore"

bsaul — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:46:05 +0000

it's also something that was in my mind when i wrote about those two options. I still keep this idea in the back of my head since those days (i'm old enough to remember when gates had this atrocious, yet interesting idea).

New comment by bsaul in "The dead Internet is not a theory anymore"

bsaul — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:44:20 +0000

I only see two outcomes for this problem : an internet of verified identities (start by uploading your ID card). Or a paid internet, where it doesn't matter who you are, but since you're going to pay for that email or that reddit account, the probability that it's AI spam is greatly reduced.

And i'm looking forward to none of them.