Hacker News: cabirum

New comment by cabirum in "EFF is leaving X"

cabirum — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:45:29 +0000

So uh, could impressions decrease across the board, not only on X. Like, social platforms have peaked years ago and the downward trend is completely organic.

New comment by cabirum in "Go builder generator with compile-time required field enforcement"

cabirum — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:08:13 +0000

This seems to still require initialization in a specific order.

Think it might be possible to generate all possible combinations of field init chains and feed it to compiler

New comment by cabirum in "Something Big Is Happening"

cabirum — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:55:05 +0000

The trajectory is simple: everyone is hooked on paid AI subscription and loses the skill of thinking and learning. The models are proprietary and cloud-only. Everything you input is also monetized. The end.

New comment by cabirum in "Something Big Is Happening"

cabirum — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:34:51 +0000

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it". So, this guy is "building an AI startup and investing in the space", right. Thousands of jobs in AI depend on you to start paying for the models because "free version is over a year behind".

What AI is good at is generating billions of similar "something big, act now" stories just to get you to pay. It is an advert.

New comment by cabirum in "Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk"

cabirum — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:39:09 +0000

> information from the Android Auto platform

Can the quantity and length of tire marks on tarmac be used as a proxy for HBEs?

New comment by cabirum in "Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse"

cabirum — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:51:04 +0000

These are multipliers. First, the QA left, but nothing major happened for years, automated tests did suffice. Then, vibe code happened, that with the lack of QA, led to disaster.

I doubt "studies" exist and proving every little assumption takes too much effort as per Brandolini's law.

New comment by cabirum in "2025 was the third hottest year on record"

cabirum — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 21:13:38 +0000

Who are "we"? China population is 4 times the US, with carbon emissions just 3 times greater, making them produce less carbon per capita.

New comment by cabirum in "Russia Strikes Ukraine with IRBM Oreshnik Missile"

cabirum — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:23:37 +0000

Probably vaporized an underground gas storage facility.. or two.

New comment by cabirum in "Hash tables in Go and advantage of self-hosted compilers"

cabirum — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 12:07:45 +0000

> Using empty structs also hurts readability

An empty struct is idiomatic and expected to be used in a Set type. When/if the memory optimization is reintroduced, no code change will be needed to take advantage of it.

New comment by cabirum in "VA Linux: The biggest dotcom IPO"

cabirum — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 09:17:03 +0000

MIPI camera on my 3 year old Thinkpad still does not work

New comment by cabirum in "Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why"

cabirum — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 08:34:04 +0000

In 2025, is it still prohibively expensive to run some community-supported crawler & search engine? Without Google censorship, ads, and ai.

New comment by cabirum in "Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB"

cabirum — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:06:52 +0000

What if.. the management made a request to make the game take more space than the previous release? So everyone could see just how much content there is and how much better everything is.

I mean, the developers cannot be that incompetent while being able to ship a high quality product.

New comment by cabirum in "Just Use Curl"

cabirum — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:31:19 +0000

Instead of "-X POST" and "-H 'Content-Type: application/json'", use "-d" or "--json", asshat.

New comment by cabirum in "Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules"

cabirum — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 08:54:25 +0000

Pathetic posturing.

With an access badge, at least you can leak something important anonymously.

New comment by cabirum in "Why Signal's post-quantum makeover is an engineering achievement"

cabirum — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 20:01:09 +0000

Quantum computing does not exist. The industry with it's 30 year history since Shor algorithm boasts its crown achievement of factoring the mind-blowing N=35 and creatively inflated qubit counts.

New comment by cabirum in "How I'm using Helix editor"

cabirum — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 18:27:13 +0000

Hx is batteries included. Nvim requires installing lots of plugins that do not inspire confidence - descriptions ridden with emojis, impossible to know who maintains what. Too many vectors leading to possible compromise.

New comment by cabirum in "Interactive Double Pendulum Playground"

cabirum — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 10:20:46 +0000

Hn shows this story is 3 hours old, yet your GitHub PR was made 2 days ago, linking here?

New comment by cabirum in "Starving, sleeping, and yielding: understanding Go's scheduler"

cabirum — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 13:16:03 +0000

> but goroutine B (the goroutineB function) apparently never ran at all.

Untrue. Up the iterations to 1000, you'll get your interleaving. Since 1.14, goroutines are async preemptible (async safe points), and will not block the scheduler. Also, time.Sleep bad, use runtime.Gosched().

New comment by cabirum in "No reachable chess position with more than 218 moves"

cabirum — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 09:28:00 +0000

Piece type and color fit in 4 bits.

So, either a fixed-length encoding of the whole board, 64 * (4 bits) = 256 bits = 32 bytes.

Or, sparse variable length encoding of pieces only, 6 bits to index each of 64 squares, = 10 bits * piece count. E.g. initial position takes 32*10 = 320 bits or 40 bytes.

New comment by cabirum in "VittoriaDB: Zero-config local vector database in a single Go binary"

cabirum — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 12:34:20 +0000

You seem to have committed files that do not belong to the repo: . DS_Store, a binary in build/, and the releases/ directory and its contents.