<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: cataphract</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cataphract</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:44:22 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=cataphract" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cataphract in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Only the AI labs are really interested in closed models. Google, Facebook, Microsoft, ... they'd rather go back to doing stock buybacks and being ridiculously profitable rather than raising capital for all this research and datacenters. They only do it because they think they have to.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:11:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49245627</link><dc:creator>cataphract</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49245627</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49245627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cataphract in "I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have both as well. Floaters are mildly annoying, but at least when you lie in bed at night you don't see them in the dark.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:12:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49237690</link><dc:creator>cataphract</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49237690</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49237690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cataphract in "We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In every AI-written post, we have the script: some top post complaining it's AI-written, someone cluelessly saying they don't see it, and another person pointing out the claudisms. Sometimes someone posts a link to pangram.<p>I think we need the moderation team to set up some policy. In which direction idk.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:07:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232668</link><dc:creator>cataphract</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232668</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cataphract in "Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Right, SO was always better at answering beginner questions then advanced ones, except if the complex question had a broad appeal. Part of it is because the format is not good for asking a context-heavy question. Another part because you were dependent on the pool of people answering, and the more niched the question was (using a library not very popular, for instance) or the more expertise it required, the less likely you were to find someone.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:58:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184660</link><dc:creator>cataphract</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184660</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cataphract in "C++ float-to-int conversion can be undefined behavior"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I appreciate the correction. Although it should be said that modern implementations tend to opt to assume that UB never happens.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:59:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49159989</link><dc:creator>cataphract</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49159989</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49159989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cataphract in "C++ float-to-int conversion can be undefined behavior"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Undefined behavior is not the same as implementation-defined or unspecified behavior. A program with undefined behavior is by definition an incorrect program. But there are cases where the spec actually gives some margin to the implementation. Programs relying on the choices of the implementation may be correct, even if non-portable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:31:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158899</link><dc:creator>cataphract</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158899</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cataphract in "Why we write our own C and C++ inference engines"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just from the subtitle, you can already tell it's likely AI-generated. Maybe you're lucky enough not to be exposed to claude/codex output your whole working day.</p>
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<p>I don't think that's the lesson. What I take from that is that people adapt to norms and incentives they have.<p>Despite all the talk about "academic integrity" and whatnot, very rarely were there punishments for people who cheated. For every professor that wrote FRAUD in the grade sheet and escalated to the Disciplinary Committee, there were 100 that turned a blind eye or at most confiscated a paper being passed around when the exam was being administered. This hypocrisy irked me much more than the cheating itself, in which I didn't partake mostly because 1) I thought it was kind of beneath me, something only mediocre students did (which I came to realize was not really true) and 2) I didn't care that much about the grade.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:22:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149797</link><dc:creator>cataphract</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149797</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cataphract in "Has the New Cocaine Arrived?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Caffeine withdrawal symptoms don't last more than 1-2 weeks. And we're talking about headaches, feeling sluggish... not dying, like other drugs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:24:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49145005</link><dc:creator>cataphract</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49145005</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49145005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cataphract in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's a stretched interpretation. The first sentence says the interval does not exceed 15 minutes. The most natural way to read the last sentence is that the competition rules state how long the half-time is under those parameters (i.e., the rules can state that the interval is 10 minutes, but not 1 hour); likewise, the referee can allow the competition organizers to change the duration of the interval -- the competition rules notwithstanding --, but still within the parameters of the 1st sentence.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:35:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49121394</link><dc:creator>cataphract</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49121394</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49121394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cataphract in "2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Producing the desired output is the purpose of the program, but it's not the only consideration: there's performance, maintainability, security, and so on.</p>
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<p>So it's OK if FIFA breaks the rules of the game "only in the final"? (yes, I know FIFA says they didn't but their reading of Law 7.2 is not plausible)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:30:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49117179</link><dc:creator>cataphract</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49117179</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49117179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cataphract in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One of the least corrupt countries, whose attorney general had secret meetings with Infantino when in charge of an investigation of corruption in FIFA.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:19:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49117068</link><dc:creator>cataphract</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49117068</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49117068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cataphract in "The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, which maybe is a disadvantage because it limits the speed I read to the speed I can articulate the words in my head. But most of the time I'm not consciously aware of it, just like people who go one step further and move their lips are usually not aware (I assume).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:12:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49086973</link><dc:creator>cataphract</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49086973</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49086973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cataphract in "AI companies are shredding rare books"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The post doesn't call for the sympathy for the publishers, so I'm not sure what you're responding to.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:14:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49072688</link><dc:creator>cataphract</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49072688</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49072688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cataphract in "The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What about when you're reading? You don't have a voice in your head saying the words?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 14:28:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49058581</link><dc:creator>cataphract</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49058581</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49058581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cataphract in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's not a small fine. It's much more than what each title could be bought for in the market.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:06:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49004820</link><dc:creator>cataphract</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49004820</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49004820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cataphract in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> But if I'm reading the ruling correctly, Anthropic might have been fine even with feeding pirated books into their LLM (as long as they planned to eventually deleted them afterwards)<p>The court says otherwise.<p>> Such piracy of otherwise available copies is inherently, irredeemably
infringing even if the pirated copies are immediately used for the transformative use and immediately discarded.<p>Then it says it doesn't need to decide on that basis because they kept it not just for training LLMs, but also for building a central library. Which seems a bit ridiculous, because the sole purpose of the central library is to train LLMs.</p>
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<p>It surely is, but that doesn't change the fact that many cases are not about distribution and the harm is frequently more of a legal fiction, unless by harm you mean something other than suffering inflicted on the victims. I don't necessarily think it's wrong for society to ban certain acts on purely moral grounds (another example: incest between siblings), but let's not pretend it's something else going on.<p>> Non-consented distribution of sexual images (eg: revenge porn) is also a crime.<p>There is very compelling empirical evidence that this causes actual harm (suicide ideation in a very big fraction of the victims), even if it is fictional, so here there is no question about the harm.</p>
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<p>Like when Google got tired of handling geofencing warrants.</p>
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