Hacker News: chanux

New comment by chanux in "Can we have the day off?"

chanux — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:52:30 +0000

Someone up in the food chain must have big investments in AI though. The great shove down didn't just appear.

New comment by chanux in "Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation"

chanux — Mon, 25 May 2026 13:32:46 +0000

Software loose on theory[1] trying to compensate with moar md.

[1] https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf

New comment by chanux in "Google's Antigravity bait and switch"

chanux — Fri, 22 May 2026 02:59:05 +0000

For a company so lost, their people talk a lot about being obsessed with feedback/data in meetups (at least 2-3 years ago.)

I guess the point is, with enough money they can afford to operate like this.

New comment by chanux in "Standard Chartered CEO walks back comment about 'lower-value human capital'"

chanux — Thu, 21 May 2026 04:08:43 +0000

When I read it first, I appreciated the honesty, though probably unintended. The facade of fake niceness is tiring. This personally feels much better.

New comment by chanux in "Microsoft is 1.84 Peters, Google is 0.66. What's the Peter unit?"

chanux — Wed, 20 May 2026 02:44:44 +0000

I thought this has something to do with the Peter Principle.

New comment by chanux in "Who will buy your services if you fire us all?"

chanux — Tue, 19 May 2026 05:44:11 +0000

It may not stay that way for various reasons. Maybe bringing down from China may not make sense anymore.

New comment by chanux in "MIT: 20% drop in incoming graduate students"

chanux — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:56:56 +0000

FWIW: https://theconversation.com/china-surpasses-us-in-research-s...

New comment by chanux in "Googlebook"

chanux — Wed, 13 May 2026 03:44:42 +0000

The visionaries know better than us. They've known better for a long time now.

New comment by chanux in "Programming Still Sucks"

chanux — Thu, 07 May 2026 03:42:30 +0000

> Later is never. We all knew that.

AI will do all the "later" things we could not do and the civilisation will flourish. :')

New comment by chanux in "The bottleneck was never the code"

chanux — Thu, 07 May 2026 03:20:30 +0000

An important thing can (and one may argue will) be overdone AND hvlfvssed stealing oxygen from another important thing.

While I'm glad you posted this point of view/framing which honestly needs highlighting in the name of a better discussion, I must remind that the moaning back then was for the ceremony stealing time from building.

New comment by chanux in "An update on GitHub availability"

chanux — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:29:06 +0000

I have a feeling that this post is good enough reassurance for big money corps.

Long live Github under MS!

New comment by chanux in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

chanux — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:30:21 +0000

Here's the track for this moment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuNyMxLlVig

New comment by chanux in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

chanux — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 12:46:04 +0000

There are certain things that are too obvious to some person at a given time. Hence they would not consider it's worth documenting. Some of those things are important bits and pieces of the theory[1] of the program.

[1] https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf

New comment by chanux in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

chanux — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:21:24 +0000

> When bean-counters took over the ecosystem [...] in their mind, every part of the system needs to be firing at 100% all the time.

This is only fair, because they themselves are firing at 100% all the time IYKWIM ;)

New comment by chanux in "I am building a cloud"

chanux — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 06:21:54 +0000

We already have the tech for this. It's large! j/k

New comment by chanux in "Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS"

chanux — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 05:54:52 +0000

TBF I went in expecting a novel OS.

New comment by chanux in "Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider"

chanux — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:06:08 +0000

I would argue the blind copy pasting, cargo cult orgs are less likely to be helpful anyway.

But I get the point, it's a numbers game so any and all usage can help catching issues.

New comment by chanux in "Ask HN: Easiest UX for Seniors"

chanux — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:56:08 +0000

On forced password resets, the NIST guidelines are clear. But alas, this kind of news travel very VERY slowly it seems. Even the large organisations that "care deeply" about security seem to miss the memos. Gets my goat all the time.

Thanks for the real world stories on people who are actually, physically challenged.

New comment by chanux in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

chanux — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:12:37 +0000

I think delta chat is a counter example.

New comment by chanux in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

chanux — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:39:39 +0000

Bretton Woods, Petro dollar and Lindy effect?