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New comment by countWSS in "Show HN: IKEA Complexity Index"

countWSS — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:39:40 +0000

IKEA beds are underestimated: these flimsy POS planks and their insertion is entire artform that was likely engineered to cause pain. The idea here is they are huge, finicky and depend on precise positioning in multiple areas, there is no "easy shortcut" for their structural integrity, everything has to be perfectly assembled.

New comment by countWSS in "Fast Software, the Best Software (2019)"

countWSS — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 13:31:29 +0000

The neglected part here is latency, speed itself can be masked by progress bars/animations, but having visible lag ruins the idea of speed and users treat it as slow vs animated loading bar.

New comment by countWSS in "Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming"

countWSS — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:15:57 +0000

Ok, suppose you have a "trash/low quality" article and "this article has been deleted", the article with some info will win over the audience as they search for it. Like "Worse is Better", the quality will improve over time and the "deleted article" will stay at 0 recognition. An average internet user will not complain about the Wikipedia article, they just switch to Grokipedia and whatever AI-generated content it has, since they now have it.

New comment by countWSS in "Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming"

countWSS — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 07:33:10 +0000

Don't know why you get downvoted, but this is how AI-based projects win over time: they don't randomly decide to delete valuable data. Grokipedia might be trash in terms of its quality, but at least it it doesn't have omnipresent moral busybodies loitering in to "purify" it from knowledge.

New comment by countWSS in ".at TLD is top on CF Radar"

countWSS — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:07:18 +0000

Majestic reports strange spike in domain ranks in .at(the greens) Thousands of .at domains suddenly advanced hundreds of places all over the index. https://majestic.com/reports/majestic-million?tld=at&majesti...

New comment by countWSS in "C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For"

countWSS — Sun, 17 May 2026 04:45:50 +0000

GCC already solved it: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Vector-Extensions.html The operations behave like C++ valarrays. Addition is defined as the addition of the corresponding elements of the operands. For example, in the code below, each of the 4 elements in a is added to the corresponding 4 elements in b and the resulting vector is stored in c.

New comment by countWSS in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

countWSS — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:20:59 +0000

Here and on reddit, AI debugging is viewed as some weird shallow pattern-matching that obviously fails to spot real stuff and overload the maintainers. Instead of getting to "spotless record" of zero flaws, the people start rationalizing that "X is not a real bug" and inventing justifications for their(obviously bad) code, which is critique they can't accept from AI, only through human debate that they can't close with a WONTFIX. Once the bug is actually usable, the tune changes completely.

New comment by countWSS in "Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux"

countWSS — Sat, 09 May 2026 04:13:32 +0000

What is the 181M$ mysterious "Project Support" in the graph means? Linux is labeled separately, so it cannot be the "Project".

New comment by countWSS in "GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094"

countWSS — Fri, 08 May 2026 05:29:08 +0000

IFUNC should be implemented by software itself, like switching functions on runtime/compile checks. Why bother having a slower, insecure version that is less flexible than a function pointer? I have to agree with author. Glibc is filled with even more nasty hacks ripe for new exploits.

New comment by countWSS in "Some children are drawing on fake moustaches to bypass online age checks"

countWSS — Tue, 05 May 2026 05:32:00 +0000

That a media push to make "it more secure" i.e. closer to Chinese Internet ID.

New comment by countWSS in "Music with Lyrics Interferes with Cognitive Tasks (2023)"

countWSS — Sat, 02 May 2026 16:10:51 +0000

Try to listen to music in language you don't understand. The effects of having lyrics don't appear unless you focus on them to repeat the memory of song. Of course instrumentals are better, but lyrics lift the mood by virtue of having some "virtual social context" simulation.

New comment by countWSS in "Grief and the AI split"

countWSS — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:40:12 +0000

Sure, is there anyone nostalgic for debugging bash files by hand? Any sense of grief for writing C++ template headers, with all boilerplate? Hmm, does anyone like manually re-writing makefiles these days? I suspect the enthusiasts of coding craft will struggle to maintain their wonder after ~4h deep in any of these magical adventures, which surely involve inventing ad-hoc duct tape and novel, never-before-seen algorithms.

New comment by countWSS in "In Search of a Discord Replacement"

countWSS — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 08:37:59 +0000

When you make forums you compete with forum aggregators with more history and social clout, i.e. a reddit replacement. If someone made better Reddit, it could have a chance, however reddit-type aggregators crypronite is hosting their own videos/media, which makes it prohibitively expensive for small companies without ads and sponsored posts which in turn make them less of "forum aggregator" and more like facebook social feeds: mainly video/image based dopamine rides instead of actual knowledge worth keeping.

New comment by countWSS in "Gradient.horse"

countWSS — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 12:53:36 +0000

Crashed my browser, very poor code.

New comment by countWSS in "Cloudflare adds real-time Markdown rendering for AI agents"

countWSS — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:51:46 +0000

This seems useful beyond agents. It will save tons of traffic for scripts, text browsers, low-bandwidth connections,etc markdown is incredibly compact and easy to parse.

New comment by countWSS in "Lines of Code Are Back (and It's Worse Than Before)"

countWSS — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:44:15 +0000

The code written by AI in most cases is throwaway code to be improved/refined later. Its likely to be large, verbose and bloated. The design of some agents have "simplify/refactor" as final step to remedy this, but typically your average vibe coder will be satisfied that the code just compiles/passes the minimal tests. Lines of code are easy to grow. If you refine the AI code with iterative back-and-forth questions, the AI can be forced to write much more compact or elegant version in principle, but you can't apply this to most large systems without breaking something, as AI doesn't have context of what is actually changing: so e.g. an isolated function can be improved easily, but AI can't handle when complexity of abstraction stacks and interfacing multiple systems, typically because it confuses states where global context is altered.

New comment by countWSS in "The largest number representable in 64 bits"

countWSS — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 11:07:28 +0000

the article misses log-math and log-log-math which would use 64-bit (d)oubles are exponents in 10^d and 10^(10^d) respectively, which allows far higher range of possible values but somewhat more awkward math operations(addition/subtraction), though much more practical & faster to compute.

New comment by countWSS in "Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI"

countWSS — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:44:39 +0000

Isn't this basically a forum-as-s-service?

New comment by countWSS in "They lied to you. Building software is hard"

countWSS — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:08:24 +0000

There is a point in there, long-range analysis and debugging without AI is much harder, AI spots lots of non-obvious stuff very fast. If we consider "spotting non-obvious flaws" a skill, this will atrophy as beginners will learn to use AI to scan code for flaws,it is effective but doesn't teach anything, reading long blocks of code and mentally simulating it is a incredibly valuable skill and it will find stuff AI misses(something that is too complex, e.g. nested/recursive control flow,async and co-routines/threads interacting,etc), AI goes for obvious stuff first and has to be manually pointed to "identify flaws, focusing on X".

New comment by countWSS in "Does running wear out the bodies of professionals and amateurs alike?"

countWSS — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:10:48 +0000

Quntity of exercise cannot build quality. Its self-selecting the people who can handle running and injuries better so they adapt. The rest get injured enough to stop. II don't think trying to "push it to using 100% of potential" is worth any long-term health risk, especially with no long-term reward: so you win X race/competition once and then what?