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New comment by d1l in "Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude"

d1l — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 02:19:28 +0000

This kinda dissonance is uncomfortable. How do people reconcile it?

New comment by d1l in "Choose DuckDB rather than SQLite"

d1l — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:27:00 +0000

The AI slop is tiring man wtf. It’s so fucking lazy. The benchmark is comparing apples to oranges and doesn’t seem to be aware of it, and the way it’s written just reeks of LLM.

New comment by d1l in "SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers"

d1l — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:35:24 +0000

sqlite-web, put it behind nginx with basic auth or configure a password.

New comment by d1l in "Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop"

d1l — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:47:30 +0000

Exactly. Shows us what is true in the sense of the experience of being a human. It is resilient against slop because good literature has experiential depth. Maybe LLMs learn to emulate this some day, but I doubt it. Not enough money in getting it right.

New comment by d1l in "I graded 36 popular MCP servers on agent usability. A third got a D or F"

d1l — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:15:41 +0000

Bro this is just slop.

New comment by d1l in "The real prices of frontier models. Tokens * Price, right?"

d1l — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:35:47 +0000

Bro, this was the only reason I opened the comments, and I'm so happy to see someone else noticed. Even if they removed that, the utter sloppiness of the prose is unbelievable. Offensive, even.

New comment by d1l in "I Am Not a Reverse Centaur"

d1l — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:56:54 +0000

The question that resonated with me was whether open source even matters anymore.

I think it does but there are weird dynamics I don’t fully understand. I’m curious about HNs thoughts.

My theories: Centralization around key projects due to AI pointing new users towards them. (At the same time this drives up the PR deluge onto these projects. Especially from newer users already heavily using llms.)

So many low effort AI-generated open source libraries that it becomes harder to tell signal from slop. More movement to the bigger projects because they are perceived as safer bets.

New comment by d1l in "The dead economy theory"

d1l — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:12:49 +0000

There are obvious tells that this was heavily curated by AI, the very thing it criticizes in the opening paras and roasts throughout as a life-destroyer.

I don’t disagree with the premise, and I appreciate the roasts of the SV pseudophilosophers (he left out Ayn Rand tho).

New comment by d1l in "Claude is not your architect. Stop letting it pretend"

d1l — Sun, 24 May 2026 22:03:44 +0000

Oh man I wrote this exact comment before trawling far enough to find yours. It belongs at the top. That HN cannot discern the obvious is more alarming than the blatant hypocrisy of the authors. Yeesh!

New comment by d1l in "Claude is not your architect. Stop letting it pretend"

d1l — Sun, 24 May 2026 21:56:01 +0000

This post reeks of being written by Claude. Surely you all feel it, too? Are people who write these kinds of posts lacking self awareness, integrity? Does it matter?

New comment by d1l in "Dumb ways for an open source project to die"

d1l — Wed, 20 May 2026 00:51:31 +0000

15 years ago GitHub was a strong signal for like-minded devs who were of the “let me code and slide pizza under the door” variety. The signal became less meaningful over time so people started optimizing for other things…stars, whatever. Brand. I think the venn diagram of front end marketing types and the explosion of js frameworks probably was the driver for this. Now with vibed out projects everywhere it’s a real task to separate the wheat from the chaff. And I still use gh because I imagine those stars are still current in some markets but maybe I’m deluding myself.

Or, Perhaps the invention of the rocket emoji most likely was the cause of this phenomenon.

New comment by d1l in "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?"

d1l — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:05:43 +0000

I didn’t follow the article’s thesis. It felt written from a defensive crouch and claimed not to be punching down but it seemed to be radiating hostility the entire time. Something about vibe coding only replaces the lowest level of mechanical work involved in creative pursuits (including coding)?

I’m not a booster a doomer or a boomer but I think it’s a reasonable litmus test for LLM coding to implement 80% of an existing app or service. It’s not an accusation against anyone using LLM (I do) nor is it an excuse to take shots, it’s just a way of framing SotA capabilities.

Weird article, perhaps I missed something.

New comment by d1l in "Is China using fentanyl as a weapon against the United States?"

d1l — Sat, 16 May 2026 01:46:12 +0000

Didn’t know the sackler family was Chinese.

New comment by d1l in "Honker – Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and cron scheduler in a SQLite file"

d1l — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:49:14 +0000

Yeah, I had the same instinct - this feels very much like a "nice idea" but the execution falls short. I mean - busily banging on sqlite like this? Shit at that point just use Redis.

New comment by d1l in "I'm never buying another Kindle"

d1l — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:37:31 +0000

What on earth is this guy saying doesn’t he own like every kindle?

New comment by d1l in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

d1l — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:16:34 +0000

Read Moby Dick some time my friend.

New comment by d1l in "The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product"

d1l — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:46:11 +0000

100% bro

New comment by d1l in "Show HN: SNKV – SQLite's B-tree as a key-value store (C/C++ and Python bindings)"

d1l — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:43:17 +0000

If you can't tell then I'm not sure what more needs to be said. I took a look through the commit history and it was glaringly obvious to me.

To trust something like data-storage to vibe-coded nonsense is incredibly irresponsible. To promote it is even moreso. I'm just surprised you can't tell, too.

New comment by d1l in "Show HN: SNKV – SQLite's B-tree as a key-value store (C/C++ and Python bindings)"

d1l — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:26:39 +0000

It's a nonstop slop funnel as far as I can tell. Only ashamed I've been here for more than 5 minutes.

New comment by d1l in "Show HN: SNKV – SQLite's B-tree as a key-value store (C/C++ and Python bindings)"

d1l — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:23:09 +0000

Are you using ai for the comment replies too?!