Hacker News: dafelst

New comment by dafelst in "The Butlerian Jihad Has Begun"

dafelst — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:13:37 +0000

I strongly prefer the original to your edit.

New comment by dafelst in "Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw"

dafelst — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:18:06 +0000

You don't need to be the gold standard to make obscene amounts of money. Product quality and financial success are only loosely correlated at best.

New comment by dafelst in "Strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance"

dafelst — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:42:19 +0000

Tightly integrated sure, but I wouldn't say tightly coupled, their framework (GPUI) is available standalone and is being used to create other apps.

https://www.gpui.rs/

New comment by dafelst in "Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework"

dafelst — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:23:24 +0000

FWIW Slint was founded by a group of long time Qt alumni, so brings a lot of that know-how into the space.

New comment by dafelst in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

dafelst — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:18:56 +0000

I have not, what is it?

New comment by dafelst in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

dafelst — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:18:39 +0000

Saunas are very cheap to buy and/or build, certainly within the budget of an average research grant.

New comment by dafelst in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

dafelst — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:53:31 +0000

More victims of AI.

Not actually of "AI is replacing jobs", more "oh shit we are spending too much and the product isn't good enough for us to ever make a return on our absurd over-investment".

New comment by dafelst in "Talking Liquid Glass with Apple"

dafelst — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:44:37 +0000

There is good, useful content in this article, but it is seriously overshadowed by the LLM-isms indicating that a nontrivial part of it is AI generated.

I'm obviously channeling my inner boomer here, but as soon as I start seeing the tells of AI authoring, I just give up on the article altogether. To the author, please consider that I and many others want to see your thought process, warts and all, there is no need to hide behind the facade of the LLM screed.

New comment by dafelst in "The Resolv hack: How one compromised key printed $23M"

dafelst — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:12:40 +0000

But guys, what you don't understand is that the code IS the contract!!! That means you don't even NEED regulation!!

New comment by dafelst in "Show HN: Duplicate 3 layers in a 24B LLM, logical deduction .22→.76. No training"

dafelst — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 01:10:44 +0000

Why are people running AI bots to make comments on HN?

New comment by dafelst in "Working and Communicating with Japanese Engineers"

dafelst — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:23:07 +0000

Yeah, the concept of "nemawashi" (根回し) is very important there, this idea that all the groundwork and decision making is agreed upon before the meeting happens.

The term literally comes from the concept of "preparing the roots", that is, the process of softening the ground and trimming around the roots of a tree (often a bonsai) in preparation for moving it safely.

New comment by dafelst in "Nintendo Sues U.S. Government for Tariff Refunds"

dafelst — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:43:21 +0000

Trump is too useful to Ellison right now, he isn't going to derail that gravy train over a few tens of millions of dollars.

New comment by dafelst in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

dafelst — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:14:30 +0000

TACO

New comment by dafelst in "Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse"

dafelst — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 02:10:15 +0000

The term "agent" with regards to law enforcement substantially predates "agent" in the context of AI.

New comment by dafelst in "Oxide raises $200M Series C"

dafelst — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:27:41 +0000

High capacity, super reliable box that you could run your entire business stack on, if you could afford it.

New comment by dafelst in "Fil-Qt: A Qt Base build with Fil-C experience"

dafelst — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 01:29:27 +0000

Sure, if the memory error is an immediately crashing one like a null per deref, but if is (for example) a memory corruption (e.g. an out of bounds write or a write-after-free) then this would be super helpful in exposing where those are happening at the source.

New comment by dafelst in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

dafelst — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:44:23 +0000

So you're saying that just because they can't pay everyone, they should pay no one?

New comment by dafelst in "The Delete Act"

dafelst — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 01:15:04 +0000

The big US credit score trio, Transunion, Equifax and Experian, have all had multiple, massive data leaks. This is not very good at all.

New comment by dafelst in "The Garbage Collection Handbook"

dafelst — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 07:16:23 +0000

Unreal Engine has a GC for its internal object graph, so GC is already in use in a ton of games.

New comment by dafelst in "Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop"

dafelst — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 02:30:57 +0000

Yes! I had a Vizio laptop (the thin one ala a macbook air) and it was absolutely fantastic, probably the best PC laptop I have ever had. It was lightweight, powerful, had a good screen (for the time) plus some things that few other laptops had at the time, like a TPM.