Hacker News: darkwi11ow

New comment by darkwi11ow in "Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root"

darkwi11ow — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:30:26 +0000

Why not use rootless podman? It is 2026 not 2016, Podman works much better than Docker today.

New comment by darkwi11ow in "S&P Global has lowered Oracle’s creditworthiness from BBB to BBB-"

darkwi11ow — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:45:27 +0000

Inference might be profitable, but it does not mean the profits of AI datacenters will rise in future. Open weight models and local AI already put the pressure on the AI datacenter profit margins, and local AI is set to become much more efficient in the future.

New comment by darkwi11ow in "AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost"

darkwi11ow — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:58:51 +0000

LLMs are really bad at abstract strategy games like chess, go or civilization. Their ability to excel at broad reasoning is what is limiting them in games that have narrow rule-sets but steep learning curve.

New comment by darkwi11ow in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

darkwi11ow — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:56:54 +0000

I use Arch on my dev qemu VM and actually review all changes all the time.

It is not that hard with small amount of pkgbuilds:

  find ~/.cache/yay -maxdepth 1 -type d
  /home/virt/.cache/yay
  /home/virt/.cache/yay/google-chrome
  /home/virt/.cache/yay/ngrok
  /home/virt/.cache/yay/rancher-k3d-bin
  /home/virt/.cache/yay/simplescreenrecorder
  /home/virt/.cache/yay/ttf-comfortaa
  /home/virt/.cache/yay/cursor-bin
  /home/virt/.cache/yay/yay
  /home/virt/.cache/yay/volta-bin

New comment by darkwi11ow in "Does anybody like React?"

darkwi11ow — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:09:15 +0000

Yep, react is indeed a library. Part of the confusion comes from a fact that react community was keen to hijack "react" name and slap it onto their own projects, for example there were react router, react query, react table, etc., so one could have get a feeling that react was like full-fledged framework, while most of these "react" projects were not affiliated with react the library in any way.

New comment by darkwi11ow in "Deno 2.8"

darkwi11ow — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:42:30 +0000

Afaik there is no proof Anthropic is profitable. This, and uv buyout by OpenAI only adds a risk to supply chains. In few years these companies can be overrun by open source models or startups delivering new hardware/software breakthrough in LLM. It is not like uv and bun are acquired by IBMs or Alphabets of today.

New comment by darkwi11ow in "Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised"

darkwi11ow — Tue, 19 May 2026 09:32:24 +0000

I use Tanstack in my projects. Last week when Tanstack got compromised, it was only my laziness that saved me -- was thinking about doing pnpm upgrade but got lazy and played some dota... Finished game was just going to pnpm upgrade, opened hacker news and boom! news hit.

Since then, I had set up libvirt/qemu based VM with another Linux running in it specifically for development. Now I run all of docker, kubernetes, IDE, pnpm, uv, etc in that VM and removed them from host. The only write capable secret VM has access to, is my passphrase protected ssh key, which I can quickly revoke from my Github account in case of compromise. Feels much safer now.

New comment by darkwi11ow in "Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5"

darkwi11ow — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:19:13 +0000

I use $20 plan on daily basis for more than a year now, and have yet to exhaust that limit. The plan includes $20 in api costs for non-Cursor premium models and $20 for Composer and Auto models provided by Cursor themselves.

That said, I am pretty old-fashioned coder and use LLM mostly to overcome the blank page problem, which means I review and often rewrite LLM output by hand and avoid prompt loops for a single task.

People who are aiming to not read code any more might find this $20 plan lacking for their needs, however for my needs it fits perfectly.

New comment by darkwi11ow in "Prolog Coding Horror"

darkwi11ow — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:02:13 +0000

https://www.openpolicyagent.org/docs/policy-language Not quite Prolog as they teach in universities, but its close descendant. Used for policy evaluation, e.g. to validate tree-structured datasets against arbitrary permission rule sets.

New comment by darkwi11ow in "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?"

darkwi11ow — Mon, 18 May 2026 11:32:13 +0000

This is what usually happens with LLM assisted writing. Looking at other posts in author blog, they are as well likely written with help and guidance of LLM bot, and also bring feeling of incoherence when read. I'd say this style predates LLM by millenia so it is not really invented by bots. To me it resembles the most the older religious texts and especially oral preaching. Some of attractors in current frontier models are likely coming from religious areas of knowledge, since this apocalyptic incoherence is found in so many texts today.

New comment by darkwi11ow in "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?"

darkwi11ow — Mon, 18 May 2026 10:33:03 +0000

See http//localhost:3000