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New comment by deng in "I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation"

deng — Mon, 18 May 2026 06:10:36 +0000

You can't release this under MIT license, as it contains a ton of various different things under various different licenses, from GPL to proprietary.

New comment by deng in "Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit"

deng — Sun, 17 May 2026 15:01:21 +0000

But it's also plug&play for anyone stealing your laptop, see for instance

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39941021

New comment by deng in "They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker"

deng — Tue, 12 May 2026 09:03:56 +0000

So you consider calling something "ironic" an extreme position? On a more general note, you will find that many people are uncomfortable with the idea that AI will replace human work, especially when it relates to art, which this project in question references.

New comment by deng in "They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker"

deng — Tue, 12 May 2026 08:35:11 +0000

Any argument can be taken to any extreme. This is why it's a popular rhetorical tactic, called "appeal to extremes".

New comment by deng in "They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker"

deng — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:24:12 +0000

I think we can agree that this is not something anybody will actually use, but rather an homage to "They Live", and IMHO, letting this be done by AI is in contrast to the basic premise of the movie.

New comment by deng in "They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker"

deng — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:01:08 +0000

So telling someone to make a table for you is more human than making it yourself, because you're using natural language instead of saws and hand planes?

New comment by deng in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

deng — Tue, 12 May 2026 05:53:08 +0000

Oh well, they really do their best to alienate people as well. They just completely overhauled their UX, and after that update, people at my company were so confused, they couldn't even open new issues anymore, because everything was somehow renamed to "work items". I kid you not, literally two decades of UX people were used to, just thrown out the window, it's absolutely mind-boggling. The feedback to this is devastating:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/590689

New comment by deng in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

deng — Tue, 12 May 2026 05:41:40 +0000

> Nicholas Carlini, a researcher at Anthropic, orchestrated 16 parallel Claude agents to write a production C compiler in Rust.

No he didn't. The compiler is bascially useless as it produces vastly inferior code than gcc/clang.

New comment by deng in "They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker"

deng — Tue, 12 May 2026 05:37:58 +0000

Oh the irony: "They Live", a movie famously about alienation and dehumanization, and you let AI do all the coding.

New comment by deng in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

deng — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:30:32 +0000

Google is fine with everything if it's their service. I've completely blocked *.bc.googleusercontent.com, because it's basically used as a spam farm for years now, but Google couldn't care less as they apparently can't be bothered to even slightly inconvenience their compute engine users.

New comment by deng in "AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures"

deng — Sat, 09 May 2026 16:39:01 +0000

With "availability hit" I'm assuming you mean to simply stop operations until patches are rolled out, so possibly for days? That would at least explain what's happening at GitHub...

New comment by deng in "AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures"

deng — Sat, 09 May 2026 08:18:05 +0000

> based on the unquestioned premise that delaying disclosure for the operational convenience of system administrators is a good thing. There are reasons to question that premise!

Care to mention these reasons?

With "convenience of system administrators", I'm guessing you mean that there's a patch available that sysadmins can install, ideally before the vulnerability is disclosed? What else are sysadmins supposed to do, in your opinion? Fix the vulnerability themselves? Or simply shutdown the servers?

With the various copyfails of recent, it at least was possible to block the affected modules. If that were not the case, what would you have done, as a sysadmin?

New comment by deng in "Show HN: Ableton Live MCP"

deng — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:27:20 +0000

I agree that having an MCP Ableton can make total sense. After many years of use, I would say I know Ableton quite well, but nowadays, I regularly ask ChatGPT if certain things could be done differently/more efficiently, and it often surprises me with new ways of doing things. For instance, sometimes Ableton has gotten new features over the years I'm not aware of. It surely would be nice to have this integrated via MCP.

I think you would get much better feedback if you'd focus on these use cases: flattening the learning curve for newcomers, and new ideas for experienced users, rather than creating tracks completely by AI. Because in that case, why even go through a DAW and not use Suno directly?

New comment by deng in "Show HN: Ableton Live MCP"

deng — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:31:00 +0000

It's not just that the track is garbage (the "say" vocals are actually the least of its problems). Even if AI would make a good track: why use AI for creating your arrangements in the first place? Why this resistance to actually getting good at something? I can understand if your livelihood depends on it and you just need to be fast, but why for stuff you do for fun?

The book I mentioned has a good suggestion when struggling with arrangements: just copy. Take a track you really like, put it into your DAW, sync the speed and replicate its structure. You'll see that in many genres, structure is often exactly the same anyway. This can be an eye opener, and once you've realized this, you'll be able to experiment with structure in ways you couldn't do before. That's the fun part.

New comment by deng in "Show HN: Ableton Live MCP"

deng — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:05:31 +0000

> I've got 25 years of loops that basically to finish them need better arrangements

Welcome to the club. You need to learn how to actually finish a track, which is the most difficult but also the most rewarding part. Why would you use AI for that? I mean, just listen to that demo track Codex made in the above repo, you surely don't want that.

There's a good book about this, published by Ableton, you can read it for free here:

https://cdn-resources.ableton.com/resources/uploads/makingmu...

New comment by deng in "Show HN: Ableton Live MCP"

deng — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:54:36 +0000

> should be a real edm banger

I'm afraid Codex ignored that one.

New comment by deng in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

deng — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:40:22 +0000

> It was extremely irresponsible to share the exploit with the world before the distributions shipped the fix.

Yes, this was clearly a marketing stunt to promote Xint code.

I, for one, will never use Xint code and will advise everyone to never use it. To anyone working there: enjoy your 15 minutes, I hope this backfires right in your face.

New comment by deng in "Stephen's Sausage Roll remains one of the most influential puzzle games"

deng — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:39:33 +0000

"The Witness" was fine but I found its overly pompous philosophizing unbearable and pretentious. Rather play "Taiji" instead, which is clearly inspired by TW, but without the grandstanding, and at least IMHO, the puzzles are also better.

New comment by deng in "Amazon rewards loyal Kindle devotees by closing the book on old e-readers"

deng — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:39:45 +0000

Also, pretty much every Kobo can run KOReader without any need for a jailbreak or similar.

New comment by deng in "Peptides: where to begin?"

deng — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:19:33 +0000

You are entirely correct. New compounds for trials do not come out of thin air, you usually derive them from compounds you already know how and why they work. For instance, we know very well how Semaglutide works, same goes for many other peptides that are currently being studied. However, you are correct that we do not understand why they would help for ME/CFS, simply because we do not understand ME/CFS in the first place. As I've written above, it's a severely neglected disease.

Anyway, I don't think we really disagree, I rather misunderstood your original post. It's good to hear that these new peptides are helping with your condition, and I wish you all the best!