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New comment by dev_l1x_be in "Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency"

dev_l1x_be — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:16:44 +0000

> Has anyone taken these open weight models from China and stripped the CCP out of them?

The CCP is not influencing my Rust code quality that much. Though I did notice all my lifetimes are now 'static because nothing is ever allowed to leave the party's ownership, unsafe blocks require approval from a central committee.

Honestly the scariest part is that shared mutable state is forbidden unless the state is doing the sharing.

Otherwise it is pretty ok.

New comment by dev_l1x_be in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

dev_l1x_be — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:10:31 +0000

This is post Jobs era typical Apple.

New comment by dev_l1x_be in "Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust"

dev_l1x_be — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:48:22 +0000

It is vibe coded in Rust. :)

New comment by dev_l1x_be in "Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground"

dev_l1x_be — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:32:25 +0000

The cancer of p50 users having comfy housing, 2 cars and a life. Almost all of the efficiency gains move to the 1%.

New comment by dev_l1x_be in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

dev_l1x_be — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:21:26 +0000

Again?

New comment by dev_l1x_be in "Dune's Butlerian Jihad and the Future of AI"

dev_l1x_be — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:11:06 +0000

He was also warning against the followers, myths, institutions, and power structures that turn a talented person into an untouchable savior. Sounds familiar?

New comment by dev_l1x_be in "MCP is dead?"

dev_l1x_be — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:30:01 +0000

It was dead from the get go, agents need tools the do not cate about the details that much

New comment by dev_l1x_be in "SQLite is all you need for durable workflows"

dev_l1x_be — Sat, 30 May 2026 07:53:20 +0000

I start to think the SQLite is all i need to store data. When there is a chance of non-coordinated writes that I can distribute among servers (or even a range based ID) SQLite is my first idea. With durable storage backups this works amazingly well.

New comment by dev_l1x_be in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"

dev_l1x_be — Thu, 28 May 2026 11:16:55 +0000

Or figure out which bet is insider info and profit?

New comment by dev_l1x_be in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

dev_l1x_be — Thu, 28 May 2026 10:58:53 +0000

I think the third company (likely Google) is going to make LLMs financially feasible with:

- dedicated hardware (https://cloud.google.com/tpu)

- optimized models (https://research.google/blog/turboquant-redefining-ai-effici...)

New comment by dev_l1x_be in "Does anybody like React?"

dev_l1x_be — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:29:42 +0000

Exactly right. And this is why Astro works very well for me.

New comment by dev_l1x_be in "Does anybody like React?"

dev_l1x_be — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:29:09 +0000

I only migrated projects from React to something more sensible. I am not sure why people like it. Maybe it is good for bigger teams. Astro with OpenProps is what is super simple, fast to develop and maps naturally to the business functionality I work on most of the time.

I have no idea why people go for these super heavy frameworks. Maybe there are some aspects I am not considering that justifies React.

New comment by dev_l1x_be in "Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out"

dev_l1x_be — Sun, 24 May 2026 09:28:15 +0000

AWS lost its way. S3, SQS, EC2 and VPC were great innovations and those services were done by a bunch of engineers who wanted to have a reliable elastically scalable system. This was coincidentally cost effective at the same time. What came after especially the data stack and now the AI services were done by a MBA heavy management team who does not understand innovation and treats engineering like a bank does: putting it in the cost category. Recent financial results show the impact: Google grew almost twice as much as AWS did. Maybe it is just coincidence.

New comment by dev_l1x_be in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

dev_l1x_be — Sat, 23 May 2026 07:47:08 +0000

Deadwood loyalists raise an eyebrow and keep reading.

New comment by dev_l1x_be in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

dev_l1x_be — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:29:40 +0000

Biblical.

New comment by dev_l1x_be in "Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request"

dev_l1x_be — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:38:42 +0000

Becoming? It has always been this way.

New comment by dev_l1x_be in "Anthropic forms $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation"

dev_l1x_be — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:53:45 +0000

The helped easing up on the resources of Earth with his investment in certain pharma companies and now owns a giant amount of the farmland of the US too.

New comment by dev_l1x_be in "The limits of Rust, or why you should probably not follow Amazon and Cloudflare"

dev_l1x_be — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:29:08 +0000

I am not sure how many times RIIR helped me, my customers, teams to achieve better outcomes. Energy use matters. Memory safety matters. ML (Meta Language) features are a bliss to C/C++ languages. With the coding agents picking up Rust is much easier than it was 5 years ago. I am not sure what impact the lack of crypto primitives in the standard library even has. I can use hashing (even the more advanced ones like blake3) and some of the NACL primitives and that is fine.

Async Rust is a bit hard, I agree. Function coloring is probably not the best, but I am not sure how to not have that in a compiled language like Rust, or how to improve it.

New comment by dev_l1x_be in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

dev_l1x_be — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:32:19 +0000

And most of the time the statistical aspect of LLMs result in a less creative solution that is more expensive to run and harder to maintain. LLMs at this stage are good at scaffolding, generating the boilerplate you do not want to write and glue things together quickly. It just makes engineers faster.

New comment by dev_l1x_be in "Copy Fail"

dev_l1x_be — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:34:56 +0000

Thanks for the explanation. I am wondering if it is possible or does it make sense to have a modular linux that does not have these attack surfaces enabled by default. Alpine is my default solution for most Linux use cases (except when I need GPU support).