Hacker News: djaouen

New comment by djaouen in "Superhuman AI Exfiltrates Emails"

djaouen — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:26:03 +0000

Yes, but for me to use your DNA as code would be a major malfunction!

New comment by djaouen in "Superhuman AI Exfiltrates Emails"

djaouen — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:20 +0000

Are you f*cking kidding me? Grammarly is like the best one!

New comment by djaouen in "The insecure evangelism of LLM maximalists"

djaouen — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:51:32 +0000

You are defective. But, fear not! So is the rest of humanity!

New comment by djaouen in "Superhuman AI Exfiltrates Emails"

djaouen — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:47:14 +0000

OK, then sequence your DNA and send it to me. I will make sure to use it as code!

New comment by djaouen in "Why we don’t use AI"

djaouen — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:34:54 +0000

If the people developing and supporting chat- and c0rn-bots are anxious about the future, that is the correct emotion to be feeling.

New comment by djaouen in "Superhuman AI Exfiltrates Emails"

djaouen — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 01:24:06 +0000

Programming used to prevent this by separating code from data. AI (currently) has no such safeguards.

New comment by djaouen in "Ask HN: Is there a better alternative to email?"

djaouen — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 03:57:55 +0000

Yes. I call it, “Talking In Real Life” (TM).

New comment by djaouen in "Why does a least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple data?"

djaouen — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 03:20:28 +0000

Squares are preferred because that is the same as minimizing Euclidean Distance, which is defined as sqrt((x2-x1)^2).

New comment by djaouen in "Why does a least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple data?"

djaouen — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 03:17:49 +0000

This is probably obvious, but there is another form of regression that uses Mean Absolute Error rather than Squared Error as this approach is less prone to outliers. The Math isn’t as elegant, tho.

New comment by djaouen in "You can't learn to carry a title from books or AI"

djaouen — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:44:55 +0000

I am getting really sick of wading through the 90% sh*t (e.g., this) to get to the 10% gold on this website, especially since I have not profited one bit from coming here lol

New comment by djaouen in "Ask HN: What's the oldest piece of code still running in your stack?"

djaouen — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:19:01 +0000

As I age, I find myself wanting more and more software and pieces of equipment that last for ages.

To answer your question, I still have a functional watch from 14 years ago.

New comment by djaouen in "[dead]"

djaouen — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 21:01:16 +0000

Which dictators are "in fashion" depends wholly on which party is in POWER. Polarization means that, perhaps, the dictator of Belarus can be kidnapped and arraigned by the incoming Democrat?

New comment by djaouen in "How to navigate the Year of Slop: You'll need an intellectual toolkit"

djaouen — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 20:54:26 +0000

On so-called "gooning": you are confusing cause with effect. The cause is that women are no longer forced to marry undesirable men. The effect is that gooning becomes a means of sexual gratification among (mostly) those same undesirable men.

On "17. Wilson Effect": China's solution to this is to engineer its children genetically. How do you propose the U.S. maximizes its own genetic fitness?

New comment by djaouen in "Web development is fun again"

djaouen — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 20:24:51 +0000

Web development is perhaps "fun" again if you consider PHP 4 and jQuery as "fun". A "problem" arises for those of us who prefer Ruby, Rails, and HotWire.

I'm not gonna lie, I use AI every day (in the form of Grammarly). But LLMs and so-called "agents" are less valuable to me, even if they would help me to produce more "output".

It will be interesting to me to discover the outcome of this bifurcation!

New comment by djaouen in "The suck is why we're here"

djaouen — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 20:05:20 +0000

> The suck is why we’re here, and only those who overcome it themselves will reap all the rewards of their hard labor.

Thinking/writing isn't "the suck".

> because the more people take shortcuts, the less quality will remain for readers to flock to, even if the overall quantity of options is much larger.

The creators of The Enhanced Games/Olympics would disagree with you.

Which brings me to my point: Are we satisfied being "Top Slave" or do we want to be Free? Or do you believe that Freedom is an illusion?

New comment by djaouen in "AI sycophancy panic"

djaouen — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 19:39:22 +0000

> For the purpose of conversation, what the model appears to ‘believe’ probably doesn’t matter

This is wrong to the point of being absurd. What the model "appears to 'believe'" does matter, and the model's "beliefs" about humans and society at large have vast implications for humanity's future.

New comment by djaouen in "The Cost of a Closure in C: The Rest"

djaouen — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 11:36:51 +0000

Iirc, in Lisp, closures are heap-allocated, unless they are created at compile-time with macros. Therefore, there is the added overhead of malloc and free calls with each closure created. Am I wrong here?

New comment by djaouen in "The Cost of a Closure in C: The Rest"

djaouen — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 05:43:51 +0000

Lisp solves the performance hit of closures with macros. However, given what macros look like in C, I hope it never amounts to that!

New comment by djaouen in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

djaouen — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:37:26 +0000

Hey, gotta pay the bills, somehow! *shrug*

New comment by djaouen in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

djaouen — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:21:58 +0000

See, now this is how a website *should* look: mainly text, with non-obtrusive ads at the bottom. It's really not that hard!