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New comment by drcxd in "I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job"

drcxd — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:54:05 +0000

A leet-code style automated assignment is like a test. We all did tests in school so I guess most people do not feel there is anything wrong about that.

However, an interview, which should be conducted by human, but instead by something AI pretends to be human, would make most of the current human beings feel disgusted, naturally.

Is there any formal proof that an AI conducted interview yields more than a pencil & paper test? Or is there any scientific research about that? I doubt there would be any in the near future. Then using such AI conducted interviews is simply a belief.

New comment by drcxd in "AI is making junior devs useless"

drcxd — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 02:08:38 +0000

You miss read. The parent thread said: > the women has am easier time not to commit and just sleep around That's for women. The second time they mentioned sleep round: > Dating apps are available, statistically women all try to get into a relationship with the same 1% of men - who sleep around and cause toxicity all around. They mean the 1% of men are the ones who sleep around. Also, I think it is better to interpret "sleep around" as the state of having non-committed sex relationship with non-marital partner. It is a description of a fact rather than an accusation. Though the words may sound harsh.

New comment by drcxd in "AI is making junior devs useless"

drcxd — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 01:55:35 +0000

In my opinion, reproduction is based on the idea "borrowing against the future", or Ponzi Scheme, because reproduction is based on the idea that "we would have a better future", but in fact, we will not.

New comment by drcxd in "AI makes you boring"

drcxd — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 02:57:37 +0000

Yeah, and if there really is any boilerplate thing, can't we programmers come up with a more deterministic solution, like a framework? I don't know.

New comment by drcxd in "Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning"

drcxd — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 02:56:17 +0000

This reminds me of the video game crash of 1983: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983

Because video games of poor quality are too many, consumers simply refuse to spend time identifying the high-quality ones from the enormous poor-quality ones.

I wonder if the software industry would experience the similar thing?

New comment by drcxd in "Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents"

drcxd — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 04:05:14 +0000

I like your idea of finding the pattern of those "embarrassing LLM questions". However, I do not understand your example. What is a random program? Is it a program that compiles/executes without error but can literally do anything? Also, how do you translate a program to plain English?

New comment by drcxd in "Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?"

drcxd — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 09:41:36 +0000

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46670279

Recently there was this post which is largely generated by Claude Code. Read it.

New comment by drcxd in "The recurring dream of replacing developers"

drcxd — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 02:03:14 +0000

But the dashboard is not important at all, because everyone can have the same dashboard the same way you have it. It's like you are generating a static website using Hugo and apply a theme provided on it. The end product you get is something built by a streamline. No taste, no soul, no effort. (Of course, the effort is behind the design and produce of the streamline, but not the product produced by the streamline.)

Now, if you want to use the dashboard do something else really brilliant, it is good enough for means. Just make sure the dashboard is not the end.

New comment by drcxd in "Lua 5.5"

drcxd — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 06:48:24 +0000

Strictly speaking, Lua is not global by default. All free names, that is, all names unqualified with `local`, is actually indexed from a table `_ENV`, which is set to `_G`, the global environment. So, all free names are effectively global by default, but you can change this behavior by put this line at the top of your file `local _G = _G; _ENV = {};`. This way, all free names are indexed from this new table, and all access to the global names must explicitly be accessed through `_G`, which is a local variable now. However, I have never seen such practice. Maybe it is just too complicated to accept that all free names are global variables and you have to explicitly make it local.

New comment by drcxd in "Scaling LLMs to Larger Codebases"

drcxd — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 09:21:21 +0000

Obviously, since the training material for such esoteric languages is scarce. (That's why they are esoteric!) So by definition, LLM will never be good at esoteric languages.

New comment by drcxd in "I created a publishing system for step-by-step coding guides in Typst"

drcxd — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 03:04:55 +0000

I have been watching for Typst for more than a year but there are still things Typst can not do as easily as LaTeX, see https://qwinsi.github.io/tex2typst-webapp/impl-in-typst.html for examples. So, I do not agree with the statement that Typst can fully replace LaTeX, at least, for now.

Other than the product itself, there are ecosystem issues as well. LaTeX has mature support in editors such as Emacs. However, support for Typst in Emacs is still in development. Thus, for now, I will keep using LaTeX, but I would keep Typst as an option.

New comment by drcxd in "Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?"

drcxd — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 09:51:29 +0000

> I believe the AI agentic coders will threat tech giants more than it - collectively - threats software engineers.

Currently, I don't think so. Coding agents' performance generally depends on the quality of the model behind them. Running a powerful model is assets-dependent. Not everyone has the hardware and power to support Sonnet 4.5 or Gemini 3 even if they are open-source. So, before the top notch models can be deployed on personal computing devices, I would not say coding agents will threat any organization.

New comment by drcxd in "CSS now has an if() conditional function"

drcxd — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 02:43:03 +0000

Yeah, code is data, data is code. Every Lisp programmer knows that.

New comment by drcxd in "Code Wiki: Accelerating your code understanding"

drcxd — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 06:58:47 +0000

True. Arch Wiki is one of the best documentation system I have ever seen, which is also why I always choose Arch-derived OSes.

New comment by drcxd in "Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator"

drcxd — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 10:06:53 +0000

The moment I saw this post, the idea of submitting itself to itself came to me. Really amusing.

New comment by drcxd in "Google Antigravity"

drcxd — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 03:39:57 +0000

Glad to see I am not the only HN users that work in such companies.

New comment by drcxd in "Adk-go: code-first Go toolkit for building, evaluating, and deploying AI agents"

drcxd — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 03:08:21 +0000

Remind me the another recent post: You should write an agent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840088

New comment by drcxd in "Active listening: the Swiss Army Knife of communication"

drcxd — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 02:08:04 +0000

> Me: It sounds like you’ve got mixed emotions at the moment. On the one hand, you’re happy that your boss says you’re doing a good job. But you’re questioning that, given the problems you’re having with Legal. Did I get that right?

No offense. However, this response from the first example feels robotic to me. It feels like I am talking with some kind of artificial intelligence. I guess we have to make it sounds more natural. In fact, the following examples feel more smooth to me.

New comment by drcxd in "Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux"

drcxd — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 09:56:54 +0000

Also tried that, but I did not noticed the memory leak problem, since I only played about 1 hour. There are other minor issues about using Linux, for example, my input method does not work in the Steam chat window, but works everywhere else. Anyway, Linux is much more cleaner than Windows and it is a overall better development environment, I prefer it over Windows now.

New comment by drcxd in "AI can code, but it can't build software"

drcxd — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 02:29:05 +0000

Hello, have you ever tried using the coding agents?

For example, you can pull the library code to your working environment and install the coding agent there as well. Then you can ask them to read specific files, or even all files in the library. I believe (according to my personal experience) this would significantly decrease the possibility of hallucinating.