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New comment by drekipus in "Embryos shape their limbs: a key discovery of "genetic brakes""

drekipus — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:09:46 +0000

How is it different to the first line of the article? "Canadian scientists have made a significant advance in understanding the mechanisms that enable embryos to properly form their limbs"

New comment by drekipus in "Coalton is an efficient, statically typed Lisp with ideas from Haskell and OCaml"

drekipus — Wed, 27 May 2026 00:16:58 +0000

The biggest problem for me is that I can't find a simple way to get started with Coalton.

I'm not a common lisp user, but I want to be. I want to learn common lisp, and I have a fair understanding of types. I think types can benefit the user in understanding more, as well as the inbuilt "intelligence" - (aka: How am I meant to know ahead of time that I can't add these two objects together? Having the editor tell me as I'm writing is a great step)

I have "mine" their text editor, now I just need some tutorials and sample projects to go with it.

New comment by drekipus in "London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time"

drekipus — Sat, 16 May 2026 03:00:11 +0000

To control the "non elite"

New comment by drekipus in "Ask HN: Who wants to be fired? (May 2026)"

drekipus — Fri, 01 May 2026 23:14:56 +0000

I'm keeping the dream alive!

New comment by drekipus in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"

drekipus — Fri, 01 May 2026 09:32:30 +0000

No no no it's speed at all costs. Sure. I'm writing junk but the speed of what I'm doing is *impressive* You don't understand.

New comment by drekipus in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"

drekipus — Fri, 01 May 2026 09:30:41 +0000

> I'm a good programmer, and it speeds up my work a lot,

Whenever I see this arguement, I'm reminded that most programmers don't know what they do for work

New comment by drekipus in "I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their fake honeypot"

drekipus — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:00:25 +0000

Technically it would classify as a real honeypot site I'd think

New comment by drekipus in "Ask HN: What would you build on bitesize.io?"

drekipus — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:56:37 +0000

8 bit themed web games

New comment by drekipus in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

drekipus — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:18:41 +0000

It's actually rumoured to be part of HL3, which is why they had to block it because of their agreement with valve

New comment by drekipus in "Iran claims US exploited networking equipment backdoors during strikes"

drekipus — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:03:14 +0000

Hopefully the whole world

New comment by drekipus in "Write less code, be more responsible"

drekipus — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:47:40 +0000

I'm interested in how you're probing for them?

I haven't needed to change jobs but I'm worried that one day I'll have to

New comment by drekipus in "Write less code, be more responsible"

drekipus — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:46:06 +0000

> If that was the case, code completion and templating would have been a revolutionary, world changing development in the field.

And yet this is "AI is world changing, look at how fast it can change code!"

> So while you still try to navigate through files, others already have features out.

Your argument is "it can also read code faster too" - but it doesn't have the same tacit knowledge within the codebase. Documentation and comments can be wrong sometimes. Names are poorly chosen

That's the thing about reviews: the implementor doesn't know what's needed for the feature, but the reviewer now needs to. The latter can't trust the former anymore.

/Explain is constantly wrong. /Plan is constantly over engineered. /Tests are constantly fragile

The only benefit AI has produced to existing codebase is now people care a lot more about getting documentation right and adding little snippet/how-tos called "skills" or whatever.

New comment by drekipus in "Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0"

drekipus — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:14:40 +0000

> that code is probably only ever supposed to be LLM maintained, not by people.

But LLMs are trying to mimic people. So if confusion is the human response, what's to stop the llm from acting confused?

New comment by drekipus in "Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack"

drekipus — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:39:43 +0000

This is the point.

You can't call yourself a democracy just because we can change the colour of the same bus every 3 to 4 years

New comment by drekipus in "How Complex is my Code?"

drekipus — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:07:01 +0000

I like this. And organising by feature has been something I've gravitated towards as a SWE, so I dig your thinking

New comment by drekipus in "We spoke to the man making viral Lego-style AI videos for Iran"

drekipus — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:50:16 +0000

Thanks, apparently others didn't appreciate or understand it, heh

New comment by drekipus in "Israel Destroys Villages in Lebanon"

drekipus — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:49:12 +0000

Daily reminder that "championing human rights in the middle east" is the easiest thing in the world if you get to determine who is considered "human" and who is considered "cattle".

New comment by drekipus in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

drekipus — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:44:06 +0000

I think the important thing to remember, when they say "all humans deserve life and democratic process" - is the question of "what do they consider sub-human?" Ie: do they believe employees have souls? Or that the masses are cattle? Because it's then very easy to have strong conviction of human rights when you get to choose who is a human and who is cattle.

New comment by drekipus in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

drekipus — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:54:57 +0000

I don't think it's a dark pattern. Just a common marketing thing. Not "everything that annoys me" is a dark pattern.

New comment by drekipus in "Iran says it will target US tech companies in Middle East"

drekipus — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:41:15 +0000

They're defending themselves.

If you don't want this, tell your government to put an end to the war