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New comment by drowsspa in "Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen"

drowsspa — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 15:02:07 +0000

In a (maybe un-) related note, Docker is basically this but for using C/C++ libraries. In 40 years no one was able to solve the mess

New comment by drowsspa in "Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen"

drowsspa — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 23:23:17 +0000

Well, I've always thought we are stuck in a local minimum when it comes to programming languages. Like, programming shouldn't be this hard and shouldn't require so much boilerplate after almost a century. If the actual important logic can be inferred pretty well from markdown specs, that means most of what we write in JavaScript, Go, Java is redundant.

Hopefully someone smarter than me is working with trying to develop a new programming language given what we know to be possible with LLMs

New comment by drowsspa in "VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)"

drowsspa — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 11:49:59 +0000

Honestly every developer needs to increase those default limits, they are too low for modern development... So you are just crippling them and a proof of that is they keep getting this error while in their regular workflow

New comment by drowsspa in "We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled"

drowsspa — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:23:58 +0000

Using AI is a pretty good indicator that the reader will need to exert more effort than the writer did. Unless the reader also decides to use AI to summarize it, but then what's the point?

New comment by drowsspa in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

drowsspa — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:55:16 +0000

Would be nice if people published the prompts, thoughts and responses of the LLMs together with the code, in order to fight against these restrictions... Instead of just publishing the final result and talking vaguely about how they prompted the LLM in a Hacker news comment or Twitter thread

If LLMs are the new compilers those are the actual source code

New comment by drowsspa in "Claude Code – Everything You Can Configure That the Docs Don't Tell You"

drowsspa — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:34:10 +0000

Yeah I'd love to see a cookie cutter project with all of the best practices of the boilerplate files

New comment by drowsspa in "Helium is hard to replace"

drowsspa — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:05:26 +0000

I think the issue is about our not believing what religious people themselves tell us about their reasoning

New comment by drowsspa in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

drowsspa — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:47:30 +0000

At least the compiler was free

New comment by drowsspa in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

drowsspa — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:16:00 +0000

Yeah, I grew up poor in the 3rd world (not quite Chad level though) and even the upper class culture of my own country was almost alien for us and vice versa... Imagine the 1st world.

New comment by drowsspa in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

drowsspa — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:54:15 +0000

Yeah, as soon as you don't need children to help with your work, they don't make much sense in the capitalist individualistic society. That women still choose to do it, honestly... I see as a triumph of the human spirit

New comment by drowsspa in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

drowsspa — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:51:05 +0000

Who do you think is their perceived neighborhood in time and space?

(edit) And moreover, they still need their children to help with their work... So honestly, any analysis that doesn't take this huge confounding variable is just silly

New comment by drowsspa in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

drowsspa — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:46:55 +0000

People compare themselves to their perceived neighborhood in time and space, not to peasants from 5 thousand years ago.

New comment by drowsspa in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

drowsspa — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:45:46 +0000

Funny how you don't realize you fit perfectly into the description of one of the groups that know exactly what is going on.

New comment by drowsspa in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

drowsspa — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:57:58 +0000

That's not how it works. Two bodies are in thermal equilibrium if there's no heat transfer between them: that's the zeroth law of thermodynamics. If you're colder than 2.73K in deep space, you will absorb the heat from the Cosmic Microwave Background. If you're hotter, you will irradiate heat away. So it does have a temperature.

New comment by drowsspa in "Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User"

drowsspa — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:19:14 +0000

Honestly back when I was still in college one and a half decade ago, it was quite clear the whole Nvidia-only ML and AI libraries weren't a good idea

New comment by drowsspa in "The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen"

drowsspa — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:48:47 +0000

That was the point of the successive questions in the second paragraph...

New comment by drowsspa in "The C-Shaped Hole in Package Management"

drowsspa — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:47:23 +0000

You still need to compile when those libraries are not pre compiled.

New comment by drowsspa in "The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen"

drowsspa — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:22:51 +0000

I find it amazing how much the mess that building C/C++ code has been for so many decades seems to have influenced the direction technology, the economy and even politics has been going.

Really, what would the world look like if this problem had been properly solved? Would the centralization and monetization of the Internet have followed the same path? Would Windows be so dominant? Would social media have evolved to the current status? Would we have had a chance to fight against the technofeudalism we're headed for?

New comment by drowsspa in "Stunnel"

drowsspa — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:55:32 +0000

That's basically the idea behind zero trust, isn't it? The idea being that you can't even knock on the TCP port if you're not authenticated

New comment by drowsspa in "OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026"

drowsspa — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 14:43:34 +0000

I guess we'd have to see the graph with the evolution of paying customers: I don't see the number of potential-but-not-yet clients being that high, certainly not one order of magnitude higher. And everyone already knows OpenAI, they don't have the benefit of additional exposure when they go viral: the only benefit seems to be to hype up investors.

And there's something else about the diminishing returns of going viral... AI kind of breaks the usual assumptions in software: that building it is the hard part and that scaling is basically free. In that sense, AI looks more like regular commodities or physical products, in that you can't just Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V: resources are O(N) on the number of users, not O(log N) like regular software.