<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: ducktective</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ducktective</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 01:20:41 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ducktective" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ducktective in "Why I will not be using LLMs in my coding"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So I have some questions for agentic dev aficionados:<p>- Why should I even start vibing up my desired tools and projects when I can just wait it out so a better clanker emerges 6 months down the line?<p>- What guarantee is there that Rust is the best programming language for vibe coding when the models could improve to directly output assembly? What incentive do you have in vibing up something?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2026 13:19:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50413051</link><dc:creator>ducktective</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50413051</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50413051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ducktective in "From Linux to Wikipedia: How Volunteers Build the Internet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is the incentive too which LLMs destroy:<p>- If you embrace agentic development and prompt/produce something, a rando with spare money and a better clanker supersedes your efforts.<p>- If you ignore LLMs and write and design the product yourself, the LLM corpo says "All the better for me! Moar free untainted datasets for me! I'll make you buy tokens from me in the next 6 months anyway..."<p>Damned if you do, damned if you don't.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2026 08:04:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50389475</link><dc:creator>ducktective</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50389475</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50389475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ducktective in "Debian apt security update: man-in-the-middle arbitrary code execution"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How to cache with HTTPS?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2026 14:06:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50365697</link><dc:creator>ducktective</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50365697</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50365697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ducktective in "It's still ok to enjoy programming"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Basically, LLMs have reduced the incentives in doing open source.<p>If you go with agentic route, randos with money to spare on latest models, beat you. If you go LLM-free, AI corpos say "all the better for us! More free untainted dataset!"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:06:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50154107</link><dc:creator>ducktective</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50154107</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50154107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ducktective in "Capsem – a Rust hypervisor sandboxing AI agents in air-gapped Linux VMs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"air-gapped" how?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 02:45:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50098517</link><dc:creator>ducktective</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50098517</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50098517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ducktective in "Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's often suggested that Lean is a general programming language but I don't see typical libraries to do basic stuff in it, like an arg parser, web server, GUI, SQL integrations etc.<p>Can lean generate small static binaries the same way Go/Rust/C/C++ can?<p>How practical is rewriting, say, grep in Lean?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 05:42:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49974652</link><dc:creator>ducktective</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49974652</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49974652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ducktective in "Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>- Is it possible to train only on math and logic materials and expect the model's response in math questions to be superior to general models with the same training/inference compute hardware?<p>- Are there non-LLM approaches to the above task with the goal of achieving a non-hallucinatory agent?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:22:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946959</link><dc:creator>ducktective</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946959</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ducktective in "GPT-Synopsys: Frontier Intelligence to Revolutionize Chip Design"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A question to those active in chip design industry: Are formal methods and formally proving a design more prevalent and normal in this industry compared to general software development?<p>Like for a Arm microcontroller design, do engineers thoroughly test and formally prove the correct functionality of every component? If that's the case, why silicon errata is a thing?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:29:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49920760</link><dc:creator>ducktective</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49920760</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49920760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ducktective in "The AI Race Just Got Awkward"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>distillation datasets<p>You ask about distillation but I wonder, is there any training datasets (~ TB-order) available that startup folks in SV use or is it so that everyone has to create their own scraping pipeline ?</p>
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<p>Don't worry, AI's gonna fix it in Rust in Windows 12</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:01:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882829</link><dc:creator>ducktective</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882829</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ducktective in "Windows 11½"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're doing something serious aaand suddenly out of nowhere the fan starts screaming  cause some cryptically named process decides <i>right now</i> is the time to get stuck in some loop</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:57:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882764</link><dc:creator>ducktective</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882764</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ducktective in "Show HN: Microsoft Office running with Wine on Linux with no virtualization"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>outdated<p>What <i>modern</i> features are you looking for in a say, document editor? My experience with LibreOffice Writer and Calc has been excellent. I'm happy there is no <i>modern</i>  AI or cloud integration noise or ribbon bars with excessive whitespaces.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:46:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49757765</link><dc:creator>ducktective</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49757765</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49757765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ducktective in "Show HN: Microsoft Office running with Wine on Linux with no virtualization"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For starters, universities and government offices should not expect a proprietary format. Everyone should accept OpenDocument Format (ODF) or a similar FOSS format. MS Office, LibreOffice, OpenOffice and whatnot can compete in editing and rendering open formats.<p>Come to think of it, this is a good proposal for EU, thanks for the USB-C, by the way :)</p>
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<p>Tangential, but does anyone know why in 2026 and on Debian 13, my machine <i>still</i> hangs when some process exhausts RAM?<p>Is there really no higher-priority kernel process to prevent total freeze of the system and send a SIGKILL to the culprit process when such a scenario happens?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:49:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49655341</link><dc:creator>ducktective</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49655341</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49655341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ducktective in "HTML Can Do That"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My point was, people block js of websites by default. Why? Cause website devs abuse js and don't exclusively use it for basic interactivity of stuff like sorting table columns.<p>There is an incentive to use HTML for common interactivity purposes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 02:25:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49382957</link><dc:creator>ducktective</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49382957</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49382957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ducktective in "HTML Can Do That"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>single, simple JS file<p>It's all fine and dandy until marketing bros decide to shove all kinds of shady modals into that JS file. The JS side is not exclusive to trivial interactivity.</p>
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<p>> <i>including isolated testing environments</i><p>Given the attack vector having <i>possible</i> super-human capability, I'm not sure such an environment exists. "Isolated" according to who?<p>Maybe seL4 could be a viable option here...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:10:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213445</link><dc:creator>ducktective</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213445</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ducktective in "Governments are making a dangerous bet on the AI boom"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>><i>Do you think Japan and the EU would be better off if our/their economies were centred around trillion dollar companies that make a product that is 20% better than the Chinese models at 1000x the cost?</i><p>Why Japan and Europe don't develop a model that is 20% worse at 0.001x the cost?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:46:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192565</link><dc:creator>ducktective</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192565</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ducktective in "Governments are making a dangerous bet on the AI boom"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder about Japan and Europe these days. Back in the 80s, when Japan was pursuing the "Fifth-Generation Computers", EU and US scrambled to compete with Japan. Like, it was a big deal for strategists and decision-making high-level politicians of that era.<p>Now in 2020s, it seems only China is tailing US and in turn, US is wary of China. What gives?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:32:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192469</link><dc:creator>ducktective</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192469</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ducktective in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do LLMs generate deterministic or trustworthy answers?</p>
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