<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: dvt</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dvt</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 18:58:13 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=dvt" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dvt in "Leave Me Behind"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The funniest thing about this post is that Java Android programming circa 2014 is somehow romanticized as "real programming." 2014 Android code has got to be peak corpo-slop with the most inane abstractions, unintuitive paradigms, and copy-paste boilerplate syndrome. Ironically, exactly why we need AI these days, since like 90% of the code you wrote didn't technically <i>do</i> anything.</p>
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<p>I experimented with this a few years ago, and token-level search-and-replace can do wonders here. For example, you instruct the model to, whenever it wants to reference the time, to just say "[time]." Then, you intercept the token stream, and always replace it with the proper time; inject/reconstruct the stream and then continue the output. This is sort-of analogous to tool calling, but with much less overhead.<p>(Obviously this only works when running local models, as you don't have access to raw token streams in the cloud.)</p>
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<p>Apologies for being a bit snarky, you're alright :)</p>
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<p>> doesn't do much to forward creativity, entrepreneurship, or engineering<p>Who are you (or who am I) to decide that? The entire point of a show HN is to be non-judgmental and charitable, otherwise it's just going to turn into a cynical echo-chamber. The famous Dropbox comment is a cautionary tale for a reason.</p>
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<p>I know it's a grey area, but I've started to really push back against this kind of low-effort reddit-style gotcha' posting on HN (<i>especially</i> on "Show HN" posts, which are meant to be—from what I've always understood—a safe space for creativity, entrepreneurship, and engineering). It used to be rare enough that we could just collectively ignore it, but it's been getting super bad in the last 2-3 years.<p>Also, your comment is just trivially unininteresting to begin with: what is "submitting," what is "private," what is a "privacy guarantee," what is a "crime"? It's just outrage slop. If you're a lawyer and have something substantive to say, please do so (and a lot of lawyers on HN <i>do</i>), but otherwise, Lincoln put it best: "Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."</p>
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<p>> Newton and Leibniz were "hand-waving"?<p>Yes, and it's pretty common knowledge that Calculus was (<i>finally</i>) formalized by Weierstrass in the early 19th century, having spent almost two centuries in mathematical limbo. Calculus was intuitive, solved a great class of problems, but its roots were very much (ironically) vibes-based.<p>This isn't unique to Newton or Leibniz, Euler did all kinds of "illegal" things (like playing with divergent series, treating differentials as actual quantities, etc.) which worked out and solved problems, but were also not formalized until much later.</p>
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<p>> This "new math" might be a recombination of things that we already know<p>If you know anything about the invention of new math (analytic geometry, Calculus, etc.), you'd know how untrue this is. In fact, Calculus was extremely hand-wavy and without rigorous underpinnings until the mid 1800s. Again: more art than science.</p>
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<p>Because by definition LLMs are permutation machines, not creativity machines. (My premise, which you may disagree with, is that creativity/imagination/artistry is not merely permutation.)</p>
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<p>> I think that idea is deeply fascinating, AND have no problem that we still credit mathematicians with discoveries.<p>Most discoveries are indeed implied from axioms, but every now and then, new mathematics is (for lack of a better word) "created"—and you have people like Descartes, Newton, Leibniz, Gauss, Euler, Ramanujan, Galois, etc. that treat math more like an art than a science.<p>For example, many belive that to sovle the Riemann Hypothesis, we likely need some <i>new</i> kind of math. Imo, it's unlikely that an LLM will somehow invent it.</p>
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<p>Did you install Antigravity 2.0? It literally asks you to run a git command 30 seconds in lol.</p>
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<p>> So, it's fine as long as it's legal, then?<p>> Love that way of thinking.<p>I mean.. yeah, kinda'? We live in a society made up of laws, that's kind of the premise. So if we don't think something is fine, we can make it illegal (and we often do).<p>It's a pretty good way of thinking methinks, what's your alternative?</p>
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<p>I was curious and just installed it, and... Antigravity is a literal clone of VSCode. Wtf? Honestly, it's so embarassing. I might write a blog post about this, but I remember falling in love with the art of product watching Google demo Google Wave. Janky sure, ahead-of-its-time maybe, but also visionary and mind-blowing. Here we are almost two decades later and Google is re-releasing something made by Microsoft. The epitome of laziness and uninspired hive-think.<p>Imo, there's so much room for an actual normie end-product that supercharges local work with AI for regular people (office workers, creatives, etc.), but a VSCode clone ain't it. (Insert: fine, I'll do it myself Thanos meme.)</p>
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<p>Great video here by the man himself: <a href="https://x.com/filpizlo/status/1976831020566798656" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/filpizlo/status/1976831020566798656</a><p>From my cursory glance, the real magic (InvisiCaps) appears to be a unique take on fat pointers to track types, access rights, etc. Pretty clever, and the website is a great technical read.</p>
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<p>> why Foucault is taken seriously<p>I studied philosophy at a pretty prestigious institution, and he's not taken that seriously. He lives squarely in the deep caverns of the "continental" space, where philosophy is often intertwined with psychology, politics, sociology, and so on. But even there, he doesn't reach the level of Sartre, Heidegger, or (of course) Hegel.<p>Let alone Kant, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche (who generally all have specifically dedicated courses). I'm not a huge fan of Nietzsche, but he always has a <i>point</i>. When I read Sartre or Foucault, I'm just left scratching my head as to what they are talking about.</p>
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<p>I work routinely from coffee shops. Literally like 80% of people on their laptops have Claude or ChatGPT open when I glance over. Listen, I do think AI still has a LONG way to go to be the automation & productivity utopia we so desperately crave, but underselling its usefulness is just silly at this point.<p>I used to be <i>vehemently</i> against AI coding just a few years ago, because the hallucinations were a deal-breaker. However, these days, most of my code is written using AI. It's still very "corporate junior" so it takes constant tweaking, hand re-writing, or total re-architecting, but it's leaps and bounds better than what it was. And I find myself working on the <i>interesting</i> parts: product, user experience, novel algorithms, etc.</p>
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<p>At the very least not providing a disclaimer is disrespectful to your readers.</p>
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<p>This is an amazing article, thanks for sharing! Will also bookmark it.</p>
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<p>Let's say you want to call win32 (or Mac) OS functions, all of a sudden you're doing all kinds of wonky pointer stuff because that's how these operating systems have been architected. Doing unsafe stuff is pretty inevitable if you want to do anything non-hello-world-ish.</p>
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<p>You actually kind of don't, I use like a zillion crates which have unsafe Rust in them and it's not like I'm sitting here reading every single line of their code. I like Rust for various reasons, but its memory safety is (imo) overstated, especially when doing low-level stuff.</p>
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<p>Obviously the way to prevent this is by bounds checking, which is literally in the `770594e` patch. It's just a bug and they happen routinely in all languages. Since this is doing pointer arithmetic, it could just as easily happen in unsafe Rust, for example.</p>
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