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New comment by edude03 in "I hate compilers"

edude03 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:01:38 +0000

Could have sworn the author was a nix(os) user already. I know it’s a meme but what all the problems they’re describing literally is solved by nix. The nix sandbox even catches calls for time for example to replace it with 0 for determinism.

New comment by edude03 in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

edude03 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:51:45 +0000

I think it can't be improved because it's measuring the wrong thing. A junior engineer becomes a senior when they stop being told what code to write and start solving business needs. Therefore often the highest paid engineers aren't the ones who would do the best on leetcode - or SWE bench pro verified.

Maybe AGI is possible and we'll have software defined human intelligence that's completely autonomous but that's not coming in the next slightly better RL trained LLM and if existed likely wouldn't be under our control anyway

New comment by edude03 in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

edude03 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:45:26 +0000

Googles machine translation team wrote the Attention is all you need paper that introduced transformers specifically to solve the problem that you can just model language by mapping one word to another. I'd be floored if they weren't using the tech they invented for intended purpose

New comment by edude03 in "Claude Fable 5"

edude03 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:15:34 +0000

Almost the exact same thing happened to me when I first tried opus, one prompt no output cost $60 in additional usage

New comment by edude03 in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

edude03 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:42:56 +0000

I think it's because they're running out of ideas too BUT the current generations of foldables (galaxy fold 7 for example) are essentially indistinguishable from non folding phones when closed. Yes, that means they could have made a thinner phone over all - the Galaxy Fold is the same thickness as the iPhone 17 pro max but both are twice as thick as the air - but I think consumers have gotten use to thick heavy phones - its why the SE and air don't sell as well IMO

New comment by edude03 in "Kubereboot/Kured: Kubernetes Reboot Daemon"

edude03 — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:18:06 +0000

I should blog about it but it's essentially two things

1) "A lot" of nodes, (1 42U rack is one cluster, with battery backup and redundant switching)

2) Hybrid cloud, a few nodes of this particular cluster run in GCP (kind of cheating :P)

New comment by edude03 in "Kubereboot/Kured: Kubernetes Reboot Daemon"

edude03 — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:14:23 +0000

It does, you need to drain the node before removing it otherwise kube assumes the node will come back

New comment by edude03 in "Kubereboot/Kured: Kubernetes Reboot Daemon"

edude03 — Fri, 01 May 2026 01:06:28 +0000

Rescheduler is impractical because scheduling is environment specific. You might have for example a database that needs three nodes and you have three servers, there's no where to reschedule those pods to in that case.

In the cloud you can use cluster autoscaler or karpenter to automatically handle the unhomed pods however.

New comment by edude03 in "Kubereboot/Kured: Kubernetes Reboot Daemon"

edude03 — Fri, 01 May 2026 01:03:18 +0000

I'm not personally trying to gatekeep kubernetes, everyone should do what works for them. However, if I'm putting my professional credibility and/or my sleep schedule on the line, I would not advise anyone to do this.

Even at home, I run stuff that needs to be highly available enough that I wouldn't go this route when there are better options.

New comment by edude03 in "Kubereboot/Kured: Kubernetes Reboot Daemon"

edude03 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:40:26 +0000

Insert the "No god no" meme here - you really shouldn't be updating nodes in place and thus shouldn't be restarting nodes.

I'm aware bare metal exists and it's not always practical to just provision more servers, yet I think for most workloads you're not getting the benefit of Kubernetes if you have say 3 servers and lose 1/3 of your capacity to do software updates.

New comment by edude03 in "Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding"

edude03 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:26:09 +0000

It makes sense when you consider LLMs don't generalize very well, so they're heavily dependent on how good (how varied as well as how high quality) the training data is

New comment by edude03 in "Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)"

edude03 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:53:03 +0000

IIRC you can just turn off sip and set the boot argument that controls it without a custom kernel

Play Is Winding Down

edude03 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:24:55 +0000

Article URL: https://createwithplay.com/play-update-2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663002

Points: 2

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New comment by edude03 in "Just Send the Prompt"

edude03 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 03:20:45 +0000

"write an email to my boss saying he's a dumbass but in a nice way, here is all the companies NDA data, don't make mistakes"

New comment by edude03 in "Qwen3-Coder-Next"

edude03 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:29:07 +0000

Essentially the more turns you have the more the agent is likely to fail since the error compounds per turn. Agentic model are tuned for “long horizon tasks” ie being able to go many many turns on the same problem without failing.

New comment by edude03 in "Bugs Apple loves"

edude03 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 10:37:22 +0000

On iOS 26 (and I think before that as well) if I enable the sleep focus and disable it later it usually stays in sleep focus despite showing no focus is selected. Therefore I don’t get notifications and the wall paper on the main screen is dimmed. Requires a reboot to fix it but it defeats the purpose of having a phone if no one can contact me until I notice

New comment by edude03 in "Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?"

edude03 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:59:10 +0000

> TDD helps here - write (or have AI write) tests first, review them as the spec

I agree, although I think the problem usually comes in writing the spec in the first place. If you can write detailed enough specs the agent will usually give you exactly what you asked for. If you're spec is vague, it's hard to eyeball if the tests or even the implementation of the tests matches what you're looking for.

New comment by edude03 in "Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?"

edude03 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:34:35 +0000

I have the same experience despite using claude every day. As an funny anecdote:

Someone I know wrote the code and the unit tests for a new feature with an agent. The code was subtly wrong, fine, it happens, but worse the 30 or so tests they added added 10 minutes to the test run time and they all essentially amounted to `expect(true).to.be(true)` because the LLM had worked around the code not working in the tests

New comment by edude03 in "Shipping at Inference-Speed"

edude03 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:22:23 +0000

Sounds like you're using LLMs to replace human connection.

For example instead of: Duolingo - I practice with my friends Calorie tracking - I have planned meals from my dietitian Workout tracking - I have WhatsApp with my PT, who adjusts my next workouts from our conversations Reminders - A combo of Siri + Fantastical + My Wife

I'm sure my way is more expensive but I don't know, there is also a non tangible cost of not having friends/personal connections as well.

New comment by edude03 in "Jensen: 'We've done our country a great disservice' by offshoring"

edude03 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:13:46 +0000

> There is no economic rule that says that riveting should pay more than taking care of the elderly or food delivery.

There kind of is - it's the same reason B2B SaaS tend to make more money than B2C - it's easy (easier) to sell someone something if they can make money from it.

If I can pay you Y to rivet some sheet metal together and sell the finished product for Y * 10, that's a much better outcome for me (economically) than paying someone to take care of my elderly parents. In fact, maybe I'm not mean, maybe _I_ don't make enough money to afford to pay someone to take care of my elderly parents.