<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: efficax</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=efficax</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 06:53:03 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=efficax" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efficax in "GLP-1 may slow biological aging"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>FDA approval of the first GLP-1 agonist was in 2005 and many diabetics have been taking these drugs for close to 20 years, so we have a pretty good picture of what long term side effects are: mostly GI symptoms, and you can have problems with muscle loss and bone weakening if you lose a ton of wieght. otherwise they are well tolerated.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:19:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50133011</link><dc:creator>efficax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50133011</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50133011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efficax in "Gemini 4 Argon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i burn through a $200 claude and $200 codex plan every week. opus 5.5 is not "step change" it's just a bit better, and the benchmarks show this. Honestly with my workflow I cannot really tell the difference between the top models, they're all pretty much the same in capability, just a bit different. You can build software with all of them, and with all of them you have to validate the change thoroughly to not ship stupid bugs</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:21:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50075332</link><dc:creator>efficax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50075332</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50075332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efficax in "Gemini 4 Argon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Antigravity tells me specifically "Gemini 4 Argon is currently available to Ultra plan subscribers"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:15:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50075231</link><dc:creator>efficax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50075231</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50075231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efficax in "Gemini 4 Argon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Only available on Ultra, so I thought maybe I'll try it for one month to see if it's good. Well, I have Google One and for some reason this means I cannot sign up for AI Ultra? This is just one of the worst product rollouts I've ever seen</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:12:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50075189</link><dc:creator>efficax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50075189</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50075189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efficax in "Gemini 4 Argon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>but they have slowed down. the delta in capability between model releases now is smaller than ever before and i expect it to continue to diminish until we reach some kind of asymptotic maximum, which hopefully will mean turn towards optimization and local model improvements. The current frontier models running at 10x the tok/s would be incredible for my use cases</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:15:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074103</link><dc:creator>efficax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074103</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efficax in "11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>the biggest design wart of rust (well one of them) is that support for custom allocators wasn't built into the type system from the start, with allocation osmething that returns Result</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:54:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50072711</link><dc:creator>efficax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50072711</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50072711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efficax in "11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>'static lifetime bounds are kind of confusing in Rust, but here goes: A 'static lifetime constraint on T says: types that satisfy T must not contain any borrowed value/content whose lifetime will be shorter than the life of the program. So suppose you have a string s, and Option<&String> q. If q has the constraint 'static, and you do q = Some(&s) this should be rejected by the compiler since a reference to s gets a shorter lifetime than 'static by default (you could do q = Some(&'static s) if s is say a string literal or a leaked box but not for a normal string). In the examples it looks like you have to use a tuple to trick the borrow checker but the concept is the same: Rust allowed violation of the 'static lifetime bounds. The drop implemenation demonstrates it: drop happens in reverse declaration order, so the string s gets dropped first. Now q has a dangling reference, a pointer to dropped memory essentially, and we get a pretty classic use after free bug.</p>
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<p>no</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:08:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50072026</link><dc:creator>efficax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50072026</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50072026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efficax in "I'm sorry, but you still have to think"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>one can test at the system level as well, and llms make it easier</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:51:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048204</link><dc:creator>efficax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048204</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efficax in "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>o no, they’re seeing open and close events between my laptop and my vps and database. the fbi will surely bring the hammer down on me</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 03:55:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50015807</link><dc:creator>efficax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50015807</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50015807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efficax in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>they should be freaking out because every time the chinese labs or non "frontier" labs release a model that is only a few months behind and much cheaper than the openai/anthropic models it shows that they don't deserve their valuations</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:51:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50011132</link><dc:creator>efficax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50011132</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50011132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efficax in "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Engineers abandoning IDEs or did they burn a ton of cash on AI?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:32:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49977448</link><dc:creator>efficax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49977448</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49977448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efficax in "Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>deepseek is from the evil east, this is from the virtuous west</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:16:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49977330</link><dc:creator>efficax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49977330</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49977330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efficax in "Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/09/reflection-raises-2b-to-be-americas-open-frontier-ai-lab-challenging-deepseek/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/09/reflection-raises-2b-to-be...</a></p>
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<p>Porting this to rust would be a multiyear, multiengineer project normally. And in fact you would almost certainly never do it, because it would be too expensive and you'd have to take engineers off of work building new features for ages.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:05:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883607</link><dc:creator>efficax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883607</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efficax in "Coding is not solved"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Reading the code does not mean you understand the code.  One lesson that experience in software gave me: I never understood the code. You think it works a certain way, until you find out that it doesn't.<p>What LLMs make possible is for me to say: find out all the ways this thing works. Analyze the different ways we can run this software, build a fuzzer, build property tests, and run this software in every scenario possible. Log full traces. Log all the outputs. Now, analyze each scenario for bugs. You can't do that by hand.<p>If we are committed to it, if we put the resources towards it and dedicate the time to it (and we could do this just by saying: it will take half as long as it used to take!), software built by llms in healthcare, finance, automotive, defense, power plans, aviation, manufacturing can all be made MORE reliable and better with LLMs... without ever reading a single line of code. The LLMS are very good at logic, by the way.<p>Anyway all of this reads like someone who is not actually using LLMs to build software or hasn't tried them in a while. I felt the same way in 2025. I've written 100s of thousands of lines of difficult code. You, the person reading this, has probably interacted with software I've written. For a time you would've interacted with it every time you made a debit card transaction in the united states, for example. I understand code, and care about quality, and that's why I'm all in on LLMs for code.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:26:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49878532</link><dc:creator>efficax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49878532</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49878532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efficax in "Oracle cites 'force majeure' to shield itself on controversial data center"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>oracle's database is still a good product, with a lot of features that don't have analogs in open source db products. You can live without them, but still, it's a nice database.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:58:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49834453</link><dc:creator>efficax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49834453</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49834453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efficax in "Matt Mullenweg tells Automattic staff in Slack he's back in control after ouster"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>you'd think that but at least one CEO has turned being an annoying diva into being the richest man in the world</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:38:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49663194</link><dc:creator>efficax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49663194</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49663194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efficax in "Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>HN/YC should be called "News Venture Capital Cares About". VC cares about AI, so AI is what you're gonna get</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:56:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49659562</link><dc:creator>efficax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49659562</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49659562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efficax in "Show HN: ClaudeStatsBar: your session is 486k deep and nothing told you"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I never have long sessions. I ask claude to do one thing, then I clear the context, validate that change, and iterate it. What are these long sessions?</p>
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