<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: elendilm</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=elendilm</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:20:34 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=elendilm" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elendilm in "India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cards are so backward in 2026. To carry them should by itself make one shudder.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:43:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343747</link><dc:creator>elendilm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343747</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elendilm in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Its a bit lame in 2026, to attack the messenger instead of the content of the message.<p>Its awfully similiar to bitching about reading mails on a computer and attacking the sender.<p>The virtue signaling is beyond me.
I dont care about AI;DR or TL;DR.<p>Give me good content. And I will read it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:51:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338185</link><dc:creator>elendilm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338185</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elendilm in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One can give details of a product and ask the ai to generate the documentation.</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334862">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334862</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:45:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334862</link><dc:creator>elendilm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334862</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elendilm in "Self hosted email continues to steeply decline"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:45:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330756</link><dc:creator>elendilm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330756</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elendilm in "Self hosted email continues to steeply decline"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Recently went self hosted. Not going back ever again.<p>Also had a couple of ui pages on our app to have full email functionality.<p>This also means custom integration into our existing ecosystem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:36:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330624</link><dc:creator>elendilm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330624</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elendilm in "Understanding is the new bottleneck"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Understanding is expensive. And hence valuable.<p>LLMs usually points to the most idiotic future trajectory on my work, and I have to curse it inorder to let it keep up with my refined understanding.<p>But what else would one expect from a probabilistic weighted next token predictor, other than to conduct probabilistic search which are 99.99% deadends.<p>But LLMs can pave the way towards constructing resilient and correct architecture which can be iterated fast by a human.<p>Architecture and determinism is where my money is in.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:30:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49291445</link><dc:creator>elendilm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49291445</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49291445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elendilm in "Compression is prediction"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am flattered that my comment was equated to AI content. English is not even my native language. I will take that as a compliment.<p>Apparently you misunderstood. What made you think I claimed recursion as the key to better intelligence?<p>Clearly you will have noticed that I agree with compression and merely remind one not to forget "recomposition".<p>But once you add recursion to the "mix", we immediately enter the domain of self existing entities.<p>Then things get interesting.<p>If understanding == compression + recomposition, then recursion(compression + recomposition) yields what can be thought of as a self existing "understanding" entity.<p>A sort of philosophical "understanding god" of sorts.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:03:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49280199</link><dc:creator>elendilm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49280199</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49280199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elendilm in "Compression is prediction"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nice one.<p>Yes. Compression constitutes necessary conditions for understanding. But don't forget recomposition as well.<p>Add recursion to the mix and it results in recursive compression and recomposition - making understanding itself a self existing entity.<p>This is as close to an understanding god you can rigorously get to.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:06:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272628</link><dc:creator>elendilm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272628</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elendilm in "Compression is prediction"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your take helps to ground oneself and not be swept away by the hype.<p>But never forget, there is nothing in information science that rules out that bzip cannot develop consciousness.<p>Sounding silly doesn't mean false. It just sounds silly is all.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:57:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272500</link><dc:creator>elendilm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272500</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elendilm in "My server is a phone now"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Increasingly look towards the viability of this for production applications.<p>This article may come in handy when we look into it.<p>Extreme distributed regional servers - a dream come true.<p>The promise of the fabled lowest single tower latency, blast radius containment and resilient to the teeth has always been where my heart truly lies.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:01:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233216</link><dc:creator>elendilm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233216</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elendilm in ""Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> If coding is easy, why doesn't everyone just build ten variations of a thing and see which pans out?<p>Because it is hard. :). Writing good code - takes years of practice.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:46:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49225204</link><dc:creator>elendilm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49225204</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49225204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elendilm in "Don't use your phone while you poop"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That brings back so many good memories that were forgotten.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:53:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222984</link><dc:creator>elendilm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222984</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elendilm in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Buddy you haven't seen me be snarky nor insulting. That was polite yet informative.  You are clearly overreacting.<p>"ungodly numbers", false & violates economics - thoughtful to you.<p>"source - trust me bro. <Followed by verifiable reasons>" - you found snarky.<p>Talk about hypocrisy. Is truth too hurtful for you.<p>Where we hang out to explore is none of your concern. If you don't like truths, remain here and keep doing what you are doing.<p>Who knows, I never had any incentive to put up a similiar page, but now I may have one, where falsehood and hypocritical policing will be dealt with appropriately.<p>If you can't handle uncomfortable truths, you probably never built anything let alone lecture on what constitutes solid points.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:45:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208421</link><dc:creator>elendilm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208421</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elendilm in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I give up buddy.<p>I thought you wanted explanation of how air superiority is acheived.<p>Apparently you think it can be acheived without logistics and refueling.<p>What is the need of evidence when you have magic by your side. So no - those fighter jets were not shot down. Magic saved them. You were right all along.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:54:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208069</link><dc:creator>elendilm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208069</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elendilm in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We all saw. Maybe next time Iron Man will come for rescue :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:25:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49197998</link><dc:creator>elendilm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49197998</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49197998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elendilm in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Bro, logistics and refueling are important to maintain air superiority. If there are no bases, there is no air superiority.<p>If you follow world news from non-western-propaganda-sources, you would know, the fighter jets shoot without entering Iranian airspace to stay clear of Iranian home made anti air defense and heat seeking tech along with potential russian and Chinese air defense.<p>Entering Iranian airspace has been costly for US as witnessed by the famous shootdowns of multiple jets over the course of last several months.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:21:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49197954</link><dc:creator>elendilm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49197954</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49197954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elendilm in "I added a real-time chat to my blog, people used it to attack me"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes. The mindset is pathetic.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:14:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49197844</link><dc:creator>elendilm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49197844</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49197844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elendilm in "Zed DeltaDB"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Attempted multiple times to use zed. Gave up.<p>I still want to. I will give it another try when I am free.<p>But the whole environment has something that feels "invasion of privacy". Maybe its me.<p>I want an installation where typing latency must be invisible, literal  invisible to the eye. Heard zed is great at that.<p>But I don't want my sensitive code to be put in a state that might lead it to exist in a cloud environment without my explicit  permission.<p>Besides, the concept is good. Many a times I have wanted this exact feature - where what happens between commits can in principle be snapshoted with full checkout
to any point - without of course any conscious effort from my side.</p>
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<p>The attempt to run Javascript as the author mentions is pathetic.</p>
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