<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: elfly</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=elfly</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 02:09:28 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=elfly" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elfly in "Claude.ai and API Unavailable"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Don't say single nine, it sounds ugly and bad.<p>Say five eights of reliability. Maybe six.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:39:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957056</link><dc:creator>elfly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957056</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elfly in "Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Worst case, meta will sue the programmer who produced infringing code.<p>I mean if the code is not copyrighteable that does not mean anything; it's just public domain code except that meta will just use good old security by obscurity to protect it. If somehow a meta programmer vibes code, say, VVVVVV, and Terry Cavanagh recognizes it on his facebook feed and sues meta, and wins, all that will happen is that meta will take down the copy of VVVVVV, will fire and sue the engineer that vibe coded it and call it a day.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 03:10:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47943778</link><dc:creator>elfly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47943778</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47943778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elfly in "GPT-5.5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Surely there are existing rails right now that could be transformed into a bullet train line.<p>Like properties and regulations are a true problem, but it's not like trains don't exist at all in America.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:42:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47883710</link><dc:creator>elfly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47883710</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47883710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elfly in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Like the people who generally get rsi from playing their instrument?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 04:10:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736077</link><dc:creator>elfly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736077</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elfly in "DOJ wants to scrap Watergate-era rule that makes presidential records public"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Right but who is going to prosecute? the Department of Justice?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:42:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724635</link><dc:creator>elfly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724635</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elfly in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I mean they could just feed the solutions into the training data. Then suddenly the bot will do real good at HLE.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:11:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694851</link><dc:creator>elfly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694851</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elfly in "Missile defense is NP-complete"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ah yes, Russia, the famously territory starved country.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:24:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47505129</link><dc:creator>elfly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47505129</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47505129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elfly in "Missile defense is NP-complete"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>USA won't injure or kill 1 in 25 of young adults in the Iran war, unless somehow Iran does have a nuke and wants to use it, come on.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:22:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47505075</link><dc:creator>elfly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47505075</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47505075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elfly in "No Semicolons Needed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You are not telling the whole story.<p>You can mix indentation and braces to delimit blocks.<p>It's insane.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 23:19:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47472570</link><dc:creator>elfly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47472570</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47472570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elfly in "“This is not the computer for you”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Dunno about Xcode, but if you put a go compiler in there, I doubt it will compile or run slowly. Some dependencies may require C, but you could avoid that mostly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:25:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47364935</link><dc:creator>elfly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47364935</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47364935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elfly in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Have you ever looked at a dollar bill in your life.<p>Who do you think printed it. Who signed the bill?<p>The US can just print money and receive goods in exchange of literal paper. Or just put an extra zero in a bank account and receive goods in exchange.<p>And if a certain yahoo decides they want in the money printing scheme...who do you think is going to send the goons with guns to prevent the government monopoly in creating literal wealth.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:51:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47190596</link><dc:creator>elfly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47190596</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47190596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elfly in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No company ever got a man to the Moon.<p>Sure, some companies participated in the process. But it was a government that did it.<p>It's been more than 50 years and private companies haven't been able to match it.<p>The greatest technical achievement of mankind was done by a government. Private industry could, at best, help.<p>Sorry all the other things you name are great. But the winner is government.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:40:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47190511</link><dc:creator>elfly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47190511</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47190511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elfly in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Conservatives discovered a cheat code to get: (a) people to have to identify on the computer everywhere and (b) control what they can do with and without this identification.<p>Of course they are copying the play everywhere.</p>
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<p>Where are the robots going to sleep? Outside in the rain?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:55:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040217</link><dc:creator>elfly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040217</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elfly in "JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This whole thing is the problem. AngularJS was released in 2010. If in 2010 I'd know that the damn thing would die in 2021, and that I would have to rewrite it all by that date, I would not have used the damn thing in the first place.<p>I also at some point inherited an app written in Vue 2. By the time I got it, Vue 3 was already out and a couple of years later, Vue 4, completely different to Vue 2, was out. Rewriting was not an option, so I had to create a docker image that can compile the damn thing offline, cause if some part of the supply chain breaks, well, that's it.<p>Ten or eleven years is not a super long time in enterprise software. Having to keep upgrading and changing libraries just cause the devs of the libraries get bored should not be a thing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:54:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47039464</link><dc:creator>elfly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47039464</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47039464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elfly in "Show HN: Geo Racers – Race from London to Tokyo on a single bus pass"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Great job!<p>A problem I found was that getting at a local bus station at London, showed all their destinations as London, but without any precise place of where I would arrive. At one point I traveled from one part of London, to Bash, a completely different city, back to another part of London.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:46:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47001660</link><dc:creator>elfly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47001660</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47001660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elfly in "Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well yes, but the coincidence that Quarks have charges of multiples of another particle, that is not made up of quarks, should rise your brow, shouldn't it?<p>Like we could accept coincidences if at the bottom is all turtles, but here we see a stack of turtles and a stack of crocodiles and we are asking why they have similar characteristics even if they are so different.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:25:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46959412</link><dc:creator>elfly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46959412</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46959412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elfly in "Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've thought about this same idea but it probably gets very complicated.<p>Let's say, you simulate a long museum hallway with some vases in it. Who holds what? The basic game engine has the geometry, but once the player pushes it and moves it, it needs to inform the engine it did, and then to draw the next frame, read from the engine first, update the position in the video feed, then again feed it back to the engine.<p>What happens if the state diverges. Who wins? If the AI wins then...why have the engine at all?<p>It is possible but then who controls physics. The engine? or the AI? The AI could have a different understanding of the details of the base. What happens if the vase has water inside? who simulates that? what happens if the AI decides to break the vase? who simulates the AI.<p>I don't doubt that some sort of scratchpad to keep track of stuff in game would be useful, but I suspect the researchers are expecting the AI to keep track of everything in its own "head" cause that's the most flexible solution.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:50:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46815608</link><dc:creator>elfly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46815608</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46815608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by elfly in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The funniest part is that the Mars Trilogy is hella optimistic about the tech needed to get and live there.</p>
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<p>Lots of people are also trying to just use postgres for everything, tho.</p>
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