Hacker News: equinumerous

New comment by equinumerous in "Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests"

equinumerous — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 19:49:46 +0000

Wow! This is not production-ready at all. DynamoDB would be my main use case. I'll stick with DynamoDB local.

New comment by equinumerous in "Ember-1"

equinumerous — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 19:45:44 +0000

+1, would like to see. Even if it's not fully "ready for consumption", it's probably enough to reproduce the results.

New comment by equinumerous in "Ember-1"

equinumerous — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 19:45:10 +0000

That's a really impressive result. There are all kinds of small tasks like this I use an LLM for, but theoretically if you broke all the sub-use cases into local-only models, and had something lightweight that routed to the right model, you could have faster and cheaper workflows. E.g. something trained on the linux man pages for common commands, since it's usually quicker to ask an LLM for a specific command with flags than to consult the man pages.

New comment by equinumerous in "Understanding is the new bottleneck"

equinumerous — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 05:19:48 +0000

I believe it's only a strategy that works in the short-term. If you ever expect the software to be stable, quality, and human-maintainable, you're going to need a good test suite (hopefully not AI-generated) to get away with that little ownership of the code. That said, this is great for prototypes or throw-away software, provided you don't mind being entirely reliant on an LLM for maintaining the code (speaking from experience, a human usually does not want to touch a fully vibe-coded application that they've never reviewed).

If I'm wrong about this, I would expect to see a new field of LLM-automated software engineering with at least the same level of rigor and quality as the existing human-led processes, and in the absence of this, we're just further degrading software quality for dubious gains (is it to go "faster", is it because we are being compelled to by leadership, is it out of fear of being left behind by competitors?). I can't imagine any other engineering discipline as critical as software being "vibed" - if I had learned that the local bridge had no human inspection, simply was "vibe-checked", it might be a good bridge, but I'm not going to be the one to test it.

New comment by equinumerous in "Understanding is the new bottleneck"

equinumerous — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 05:16:45 +0000

I couldn't agree more. We really need more engineers to be vocal about how stupid these ideas are. "How about we throw out 30+ years of software engineering literature so we can 'move faster'?" What if the customers on the other end don't want new features, they just want software stability? If SQLite came out with a new LLM-written feature a week, would it be a better library? If you know what to build, writing software right the first time pays for itself over time. LLMs are still great, but more for rapid prototyping, researching, log diving, one-off scripts...

Sorry, .

New comment by equinumerous in "Understanding is the new bottleneck"

equinumerous — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 23:53:19 +0000

Given the amount of spaghetti code I see frontier models generating on a daily basis, I cannot take seriously the idea that LLMs will write all the code, and somehow our systems will not degrade in performance, reliability, and maintainability. At least, not until we have really good understandings of how to maintain systems autonomously. All of our technologies were designed for humans, it may require a new set of technologies that are "LLM-proof". But I don't see this happening anytime soon.

New comment by equinumerous in "Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast"

equinumerous — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 23:39:30 +0000

This is an amazing result. Can't wait until they release this to the general public, and I hope it's only a matter of time before other models are accelerated. I long for the day that regular consumers can run such models locally on specialized hardware.

Amazon Builder's Library – An overlooked goldmine of System Design knowledge

equinumerous — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:10:23 +0000

Article URL: https://sumitgouthaman.com/posts/amazon-builders-library/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231079

Points: 4

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New comment by equinumerous in "Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU"

equinumerous — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:47:08 +0000

Nice, I've been waiting for something like this for years. Meanwhile the gaming scene on linux has been getting better slowly thanks to Valve and friends... but being able to boot into a Windows VM with graphics acceleration was previously a pain on Linux machines that only have a single discrete GPU - I'd wonder whether a solution like this would work with VirtualBox, or only on QEMU.

New comment by equinumerous in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

equinumerous — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:05:45 +0000

100% agree - you don't need the most up-to-date model to have something that's useful in agentic contexts. They could even produce chips with weights that make all the decision making/logical reasoning and have it delegate to other specialized agents. If it becomes cheap enough to print a run of custom chips, releasing a batch for each major advancement does not seem unreasonable for SOTA companies.

New comment by equinumerous in "Claude: Elevated errors across all models"

equinumerous — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:30:35 +0000

You're absolutely right!

New comment by equinumerous in "How to think about software quality (2022)"

equinumerous — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:27:48 +0000

Great book recommendations (I have read parts of the Google SRE book and Designing Data Intensive Applications)! I will also add a couple gems that I don't see often-cited: Simple Object-Oriented Design by Mauricio Aniche and Secure by Design by Dan Bergh Johnsson, Daniel Deogun, and Daniel Sawano. Both have a lot to offer in terms of software design and maintaining complexity. I also liked Refactoring to Patterns by Joshua Kerievsky.

New comment by equinumerous in "Back to Kagi"

equinumerous — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:39:06 +0000

I had the same experience. I don't know why they haven't invested more in this feature. Heck, if they classified every site in their index as "AI/not AI" using machine learning, and had a large allowlist of "known-good" sites, that would take care of most of the problem (I am aware of the drawbacks of text-only AI classification, but they could use other indicators, like the site's publication date, domain name, domain registry date, etc.). I think for right now, the "state-of-the-art" for non-AI search is going to entail maintaining large whitelists/blacklists of websites that are crowd-sources by users (e.g. what you can find in some GitHub repositories). I was hoping that's what SlopStop was going to be, but it is not nearly as effective as it needs to be.

New comment by equinumerous in "Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA"

equinumerous — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:51:09 +0000

As someone who is also eyeing Bifrost, I am curious to know what made you choose Bifrost at all / why you decided to use an LLM gateway. I also was considering OpenRouter, since it provides pretty much every model, with same-day releases for new models. One thing that is attractive to me about Bifrost is that if I decide to leave OpenRouter tomorrow, I can do so without touching any other part of my stack; I'm hoping self-hosting models becomes more viable, and then I can become less dependent on third party LLM providers like OpenAI/Anthropic/OpenRouter, and I would not need to worry about a model that I depend on suddenly being deprecated.

Amazon Builder's Library – An overlooked goldmine of System Design knowledge

equinumerous — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:41:17 +0000

Article URL: https://sumitgouthaman.com/posts/amazon-builders-library/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48967680

Points: 2

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New comment by equinumerous in "When I reject AI code even if it works"

equinumerous — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 03:56:52 +0000

I am very curious what some of your lint rules look like in practice. In my mind a lot of the AI-isms in my code that I hate are stylistic or a matter of taste, not necessarily something I could write a deterministic rule to check. But I want to hear more. Like, what kind of linters did you create and which were highest impact?

New comment by equinumerous in "ChatGPT's image generator can be manipulated to produce violent, sexual content"

equinumerous — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 01:30:29 +0000

I'm surprised there isn't a simple image classifier in place to filter out images of gore/porn/etc. - I know that there are such output filters for images with copyrighted content. It suggests to me that either the safeguards aren't in place, or this exploit bypasses those safeguards.

New comment by equinumerous in "The user is visibly frustrated"

equinumerous — Wed, 27 May 2026 00:09:07 +0000

Legend has it that if you can come up with a string that matches all parts of that regex, Claude starts spitting out free credits.

New comment by equinumerous in "Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised"

equinumerous — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:37:11 +0000

This is genius. Let's hope the hackers aren't reading this...

New comment by equinumerous in "Bucketsquatting is finally dead"

equinumerous — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 02:19:03 +0000

That was an amazing talk, thanks for sharing! I could see the writing on the wall as soon as I saw the bucket names were predictable. Bucket squatting + public buckets + time of check/time of use in the CloudFormation service = deploying resources in any AWS account with enough persistence. I'm surprised this existed in AWS for so long without being flagged by AWS Security.