<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: eqvinox</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=eqvinox</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:09:16 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=eqvinox" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eqvinox in "Executable Is a SQLite Database"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>NB: ELF executables and libraries don't need to have sections, or a section header table. The program headers are what matters. You can use sstrip to remove the SHT.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:29:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49420336</link><dc:creator>eqvinox</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49420336</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49420336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eqvinox in "Ask HN: Just saw a YC25 job posting front page that looks like a 7-day work week"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It isn't, in a bunch of other countries.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 02:59:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49396197</link><dc:creator>eqvinox</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49396197</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49396197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eqvinox in "Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The misunderstanding might be that I'm thinking about how long it takes a human + an AI to get something done, not an AI by itself.  My current understanding is that it's still not generally viable to have LLMs perform architecture/design tasks (it might work in the short run but degrades roughly exponentially in the long run, accruing serious tech debt).  Most things I'd consider actual "projects" involve at least some level of design work as well, and that'd need to be included in the estimate.<p>(And also prompts will need to be refined, etc., unless you have amazing prompt skills it won't immediately deliver what you wanted.  Even if it did, the work to put together the AI inputs also needs to be included.)<p>⇒ I don't think it's easily possible right now to give a time estimate for **the full picture of** a project to be implemented with AI assistance.</p>
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<p>In all honesty I don't think it's possible to put this into the model <i>because it's not actually sufficiently understood yet by anyone or anything</i>.  AI capabilities are changing too fast, and so is the way AI is used (worst case, even including financial limitations that are now increasingly appearing.)</p>
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<p>A model isn't "aware" of anything. It's trained on things, and that training doesn't include time estimates for working with AI because that didn't exist yet.</p>
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<p>You can rent guns too, but the gun owner isn't suddenly up for a murder charge if you shoot someone.</p>
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<p>Yes, and they absolutely should.</p>
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<p>> Meteolabor AG<p>> climate hoax<p>Once again, the Swiss are confirming their image as the most US-like country in Europe :'(</p>
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<p>Fair point - while it's certainly possible to make a decision per individual library elsewhere, libc is the one thing that really will need to be linked dynamically for glibc, and it'll freeze a minimum version into the binary (i.e. it should be built against an old version of glibc).<p>I don't think Android is a target in most cases of this, so this would boil down to shipping 2* binaries, one glibc and one musl<i>.<p></i> I'd need to check how musl behaves for compatibility, I'm assuming it'll be a minimum like glibc.<p>All of this said - you'll need to ship multiple binaries anyway, these days: x86_64 + aarch64. Possibly more…</p>
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<p>If you can figure out your own ELF loader, you can figure out how to build a partially static executable that doesn't need this. You can mix static and dynamic linking. Build tooling around that is just shit.</p>
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<p>I mean… my self hosted Postgres with its ca 15 active connections certainly doesn't use PgBouncer, and it doesn't need to. But that was presumably not the intended scope of the question?<p>Then again, people forget <i>you can just run your own Postgres</i> (or anything really).</p>
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<p>That's not an argument in this (legal) case since the regulation applies at the time the device is sold.<p>(It just means the applicable law is another one, i.e. the one against recording in secret, which applies regardless of what the recording device looks like.)<p>[Ed.: it could still be considered a design/manufacturing defect, I guess.  It certainly would fail if it were intentionally made such that the LED is trivially disabled.  The courts may have to decide if this is in the grey zone.]</p>
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<p>These glasses <i>have</i> a LED.  I haven't seen it for real, but I've heard it's not discernible at daylight.<p>Even so, it might still run afoul of German law.  The German radio directive specifically forbids recording devices made to blend in and be surreptitious.  The LED would have to be extremely obvious and hard to tamper with.<p>(It's not even a privacy directive; you're just not allowed to sell devices like that.  Baby monitors have run afoul it.)<p>[German] <a href="https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Fachthemen/Datenportal/Verbraucherschutz/TK_Verbraucherschutz/Spionagegeraete/Spionagegeraete.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Fachthemen/Datenportal/V...</a><p>Blue is "online offers actioned/removed", orange is "legal proceedings initiated against vendors & sellers".  That's more than 7 legal actions <i>per day</i> in 2024.</p>
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<p>Getting it cold enough would probably do the trick too ;D</p>
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<p>Can't argue anything without arguments. Let's not discuss water, at this pace we'd end up proving it's dry.</p>
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<p>>>they seem to be doing their job just fine<p>>No one believes that.<p>We're having an objective discussion here, please bring receipts, not beliefs.</p>
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<p>Spoken like a true journalist with little dev experience :).  Though I don't understand why you felt it necessary to go borderline insulting/condescending? Ohwell.<p>Funnily enough, yeah, I'm a bottleneck… though for the exact opposite of the reason you're giving.  My employer doesn't do job titles, elsewhere I'd be a distinguished or principal engineer.  I have about 22 years of <i>depth</i> of knowledge in my area.  I'm there to answer questions, guide design decisions, review things and provide context.  There isn't enough of me to handle all that, so, yeah, bottleneck.  Which is solved by people around me getting things out of the way when they aren't related to my "scope" as you say, so I don't waste time on them.<p>But even for a junior dev, your comment makes little sense.  You need to learn breadth <i>and</i> depth.  If you're working at a project, you should rather stick to the existing tooling and go into depth, especially if a bunch of senior devs have put time and thought into finding a local optimium.<p>So, then, does your comment make sense for a midrange dev?  Maybe.  But even then, only if they're not <i>having to get shit done</i>.  Your AI agent doesn't get to decide to introduce you to new tooling or a new ecosystem midway through a sprint.  You do that shit when you're in the initial exploratory phase for a project, or tinkering with a pet project.<p>Maybe journalism is very focused on breadth? I don't know. I thought journalists also have their in-deep areas of knowledge?  AFAIK your area of knowledge is cryptocurrencies and related — if the AI agent asked you a safety question about fiat banking, what would you do?<p>P.S.: 2 layers below HTTP is IP.  I hope I didn't introduce a misunderstanding there, I'm not in a project where 2 layers above me there is HTTP.  There is nothing above.  That's just where we are, IP.  We don't work on anything that is HTTP, anywhere in the entire company.  (Well, sure, we have a website, but if I were to even think about spending time on that somebody would blow a gasket.)</p>
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<p>That's one of Congress' responsibilities: the GAO is in the legislative branch, it's Congress' job to exercise oversight.  (And it's all US citizens' job to elect people who they trust to exercise that oversight.  If the GAO isn't closed down when it should be, that's a failure of Congress, no more, no less, and nothing else.  But they seem to be doing their job just fine, unless you have some indications otherwise?)<p>(I don't think the GAO could set an expiry date on itself even if they wanted to, they exist by power of Congress, so only Congress could put an expiry date on them.)</p>
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<p>That's why the GAO already exists, and what its job is! There's even an international association and conference of these bodies across countries: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_of_Supreme_Audit_Institutions" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_of_...</a></p>
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<p>Anyone know if "-cpu ${CPU},vmx=off,svm=off" in QEMU is a safe workaround for this?<p>(To disable nested virtualization on a per-VM basis. Only against exploitation from within that specific VM, obviously does nothing against users with access to /dev/kvm on the host.)<p>[That <i>did</i> work around Januscape: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48815819">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48815819</a>]</p>
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