<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: esjeon</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=esjeon</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:20:08 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=esjeon" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esjeon in "Show HN: A public AI whose memory is shared across all users"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It doesn't answer at all. :/</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 15:37:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321031</link><dc:creator>esjeon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321031</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esjeon in "If I own Claude's outputs why can't I train my own model on them?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One obvious loophole: upload your full outputs publicly. Anyone can feed those to their models.<p>Wait, we're already doing it. /s</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:22:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49283880</link><dc:creator>esjeon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49283880</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49283880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esjeon in "uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, but the token expires upon logout, and, after reading your comment, I just double-checked the expiry (got 400 from all related endpoints).</p>
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<p>You simply don't have enough testcases.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:11:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49282656</link><dc:creator>esjeon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49282656</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49282656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esjeon in "uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've just let Claude analyze an HAR file containing XHR traffic on the Facebook timeline. It happily wrote a script for extracting contents, fetch images and videos, and rebuilt the timeline into a single HTML -- highly responsive, with ZERO ads.<p>Now, parry this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 05:17:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49282010</link><dc:creator>esjeon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49282010</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49282010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esjeon in "Why Target Common Lisp for Code Generation?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Lisp is a highly expressive language with little constraint, so there’s plenty of room for individuals to become strongly opinionated. That leads to a bit of elite mindset.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:09:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49280242</link><dc:creator>esjeon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49280242</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49280242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esjeon in "ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>LLMs are only good at copying the surface, like frequently used words, sentence structures, use of metaphors, etc. They fail at copying the underlying thinking framework. LLMs cannot reproduce this, and they do notice the lack of framework in their writings (that’s how the know the writings are fake), but offer those as successful clones anyways.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 03:23:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238870</link><dc:creator>esjeon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238870</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esjeon in "Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would call this one-row-per-contract-type, and this is the most general model for the problem (e.g. the model cannot be further broken down into finer level), thus, the most scalable model given storage is dirt cheap.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 05:59:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49228815</link><dc:creator>esjeon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49228815</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49228815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esjeon in "“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>By saying coding is the hard part, you're insulting all <i>engineers</i>.<p>Edit:
Although the current job market is heavily distorted, there used to be distinction b/w developer and engineer in the past. As the mainstream development model shifts from waterfall to iterative models, it became necessary for everyone to be engineering-capable -- only up to a certain point. So, every developer now carries a certain amount of engineering knowledge, but now they started to misunderstand and underestimate the value of engineering, and this is what you would get at the very end.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 04:09:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49228372</link><dc:creator>esjeon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49228372</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49228372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esjeon in "Zapscape (CVE-2026-64561): Guest-to-Host Escape in KVM/x86"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This one(Zapscape) exploits the same module(shadow MMU) as Januscape, so it does workaround the issue.<p>AFAIK the only code paths that activates shadow MMU are (1) lack of hardware EPT/NPT support (2) nested virtualization. Hiding `vmx`/`svm` prevents access to the second code path.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:29:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206624</link><dc:creator>esjeon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206624</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esjeon in "Zapscape (CVE-2026-64561): Guest-to-Host Escape in KVM/x86"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This one exploit "shadow MMU" in the nested virtualization path of KVM, so this one is more-limited than EPT/NPT vul'n (KVM defaults to EPT/NPT, nested virt'n is disabled by default).<p>Nested virtualization is rather a niche feature, and, tbh, considering that shadow MMU  is highly complicated legacy code (i.e. outside of the main <i>happy</i> path) and has been source of critical vul'n, I would avoid nested virtualization on KVM.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:07:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49205154</link><dc:creator>esjeon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49205154</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49205154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esjeon in "LLMs reward expertise"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The model outputs are much more concise than when I try and talk to GPT-5.6 Sol about mathematics. By signalling expertise, Tao shunts the model into “talking-to-mathematicians” mode, not “explaining-to-amateurs” mode<p>I <i>believe</i> this works in two different ways.<p>First, information compression. The use of professional language helps describe problems more densely with minimal information loss/distortions. Verbose output by LLMs (e.g. ELI5) tend to incorporate local chat context, which can destabilize the context (e.g. out-of-topic, irrelevant nitpicking on writing style and wordings) and lead to faulty logic and even hallucination. LLMs are not good enough to look through all the noise, so, sometimes, it's helpful to refine the input data before performing actual tasks.<p>Second, boosting logical pattern-matching. Using professional language helps drive logical reasoning through simpler pattern-matching b/w texts. This is not about whether LLMs can reason or not; it's about how high-level reasoning is guided by <i>preconception</i>. Even humans tend to consume only textual surface of highly complicated theories (e.g. Adam Smith's "invisible hand"), and use them casually during conversation. It's similar for LLMs: if the conversation is conducted entirely in professional language, LLMs can easily incorporate external <i>professional</i> information into its reasoning. If the text is written in amateurish tongue, translating it into professional language can introduce errors and distortions.<p>So, yeah, keep your conversation professional, tidy and tight. A large volume of unprofessional text helps no one.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 04:48:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49164452</link><dc:creator>esjeon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49164452</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49164452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esjeon in "China begins producing advanced chipmaking deep-ultraviolet lithography machines"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Most of the time, the domestic market in China is indirectly controlled through political and social influence, not through policy. It's not a fair market at all.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 06:15:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49141628</link><dc:creator>esjeon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49141628</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49141628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esjeon in "Transformer Transformer: A Unified Model for Motion-Conditioned Robot Co-Design"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think this kind of automated design process can un-hype humanoids. The point of humanoid robots is one-size-fits-all -- a generalist can readily fit into various scenarios. However, if custom designs are cheap and optimized, there's no reason to stick to inefficient generalist designs.</p>
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<p>It's more like Claude models entirely suck at extracting key points. No matter how hard I emphasize that it needs to pick the "load-bearing" facts and claims, it cannot stop itself muttering around. It never nails the core logical structure. GPT is better at that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 04:09:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49044443</link><dc:creator>esjeon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49044443</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49044443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esjeon in "Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“State of <i>THE</i> art.”</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 05:42:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49002292</link><dc:creator>esjeon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49002292</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49002292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esjeon in "Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> But I'm beginning to wonder whether that will even matter in a few months.<p>At that point, even Bun itself doesn't matter. All intermediate tools don't matter if LLMs can reliably write something large.<p>The problem is that LLM is not quite there yet. The rewrite was only possible because they mostly stick to 1-to-1 translation resulting in non-idiomatic Rust code. So, what from there? I don't think they can really build up a sane codebase from that state. They only shot themselves with a bigger gun.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:31:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48967125</link><dc:creator>esjeon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48967125</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48967125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esjeon in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've only posted <i>one</i> question to SO, and it was enough to dislike the whole platform. LLM didn't kill it. SO killed itself with the broken community structure.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:02:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48958750</link><dc:creator>esjeon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48958750</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48958750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esjeon in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>App = Information × Interface = User Experience<p>It's ×(multiplication), not +(plus). Interface is not simply overlaid on Information; it actively changes how information is perceived and used, thus User Experience (UX).<p>Users have limited screen space, attention time, context retention, etc. So, apps must be wise about what information matters at any given moment, and make the best out of those limited resources.<p>Developers have been crazy about this: A/B testing, CVR, retention, churn, LTV, ARPU, DAU/MAU, North Star Metrics. Deploy and analyze, develop and optimize, rinse and repeat, and apps end up as revenue-generating machines.<p>A side effect of this optimization loop is that, apps become a <i>designed thinking process</i> for users. Apps decide what to show, what to hide, what to emphasize, and what comes next. They actively shape how people see and think, all to lure them into spending money.<p>So, "this could have been a webpage" misses the point of what apps are for, and, by extension, who apps are for.<p>Still, I see a bit of potential here. Document is a natural user interface -- almost all apps, including even SPAs, have document-like or document-driven views. Perhaps we've been too obsessed with computer-program-like UI. Documents can always be dynamic and interactive without being overdesigned. Perhaps this is what folks wanted to point out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:39:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48911269</link><dc:creator>esjeon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48911269</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48911269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esjeon in "Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yup, and calling out a human-written article as AI-generated would be a serious insult. AI-flagging would incur bigger damage to the community than just having AI-generated contents around.</p>
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