Hacker News: faitswulff

New comment by faitswulff in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

faitswulff — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:04:10 +0000

> The analysis uses a single metric: bugs per 10 commits (bugs/10c).

Bugs per commit as a metric papers over severity, both in terms of security severity as well as the effect on the user. A mislabeled button has the same weight as the entire app crashing in this framework.

New comment by faitswulff in "Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023)"

faitswulff — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:37:25 +0000

Also see: the entire history of America

New comment by faitswulff in "Is Python Becoming Pinyin?"

faitswulff — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:50:15 +0000

Sort of, but the amnesia typically applies to writing characters, rather than reading them.

New comment by faitswulff in "Is Python Becoming Pinyin?"

faitswulff — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:02:27 +0000

Pinyin is widely used, but pinyin’s primacy is oversold. Chinese texts start with teaching Chinese characters - many are recognizable to children from daily exposure to begin with, so they don’t need the pinyin. Pinyin only comes in when the character is genuinely unknown.

New comment by faitswulff in "FBI arrests CIA official with $40M in gold bars in his home"

faitswulff — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:40:26 +0000

I get 24 hour access through my local library. Here, have a gift link https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/us/politics/fbi-arrest-ci...

New comment by faitswulff in "Xiaomi MiMo Token Plan is Now Globally Available"

faitswulff — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:35:43 +0000

This runs counter to the last 50 years of American propaganda espousing the inefficiency of government. If the Chinese government can just throw money at industries and have them flourish, why can't other governments?

New comment by faitswulff in "Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 price drops 99% – AI pricing war"

faitswulff — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:22:41 +0000

I wonder how much of DeepSeek and Xiaomi's pricing cuts can be traced back to cheap energy in China.

New comment by faitswulff in "Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)"

faitswulff — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:07:52 +0000

What kinds of programs are you writing and with what models? I'm curious if the lifetimes your programs require are trickier than most.

New comment by faitswulff in "Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter"

faitswulff — Sun, 17 May 2026 13:43:40 +0000

The article makes no sense. I can't use OpenRouter as a general purpose computing device. Why are we comparing a whole computer to a single purpose SaaS?

New comment by faitswulff in "DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again"

faitswulff — Sat, 16 May 2026 17:27:37 +0000

> Flagship models usually do not do that without some convincing

Just a data point, but I’ve been having Claude do this regularly

New comment by faitswulff in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"

faitswulff — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:15:05 +0000

> It will eventually doom zig to a smaller "artisanal" pool of contributors

“Artisanal” and “Zig” are just about synonymous

New comment by faitswulff in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

faitswulff — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:38:37 +0000

Anthropic's position is that thinking tokens aren't actually faithful to the internal logic that the LLM is using, which may be one reason why they started to exclude them:

https://www.anthropic.com/research/reasoning-models-dont-say...

New comment by faitswulff in "April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini"

faitswulff — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:56:40 +0000

Does LM Studio have an equivalent to the ollama launch command? i.e. `ollama launch claude --model qwen3.5:35b-a3b-coding-nvfp4`

New comment by faitswulff in "Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust"

faitswulff — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 02:21:30 +0000

If you’re interested in Chinese characters, there’s https://github.com/wenyan-lang/wenyan

New comment by faitswulff in "The MacBook Neo"

faitswulff — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:03:07 +0000

There are multiple videos out there of reviewers running multiple “Pro” apps at the same time on the Neo. It’s an impressive machine.

New comment by faitswulff in "When AI writes the software, who verifies it?"

faitswulff — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:19:59 +0000

Someone actually did fuzz the claude c compiler:

https://john.regehr.org/writing/claude_c_compiler.html

New comment by faitswulff in "Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi"

faitswulff — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:37:02 +0000

I have used it from China, actually. Not big enough to be blocked.

New comment by faitswulff in "Pebble Round 2"

faitswulff — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 05:20:23 +0000

The Pebble Time 2 has a heart rate monitor

New comment by faitswulff in "Parental controls aren't for parents"

faitswulff — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 04:45:30 +0000

While we're on the topic, our school-issued Chromebooks allow unfettered access to YouTube. Yes, some of it is educational, but the kids can just click on the next video until they get what they want. Very convenient for you, Google Ads.

New comment by faitswulff in "BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal"

faitswulff — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 18:07:40 +0000

Ah, I think I get it. Are you saying that regardless of BYD’s continued existence, China will still have 1/3 of the world’s manufacturing capacity?