<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: geon</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=geon</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 06:55:49 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=geon" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by geon in "The "Windows XP Box" (2003)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Very impressive to pull off such a compact build in 2003!<p>I built a Shuttle xpc cube in 2008. I though <i>that</i> was tiny. I specifically used a laptop hard drive to reduce noice.<p>I think it was this exact model: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/s/o2HKpeLmrA" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/s/o2HKpeLmrA</a><p>It was my firts step away from windows. I ran ubuntu on it a couple of years until I switched to macos to do ios dev.</p>
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<p>The mini was not mini enough.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:10:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49641190</link><dc:creator>geon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49641190</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49641190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by geon in "We have a year to fix security everywhere"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Breaches don’t happen often enough to be a useful metric. Most smaller companies are never breached, despite having basically zero security.</p>
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<p>You mean you roll a single die and use the value to index an array of players?<p>That’s the pragmatic solution. The article is about an interesting mathematical puzzle, not actually solving a real problem.<p>Also, an n-sided die is fair for 2 to n players if you discard rolls above the number of players.</p>
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<p>Tillbaka till r/unket med dig.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:07:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49535632</link><dc:creator>geon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49535632</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49535632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by geon in "Sweden pauses Denmark power cable over EU grid rules"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sweden is very well positioned due to well developed hydro, but when germany was forced to give up russian gas, more electricity was exported, causing record high prices.<p>Interestingly, the hydro plants are located in the north and the national power grid is not dimensioned for massive export, so the export to germany from the south of sweden caused a strong price gradient.</p>
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<p>Array indexing?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:54:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503642</link><dc:creator>geon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503642</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by geon in "Norway should buy OpenAI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> achieve AGI<p>They might as well invest in cold fusion, warm superconductivity, curing cancer or whatever sci-fi concept you have.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:04:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351849</link><dc:creator>geon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351849</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by geon in "What sort of maths are LLMs good at?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That was not the prompt.</p>
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<p>Would the llm work better if it was given the job ad and asked where the job was located?<p>It seems to me that such simplified tasks tend work better. The rest of the loop is just scraping websites, which doesn’t really have a reason to rely on ai agents.</p>
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<p>You actually planned everything in advance, and <i>didn't have to go back and correct mistakes</i>?<p>Because if you ever go back a step, it is no longer the waterfall model, but an iterative process.</p>
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<p>Getting to a state where those assumptions are true is HARD. And takes a lot of careful programming.<p>Yes. Once it is true, the code is easy to write. But only because a lot of effort went into making it easy. And keeping it easy is also hard. Without focused effort to keep the code clean and easy to modify, it starts to rot.</p>
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<p>How does not everyone understand this? It's why waterfall development never worked.</p>
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<p>An engineer using an llm is absolutely nothing like an llm itself being the engineer.<p>The most successful example so far of en llm developing on its own is the C compiler that ended up a broken buggy mess.</p>
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<p>You mean anthropic and the others wouldn’t hype that up like there was no tomorrow?<p>Occams razor suggest there is <i>nothing</i>.</p>
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<p>Exactly what technical advancement in the field of LLMs have LLMs themselves contributed to?<p>Because that’s the definition of a singularity. Unless they can point ant any concrete examples, the claims are completely meaningless.</p>
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<p>Probably my favorite Heinlein book.<p>I really like the part where [SPOILERS] he gets back to civilization and no one believes him when he tells them about the widespread slavery.</p>
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<p>I fix bugs will git bisect all the time. But it’s not practical if you don’t have a good commit history to begin with.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:28:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49056594</link><dc:creator>geon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49056594</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49056594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by geon in "Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Only low quality. But yes, building better quality shouldn’t cost $ 10k</p>
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<p>> You don't disable anything. You wrote a "trust me compiler" block, and compiler trusted you.<p>That’s the same thing.</p>
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