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New comment by giancarlostoro in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"

giancarlostoro — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:44:28 +0000

Well yeah, they'll keep burning the VC bucks.

New comment by giancarlostoro in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"

giancarlostoro — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:00:06 +0000

This is why even if I ask GPT or Claude or whatever to rewrite an email, I still rewrite it by hand with my own words, what I look for is, did the AI remove sentences where I repated myself or that were too wordy? Perfect, I'll ommit those details.

New comment by giancarlostoro in "GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast"

giancarlostoro — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:49:36 +0000

Sure, and I realized after I posted the std lib is opened up, not sure how much of it will reveal the underlying Mojo specifics though.

New comment by giancarlostoro in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"

giancarlostoro — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:42:37 +0000

Honestly, if you saved a ton of hours with the model coding for you, at least give me 30 minutes of your own words, show me you know what you're shipping, if you can't do that, then I don't know if I want to approve the PR. My first job we always did peer review in a meeting room when a PR looked a little too much, you can't exactly bring in GPT into a meeting so its a good time to ask simple questions about the change to ensure you understand it just as much as they do.

New comment by giancarlostoro in "GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast"

giancarlostoro — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:29:58 +0000

Mojo is not fully open sourced yet, but it will eventually be, would be an interesting comparison though.

New comment by giancarlostoro in "Incident with Github.com"

giancarlostoro — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:47:49 +0000

Rather use BitBucket or GitLab really, both GitLab and BitBucket have been around nearly as long as GitHub? Apparently BitBucket and GitHub are both 2008, and GitLab is 2011. The others you mentioned could go on a whim.

New comment by giancarlostoro in "Apple's App Tracking Transparency treated its own apps better than rivals"

giancarlostoro — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:05:38 +0000

That should be supported, but if its the only "Photo Gallery" app installed, I think its okay. Curious, do you use another one that's better? I have looked (though not very invested in looking) and didn't really see anything that caught my eye.

New comment by giancarlostoro in "Apple's App Tracking Transparency treated its own apps better than rivals"

giancarlostoro — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:47:51 +0000

For me it depends on which app and which permissions, like "Photos" obviously needs to be able to see my photos... Camera needs my camera, but for location it should ask me before it turns it on.

I don't even care if they make the dialogue look a little different since they're system apps you need to use the features of your phone, but the "extras" they support should default to "Ask First" in an ideal world that is.

New comment by giancarlostoro in "Rhombus 1.1 is now available"

giancarlostoro — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:35:45 +0000

Racket and Clojure are the primary Lisp languages I like. The only thing I don't like about Clojure is the JVM itself ;) Mainly because Oracle stopped working on making Java have a rich GUI stack, JavaFX was brilliantly done and headed in a positive direction, but once Oracle took over Java, it kind of turned it into "that one backend language" essentially, instead of the cross-platform multi-application need swizz army knife it used to be.

New comment by giancarlostoro in "Rhombus 1.1 is now available"

giancarlostoro — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 02:31:30 +0000

Racket was always one of my favorite Lisp / Scheme dialect, mainly because of its very rich ecosystem, you can make websites, GUIs a lot of things with very minimal effort, that and Dr Racket lets you see visually where import goes into code, and a bunch of other nice things.

Rhombus strikes to me as an interesting language in this ecosystem (which it is!) that not only gives you access to all those capabilities, but shows how powerful Racket can be for building programming languages!

That said I have not yet sat down to try it, but as they seem to be doing quick development with it, I just might have to.

The entire Rhombus repo is all Racket:

https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aracket%2Frhombus++languag...

New comment by giancarlostoro in "Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+"

giancarlostoro — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:35:44 +0000

Plus the platform fee that OpenRouter makes? 5 billion a year?

New comment by giancarlostoro in "Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe"

giancarlostoro — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:25:13 +0000

Lets suppose everyone in the world miraculously loses their jobs to AI, who is paying for it? How? What are they selling? What stops the rest of humanity from turning data centers into a pile of ash?

These people are so disconnected from reality.

New comment by giancarlostoro in "Anthropic CEO says the way for AI to win over the public is to cure cancer"

giancarlostoro — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:21:11 +0000

Sam Altman made a similar remark, in the case of Sam Altman though, GPT has been making breakthroughs in mathematics which is rather impressive, I could see AI helping to unlock more about cancer.

New comment by giancarlostoro in "Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+"

giancarlostoro — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:15:15 +0000

7 billion one off for 100 billion annually? If I am understanding that correctly it feels like a no brainer to me…

Also if you think about it differently… OpenRouter is adjacent to what Stripe is but for getting access to AI models. If they dont mess this up they could invest in openerouter and grow that 100b pie.

New comment by giancarlostoro in "Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome"

giancarlostoro — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 20:24:24 +0000

The real argument shouldn't be about protocols becoming obsolete, but programming languages that are "less efficient" could eventually become obsolete in favor of highly scalable and performant languages due to LLMs when the main gap becomes knowing how the tech works at a high level, and not the syntax, why code in one language over another if you don't need to worry about messing up on syntax, only about reviewing logic for sanity and correctness against business rules as well as validating that it is stable code.

(LFE:Lisp Flavoured Erlang)

giancarlostoro — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 05:53:47 +0000

Article URL: https://lfe.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317268

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New comment by giancarlostoro in "How AI text watermarking works"

giancarlostoro — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:51:04 +0000

The other problem everyone is overlooking, it seems the EU is having Anthropic do this, so the EU's purpose is to identify things made with AI, I guess that includes code, but Anthropic is taking a stance to go even further, even though Claude already attributes itself to your code if it checks it in.

New comment by giancarlostoro in "How AI text watermarking works"

giancarlostoro — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 05:41:09 +0000

That doesn't explain why the EU wants it though?

New comment by giancarlostoro in "How AI text watermarking works"

giancarlostoro — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:32:26 +0000

I think the goal is not to validate if you used Claude, the goal is to insert enough information in your code to identify who you are over at Anthropic, like a covert unique hash to identify you, hidden in plain sight, but that's my own speculation and not based on anything.

I'm having a hard time thinking of any other use case... What other reason is there to fingerprint your code?

I assume if they arrest you for vibe coding something that violated computing laws (hacking) they can then scan your code, send it to anthropic, anthropic confirms that Claude was used on your account, on x device to build malware.

Remember they busted a hacker because of his Windows unique install ID.

New comment by giancarlostoro in "Mistral OCR 4.1"

giancarlostoro — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:24:56 +0000

The big difference is traditional OCR used basic pattern matching to find text, whereas models like Mistral OCR (and GPT, etc) use computer vision instead and deep learning to parse text, math equations, and apparently in some cases extract images too.

I'd love to see some advancements in traditional OCR based on ideas and concepts we've learned from newer "OCR-like" models since traditional OCR is drastically cheaper.