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New comment by gnatolf in "Your ePub Is fine"

gnatolf — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 03:38:29 +0000

Which, to be fair, overall probably still saved quite some time. The compile times alone would've meant they wasted so much more time by repeated earlier checks.

Whether a looming deadline changed the perception about that, we don't know ;-P

New comment by gnatolf in "Google changes its search box"

gnatolf — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:05:37 +0000

Interestingly enough, precise search is on the way out.

New comment by gnatolf in "Apple unveils new accessibility features"

gnatolf — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:11:44 +0000

'liquid metal' sounds cool. It's probably a metallic glass. I super dislike that it seemingly will be synonymous with the brand name by Apple even though that stuff has been around for decades.

Not that there are particularly many places where this is used - mostly because it really is just very expensive. In the awesome position that Apple is in, economic feasibility is so much easier to achieve, with like tens of millions of guaranteed parts to be preduced.

slopc: Replace every Rust todo() macro with a spontaneous runtime implementation

gnatolf — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 05:14:02 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/shorwood/slopc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47646303

Points: 5

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New comment by gnatolf in "Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

gnatolf — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:16:38 +0000

Well, there is a financial 'sink' - stockpiles and ammunition or other non-reusable military gear are basically the definition of money 'destroyed'. Their political value is almost non-existent actual money. If any, at all.

New comment by gnatolf in "Agents that run while I sleep"

gnatolf — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:25:05 +0000

Sorry but isn't the bottleneck then simply to do even relevant things? Like how much of a qualified backlog do you have that your pipeline does not run dry?

New comment by gnatolf in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

gnatolf — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:04:12 +0000

So let's put things we're interested in in the benchmarks.

I'm not against pelicans!

New comment by gnatolf in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

gnatolf — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:01:19 +0000

Good point. So much functionality gets commoditized, we have to move goalposts more or less constantly.

New comment by gnatolf in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

gnatolf — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:20:18 +0000

While this is funny, the actual race already started in how companies can nudge LLM results towards their products. We can't be saved from enshittification, I fear.

New comment by gnatolf in "Breaking the spell of vibe coding"

gnatolf — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 22:36:05 +0000

More specifically regarding spec-driven development:

There's a good reason that most successful examples of those tools like openspec are to-do apps etc. As soon as the project grows to 'relevant' size of complexity, maintaining specs is just as hard as whatever other methodology offers. Also from my brief attempts - similar to human based coding, we actually do quite well with incomplete specs. So do agents, but they'll shrug at all the implicit things much more than humans do. So you'll see more flip-flopped things you did not specify, and if you nail everything down hard, the specs get unwieldy - large and overly detailed.

New comment by gnatolf in "Breaking the spell of vibe coding"

gnatolf — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 22:27:59 +0000

Everybody feels like this, and I think nobody stays ahead of the curve for a prolonged time. There's just too many wrinkles.

But also, you don't have to upgrade every iteration. I think it's absolutely worthwhile to step off the hamster wheel every now and then, just work with you head down for a while and come back after a few weeks. One notices that even though the world didn't stop spinning, you didn't get the whiplash of every rotation.

New comment by gnatolf in "LLMs as the new high level language"

gnatolf — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 07:30:11 +0000

That is a wobbly assertion. You certainly would need to run the same compiler, forgo any recent optimisations, architecture updates and the likes if your code has numerical sensitive parts.

You certainly can get identical results, but it's equally certainly not going to be that simple a path frequently.

New comment by gnatolf in "Claude Opus 4.6"

gnatolf — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:41:48 +0000

From smaller to larger nitpick, there's basically something wrong with all of the first 15 or so of these drawings. Thanks for agreeing :)

New comment by gnatolf in "Claude Opus 4.6"

gnatolf — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:03:14 +0000

Absolutely. A technically correct bike is very hard to draw in SVG without going overboard in details

New comment by gnatolf in "I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?"

gnatolf — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 05:26:04 +0000

Yes, even if you create a single person account, you create an 'organization' to be billed. That's the whole confusion here. Y'all seemingly don't have an account at anthropic?

New comment by gnatolf in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

gnatolf — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 08:15:22 +0000

Craftsmen will have a resurgence, that's probably a 'leveling up' in terms of resilience against AI takeover. There's just no way of automating quite a few of the physically effective crafts.

New comment by gnatolf in "GPT-5.2-Codex"

gnatolf — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:10:01 +0000

Love it when it circles around a minor issue that I clearly described as temporary hack instead of recognizing the tremendously large gaping hole in my implementation right next to it.

New comment by gnatolf in "Google is killing the open web, part 2"

gnatolf — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:26:49 +0000

I was somewhat confused and irritated by the lack of a clear frontrunner crate for XML support in rust. I get that xml isn't sexy, but still.

New comment by gnatolf in "Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support"

gnatolf — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 22:04:51 +0000

For me, the shear length of uuids is annoying in payloads of tokens etc. I wish there was a common way to abbreviate those, similar to the git way.

New comment by gnatolf in "Let's write a macro in Rust"

gnatolf — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:57:16 +0000

If only one could construct a macro to solve the boilerplate of AsRef etc ;)