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New comment by grahamlee in "Open source does not imply open community"

grahamlee — Sun, 03 May 2026 08:41:11 +0000

If you look at the Open Source Definition, you see the four freedoms: https://opensource.org/osd

That’s unsurprising because the OSD is based on the Debian social contract, and Debian is a GNU distribution.

Art or Tool?

grahamlee — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:51:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sicpers.info/2026/03/art-or-tool/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47585439

Points: 1

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New comment by grahamlee in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

grahamlee — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:29:35 +0000

so many peripherals now come in external boxes that communicate _incredibly quickly_ over Thunderbolt 4/5 that the need for PCIe is marginal, while the cost to support it is significant.

Preprint Review: "Intelligent AI Delegation"

grahamlee — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:42:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.patreon.com/posts/153993948

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47530388

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

AppScript: Objective-C Without the C

grahamlee — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:47:31 +0000

Article URL: https://codeberg.org/leeg/appscript

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47400568

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by grahamlee in "Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft"

grahamlee — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:04:01 +0000

but the point of an EULA is to restrict distribution, so AGPL3 can help there.

New comment by grahamlee in "Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft"

grahamlee — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:20:12 +0000

It's clear that we're entering a new era of copyright _expectations_ (whether we get new _legislation_ is different), but for now realise this: the people like me who like copyleft can do this too. We can take software we like, point an agent at it, and tell it to make a new version with the AGPL3.0-or-later badge on the front.

I made a 1990s UML+Java Dev Shop out of AI

grahamlee — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:33:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.patreon.com/posts/152374453?pr=true

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47274206

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Patterns in AI-Augmented Software Development

grahamlee — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:04:35 +0000

Article URL: https://library.chironcodex.com/books/patterns-in-ai-augmented-software-development

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47236256

Points: 10

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When to Vibe Code?

grahamlee — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 07:35:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkRkLBcm9D4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47084886

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Opinionated Read: How AI Impacts Skill Formation

grahamlee — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 13:22:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sicpers.info/2026/02/opinionated-read-how-ai-impacts-skill-formation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46846044

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by grahamlee in "How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills"

grahamlee — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 08:07:09 +0000

I’ve been making the case (e.g. https://youtu.be/uL8LiUu9M64?si=-XBHFMrz99VZsaAa [1]) that we have to be intentional about using AI to augment our skills, rather than outsourcing understanding: great to see Anthropic confirming that.

[1] plug: this is a video about the Patreon community I founded to do exactly that. Just want to make sure you’re aware that’s the pitch before you do ahead and watch.

New comment by grahamlee in "A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote"

grahamlee — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 05:05:57 +0000

OK thanks for clarifying your reasoning!

New comment by grahamlee in "A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote"

grahamlee — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:28:25 +0000

As the submitter, I want to point out that I submitted this post with the original title. The one that makes it clear a16z are behind the social media astroturfing. The mods changed the title.

A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote

grahamlee — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:16:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/hack-reveals-the-a16z-backed-phone-farm-flooding-tiktok-with-ai-influencers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46303291

Points: 292

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New comment by grahamlee in "A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z"

grahamlee — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 14:11:09 +0000

These modern times that literally began in 1769. Oxford English Dictionary, “literally (adv.), sense I.1.c,” June 2025, https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/9189024563.

New comment by grahamlee in "When did people favor composition over inheritance?"

grahamlee — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:57:33 +0000

What you lose by using composition is that the composing object is no longer a subtype of the constituent object, so you can't use it as a "decoration" of the original object in a program that expects an instance of the original.

New comment by grahamlee in "When did people favor composition over inheritance?"

grahamlee — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:55:57 +0000

Article author here. Your idea "gluing together things that don't know necessarily know about each other" is basically what the GoF book means: composition is "this object has a reference to that object and uses its public API". They don't mean "this object ontologically contains an instance of that object" in the sense that a car "has" an engine, which is a narrower definition of composition that people frequently use.

It's that broader version of composition—particularly in its extreme realization, delegation—that underlies a lot of the behavioral patterns in the book. For example, the State and Strategy patterns boil down to "this object relies on another object to fill in the behavior here, and there are ways to choose what that other object is", which is something it's easy to arrange with subclassing and the only point of the pattern is to avoid subclassing.

New comment by grahamlee in "When did people favor composition over inheritance?"

grahamlee — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 11:21:17 +0000

Author here. I wrote “ But even a modestly more recent language like Java has visibility attributes that let a class control what its subtypes can view or change, meaning that any modification in a subclass can be designed before we even know that a subtype is needed.” which covers your situation: if you need to ensure that subtypes use the supertype’s behaviour in limited ways, use the visibility modifiers and `final` modifier to impose those limits.

New comment by grahamlee in "Étoilé – desktop built on GNUStep"

grahamlee — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 07:57:54 +0000

David Chisnall is now at MS Research and does cool things with CHERI making a computing platform that's memory-safe by default.