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New comment by ianks in "Show HN: RatatuiRuby wraps Rust Ratatui as a RubyGem – TUIs with the joy of Ruby"

ianks — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 06:40:41 +0000

Love it

New comment by ianks in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"

ianks — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 05:01:27 +0000

Personally, I just don’t find myself interested at all in AI generated music. Don’t think I’m alone here, either. I suspect there will soon be a streaming platform whose sole value is to maintain a catalog of verified human music. Pretty easy problem to solve.

New comment by ianks in "State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship'"

ianks — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 07:37:22 +0000

The most ironic thing to me is the amount of coddling these self-purported “strong men” need. The idea that someone wouldn’t blindly accept what they say is enough to throw their egos into self-protection mode.

Sad

New comment by ianks in "Zed is our office"

ianks — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 23:35:04 +0000

I’m always _this_ close to adopting Zed, but I just can’t get used to the project search. I’m too used to telescope now. Maybe I need to bite the bullet because I think Zed’s search is objectively better. Old dog, I suppose…

New comment by ianks in "OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems"

ianks — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 01:38:56 +0000

To me, the question is less about “how do we make more energy” and more about “how do we make LLMs 100x more energy efficient.” Not saying this is an easy problem to solve, but it all seems like a stinky code smell.

New comment by ianks in "Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors"

ianks — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 22:06:22 +0000

There’s alternatives to wiping out the company that could be fair. For example, a judgement resulting in a shares of the company or revenue shares in the future rather than a one time pay off.

Writers were the true “foundational” piece of LLMs, anyway.

New comment by ianks in "450× Faster Joins with Index Condition Pushdown"

ianks — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 15:01:12 +0000

I love this type of practical optimization for DB queries. I’ve always liked how [rom-rb](https://rom-rb.org/learn/core/5.2/combines/) made the combine pattern easy to use when joins are slow. Nice to see this implemented at DB layer

New comment by ianks in "Japan city drafts ordinance to cap smartphone use at 2 hours per day"

ianks — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 06:13:36 +0000

Having a base level of trust in your government can have incredibly positive effects on society. In the US, I dream of the day where government could try out ideas without the pitchforks coming out. Sure, some ideas will be terrible and that’s OK as long as we throw them in the trash can.

New comment by ianks in "Privately-Owned Rail Cars"

ianks — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 13:30:04 +0000

There is nothing more saddening than the state of America’s train situation. It’s like we’re fundamentally incapable of understanding the value of shared infrastructure.

In the rare case that a state escapes the matrix and actually realizes the benefit, we can’t get the damn thing built.

I want a packed bullet train, not a fucking slow private train car.

New comment by ianks in "What does Palantir actually do?"

ianks — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 00:22:05 +0000

I’d be curious to hear a follow-up article about what Palantir doesn’t do. For better or worse, I think we are living in a time where companies should take principled stands about anti-features.

It’s good to build in all of these optional data and privacy knobs, but I fear that’s not enough.

New comment by ianks in "U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites"

ianks — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 11:19:06 +0000

No one in their right mind wants the Supreme Leader armed with nukes… but there are many ways to prevent this outcome.

New comment by ianks in "I read all of Cloudflare's Claude-generated commits"

ianks — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 16:53:22 +0000

I’m trying to remember if oauth has a specification or not, but I’m getting conflicting thoughts

New comment by ianks in "Re: My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

ianks — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 07:31:24 +0000

> I feel like this article makes the same tired point I see every time a new technology comes

I sympathize with this viewpoint, but I do think it’s important to recognize the differences here. One thing I’ve noticed from the vibe-code coalition is a push towards offloading _cognition_. I think this is a novel distinction from industrial innovations that more or less optimize manual labor.

You could argue that moving from assembly to python is a form of cognition offloading, but it’s not quite the same in my eyes. You are still actively engaged in thinking for extended periods of time.

With agentic code bots, active thinking just isn’t the vibe. I’m not so sure that style of half-engaged work has positive outcomes for mental health and personal development (if that’s one of your goals).

New comment by ianks in "How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes"

ianks — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 05:51:51 +0000

Reminds me of the timeless advice I got for acing leet code interviews: “remember to use a hash map.” Tends to work out pretty well.

New comment by ianks in "OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats"

ianks — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 03:45:16 +0000

This ruling is unbelievably dystopian for anyone that values a right to privacy. I understand that the logs will be useful in the occasional conviction, but storing a log of people’s most personal communications is absolutely not a just trade.

To protect their users from the this massive overreach, OpenAI should defy this order and eat the fines IMO.

New comment by ianks in "AI Firm: "Start Cheating""

ianks — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 03:42:12 +0000

Ultimately, you’re only cheating yourself.

I recommend challenging yourself to come up with your own quips, jokes, and hell, even life realizations. Even if they are “worse” than what a LLM can provide, they’re yours.

New comment by ianks in "Has anyone else found Google's AI overview to be oddly error prone?"

ianks — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 03:28:41 +0000

LLMs and tempered expectations, like oil and water

New comment by ianks in "The Llama 4 herd"

ianks — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 07:24:19 +0000

Are we going to find out that Meta pirated libgen again, with zero recognition to the authors?

“Open-sourcing it” doesn’t magically absolve you of the irreparable damages you’ve caused society. You stole their life’s work so your company could profit off of rage-slop.