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New comment by irdc in "Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache"

irdc — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:06:11 +0000

This is where hand-rolled intrusive data structures, as are traditional in C, really shine.

New comment by irdc in "Executive order changing name of lake-Ontario"

irdc — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:04:40 +0000

This is so stupid. Are you really gonna let him remain president for the rest of his 4 year term?

New comment by irdc in "Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache"

irdc — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:40:52 +0000

This is why system programming still matters.

Looks like they're missing the obvious optimisation of putting the record data right after the CacheEntry members instead of allocating memory separately though. But that might just be me as a C-programmer talking and not be all that easy in Rust.

New comment by irdc in "The Feeling of Power (Asimov, 1958)"

irdc — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:27:26 +0000

Oops, link got munged. Should be: https://archive.org/details/1958-02_IF/page/4/mode/2up

The Feeling of Power (Asimov, 1958)

irdc — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:26:03 +0000

Article URL: https://archive.org/details/1958-02_IF

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49446602

Points: 25

# Comments: 9

New comment by irdc in "One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed"

irdc — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:13:52 +0000

If you define Europe as Sumer or Egypt, then yes. If you define Europe as Rome, then no. The earliest deciphered Greek writing dates from 1450 BC (Linear B) but that civilisation fell in the Bronze Age collapse and there is no (written) continuity with Europe as it stands today.

As far as I'm concerned we're all equally ancient descendants from LUCA.

New comment by irdc in "Person Hides Prompt Injection in Legal Filing Telling AI to Side with Them"

irdc — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:22:25 +0000

One way would be to toy with the order in which the text appears on the page: that needn't be in the same order as the one for the text in the document. I.e.: the text on page could be "hello world" whereas if you copy it you get "old row hell".

New comment by irdc in "Private healthcare makes industries less innovative. It's time for change"

irdc — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:44:28 +0000

Why is this news? As a European this seems totally obvious.

Continued CO2 emissions will impair cognition (2020)

irdc — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 16:40:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.colorado.edu/mechanical/2020/04/21/continued-co2-emissions-will-impair-cognition

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48786749

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by irdc in "The bottleneck might be the air in the room"

irdc — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:44:51 +0000

There are. The article literally cites a publication describing just such a study.

New comment by irdc in "Should European housing politics be Americanized?"

irdc — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 22:01:10 +0000

The issues around zoning are not comparable. For one, here in the Netherlands we have plenty of density and not a lot of missing-middle, but still a giant shortage.

The problem here was never zoning, it was a lack of building.

New comment by irdc in "DuckDuckGo's AI Feature Is Telling Users That Trump Died of Rabies"

irdc — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:46:15 +0000

This is all to distract from the fact that J.D. Vance did die from rabies.

New comment by irdc in "Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark"

irdc — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:29:00 +0000

That assumes we're talking about technologies that are legal and in some way beneficial. AI is basically large-scale copyright infringement. If allowed to continue, human authors (I'm including programmers here) will eventually just stop publishing, because why feed the machine that's busy replacing you? You're not even getting paid for it, because the magic box can do the same thing you can for cheaper.

Thing is, everything AI produces is derivative; it cannot make anything truly original. Therefore widespread AI adoption will inevitably lead to scientific and cultural stagnation.

So we'll have our magic box that can perform our every wish. And we'll all be worse off for it.

New comment by irdc in "You didn't vibe code it, you stole it from open source&enterprise-licensed code"

irdc — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:15:20 +0000

So we're in violent agreement then?

New comment by irdc in "Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark"

irdc — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:14:03 +0000

AI is busy destroying my art and my livelihood. Fighting back is about as psychotic as drapetomania[0] was.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania

New comment by irdc in "Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark"

irdc — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:12:19 +0000

Papermark is AGPL; Corgi must release all its changes.

New comment by irdc in "Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark"

irdc — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:11:06 +0000

When it plays fair, sure. Not when it steals.

New comment by irdc in "Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark"

irdc — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:10:39 +0000

I'd suggest replacing that link with https://xcancel.com/mfts0/status/2070080422482977095

New comment by irdc in "AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter"

irdc — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:50:16 +0000

Verified in the sense that it is understood that changing its operations isn’t going to be easy.

New comment by irdc in "AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter"

irdc — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:33:11 +0000

Not entirely. A program can be verified[0] to perform according to its specifications. An AI can’t.

0. mostly