Hacker News: jynelson

New comment by jynelson in "We have a year to fix security everywhere"

jynelson — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 06:32:49 +0000

> What is it? Can it be this autonomous terrifying entity or can it not be?

the difference between attack and defense is that attacks can be throwaway code. it's much easier to let an llm hack out a prototype than to get it to build maintainable code that people want to read and review. it's not enough to get Daybreak or Mythos to write you a patch, you need the author of the project to accept and merge it.

New comment by jynelson in "Rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy"

jynelson — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:48:54 +0000

that is not what the policy says. it says "authors must disclose", "reviewers don't need to play detective", and "if a reviewer is not sure whether a post is LLM-created they should handle it privately, consulting mods". and the recourse is "go to this zulip channel", because closing a PR isn't the same as geting banned.

New comment by jynelson in "Rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy"

jynelson — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:08:44 +0000

yes. there's a reason there's exactly two things in the policy that are marked as moderation consequences and they're directly next to each other. "no harassment" doesn't work if people are paranoid that any PR could be LLM slop, and "disclosure is required" doesn't work if people are worried about harassment. you need both, and you need them to go into force at the same time.

New comment by jynelson in "Rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy"

jynelson — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:07:05 +0000

you're very welcome!

New comment by jynelson in "Rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy"

jynelson — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 08:51:18 +0000

> New contributors do not have community connections. I don't know any rust-lang/rust reviewer.

> What is the correct procedure for this?

there's a #llm-mentoring [0] Zulip stream linked in the dev-guide [1].

[0]: https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/join/rlfvpemsaacs3pfi6kwqnqj... [1]: https://rustc-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/llm-guidance/writing.h...

New comment by jynelson in "LLM Policy for Rust Compiler"

jynelson — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:52:52 +0000

it says “that’s right” in bold red cursive font. i know what the policy says, i wrote it, you nincompoop.

New comment by jynelson in "LLM Policy for Rust Compiler"

jynelson — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:25:08 +0000

https://i.imgur.com/129TCNu.png

New comment by jynelson in "LLM Policy for Rust Compiler"

jynelson — Fri, 15 May 2026 11:47:03 +0000

if an LLM says "I can't open a PR automatically until you solicit a review from a maintainer", i think that's good actually. likewise for proactively following the rest of the rules.

New comment by jynelson in "LLM Policy for Rust Compiler"

jynelson — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:31:09 +0000

i'm not a man.

New comment by jynelson in "Pre-commit hooks are broken"

jynelson — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 15:49:29 +0000

> Ultimately that's something the hook author has to solve, not the framework which runs them.

correct. i'm saying that hook authors almost never do this right, and i'd rather they didn't even try and moved their checks to a pre-push hook instead.

New comment by jynelson in "Pre-commit hooks are broken"

jynelson — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 11:50:49 +0000

this completely breaks `git add -p`.

New comment by jynelson in "Pre-commit hooks are broken"

jynelson — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 11:50:13 +0000

the pre-commit framework does not abstract away “hooks shouldn’t be run during a rebase”, nor “hooks should be fast and reliable”, nor “hooks should never change the index”.

New comment by jynelson in "I'm just having fun"

jynelson — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 17:26:32 +0000

i think you would be interested in demoscene, it’s about exactly this thing: making art out of extremely harsh requirements.

New comment by jynelson in "I'm just having fun"

jynelson — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 16:53:09 +0000

tbh i think you just hate trans people but you're afraid to say it directly

New comment by jynelson in "I'm just having fun"

jynelson — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 10:58:26 +0000

> Software should be an engineering field, which exists to help humans, not as some personal art project for your self expression

it makes me sad that you see these things as somehow in conflict with each other :(

New comment by jynelson in "I'm just having fun"

jynelson — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 05:53:53 +0000

> it's often that the amount of time i've spent thinking about something (a lot) is totally disproportionate to the time i spend typing my thoughts up (a little)

oh, this is a really good way of putting it! that’s exactly what happened :)

New comment by jynelson in "The terminal of the future"

jynelson — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 09:18:26 +0000

you could build an emacs frontend for this model! the thing i am trying to describe is “getting out of the box”. imagine a terminal session that is shared between emacs, iTerm, and a mobile phone ssh’d in over the network, that’s my vision.

New comment by jynelson in "The terminal of the future"

jynelson — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 01:01:11 +0000

omg i've wanted something like shelter for literal years

it "cheats" a little because it requires the underlying filesystem to support snapshots but it's still really really cool, thank you for the link!

New comment by jynelson in "The terminal of the future"

jynelson — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 23:25:54 +0000

> Great, now you just need to build and maintain shims for every tool in existence, force your users to use your own custom tools that support these features, and ensure that everything interoperates smoothly.

Yes, this is the work. https://becca.ooo/blog/vertical-integration/

New comment by jynelson in "The terminal of the future"

jynelson — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 23:24:25 +0000

whoa this looks fascinating, i've never heard of it before! thank you for the link :)