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So yeah it was written using AI

kimi — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:20:27 +0000

Article URL: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/so-yeah-it-is-written-using-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50177979

Points: 2

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New comment by kimi in "France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months"

kimi — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 08:18:19 +0000

It's a fridge. Who knows what microcontroller CPU is there, and which toolchain they use.

New comment by kimi in "11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker"

kimi — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 09:00:44 +0000

You got my reference. But the original comment stands at -1 points now, even mock criticism of C and Rust seems to be totally unappreciated by the bigots.

New comment by kimi in "Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting 'thank-you gifts' from birds [video]"

kimi — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:15:21 +0000

Some crow experts discourage feeding them because they can be a bit too much.

OTOH the Swiss Department of Agriculture says that there is nothing that actually works against corvids. You can scare them and you can make their life difficult, but they learn, and show others how to bypass issues (possibly on "Corvid News"), so they might lose some battle but will win the war.

New comment by kimi in "A Modern Web App in C"

kimi — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:18:53 +0000

And nobody in their right mind sleeps soundly at night.

New comment by kimi in "11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker"

kimi — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:15:48 +0000

Or we realize that it is not possible, and Rust accepts to be "just" a definitely safer C.

New comment by kimi in "A Modern Web App in C"

kimi — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:39:14 +0000

Web apps work on input text and generate text, and C is not the most text-friendly language there is. There is a reason why early CGI-BINs were usually written in Perl.

(I won't even get started on the issues of creating new software in a language that is unsafe by design, and where any performance advantage will be dwarfed by the cost of forking. Whatever floats your boat, dude.)

A Memory of Pangea – Running a public-interest BBS in 1996

kimi — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:19:23 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/l3nz/pangea-2023/blob/main/Storia_en.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50053103

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by kimi in "How to head into VR without wearing a headset"

kimi — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 10:33:17 +0000

I have some eye convergence issues, so maybe that's why. But my kids don't and they switched it off as well. Nice demo for the shop, though!

New comment by kimi in "How to head into VR without wearing a headset"

kimi — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:42:04 +0000

It was very nice, but very tiring after the first 5 minutes. So everybody I'm aware of switched it off in practice.

New comment by kimi in "How to head into VR without wearing a headset"

kimi — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:40:55 +0000

Every five years or so, VR gets to be the next hot thing. My first VR ride was on SGI Indigo, so it's been a while. Believers say we're almost there; I beg to be skeptical at this point.

New comment by kimi in "La Cueva BBS in Mexico in 1993 (session replay)"

kimi — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 08:20:02 +0000

The last part is incomplete but it reads like a report from an alien civilization.

A memory of Pangea (an early civic network, 1996-1999)

kimi — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 18:30:23 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/l3nz/pangea-2023/blob/main/Storia_en.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49956515

Points: 1

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New comment by kimi in "I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots"

kimi — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 13:48:19 +0000

I thought reddit would have been a sensible place to advertise our b2b product, that caters to a quite technical audience in a way that is not very friendly to Linkedin targeting.

New comment by kimi in "I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots"

kimi — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 05:39:51 +0000

We had a similar issue with Reddit, spent $500 and got a lot of clicks - none of them ever did anything else, not even by mistake. When we reported this behavior to Reddit, the rep who helped us set up the campaign just vanished. No answer. After a while, another rep came out and asked if we were interested in advertising on Reddit. Explained the situation and... poof! this other rep disappeared too.

My feeling is that this is systemic, and basically it's the very business model. I remember the first account explaining how the initial budget should be a few thousand dollars, so that "the AI could target effectively". It did target effectively - our wallet.

New comment by kimi in "The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations"

kimi — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 07:20:10 +0000

> Importantly, our results show that once a given system of communication has evolved, it may constrain the evolution of more efficient communication systems because it would require going through a stage where communication between signalers and receivers is perturbed.

You mean, they too used SMTP?