<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: kloop</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kloop</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:23:07 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=kloop" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kloop in "Vitamin D3 During Pregnancy and Cognitive Performance at 10 Years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do they need more vitamin D? I thought they just needed more sun to get the same vitamin D</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:41:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436482</link><dc:creator>kloop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436482</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kloop in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're not wrong that a rationale is required.<p>But the master knowing when to break the rules because of tacit knowledge without being able to explain it is a real effect</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:07:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48435564</link><dc:creator>kloop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48435564</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48435564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kloop in "LLMs Are Closer to Religion Than They Appear"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Radioactive decay shows that a young earth could not exist<p>This is one of the worst arguments against young earth creationism. You have to posit a being who can create the universe, but can't create already decayed elements.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:22:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48356511</link><dc:creator>kloop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48356511</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48356511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kloop in "EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The problem we're seeing across many professions is AI output is not getting vetted by knowledgeable people<p>The problem is that output sometimes take longer to verify than to create in the first place.<p>That turns AI into a deeply negative ROI system for many applications.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 20:13:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48340182</link><dc:creator>kloop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48340182</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48340182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kloop in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>1st amendment. There's a long history of carve outs around commercial products. But, if Linux devs (who aren't selling anything) went to the mat against this law, the government of California would lose and (at least part of) their law would be struck down.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 20:22:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48271254</link><dc:creator>kloop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48271254</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48271254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kloop in "Deno 2.8"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The article mentions Zig as a factor, but is micromanaging memory really gaining over 2x vs node?<p>As someone who has optimized by reducing/batching heap allocations, 2x seems within the realm of possibility, depending on the exact circumstances.<p>That being said, iirc, node also has more hooks for things like observability than bun does, which might hurt it here</p>
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<p>> There's not really enough info to know if this is just a coin toss or something more.<p>The difference is always having one or two devs who care. Every successful software project I've ever seen has had a few devs who care way more than is healthy</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 23:51:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142766</link><dc:creator>kloop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142766</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kloop in "Authorities say Flock cameras' data allegedly used for immigration enforcement"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> It can't block a federal warrant.<p>Exactly. If they all submit to federal warrants, and the state has a law effectively against that, then it becomes illegal to use the cameras.</p>
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<p>That probably just means it's illegal for local governments to use cloud based cameras in Illinois</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 16:35:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051460</link><dc:creator>kloop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051460</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kloop in "OpenAI Misses Key Revenue, User Targets in High-Stakes Sprint Toward IPO"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That doesn't seem like the obvious story to me. Normies and even most (non-tech) companies don't really know the difference between chatgpt and claude yet. And they generally don't have opinions or ideas on agentic X.<p>The obvious story seems to be that OpenAI was reckless and got way ahead of their revenue assuming it would keep hockey-sticking</p>
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<p>> No more: five code monkey contractors under a lead. Two top-notch devs are all that is needed now, unrestrained by sprints and mindless ceremonies.<p>This doesn't tell me anything. Two devs who cared and didn't have a bunch of pointless meetings could already, and regularly did, scoop the big tech teams.<p>There were always 2 ways to complete a ticket. One that did what the stakeholder wanted, and one that does what the ticket says.<p>But devs that care about the product and what the stakeholders need are rare, and finding one of them was already a significant bottleneck on most projects.<p>AI might be an accelerator, but we've yet to see if it's optimizing the part that was actually the bottleneck yet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:46:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47902302</link><dc:creator>kloop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47902302</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47902302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kloop in "Silicon Valley is turning scientists into exploited gig workers?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To be blunt, those freelancers wouldn't be doing this if they had better options<p>Every time one of these articles come up, you can recognize that silicon valley is treating these people badly, but you should remember that everyone else is treating them worse</p>
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<p>No, this paper doesn't seem to talk about regional differences. The implication seems to be that it wouldn't be surprising to find differences between groups that separated more than 2kya, as there was active changes going on before that time. Not that it predicts any specific differences<p>> If anything they seem to support homogenization of intellectual capacity/mental health in Eurasia since 2kya.<p>I would be interested in how you came to that conclusion, unless I'm misleading your post and you specifically mean West Eurasia</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:01:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47795365</link><dc:creator>kloop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47795365</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47795365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kloop in "Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think they're talking about this bit:<p>> We finally observed signals of selection for combinations of alleles 
that today are associated with three correlated behavioural traits: 
scores on intelligence tests (increasing γ = 0.74 ± 0.12), household 
income (increasing γ = 1.12 ± 0.12) and years of schooling (increasing 
γ = 0.63 ± 0.13). These signals are all highly polygenic, and we have 
to drop 449–1,056 loci for the signals to become non-significant 
(Extended Data Fig. 10). The signals are largely driven by selection 
before approximately 2,000 years )*, after which γ tends towards zero<p>Presumably pressure in different regions lead to different combinations of those alleles, which I think they are shorthanding a bit, but the fact that those alleles exist makes blank slate theory a kind of rough assumption</p>
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<p>Feature usage can't tell you that.<p>There's often a checklist of features management has, and meeting that list gets you in the door, but the features often never get used</p>
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<p>> how big is the text file? I bet it's a megabyte, isn't it?<p>The edit in the article says ~1.5kb</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:45:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47542047</link><dc:creator>kloop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47542047</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47542047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kloop in "Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You have made a claim with zero rationale to back it up.<p>Why shouldn't it look like that? Especially with a law this dumb</p>
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<p>You're ignoring the biggest part of SaaS as far as management is concerned.<p>There's a large, stable entity that management can sue if something goes very wrong.</p>
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<p>We don't know. We seem to be hitting diminishing returns, but we don't exactly know where it will stop</p>
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<p>I hate that it's a method. That can get lost in a method chain easily enough during a code review.<p>A function or a keyword would interrupt that and make it less tempting</p>
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