<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: knighthack</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=knighthack</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:29:30 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=knighthack" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knighthack in "If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The post is aggressive.<p>I was about to dislike it, then I realized: the author's aggression comes off as... human.<p>I don't know if the aggression itself is an intentional mockery of the cool, dispassionate, pseudo-poetic tone that AI mostly writes in.<p>But the passionate visceral disgust is definitely human.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 07:49:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48264454</link><dc:creator>knighthack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48264454</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48264454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knighthack in "Best "Brain" for Agents Is Just Versioned Folders of Markdown Files"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I really don't get having a ton of MD files lying around. And the possibility of having to edit a thousand MD files when the metadata frontmatter changes.<p>A single SQLite database implements columns/metadata handling, and comes baked-in with FTS and BM25 ranking too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 02:09:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143712</link><dc:creator>knighthack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143712</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knighthack in "Why I Write (1946)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> AI music appears to be reasonable music, but it carries no human emotion, it has no intent to exist and stand up on its own.<p>The 'lack' of human emotion does not make anything less musical, at least on the composition side.<p>But even on the playing side: well-crafted AI music these days have started sounding just as expressive as human-made music. It is <i>not</i> bland at all.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:41:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892612</link><dc:creator>knighthack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892612</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knighthack in "Our newsroom AI policy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> LLMs are terrible at accurately summarizing anything. They very randomly latch on to certain keywords and construct a narrative from them, with the result being something that is plausibly correct but in which the details are incorrect, usually subtly so, or important information is omitted because it wasn't part of the random selection of attention.<p>I don't know what you've been doing, but the summaries I get from my LLMs have been rather accurate.<p>And in any event, summaries are just that - summaries.<p>They don't need to be 100% accurate. Demanding that is unreasonable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:13:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47873352</link><dc:creator>knighthack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47873352</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47873352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knighthack in "M5 MacBook Pro"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One other thing - latency.<p>The newest Macbooks have insanely powerful hardware (I have an M4 Macbook Max). Yet they do not feel as speedy or instant on my machines with i3. There's always a perceivable milliseconds of latency, with response time from the keyboard to the screen. As someone who has tons of key bindings, I find this tolerable,  but it can get a bit grating compared to just how instantaneous everything is on my Linux.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 01:20:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45612468</link><dc:creator>knighthack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45612468</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45612468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knighthack in "A Mac-like experience on Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The one interesting thing (as a heavy user of both OSes) is that since the past decade there now are plenty of high-quality <i>games</i> (if those count for apps) on the Linux, that still don't work as well or as plentifully on Mac.<p>Linux is bound to be the number one gaming machine in time; general apps aside.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2025 08:13:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45479825</link><dc:creator>knighthack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45479825</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45479825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knighthack in "Show HN: Clyp – Clipboard Manager for Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I use CopyQ. Love it because it's so cross-platform, and consistently works across my Mac and Linux machines with minimal fuss; it handles images really well too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:33:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44987290</link><dc:creator>knighthack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44987290</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44987290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knighthack in "A 37-year-old wanting to learn computer science"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have some doubts about your statements. If you can't get a job at FAANG or the major startups, sure - that makes absolute sense. Competition is crazy.<p>If you can't get a job <i>at all</i>, that makes no sense, and probably speaks more to the fact that you might be an academic parrot who can talk code, but not write code, as an actual software developer with practical abilities. And that goes more to your lack of practice, rather than lack of knowledge. The world is not to blame in that regard but you.<p>Alternatively, try different domains - your skills might work little wonder in the software world, but might move mountains in other (especially labour-intensive) domains.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2025 15:39:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44481679</link><dc:creator>knighthack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44481679</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44481679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knighthack in "What happens when people don't understand how AI works"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>While I love this insightful analogue, your statement seems exactly like the kind of text you copy-pasted from some LLM, which you then regurgitated to Hacker news with some modifications.<p>It even ends with that trademark conclusion-style statement... which is a hallmark of ChatGPT output.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2025 02:25:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44243622</link><dc:creator>knighthack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44243622</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44243622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knighthack in "Low-Level Optimization with Zig"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not sure why allowances are made for Zig's verbosity, but not Go's.<p>What's good for the goose should be good for the gander.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2025 09:54:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44208590</link><dc:creator>knighthack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44208590</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44208590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knighthack in "Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from same cancer as Joe Biden"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What "ugly things" exactly did he say?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 00:57:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44036673</link><dc:creator>knighthack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44036673</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44036673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knighthack in "I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn't Love Me Back"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I find it ridiculous how "writing scripts to keep things working the way I want" can be a source of frustration.<p>To me, that's a source of pleasure.<p>I've never expected Windows or Mac to work exactly how I want them to. In fac, they can't. So given that, how can Linux be a poorer experience/<p>The truth is that for virtually everyone, Linux will be the absolute closest experience to having everything work exactly the way you want things to, because it is that open to being modified.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2025 16:28:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43946862</link><dc:creator>knighthack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43946862</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43946862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knighthack in "What’s new in Swift 6.2"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Swift's become so feature-heavy, and  complex, whilst the documentation is all over the place. That's not even counting things like SwiftUI, or its rather arcane CLI tooling.<p>Out of curiosity, I put in more than 150 genuine hours in 2024, trying to get deeply into Swift - and eventually just abandoned the language.<p>In comparison - I got <i>very</i> far experimenting with Go in the same amount of time.<p>Unless one needs to get into the Mac ecosystem, I see no reason why learning Swift should be necessary at all.</p>
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<p>I'm willing to bet there's a dragon in that egg.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2025 14:41:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43728533</link><dc:creator>knighthack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43728533</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43728533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knighthack in "Concurrency in Haskell: Fast, Simple, Correct"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What exactly do you write, where your Python+C is faster than Nim which compiles to optimized C?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2025 16:46:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43719330</link><dc:creator>knighthack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43719330</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43719330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knighthack in "I Cannot Be Technical"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> "...I am a psychologist of software environments and that is something of an anomaly."<p>Right. Translation: "I'm actually incompetent. I have no technical abilities, and I'm lazy to learn."<p>Her entire blog post - and probably career - is just her waffling around.</p>
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<p>I really wish there was more of a discussion on Nim.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2025 15:19:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43694066</link><dc:creator>knighthack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43694066</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43694066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knighthack in "Nice things with SVG"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've always thought the word 'bricked' as more akin to 'turning the phone into a useless brick'.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 00:33:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43676978</link><dc:creator>knighthack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43676978</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43676978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knighthack in "You Can Still Read NASA's Deleted "First Woman" Graphic Novels"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Somehow an anti-DEI push is "ridiculous", but the prior pro-DEI push isn't?<p>There are those who were successful without merit, achieved renown/success only because they were DEI tokens.<p>Therefore if they didn't deserve their 'achievements' by the merits in the first place, there's nothing wrong with taking their stories down once the political climates have changed (especially a climate that encourages truth and merits over the political advantage that got those DEI tokens in in the first place).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:14:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43547788</link><dc:creator>knighthack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43547788</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43547788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knighthack in "Why is this site built with C"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Lack of passion and enjoyment for an art form generally correlates with a mentality of doing 'just-enough', rather than a keen desire for craftsmanship.<p>I think those who enjoy paychecks but don't enjoy coding are likely to be incompetent developers. Which is not a desirable end.</p>
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