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New comment by kristianp in "Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"

kristianp — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:37:41 +0000

The same thing is happening in business settings. There's more words being sent around than ever before, with an ever lowering percentage that is read by humans. There has to be a way to stop the madness.

New comment by kristianp in "Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"

kristianp — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:33:11 +0000

"intelligence will be too cheap to meter" has been shown to be wrong. They've started metering it.

What makes you think school students are being told that? I've heard that they are told everyone will be using AI to help them write.

New comment by kristianp in "Norway Says AI Ain't for Education"

kristianp — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:27:36 +0000

The caption on that first image is comedicly wrong. "A student points at a computer screen while writing".

New comment by kristianp in "Accepted proposal: a goroutine leak profiler in the Go standard library"

kristianp — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:24:09 +0000

Note there was a typo in the title which I've corrected: profile -> profiler.

Accepted proposal: a goroutine leak profiler in the Go standard library

kristianp — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:16:56 +0000

Article URL: https://rednafi.com/shards/2026/06/go-goroutine-leak-profile/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48604441

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by kristianp in "How Meter Pricing Is Testing the Economics of AI"

kristianp — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 03:42:55 +0000

https://archive.is/ocSAz

New comment by kristianp in "GLM-5.2: The Most Powerful Open Model yet and the Brutal Reality of Running It"

kristianp — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 02:25:41 +0000

Irritating LLMisms:

    - "real architecture trick"
    - "the honest hardware reality of running it at home."
    - "What it is — and what Z.ai claims"
    - "The one genuinely new idea"

And many more.

New comment by kristianp in "What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000"

kristianp — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:04:03 +0000

My only pain with KDE is trying to resize windows. I have a 1 pixel line a certain distance away from the outside of the window. I'm using an oldish version from kubuntu 22.04 though.

New comment by kristianp in "Zork name origin got an update on Wikipedia"

kristianp — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:52:21 +0000

This article has some research into possible origins of the name: https://nickm.com/post/2010/01/a-note-on-the-word-zork/comme...

New comment by kristianp in "My LSM tree was slower than a B-tree. Then I profiled it"

kristianp — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:44:36 +0000

Also the header "The honest benchmarks" is an irritating LLM style. And all the commas! So many commas and short sentences! E.g: "Same database, same machine. The only difference is the write pattern.". It's so bad I thought someone might be copying LLM style, because the writing seems so stilted.

New comment by kristianp in "Ask HN: Why is packages.ubuntu.com not being indexed by Google?"

kristianp — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:10:03 +0000

If I google `"libxmlb2" site:packages.ubuntu.com`, google returns no results. I've tried this with a couple of other package names, like cups and firefox. The robots.txt is permissive. The Debian package repo, packages.debian.org is showing up and duckduckgo has the ubuntu package repo indexed.

Ask HN: Why is packages.ubuntu.com not being indexed by Google?

kristianp — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:10:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22libxmlb2%22+site%3Apackages.ubuntu.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48499021

Points: 1

# Comments: 3

New comment by kristianp in "MiMo Code is now released and open-source"

kristianp — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:30:34 +0000

Here's the Spolsky article, called "Strategy Letter V": https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

Here's links to the whole series up to VI: https://lettersremain.com/joel-spolsky-on-strategy/

New comment by kristianp in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

kristianp — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:29:48 +0000

And the n150 supports AVX2: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/241636/...

New comment by kristianp in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

kristianp — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:27:23 +0000

The PSP has 32MB of RAM plus 4MB of embedded RAM, upgraded to 64MB of RAM in later models, the browser also is limited to only a subset of that. I wonder how old the anecdote is? It's hard to imagine any websites now working on that. It does have javascript, but a version shipped with Netfront browser from 2011 or so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Portable#Web_brows...

Nice to see that Astro supports non-js browsers. Perhaps website developers, especially ones needing to develop for government services, should use 1GB Raspberry Pis for testing, but that would still have modern javascript. I got a 1GB RPi 4 in about mid-2019 and was rudely reminded of how much memory Chrome used even back then. More than 1 tab open and it would be killed.

The Eden quote is here https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiven... and it has some stats of gaming consoles using uk government sites.

New comment by kristianp in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

kristianp — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:52:29 +0000

What's wrong with web server logs? That would give you the number of visitors, if not the pageviews on an SPA.

New comment by kristianp in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

kristianp — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:44:44 +0000

I should have added this one from 2022:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30528473

SPAs Were a Mistake (gomakethings.com) 692 points March 2, 2022 | 620 comments

New comment by kristianp in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

kristianp — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:14:49 +0000

Related recent threads about react performance:

JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals 178 points by luu 3 months ago | 237 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47029339 (should be called "Why React is not compatible with long-term performance goals")

Does anybody like React? (jsx.lol) 242 points by brazukadev 15 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48274077

New comment by kristianp in "How much do amd64 microarchitecture levels help in Go?"

kristianp — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:44:20 +0000

Wow, that's interesting, apparently 10th gen Pentiums and Celerons don't have avx. The wonders of product segmentation. They apparently corrected course (and also gave consumers AVX-512) in the 11th gen: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intels-latest-celeron-and-...

There's a related discussion on hn from 2020 about lack of AVX here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24577069

New comment by kristianp in "AI is slowing down"

kristianp — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:58:43 +0000

Uber was recently said to have a $1500 per head per month AI budget (1). Business use dwarfs consumer spend.

(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48383056