Hacker News: krupan

New comment by krupan in "Scrap (2006)"

krupan — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:09:18 +0000

Wow, I didn't realize how much I missed blog posts like this. Is there any way we can get the version of the Internet where people posted like this on their personal blogs back? It's the reason sites like hacker news came to exist, you couldn't just scroll social media to find stuff, you had to sort of stumble upon (that used to be a website too, didn't it?) stuff like this and pass it around word of mouth. It was awesome.

New comment by krupan in "The August 17 outage"

krupan — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:40:15 +0000

Why are we even committing AI generated code and uploading it to GitHub? I've heard we don't need to read the code anymore. Why preserve a detailed version history if AI has it all handled? Why even share code if we can all just have AI write whatever software we need for ourselves? GitHub feels like a dead end of AI is really headed to where we believe it's headed

New comment by krupan in "Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries"

krupan — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:08:29 +0000

In what way are they "broken" when Linux runs fine on millions of boxes? Sure, it might be a pain for proprietary software, but if your app is open source it's not that hard to build it on whichever distro you want. If your app is popular enough the distro maintainer will build it for you

New comment by krupan in "Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries"

krupan — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:04:34 +0000

Complete failure is strong words when lots and lots of Linux boxes are running just fine.

I think the disconnect is mostly people that can't decide if they want a stable distro or a rolling release distro. Most everyone uses a stable distro because it's stable, but then the want some up-to-date software that isn't ore-built for their (crusty old) stable distro and they get annoyed. My solution was to finally give in and embrace a rolling release distro (I use arch, btw). If there isn't a package for something I want, it's not hard to build something myself because all my build tools, kernel, and libs are up to date.

Other reasons to want static linking is to distribute proprietary software with no source code available. Linux certainly does not cater to that scenario and I suppose some might call that a complete failure ¯ \ _ ( ツ ) _ / ¯

New comment by krupan in "Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug"

krupan — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:14:33 +0000

The perfect yang to Dijkstra's yin

New comment by krupan in "U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’"

krupan — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:55:01 +0000

My best grades were freshman year before I started the engineering program. It would kinda suck to not have those as part of my GPA!

New comment by krupan in "U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’"

krupan — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:55:16 +0000

I'm not sure college was ever intended to prepare people for the "real world." College programs start out with "general" education and get more and more focused on a particular area of study the further you go. Colleges teach you how to research deeply and write on those narrow topics. Prep for the real world would teach you how to pick a place to live and take care of it, how to parent, how to get along with neighbors and co-workers, how to do your taxes, save for retirement, how to take care of your brain and body, etc. No college requires classes like that for everyone

New comment by krupan in "U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’"

krupan — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:42:24 +0000

Past 2 decades

New comment by krupan in "U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’"

krupan — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:36:40 +0000

Those aren't high school kids prepping for college that you are talking about. Just wait a few years

New comment by krupan in "Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb"

krupan — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:23:39 +0000

The article is pretty self contradictory on this, so ¯ \ _ ( ツ ) _ / ¯

New comment by krupan in "Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb"

krupan — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:20:05 +0000

And I'm sure nothing is lost when that's done ;)

New comment by krupan in "LLMs won't break symmetric crypto"

krupan — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 03:19:49 +0000

That was such a stupid coding/code review/testing mistake. Finding it is not that impressive at all. It's nothing like finding a flaw in AES

New comment by krupan in "RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches"

krupan — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:15:26 +0000

"it will be"

Trying to figure out what to do based on possible future scenarios has a place, but not here when we are talking about a concrete present problem.

New comment by krupan in "RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches"

krupan — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:10:55 +0000

Not enough people are going to see this comment. It's so true!

New comment by krupan in "Scientific computing in the age of agentic AI"

krupan — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:27:04 +0000

Can we just stop posting press releases to HN?

New comment by krupan in "Judge Rejects Google's Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped"

krupan — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:03:57 +0000

I love where this is going. Where does the answer-machine get it's answers in this scenario? How do we double check the answer-machine's answers?

New comment by krupan in "How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?"

krupan — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 02:37:22 +0000

This is so real now that we have LLMs. The stuff I'm working on doesn't seem to exist in LLM training sets, but I still get tempted to try when I get tired of doing the tedious parts.

New comment by krupan in "How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?"

krupan — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 02:34:12 +0000

"LLMs are excellent at creating output that looks right but is nevertheless still wrong."

"Anthropic has a long history of just lying and making shit up"

Every now and then I wonder, if LLMs were created by honest people would they be more honest themselves?

New comment by krupan in "How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?"

krupan — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 02:28:59 +0000

Thank you for saying this! Every now and then I start to feel like I'm either the only sane person left or I must have gone insane and don't realize it.

LLMs amazed us and we've been trying to find a good use for them since and there's a lot things like this, replacing a transpiler with a non-deterministic machine that just guesses when it doesn't know the answer.

Shouldn't we be targeting LLMs at problems that traditional software absolutely can't handle?

New comment by krupan in "How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?"

krupan — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 02:17:11 +0000

Plenty of people telling us not to bother reading code output by LLMs