Hacker News: lambdaba

LLMs will supplant most human-driven vulnerability research

lambdaba — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 03:48:59 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/2030102845089804473

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284300

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by lambdaba in "MacBook Air with M5"

lambdaba — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:56:22 +0000

go for it, I installed NixOS on Asahi on a whim a few months ago and I only rebooted to MacOS to resize the partition

New comment by lambdaba in "Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)"

lambdaba — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 18:39:17 +0000

It's not mainly about speed (although the ceiling is much higher), but about ergonomics, and, plainly, enjoyability. The other benefit of making your own environment is mastery and control; only you can decide when and how the environment changes.

New comment by lambdaba in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

lambdaba — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:02:09 +0000

it's funny I first noticed this visiting a random blog, then went on X and got the same error... is Cloudflare the Internet now?

Chinese researchers reversed aging in primates. Yes, it's real

lambdaba — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 13:46:21 +0000

Article URL: https://arnaudbertrand.substack.com/p/chinese-researchers-reversed-aging

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45491388

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by lambdaba in "Scientists are discovering a powerful new way to prevent cancer"

lambdaba — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 12:11:23 +0000

> The discovery that chronic inflammation can provide the impetus for cancers to develop is forcing clinicians to rethink their approach to the disease’s prevention.

Alternative health has been saying this for decades. Ketogenic diets + medicinal plants/mushrooms can do a lot, even after the fact.

New comment by lambdaba in "Formatting code should be unnecessary"

lambdaba — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 06:12:09 +0000

I agree, I'm very much against any line length constraint, it's arbitrary and word wrapping exists.

Here is why I am afraid of AI: a 40-year prediction for tech and the world

lambdaba — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 20:27:00 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/dustingetz/status/1962524920560116123

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45096332

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Lenin Was a Mushroom

lambdaba — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 21:15:35 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin_was_a_mushroom

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45057123

Points: 22

# Comments: 0

New comment by lambdaba in "Digg.com is back"

lambdaba — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:56:18 +0000

It's del.ici.us after del.icio.us

An Effect AI toolkit for conversation state management

lambdaba — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 15:47:42 +0000

Article URL: https://liminal.land/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44913837

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Unison: A new approach to Distributed programming

lambdaba — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 15:00:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.unison-lang.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44864916

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

"I met a founder who writes 10k lines of code a day thanks to AI"

lambdaba — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 06:48:13 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1953289830982664236

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44821351

Points: 46

# Comments: 97

New comment by lambdaba in "Programmers aren’t so humble anymore, maybe because nobody codes in Perl"

lambdaba — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 22:02:05 +0000

"Ruby is the love child of Lisp and Smalltalk, raised by Perl the eccentric nanny" - Josh Susser

New comment by lambdaba in "Claude Code now supports hooks"

lambdaba — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 09:13:50 +0000

No one can tell what the exact multipliers are, but history has shown us that what happens is everyone gets richer.

New comment by lambdaba in "Kelp – simple replacement for homebrew on macOS"

lambdaba — Mon, 19 May 2025 21:52:46 +0000

I don't use Determinate Nix but I've heard it recommended. As I've said I've had 1 or 2 issues with my Nix install on Mac over several years.

Re: ffmpeg, it's just something do to with default codecs or something I don't remember, I'm not even sure I really needed it but I saw it on my packages list and since I use nix-darwin it doesn't matter that much where the package comes from. I have hundreds of packages from nixpkgs, many shared with Linux, and quite a few Mac specific ones.

Again, I'm not part of a Nix cult, I just genuinely have had an overall great experience with Nix and I find the criticism overblown. I guess since a subset of users are very enthusiastic and vocal about it it attracts this.

New comment by lambdaba in "Kelp – simple replacement for homebrew on macOS"

lambdaba — Mon, 19 May 2025 21:37:48 +0000

This is just from my experience, I'm not part of any kind of Nix cult or anything, not that I'm aware of.

I don't know what you're talking about re: third party wrappers, this is just an option for a slightly easier and perhaps more robust install. And homebrew isn't free of issues at all.

New comment by lambdaba in "Kelp – simple replacement for homebrew on macOS"

lambdaba — Mon, 19 May 2025 20:32:13 +0000

I'm curious of what the packages are because I only have ~10 packages that I use from homebrew, either very Mac-specific or that have better packaging (ffmpeg, mpv)

New comment by lambdaba in "Kelp – simple replacement for homebrew on macOS"

lambdaba — Mon, 19 May 2025 20:14:27 +0000

An easy option nowadays is Determinate Nix https://docs.determinate.systems/determinate-nix/

New comment by lambdaba in "Kelp – simple replacement for homebrew on macOS"

lambdaba — Mon, 19 May 2025 19:50:17 +0000

I'm interested in how you use that homebrew-to-nix converter, if you have links to configs or can describe it briefly!

I agree that nix-darwin is a bit overkill, I mainly use it for the homebrew integration, but I think so is home-manager, I don't keep user app configs in Nix since they are never exhaustive and more effort than it's worth.