New comment by lionkor in "UK Home Office launches £75M 'PoliceAI' to capitalise on artificial intelligence"

lionkor — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 21:44:38 +0000

Your opinion on code quality doesn't match ours (people who agree)

New comment by lionkor in "Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?"

lionkor — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 07:20:09 +0000

The language doesn't matter much if you have memory-hungry workloads. Whether it's Rust or C or C#, you can write quite memory efficient code in either.

New comment by lionkor in "Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026"

lionkor — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:10:35 +0000

Here's your reminder that 20-30 days paid vacation plus unlimited sick days (3+ days needs a doctor's note) is normal in Europe (e.g. Germany).

If you get sick during vacation, you get those vacation days "refunded" back. If you suddenly are called in to work, somehow, during vacation, that time cannot be vacation time.

You can't (generally) be fired without a notice period, resulting in job security to such a degree that ~6k in an emergency fund is plenty to be VERY secure, as you also get unemployment support otherwise anyway. Does this result in incompetent people not getting fired? No. You still fire them, you just have to deal with them another month after that. It's not a big price to pay.

How is this all possible? Who subsidizes it? We all simply pay some % of our income to support this system. That's it. A couple percent, a couple bucks, and we get to basically never worry about starving or becoming homeless.

You can have this, too, if you vote and protest and use democracy to make life better, not worse, for everyone.

New comment by lionkor in "Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026"

lionkor — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:05:02 +0000

This is not accurate. In Germany, you usually only have to get a doctor's note at 2 or 3 days, if youre only sick for a day or two you don't need one.

And there's an unlimited number of sick days. As long as you have a doctor's note, you still get paid, up to some ridiculous limit at which you might have to get government support instead.

New comment by lionkor in "Linux 7.1"

lionkor — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:22:55 +0000

Here's the mail for that for anyone curious

https://lore.kernel.org/all/99Mv9QEceyPrQhSP52MtAVmz0_kWJmzq...

New comment by lionkor in "Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg"

lionkor — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:43:33 +0000

Rewriting ffmpeg in Rust will not solve it. The parts that are memory unsafe in ffmpeg, and similar projects, are not unsafe because C or C++ is inherently unsafe. Instead, it's the CODE that is unsafe. Translating the code (data structures, logic, etc) to Rust does not fix bugs in the code. That code will be littered with "unsafe" code, and of course, it will no longer be maintainable.

New comment by lionkor in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

lionkor — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:36:48 +0000

It's a marketing stunt. If there's one thing we should have learned, it's that anthropic will do ANYTHING to get their product marketed as the biggest, most scary AI ever.

New comment by lionkor in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

lionkor — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:29:01 +0000

This is so unbelievably incompetent from all sides, it's really impressive.

So I guess the real moat is whether the US govt is happy to make your models sound more capable than they are?

New comment by lionkor in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

lionkor — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:26:14 +0000

When prompted like this:

> What could be the reason for a horizontal scrollbar appearing inside a ? Come up with a single likely fix path. Keep it terse.<p>ChatGPT instantly responded with some speculation and then the same exact fix, with zero access to the code or a browser or anything. It also included ways to fix it by removing code, saying:<p>> Likely cause: the textarea is rendering long unbroken text while horizontal overflow is allowed, often via inherited CSS such as white-space: pre, overflow-x: auto, or disabled wrapping<p>Which is certainly possible and would be an even cleaner fix.<p>Maybe we've lost the plot guys. We've reached max stupid.</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by lionkor in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"</h1> <p>lionkor — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:20:02 +0000</p> <p>$1T valuation AI better be infallible.</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by lionkor in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"</h1> <p>lionkor — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:52:20 +0000</p> <p>> straight up malicious<p>Yes, against an AI agent. The super intelligent, "soon AGI" agent could have figured out that it's being messed with, but of course it didn't.<p>I would blame the AI companies for marketing this, not the technically well versed people for realizing that the operator of this AI does not care at all and can't be bothered to do the absolute basics.</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by lionkor in "Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration"</h1> <p>lionkor — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:39:36 +0000</p> <p>Absolutely. And I'm saying that the fix is to decide to write code. The AI isn't faster at producing good quality, well designed code that you'd write (if you're quite competent, which anyone can become with practice).<p>The AI code generation speed is a lie, it doesn't get the same work done in less time, most of the time it gives you a different version. Thinking through the problem yourself can yield better results for the overall product, in my experience.</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by lionkor in "Show HN: Extend UI – open-source UI kit for modern document apps"</h1> <p>lionkor — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:13:21 +0000</p> <p>Nice! That explains it to a degree. I would suggest taking someone who is really annoying about details, from your team, and having them just use the components as they are. Just click around and mess with them for a while -- in my experience this is how you get that final 20% of polish.</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by lionkor in "Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration"</h1> <p>lionkor — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:11:54 +0000</p> <p>You can still write code by hand. Just do that, you will run into tasks that are too boring, those you can do with an LLM.</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by lionkor in "Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration"</h1> <p>lionkor — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:07:57 +0000</p> <p>You pay per token, even on subscription models the limit is tokens.<p>If I was valued at 1 trillion dollars, and I was in the hole enough to sink a couple small countries' GDP, maybe I would slowly start to optimize to maximize token usage.<p>I want to sell tokens, how do I sell more tokens? Not by doing the same work in less tokens, that's for sure.<p>This is like if you pay me by the hour and then excitedly tell me that you keep paying 10k a month and it's great. I will most certainly not work faster, in this hypothetical, if you tell me you love spending money because it gives you a dopamine rush. I would probably spend a couple more hours REALLY thinking about the task, maybe writing some docs nobody will read, maybe considering multiple options, doing benchmarks, doing research, and then later maybe ill do the actual task as well.<p>Im not saying these AI companies are scamming us, but the incentives are there and extremely clear. The only thing currently holding it back is that there is some vague kind of competition.</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by lionkor in "Lines of code got a better publicist"</h1> <p>lionkor — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:04:13 +0000</p> <p>It is unmaintainable even if you spend 100k per month on tokens to have LLMs pretend they are maintaining it, if they slow down and make little ACTUAL progress. Sadly real progress is impossible to measure, if all you have is an overexcited """engineer""", a credit card, and so much cash spent you could hire all the best engineers you know and still have money for a porsche.</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by lionkor in "AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere"</h1> <p>lionkor — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:17:40 +0000</p> <p>It's usually better to create an issue where you explain this, then the PR is just the change. But this is up to each maintainer to decide, I guess.</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by lionkor in "Show HN: Extend UI – open-source UI kit for modern document apps"</h1> <p>lionkor — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:34:24 +0000</p> <p>The performance is quite bad. There are some basics missing or broken.<p>- no caching for file previews<p>- no sorting by date in the file picker<p>- no sorting by size in the file picker<p>- no sorting by file type in the file picker<p>- no search in the file picker<p>- cant enter a folder in the detail view (only expand) in the file picker<p>- cant go to page (by page number) in the document viewer<p>- after clicking a button in the document viewer, focus is lost on the document and arrow keys, space, pgup/pgdown dont work until the document is clicked again<p>- cant select text in the document viewer, unless I search first, in which case it then works<p>This is after looking at the file picker and document viewer less than 3 minutes(!!!). I gave up after that. Getting 80% of a file picker is easy, getting the last 20% done, so that it's on par with existing software, is not.<p>Very very odd to have things look this polished, yet be this terrible functionality- and performance-wise. These are not random quirky new ideas I'm having, these have been basics that work in every single file picker and document viewer since the early days of UI, before the web.</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by lionkor in "AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere"</h1> <p>lionkor — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:44:03 +0000</p> <p>Remove the human element. Yes, someone spent time fixing a bug. If the fix doesn't look like it makes sense on its own, do not merge it. If the author tries to convince you that it's a good fix, it's an immediate no.<p>A good fix (which is the only acceptable fix in open-source software), is one that speaks for itself.</p> </article> <article> <h1>New comment by lionkor in "AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere"</h1> <p>lionkor — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:38:24 +0000</p> <p>Link to the anaconda PR:<p><a href="https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/pull/7074#issuecomment-4556782893" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/pull/7074#issuecomme...</a></p> </article> </main></body></html>

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