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New comment by loa_in_ in "11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker"

loa_in_ — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:02:48 +0000

Rust allows for type-proofing your logic, but it can't force you to.

New comment by loa_in_ in "11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker"

loa_in_ — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:00:43 +0000

You can iterate through all unsafe sections of the codebase by simply grepping for `unsafe`, the rules are followed everywhere else. It's a great improvement.

New comment by loa_in_ in "Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?"

loa_in_ — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:09:42 +0000

I love maths, but I stumble over concepts being named by a prominent figure's last name and not by some taxonomy.

New comment by loa_in_ in "Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?"

loa_in_ — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 22:13:43 +0000

The whole idea behind scam sites marketing is to present an ad that knowledgeable people will find unattractive but gullible people will be lured into. Self selection keeps the based demographic from investigating the scam.

New comment by loa_in_ in "All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it"

loa_in_ — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:12:39 +0000

From another thread: GPT6 plays Factorio and wins https://m.twitch.tv/videos/2867906622

New comment by loa_in_ in "Codex on GPT6 Astra Low launched a rocket into space in Factorio Space Age 2.1"

loa_in_ — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:23:51 +0000

Sleep is a bottleneck

New comment by loa_in_ in "Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?"

loa_in_ — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 07:11:37 +0000

I imagine it hexdumps it and looks for patterns.

New comment by loa_in_ in "Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice"

loa_in_ — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 18:45:57 +0000

Such speculation is just fear mongering and that is exactly what the daft bullies want.

New comment by loa_in_ in "Vim's UserGettingBored Autocmd"

loa_in_ — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 19:19:41 +0000

Making computers understand what concentration means is still decades away despite obvious advances.

New comment by loa_in_ in "Aphantasia Beginner's Guide"

loa_in_ — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:19:21 +0000

In my experience with IQ tests involving complete the sequence many of the solutions when I looked up the intent behind them made very little sense to me.

New comment by loa_in_ in "Bhartrhari's Paradox"

loa_in_ — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:07:26 +0000

I'll write you as soon as I can

New comment by loa_in_ in "Queryable Executables"

loa_in_ — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:10:22 +0000

Tabular representation is like the RISC for machine code architecture, but for data.

New comment by loa_in_ in "New paper shows that 37% of workers in US saw real wages decline from 2021-2024 [pdf]"

loa_in_ — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:34:06 +0000

Humans are not a resource to be inventoried.

New comment by loa_in_ in "A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome"

loa_in_ — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:19:32 +0000

It won't be confirmed until we record all the stimuli and outputs of a fruit fly's nervous system in normal environment.

New comment by loa_in_ in "Prioritize mental health, and why communication is so important"

loa_in_ — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:15:37 +0000

Fitness also contributes to most common physical tasks becoming trivial, you can literally jump out of bed in the morning if it strikes your fancy.

New comment by loa_in_ in "Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left"

loa_in_ — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:04:23 +0000

Agreed, don't train fellow human beings (users) to follow, educate them.

"Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler." - commonly known quote.

We're making things so simple, the users don't get to have a proper chance at learning what's happening. Training people away from giving programs access, makes it opaque and dangerous. Unfortunately at the same time for non technology inclined users even Windows approach of file->Properties->Security visual UI proves challenging.

New comment by loa_in_ in "The Future Worth Building Is Human"

loa_in_ — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:13:48 +0000

Unless the whole paradigm shifts and we value caring about our neighbours whoever they might be. Do what people do best, make a village.

New comment by loa_in_ in "The Future Worth Building Is Human – Thinking Machines Lab"

loa_in_ — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:10:15 +0000

Or a whole lot of people. Like a team who put human beings in space. We can do great things that a single person cannot.

New comment by loa_in_ in "Think of the children: How to force real ID for all internet traffic (2023)"

loa_in_ — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 21:42:21 +0000

If and only if you give up, you forfeit and oouse.

New comment by loa_in_ in "Why Meta Suddenly Loves the Kids Online Safety Act"

loa_in_ — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:22:34 +0000

I guess legislative capture of the market. Moderation is a cost center and becones mandatory so the barrier to creating competition rises.