<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: lompad</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lompad</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:26:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=lompad" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lompad in "Ask HN: Why are software developers not using Background coding agents?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Generally, with the regular in-IDE agents you have the ability to easily intervene, correct and live-check. Considering the high fail rate of agents (depending on software complexity of course), that's required if you want to get anything done and not be slowed down by it.<p>Otherwise you'd always have to context switch, consider which git state it's actually working from, etc. - rather than just letting the code directly before you change in your IDE.<p>It's significantly lower cognitive load and has a higher success rate, in my experience.<p>But, of course: Highly depends on the software being written and the general code infrastructure.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 13:29:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46615846</link><dc:creator>lompad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46615846</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46615846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lompad in "European Commission issues call for evidence on open source"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Problem here being that those terms aren't used as defined in regular discourse. Language changes and casual use differs from academic use.<p>When on an american-centric board anybody writes about "communism", I assume they refer to anything from marxism to stalinism to socialism to democratic socialism to social democracy up to anything non-hyper-capitalist. Not great, but sadly something to be taken into consideration.<p>Especially when looked at in context - parent was criticizing the EU initiative by essentially claiming something like that leads to a kind of monoculture like in a planned economy reminiscent of "communism", here probably meaning stalinism, from what I assume is a radical libertarian position. Which tells me the person is likely american, implying a rather ... minimal awareness of the nuance here.<p>Please, look at the actual comment chain and it should be rather trivial to make out what everybody is talking about. Does your comment really add value here?</p>
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<p>There is no reason such a state would have to set things up this way.<p>As an example: you probably know that germany has socialized healthcare. It is, however, not implemented as a single-payer model. Instead there are tons of different insurances competing with each other, while having a highly regulated floor of what they MUST offer.<p>Is the model perfect? Hell no, it has tons of issues - though overall it's pretty solid. My point is just that social policies and "no internal competition ever" does absolutely not have to go hand in hand. There is a massive middle ground.<p>See: social democracy as a concept and in its current implementation.</p>
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<p>>But inference costs are dropping dramatically over time,<p>Please prove this statement, so far there is no indication that this is actually true - the opposite seems to be the case. Here are some actual numbers [0] (and whether you like Ed or not, his sources have so far always been extremely reliable.)<p>There is a reason the AI companies don't ever talk about their inference costs. They boast with everything they can find, but inference... not.<p>[0]: <a href="https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/" rel="nofollow">https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/</a></p>
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<p>"It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong!"<p>Sigh.</p>
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<p>Copyparty. Found that recently and absolutely love it.</p>
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<p>Recently people built a super-lightweigt alternative, named copyparty[0]. To me that looks like it does everything people tend to need without all the bloat.<p>[0]: <a href="https://github.com/9001/copyparty" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/9001/copyparty</a></p>
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<p>This comment is always so strange to me - do you really, seriously believe that the people setting up the grids never thought about dunkelflaute? And I don't mean that in an attacking way, I'm genuinely curious about your thoughts there.<p>Like, yes, we're aware. At least in the german south we have the opposite problem right now. We are getting negative electricity prices (you get paid for taking some) more often because we have more electricity than we can use due to solar, at least during the day. Proper power storage is being built at this very moment all over the country.<p>Aside from dunkelflaute, the wind is statistically stronger when solar power generation is low, so at night and when it's super cloudy. And dunkelflaute is a couple days to weeks per year. (german perspective, don't know enough about the other countries' grids)<p>Regarding that problem in portugal, you misunderstood something there. The big 2025 power outage wasn't caused by clouds, it was an combination of localized blackouts and a sudden power _surge_ which caused a cascading failure which couldn't be stabilized by the conventional power plants even though on paper they had the capacity. How did you get the idea it had anything to do with "cloudy" weather?</p>
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<p>And don‘t forget those … ”accusations“ from his sibling. The lawsuit is going to bring some details to the light, hopefully.</p>
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<p>Relevant reading: "Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an
8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog" by Peter Gutmann and Stephan Neuhaus [0].<p>Shows in a humorous way how the vast majority of quantum computing "records" are utter nonsense based on simplifying the factorization so far, that it turns into a problem on the difficulty level of "factorize 9" - _before_ running the experiment.<p>Journalists however tend to lack the knowledge to accurately represent that, resulting in nonsensical record claims.<p>[0]: <a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237.pdf</a></p>
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<p>Because "confidence" isn't just something a conscious being can have, it is also something text can simply convey, irrespective of the author. It's just how we perceive language and about what we feel, not about what the author intends.</p>
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<p>Some places are significantly worse than all others in the same wealth class though.<p>Somebody further up quoted such insane numbers - $750 for a proper periodontal cleaning? That's usually ~50 to 80€  in Germany. For a _full_ self payer.<p>Those prices and the health system creating them are utter insanity.</p>
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<p>Why not just use fish at that point? It's been rewritten in Rust too.<p>To me personally, oh-my-zsh and similar projects feel like a worse version of the stuff fish brings by default.</p>
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<p>Interesting, can this directly be used to make money? Maybe by the employee reading your report?<p>Edit: Maybe send a report to steve from grc, he loves those kinds of stories.</p>
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<p>You previously posted this:<p>>Hey, have you tried TwitterCut yet? It’s this cool tool I found that turns your tweets into awesome videos in just one click. Super easy to use—just @cutcutai in a Twitter thread, and it creates the videos directly for you.<p>Are those tools affiliated or are you affiliated with either?</p>
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<p>Thanks for being willing to consider my standpoint.<p>Personally, I think this might more be an issue of the US health system or the lack thereof, which generally messes up incentives badly.<p>Here in germany, finances aren't even a thing that comes to mind at all in regards to therapy. Though we do have the problem that there aren't enough therapists available. They are having tons of patients no matter how long they keep an individual, since there is so much more demand. As a result, they have to triage a lot and preferrably keep those who actually need their help.<p>As far as I can tell, it's all about suffering. If something makes you or the people around you suffer and create serious issues for you, you need to learn to get yourself out of that. That's what therapists do.</p>
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<p>Please don't confuse evidence-based therapy like CBT with evidently badly working acts of pseudo-psychology such as psychoanalysis (Which, interestingly enough, isn't even much of a thing in most of the world, just the US seems to have continously kept it as accepted form of therapy despite all evidence to the contrary).<p>CBT in particular is about learning to cope and fixing problem-inducing behaviours and thought patterns. Not about talking about the deepest pieces of problems, since that doesn't aid healing. Often, it does quite the opposite.</p>
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<p>Trauma only appearing in super-deep going therapy sessions can often be False Memory Syndrome, which is an entirely different can of worms and extremely problematic. If you search really really deeply, you're going to find it, wether it exists or not.<p>Generally: While suppressed memory of trauma exists, the vast majority of people are aware of trauma and there is no evidence suggesting otherwise. And there is clear evidence that lots of mentally well people get addicted as well, so just claiming "it's always some underlying condition" is probably not a great idea. It can, often even, be, sure. But that doesn't make it mandatory and especially doesn't allow the "I struggle with addiction, so there _must_ have been a problem beforehand" conclusion.<p>So honestly, I'd just not search any deeper to not risk inducing any false memories.</p>
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<p>Because for now, that's just what those financially profiting from the AI-hype tell us. Be it sama, hyung or nadella, they all profit if people _believe_ AI is a force multiplier for everybody. Reality is much more muddy though and it's absolutely not as obvious as those people claim.<p>And keep in mind that a 5-10x price hike is to be expected if those companies keep spending billions to make millions.<p>Right now, there is a consistent stream of papers incoming which indicates that AI might be much more of a specialized tool for very particular situations instead of the "solve everything"-tool the hype makes people believe. This is highly significant.<p>"Just believe me bro" is just not enough.</p>
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<p>And not only are those cries wrong, reality is quite the opposite. The vast majority of fines are towards european businesses. Big Tech aren't the only ones who violate data privacy standards all the time. [0] You just don't read about those here, so people like to just assume those fines don't exist.<p>Additionally, it helps to actually learn how the current law developed - it primarily was modeled after the german Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, which was put into law in a modern form in the 90s, long before FAANG.<p>[0] see the tracker: <a href="https://www.enforcementtracker.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.enforcementtracker.com/</a></p>
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