Hacker News: mibsl

New comment by mibsl in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

mibsl — Sun, 17 May 2026 09:22:52 +0000

5,283 workers were killed on the job in the United States in 2023.

The only thing capital owners risk is losing it and becoming a worker.

New comment by mibsl in "Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains"

mibsl — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:20:53 +0000

Probably "/s", if I had to guess.

New comment by mibsl in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

mibsl — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:27:14 +0000

AFAIU antirez is mostly writing in C, a verbose language where "create a hashtable of x->y" turns into a wall of boilerplate. In high level languages the length diffrence between a precise specification and the actual code is much smaller.

New comment by mibsl in "Performance and telemetry analysis of Trae IDE, ByteDance's VSCode fork"

mibsl — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 19:51:13 +0000

It seems actively maintained, latest build on Flathub is from 3 hours ago.

New comment by mibsl in "I just want to code (2023)"

mibsl — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:06:00 +0000

Being always cognizant of opportunity costs also has an opportunity cost in terms of mental health and life satisfaction.

New comment by mibsl in "Why do bees die when they sting you? (2021)"

mibsl — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 17:22:23 +0000

IIRC genetic drift can reach 100%.

Why Everyone Is Quitting Big Automotive YouTube Channels [video]

mibsl — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 17:54:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwTieDfvRUI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40791451

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

An Arm laptop project conclusion

mibsl — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 12:00:55 +0000

Article URL: https://resources.linaro.org/en/resource/1dCZq5rYdNHR6WviFLaPMB

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40689233

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by mibsl in "Fungus breaks down ocean plastic"

mibsl — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 08:58:02 +0000

There is still glass (and silicone?).

New comment by mibsl in "A Critique of Snapshot Isolation"

mibsl — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 07:47:06 +0000

I think Haskell's Software Transactional Memory has used this novel write-snapshot isolation level for close to two decades.

New comment by mibsl in "Upcoming changes to Rust's borrow checker"

mibsl — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 14:07:41 +0000

This is done so that the programmer doesn't have to reason about it. Polonius makes the compiler accept code that's obviously valid, but the current borrow checker isn't sophisticated enough to declare it as safe.

I've bumped into this kind of problem when writing rust, at first it was hard to understand why the compiler doesn't accept my code.

New comment by mibsl in "Downfall fallout lawsuit: Intel knew AVX chips were insecure and did nothing"

mibsl — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 13:15:51 +0000

The problem described in 2018 seems completely unrelated to downfall. It looks like a potential optimization to the original spectre, doesn't even mention AVX gather instructions.

I don't see this going anywhere.

New comment by mibsl in "KDE desktop cube effect returns"

mibsl — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 15:28:50 +0000

To me this one feels cluttered, way too much going on. Definitely distracting, but I wouldn't call it beautiful.

New comment by mibsl in "Intel says one of its 13th Gen CPUs will hit 6GHz out of the box"

mibsl — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 14:55:42 +0000

Not really. The NH D15 is an impressive cooler, but it falls behind 280 AIOs. Even ones cheaper than itself.

https://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/3571-arctic-liquid-fre...

New comment by mibsl in "How Transistors Work [video]"

mibsl — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 18:26:49 +0000

Semiconductors - Physics inside Transistors and Diodes

Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryansky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrpPKCDLRN0

New comment by mibsl in "Filtering a vector with SIMD instructions (AVX-2 and AVX-512)"

mibsl — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 19:56:27 +0000

The code snippets appear to be full of mistakes.

E. g. filter_vec_avx2 doesn't declare the loop variable i and stores input elements into the output instead of their indices. Or from_u32x8 has a DataType instead of __m256i and [u32; __m256i] instead of [u32; 8].

New comment by mibsl in "AMD Launches Ryzen 7000 Series Desktop Processors with Zen 4 Architecture"

mibsl — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 16:12:53 +0000

Meaningless because (adequately cooled) modern desktop CPUs mostly run near their boost clock in single threaded loads and somewhere between base and boost in multithreaded.

New comment by mibsl in "GHC 9.4.1 is now available"

mibsl — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 19:57:59 +0000

Short circuiting is a special case of laziness. It's local only, so no thunks are required.

The beauty of functions like fromMaybe is they're only that - just plain, regular functions. No special casing under the hood required.

New comment by mibsl in "Tell HN: We are trying to get tail calls into the WebAssembly standard"

mibsl — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 14:52:30 +0000

Only tail recursion, not tail calls in general.

New comment by mibsl in "Tell HN: We are trying to get tail calls into the WebAssembly standard"

mibsl — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 14:51:08 +0000

Compilers can easily lower tail recursion into loops, but not general tail calls between arbitrary (possibly unknown, indirect) functions.

The best they can do are trampolines, which come with a high performance cost.