Hacker News: mirsadm

New comment by mirsadm in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection"

mirsadm — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:19:51 +0000

An older iPhone is already better than most new cheaper Android phones.

New comment by mirsadm in "The best response to AI slop and online noise is from Robin Williams"

mirsadm — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 06:29:23 +0000

You're right to push back...

New comment by mirsadm in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

mirsadm — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:25:53 +0000

Does it? That's not even well established yet. These things aren't that good.

New comment by mirsadm in "Thomann takes legal action against Fender"

mirsadm — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:55:21 +0000

I'm looking at buying one now and as far as I can tell Fender seems to make shoddy quality instruments these days. I see a lot of recommendations for PRS and others.

New comment by mirsadm in "Will It Mythos?"

mirsadm — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:00:40 +0000

To me it feels like they're basically tweaking these things around the edges. I'm not seeing any difference in capability just preference. This has been the case for a while.

New comment by mirsadm in "Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches"

mirsadm — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 07:10:01 +0000

I'd be curious to see how much CPU time is wasted on looking for a null every time strlen is called. The extra length integer is probably insignificant compared to that.

New comment by mirsadm in "Electric motors with no rare earths"

mirsadm — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:53:20 +0000

What does older mean in this context? Because some people still think the year 1996 wasn't that long ago. Modern Renault cars are fine and reliable enough. I've had 4 in my life time and had zero issues myself. I see a ton of them here in the UK and, again, they're fine.

New comment by mirsadm in "Claude Fable 5"

mirsadm — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:37:00 +0000

It's the real deal. Before Fable nothing I tried worked. It has finally helped me finish my teleportation device. I can't show you or anyone the proof but trust me it's true.

New comment by mirsadm in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

mirsadm — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:13:44 +0000

What's 12 months lead time worth? Not much from what I can tell. Contrary to what these AI companies might tell you, if an AI model can't do it, a human can still do the work.

New comment by mirsadm in "Where is the AI jobs crisis?"

mirsadm — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:39:28 +0000

This seems pretty unlikely. If it turns out to be true then you don't need a junior or senior dev you can just get a random person from the street and they could do the job.

New comment by mirsadm in "OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision"

mirsadm — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:29:41 +0000

That is a very uninformed view. Real time CV is not going to be doing that anytime soon.

New comment by mirsadm in "The Structural Barriers to AI Lawyers"

mirsadm — Wed, 27 May 2026 07:56:46 +0000

You can apply this same argument to everything. Code is deterministic but what is being made is often not because people don't know what they want to make. Society can choose just to make everything boring and deterministic so that computers can do everything.

New comment by mirsadm in "Google I/O"

mirsadm — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:38:53 +0000

It's gotta be booking a flight or restaurant or something. They demo this every year and it never works.

New comment by mirsadm in "We tested super-resolution pre-filter for LPR OCR. It did nothing"

mirsadm — Wed, 13 May 2026 06:35:24 +0000

Have you tried classic CV SR algorithms (eg SR from multiple nearby frames)? Single frame SR seems unlikely to be useful.

New comment by mirsadm in "DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal"

mirsadm — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:27:00 +0000

I've built something like this. One issue is that LLMs are actually terrible at writing good shaders. I've spent way too much time trying to get them not to be so awful at it.

New comment by mirsadm in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

mirsadm — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:33:25 +0000

The way Claude/Codex behave is entirely consistent with how every vibe coded project (of mine) has ended up so far. I bet those guys have no idea what's going on and are taking guesses because no one understands the thing they've made.

New comment by mirsadm in "Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found"

mirsadm — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:19:53 +0000

How is that going to find anything that interacts across files?

New comment by mirsadm in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

mirsadm — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:50:56 +0000

The numbers only go up to 100% though.

New comment by mirsadm in "We rewrote our Rust WASM parser in TypeScript and it got faster"

mirsadm — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:40:34 +0000

Not in my experience. They're pretty good at getting average performance which is often better than most programmers seem to be willing to aim for.

New comment by mirsadm in "An industrial piping contractor on Claude Code [video]"

mirsadm — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 09:56:53 +0000

I've noticed even experienced engineers have started overestimating how long things would take to build without AI. Believe it or not we coded before AI and not everything took years all the time.