<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: mkehrt</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mkehrt</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 02:19:50 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mkehrt" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mkehrt in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you think writing books (and Wikipedia articles, and stack overflow articles, and github repos, and, and, and, and ...) is <i>not a value add</i>?? What terrible claim.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:31:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49013007</link><dc:creator>mkehrt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49013007</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49013007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mkehrt in "The Tower Keeps Rising"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well, that's literally what "vibe coding means", no?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 05:44:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48916697</link><dc:creator>mkehrt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48916697</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48916697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mkehrt in "Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What exactly are you “getting done”? I’m really curious what you’re doing with so many tokens.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 17:47:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977747</link><dc:creator>mkehrt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977747</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mkehrt in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One thing that has happened is that "AI" has been an academic discipline since literally the 1950s. The term was originally used in the hope that we would soon be able to emulate human minds.  This turned out to be hard, but the name stuck to the discipline.<p>Now, suddenly, this name has been broadcast to every human in the world more or less.  To them, it's a new term, and it obviously means something  human mind-like.  But to people who work on AI, that's not generally what it means. (Which isn't to say that some of them don't think we're near to achieving that; they just use other terms like "AGI" for that goal).  So the name, which has a long history, is deceptive to people who aren't familiar with computer science.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:38:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695221</link><dc:creator>mkehrt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695221</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mkehrt in "Git commands I run before reading any code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I read commit messages all the time to figure out what a change was about.<p>For small personal projects I often write one phrase messages with `-m`, but if you're working with other people you should be writing good commit messages.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:13:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694099</link><dc:creator>mkehrt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694099</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mkehrt in "Slop is not necessarily the future"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> People who care about code quality are not artists who want to paint on the company's dime. They are people who care about shipping a product deeply enough to make sure that doing so is a pleasant experience both for themselves and their colleagues, and also have the maturity to do a little bit more thinking today, so that next week they can make better decisions without thinking, so that they don't get called at 4 AM the night after launch for some emergency debugging of an issue that that really should have been impossible if it was properly designed.<p>Speak for yourself.  This is exactly the GPs point.  Some people care more about the craft of code than the output.  I personally find <i>writing good code</i> to be what motivates me.  Obviously its a spectrum; shipping is good too.  But it's not why I get up in the morning.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:37:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593797</link><dc:creator>mkehrt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593797</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mkehrt in "My Astrophotography in the Movie Project Hail Mary"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was wondering what these images were! I wasn't sure if they were real photographs or not.  They're great!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:51:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47519035</link><dc:creator>mkehrt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47519035</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47519035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mkehrt in "Finding all regex matches has always been O(n²)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This reads nothing like any AI text I've read before.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:36:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494112</link><dc:creator>mkehrt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494112</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mkehrt in "AI coding is gambling"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>None of my side projects are things where I want the output.  They're all things where I want to <i>write the code</i> myself so I understand it better.  AI is antithetical to this.</p>
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<p>This comment is fascinating to me, as it indicates an entirely different mindset than mine.  I'm much more interested in code readability and maintainabilty (and simplicty and elegance) than performance, unless it's necessary.  So I would start by saying everything flows from rule 4 or maybe 5.  Rule 1 is a consequence of rule 4 for me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:42:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428811</link><dc:creator>mkehrt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428811</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mkehrt in "The pleasures of poor product design"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Or you could believe what she said instead of implying that she's lying??</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:59:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47427411</link><dc:creator>mkehrt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47427411</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47427411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mkehrt in "Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why would you expect a reporter to magically know what a "unit test" is? Sounds like a simple miscommunication with one of his sources. Not perfect but not "brain rot".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:25:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47369371</link><dc:creator>mkehrt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47369371</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47369371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mkehrt in "Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>IDs cost money.  How do people with no income get one if they don't have one? How do they get access to the necessary documents?<p>In any case, it's not on me to show that they shouldn't need ID.  It's on the proponents of ID laws to do so, and they have utterly failed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:53:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47356180</link><dc:creator>mkehrt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47356180</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47356180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mkehrt in "Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So how would you have gotten it if you were homeless with no income?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:52:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47356159</link><dc:creator>mkehrt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47356159</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47356159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mkehrt in "Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Voting is a civil right.  We need to have  a system that allows everyone who is allowed to vote, to vote. Many people don't have IDs and it is an onerous process to get one.  Any system that requires IDs for voting suppresses these people's civil rights.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:51:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341527</link><dc:creator>mkehrt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341527</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mkehrt in "Google closes deal to acquire Wiz"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Same--I was worried my lightbulbs might be deprecated!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:53:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47338052</link><dc:creator>mkehrt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47338052</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47338052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mkehrt in "RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, an en-dash is used for a range, like "5–10", or in talking about two things and their relationship, like Franco–Prussian War.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:33:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47329060</link><dc:creator>mkehrt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47329060</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47329060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mkehrt in "Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ultima Underworld is a <i>fantastic</i> game.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:46:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47279277</link><dc:creator>mkehrt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47279277</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47279277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mkehrt in "“It turns out” (2010)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From The Mote in God's Eye:<p>"Wrong," said Renner.<p>"The tactful way," Rod said quietly, "the polite way to disagree with the Senator would be to say, 'That turns out not to be the case.'"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:34:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47249980</link><dc:creator>mkehrt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47249980</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47249980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mkehrt in "Don't become an engineering manager"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The manager at my structural engineers can still calculate a beam size, he is better at it than his staff.<p>That sounds insane to me.  I want my manager to be good and <i>managing</i>.  If they are writing code, it's a misuse of their time and skills.  If they are good at writing code and bad at managing, they shouldn't be a manager.</p>
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