Hacker News: newprint

New comment by newprint in "Anthropic takes steps to block Claude from reverse-engineering video games"

newprint — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 21:14:08 +0000

Game REs & crackers are probably the most persistent personality types you can find in software world. They are also one of the most technically sophisticated software engineers around. I expect we will see a new AI system pop-up soon, made by RE, specifically trained to RE games/software, thanks to this ban. Pandora box is open.

New comment by newprint in "I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories"

newprint — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 22:24:44 +0000

OP of the top reply. As I have mentioned, RE process is pretty much automated thanks to AI. But once again, RE existing software/games and not the same as developing a new software/games. AI being great at RE is an inherent property of AI itself.

New comment by newprint in "I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories"

newprint — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:56:04 +0000

I worked for mid size Insure tech company that has good footprint in the industry and two years ago, LLM were good enough for us to refactor & rewrite major tech debt. Even two years ago, models were already impressive & capable. For me, the timeline been two years and counting.

New comment by newprint in "I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories"

newprint — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:44:35 +0000

One thing that strikes me about what is going on: we have been promised this renaissance in software, yet, it been 2-3y of accelerated agentic/LLM development and I haven't see anything great coming out of the LLM developed software world that is worth looking at. Let's take open source as an example: No new 3d/2d CAD packages that are more capable than Blender/FreeCad/KiCad, nor Blender/FreeCad all of the sudden became much more capable than they were just few years ago. I also want to point out,that I haven't seen any new LLMed software in Electronic/ElectroDynamic simulation, something I would LLM to excel at, beyond what already existed before. No new software that is equal to Adobe Creative Suite (that Vibed coded replacement is trash IMO), No new Operating Systems that are taking over. No new utilities that are super useful in day work. We are using the same software, we've used before LLM arrived.

Reverse Engineering became much easier, it is plus. Finding vulnerabilities also became much easier, another plus. Models are getting better. But where is the new cool software ?

Edit: I will go even beyond OSS. M$ & Goog, who are DEEPLY Vested into AI, have access to the best possible frontier models and large groups of highly proficient engineers. Yet, Windows and Android are as laggy & buggy, as they were 4-5 years ago.

New comment by newprint in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

newprint — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:09:42 +0000

As someone who had to interface with Cognizant,Infosys for many years while working for the US corporation - GOOD ! They should loose their privileges for H1B.

New comment by newprint in "The art of defusing a second world war bomb"

newprint — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 04:25:25 +0000

My aunt lives in Hamm, Germany. It used to be a massive rail road hub and allies bombed the f* out it. The old church sitting middle of the town still carries the scars of bombing. Few years ago, during the renovation of the shopping mall, construction crew found unexploded American 500 lbs bomb in the ground. City had to evacuate a lot of people. Throughout years, there were multiple other incidents with UXO in Hamm, that I can recall. I still wonder how the 500 pound bomb been sitting in the ground so many years, right in the center of the town, right by the shopping mall and no one noticed.

New comment by newprint in "A misalignment of AI in mathematics"

newprint — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:58:42 +0000

The level of things happening in the last several months is just SciFi level, especially last two weeks. 1. Overlords of AI threatening to destroy someone if their demands aren't met over the Millennia problem. Proving the point that given the chance, owners of the AI companies will immediately use their power to squash or control other people. (See Butlerian Jihad) 2. At least for me, the Exponential progress didn't sound true until this week. If AI indeed solved all those problems and proofs and solutions are correct, we went from "Write me English 101 college essays" to "Help me solve the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem" in a just 3-4 years. 3.Looks like someone's work might have been stolen, by AI company and there are strong evidence. See point 1. 4. War between AI & AI companies. 5. It produces a machine verifiable LEAN proofs for the hardest problems know to us !!! Proving that point that best use of AI so far is to create verifiable systems. I.e the absolutely chaotic AI creates verifiable (orderly) proofs. It is Maxwell Demon: chaos to order.

New comment by newprint in "What should third world dev do in this economy?"

newprint — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 22:27:55 +0000

Hello, software dev. from the US, but I'm originally from E. Europe and went through Soviet Union collapse, societal disintegration,rampant crime, poverty and seen lot of very high caliber people (PhD scientists/engineers) who unfortunately were thrown into fringe of the society or life completely side-stepped them. What you can do ? You are 19. Get physically strong (exercise), have a skill(s) to do manual job (like welding) so in case things go bad, you can fall back on it. In the meantime, work on your programming, math skills & imagination. Good luck !

New comment by newprint in "Sources Say Intel Is an Acquisition Target"

newprint — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 23:29:22 +0000

you know how much money you have to pour into semi R&D to keep up and how much hardware Apple has to produce & sell to justify that cost ?

New comment by newprint in "Final Report on the Special Counsel's Investigations and Prosecutions [pdf]"

newprint — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:22:39 +0000

Is this is the report that DoJ didn't want to make public ?

New comment by newprint in "Ask HN: Where to Work After 40?"

newprint — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:39:10 +0000

Sorry for the long delay. Handyman business is something I would be interested in.

New comment by newprint in "Sonos CEO steps down after app update debacle"

newprint — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 20:48:12 +0000

Ah, the app to connect to your Sonos speakers, but wants all the permissions from your phone, incl. your geo-location, otherwise it will not work.

New comment by newprint in "Ask HN: Where to Work After 40?"

newprint — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 17:30:41 +0000

I would be interested to hear about your experience transitioning to this line of work, since I want to do the same. I'm in my early 40s, software engineer.

New comment by newprint in "Intel is Dead and x86 is Next (Premium)"

newprint — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:09:01 +0000

Author is beating the drum, but what about mission critical software running on x86 ? replacing it will take decades.

New comment by newprint in "Coder wrote a bug so bad security guards wanted a word when he arrived at work"

newprint — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 17:03:26 +0000

damn

New comment by newprint in "Anti-obesity drug has life-changing benefits for arthritis"

newprint — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 03:35:38 +0000

Thank you for posting this. This is exciting, hopefully this will help to someone who is close to me suffering from this condition !

New comment by newprint in "U.S. chip revival plan chooses sites"

newprint — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 22:01:31 +0000

Lol, yeah. They will not do that.

New comment by newprint in "New documentary reveals that 21,000 laborers have died working Saudi Vision 2030"

newprint — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 15:50:39 +0000

Construction sites deaths are gruesome by nature. I feel terrible for those people. Thanks god, we have OSHA (& hopefully, it will not be dismantled as it has been touted)

New comment by newprint in "Crises at Boeing and Intel Are a National Emergency"

newprint — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 02:15:00 +0000

With Boeing - A fish rots from the head down. Entire upper management needs to go, now and can't work for Boeing or it's subsidiaries or contractors. Nowhere near Boeing.

New comment by newprint in "TSMC told US of chip in Huawei product after TechInsights finding, source says"

newprint — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 01:44:11 +0000

thank you for posting this link, very interesting reading. If you have more of the similar materials, I would be very interested. Thank you !