<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: nsagent</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nsagent</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 08:56:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=nsagent" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nsagent in "Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So this is a clear case where the LLM generated Rust port introduced a bug:<p>> The Zig original is a packed struct with the same shape; it "worked" only because Zig has no reference aliasing or provenance rules to violate. The Rust port inherited the shape without rethinking the API surface.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 18:46:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152295</link><dc:creator>nsagent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152295</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nsagent in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agreed. I was more pointing out just how well written Tigerbeetle is in comparison (at least according to this LLM-based analysis).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 18:39:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152196</link><dc:creator>nsagent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152196</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nsagent in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's a reasonable request to run the same analysis for the Zig version of the code as a comparison.<p>In lieu of that, it seems the Swivel devs ran an analysis on Tigerbeetle, one of the other major Zig projects, and found only 7 medium/low priority issues:<p><a href="https://xcancel.com/SwivalAgent/status/2054063291266113994" rel="nofollow">https://xcancel.com/SwivalAgent/status/2054063291266113994</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 19:49:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140296</link><dc:creator>nsagent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140296</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nsagent in "Meta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I also hear from people I know at Meta that there is a very strong push to use AI to speed up developer work. One person I know complains that their velocity is slowed down because they have to fix some of the slop that gets checked in as code review is too lax about AI generated code.<p>My guess is that if the planned layoffs remove these "underperforming" devs that are actually fixing AI introduced bugs at the detriment of their own velocity, that will hopefully lead to a correction that AI isn't actually dramatically increasing efficiency, but rather that it trades efficiency amongst individuals with likely a slight positive trend in efficiency overall.<p>Interestingly, since I'm also from an academic background, it seems professors have leaned in heavily on AI and are essentially using their PhD students as filters for AI ideas (which have a MUCH lower signal to noise in that domain).<p>Interesting times (speaking as an NLP researcher).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 15:29:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48136884</link><dc:creator>nsagent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48136884</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48136884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nsagent in "Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I learned that lesson nearly two decades ago when I first started as a game dev straight out of school. I had much less free time and began appreciating shorter games with focused experiences that ended relatively quickly (6-8 hrs). This allowed me to experience more variety.<p>Unfortunately, games keep getting longer and longer with more and more filler. The problem is that many gamers complain loudly when games are short. There are comparatively few games that buck the trend. Now, I play very few games as a result.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 02:11:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48017320</link><dc:creator>nsagent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48017320</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48017320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nsagent in "I am worried about Bun"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think velocity is a real risk to stability, dogfooding or not. That's what made me swear off the python transformers library. It's doubtful that LLMs will change that calculus for the better.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 01:55:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48017207</link><dc:creator>nsagent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48017207</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48017207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nsagent in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just for any future mea culpa, I'd recommend not hedging with comments like this one:<p>> As folks mentioned here - many similar tools do this as well.<p>It's really doubtful they have the same behavior people are complaining about here: namely including the authored by Copilot statement when it wasn't used (or even enabled).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 04:00:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993214</link><dc:creator>nsagent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993214</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nsagent in "China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is no equivalent exit ban in the US that can be instituted on a whim for regulatory or business disputes. If you want to know more, you can read up on it in this Stanford Journal of International Law publication:<p>"Legal Strategy for Commercial
Hostage-taking and Business
Exit Bans"
<a href="https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/SJIL_60-2_Wroldsen.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/SJIL_60-...</a></p>
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<p>The first case makes sense: ex-CIA officer explicitly outing CIA officers. Naturally, the government is going to step in and it's a false equivalence to compare to restricting random citizens.<p>As for your second case, US schools teach about the perils of McCarthyism. You neglected to link to the subsequent Supreme Court ruling in 1958 overturning the confiscation of the passport over protected speech. Note how long ago that was and how it's taught as a black stain on US history.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_v._Dulles" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_v._Dulles</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:56:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47929239</link><dc:creator>nsagent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47929239</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47929239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nsagent in "Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I really only started drinking coffee at my first real job after grad school. They had free coffee in the kitchen, so I'd occassionally have one. Maybe once or twice a week. I was like that for several years, and would occassionally go weeks without a coffee. During that time, I was very productive and went from being a new grad to leading the entire team of veterans in less than five years.<p>After leaving that job, I now consume fairly regularly (for the past decade at least). I can still easily skip days without coffee, though I do prefer having it daily. I literally see no difference in my day to day between having coffee and not throughout my two decades of experience with coffee. I can just as easily fall asleep after a coffee and I rarely feel amped up from a coffee (if I do, then I just stop drinking it). I've certainly never felt anhedonia like many others have mentioned in the comments when I've taken breaks from coffee.<p>I think it's clear that people have different experiences with substances. Whether mine is a common one or not, I cannot say. But I do have a baseline to compare to and I can legitimately say the only thing that has ever caused me anhedonia was burning out from too much work (during burn out I was still consuming coffee and it didn't improve my mental state at all).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:50:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47891085</link><dc:creator>nsagent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47891085</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47891085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kasane: New drop-in Kakoune front end with GPU rendering and WASM Plugins]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://github.com/Yus314/kasane">https://github.com/Yus314/kasane</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47850542">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47850542</a></p>
<p>Points: 53</p>
<p># Comments: 6</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:53:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://github.com/Yus314/kasane</link><dc:creator>nsagent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47850542</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47850542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nsagent in "Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I noticed a post on Reddit that claims Apple Maps only briefly had small towns listed. It's possible when I showed the town off in Apple Maps it could have been during that window. I looked through my texts and found when I recently shared the town a couple months ago it was on Google Maps because I was sharing a picture that was posted on Google Maps (my mom sent me an old photo of an overlook of the town and I sent a modern picture with the same vantage). To my knowledge Apple never had any local photos (just the town label; however briefly).<p><a href="https://safereddit.com/r/applemaps/comments/1sjlfs2/where_are_the_villages_of_southern_lebanon/ofta496/?context=3#ofta496" rel="nofollow">https://safereddit.com/r/applemaps/comments/1sjlfs2/where_ar...</a><p>Since I don't look at the town often, I'm certainly willing to consider that they once had a data broker for the maps that they no longer have access to (or possibly trialed a data broker). Anyway, just thought I'd add as much context as possible, as it's definitely more nuanced than the social media posts imply.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:17:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47745517</link><dc:creator>nsagent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47745517</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47745517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nsagent in "Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can only verify #1. I make no claim to issues #2 or #3. See my comment here:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47744840">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47744840</a><p>Edit: I've replied to my previous post with a bit more context. Seems it's possible it was only ever briefly on Apple Maps.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:41:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47744854</link><dc:creator>nsagent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47744854</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47744854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nsagent in "Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My family name comes from a Christian town in the mountains of Lebanon. I'm positive it was previously on Apple Maps (I've
shown it to people before), but now has no label. It still exists on other mapping services and if I search on DuckDuckGo, the top info summary includes an Apple Maps widget with the town. Clicking on it takes me to Apple Maps with the pin in the right place, without a label.<p>So it's clear that it was there and is no longer there. I'm not making a judgement as to why it's no longer there (the post on X makes an unsubstantiated claim that it's intentional). Could be a bug for all I know. I'm unwilling to make the leap that it's some malicious attempt without actual evidence. I can only verify that it no longer has a label.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://cauchy221.github.io/Alignment-Whack-a-Mole/">https://cauchy221.github.io/Alignment-Whack-a-Mole/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47526640">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47526640</a></p>
<p>Points: 4</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 04:28:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://cauchy221.github.io/Alignment-Whack-a-Mole/</link><dc:creator>nsagent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47526640</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47526640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nsagent in "Android introduces $2-4 install fee and 10–20% cut for US external content links"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hopefully this gets slapped down hard just like Apple recently did. Both Apple and Google want to continue business as usual despite the court rulings.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 05:29:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46333855</link><dc:creator>nsagent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46333855</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46333855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nsagent in "Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They screwed me in a different way. I simply didn't log into Amazon for a couple years as I've tried to minimize my use of Amazon. When I went to log in, they locked my account without any way to unlock it. Talking with support multiple times did nothing. Now all my digital purchases are gone.<p>Edit: If anyone knows a way to get them to unlock the account, I'd appreciate it. They won't issue a password reset or anything similar, which seems ridiculous considering they never claimed fraud. Simply that it had been too long since I logged in.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:20:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46328343</link><dc:creator>nsagent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46328343</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46328343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nsagent in "Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
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]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 02:21:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46321627</link><dc:creator>nsagent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46321627</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46321627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nsagent in "Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'll be honest and blunt: I try to avoid his blog posts and comments as much as possible because I do find his contributions to be super spammy. It's about the frequency of his self-promotion (as a researcher in NLP it's tiresome to constantly see his self-promotion on nearly all posts on HN related to LLMs). Seems I'm not the only one.<p>If he posted on the ML subreddit while I was still a mod there (left after the API kerfuffle) I would have messaged him and asked him politely to tone it down.</p>
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<p>Agreed. That's how I got my start in ML, through Andrew Ng's course a little over a decade ago. I then went on to get my PhD in CS focused on NLP.</p>
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