<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: nylonstrung</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nylonstrung</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 06:47:34 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=nylonstrung" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "Marc Andreessen Says One Job Is Mostly Safe from AI: Venture Capitalist"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In reality, VC is probably the most threatened because value and investment dollars have increasingly accrued to large public companies and a handful of a growth companies,  the power law has never been stronger and returns never more stratified.<p>You can't just build a fund throwing out money at Seed and Series A SaaS companies anymore, more than ever company spend is going towards a few AI providers as "buy vs build" shifts in the opposite direction than before<p>And additionally you could argue that LLM coding is replacing the need for much of pre-Seed and Seed money that would go towards hiring the first 1-3 engineers and MVP development</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:49:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48808071</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48808071</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48808071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "When AI Costs More Than the Engineer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the panic around distillation misses the fact that US labs also benefit heavily from Chinese breakthroughs like Deepseek's work on sparsity, MoE and training architecture<p>It may be that US labs use Chinese models for distillation but we'd ofc never know because they can host the models themselves</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:07:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48802694</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48802694</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48802694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "$85,000 in tokens later: What I learned from scaling agentic coding at Lovable"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>50M projects built on Lovable and somehow I've never seen any of them</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 06:24:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48791728</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48791728</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48791728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "$85,000 in tokens later: What I learned from scaling agentic coding at Lovable"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When I go to a "dev tools" site and landing page is just a prompt that's when I reach for my revolver</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 06:24:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48791725</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48791725</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48791725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "Flexible metaprogramming with Rhombus"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'd implore anyone interested in metaprogramming to look at Lean4<p>It gets overshadowed by the theorem proving but it's unsurpassed in metaprogramming, to my knowledge it can do anything Lisp Racket and Rhombus can and much more</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:12:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48780011</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48780011</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48780011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Insane to think they'd have gotten a small fraction of the sentence had they been distributing CSAM they produced instead<p>Apparently Marxist film reviews and gardening tips are more criminal than child pornography</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:25:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48731106</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48731106</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48731106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "Mojo programming language will become open-source soon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Too little too late</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:36:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707678</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707678</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In the same way as WordStar, there's a community of DOS WordPerfect 6.0 users who claim with some validity that it's still the best for writing prose</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 07:17:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48695954</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48695954</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48695954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "Qualcomm to Acquire Modular"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I call BS, zero chance this traded at $4B. The fact they describe it as a "chip company" shouldn't give confidence</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:28:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48671873</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48671873</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48671873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "I can haz smoller NixOS ISOs?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://sidhion.com/blog/nixos_server_issues/" rel="nofollow">https://sidhion.com/blog/nixos_server_issues/</a><p>Here's another good article on the topic<p>It's unfortunate that Perl and Python are core deps, as well as Bash</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 15:08:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48619589</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48619589</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48619589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you go to Civitai this is pretty how it works in that corner of the image generation world<p>Everything is using Stable Diffusion as underlying model, then most of the usage is merged of checkpoints</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:58:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530430</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530430</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "How Terry Tao became an evangelist for AI in math"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>More accurate title would be "Terry Tao Became an Evangelist for Lean"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:23:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448236</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448236</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "Show HN: Streambed – Stream Postgres to Iceberg on S3, Supports Postgres Wire"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Does pushdown require support at this part of the stack or can you just delegate to Datafusion as your query engine, which has very good pushdown</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:02:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48352472</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48352472</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48352472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "Use boring languages with LLMs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Even though Python code may use more characters/LoC than say Rust in text form, it's not necessarily more token dense because LLM tokenizers are good at "compressing" its English keywords<p>In contrast, langs with symbol-heavy syntax (ALP as extreme example) use fewer characters but don't tokenize well in practice so aren't as efficient as one would think</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 10:12:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48292060</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48292060</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48292060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "Use boring languages with LLMs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What does it bring to the table that isn't achievable with Cargo?<p>I just feel like Dart doesn't offer enough for a fairly standard OOP lang which isn't particularly fast and doesn't have the library ecosystem or vast training data of Rust, Go etc</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 09:54:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48291932</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48291932</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48291932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "Launch HN: IonRouter (YC W26) – High-throughput, low-cost inference"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unless I misunderstood it seems like this is trailing the pareto frontier in cost and speed.<p>Compare to providers like Fireworks and even with the openrouter 5% charge it's not competitive</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:44:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47356058</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47356058</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47356058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "I stopped using NixOS and went back to Arch Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's unfair to act like NixOS just breaks "randomly" or is inherently unreliable<p>It's essentially deterministic and fully reproducible.<p>Issues with Bluetooth, electron etc as described are essentially irrelevant to NixOS and have to do with your configuration</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:54:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47344267</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47344267</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47344267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "I stopped using NixOS and went back to Arch Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> the benefits are basically minimal/none<p>Sounds like you've never used it. I've daily driven it for ~2 years and would never go back<p>It works great with containers, you can use Nix to build extremely lean OCI images. Mercury uses it this way- the book NixOS in production discusses it</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:41:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47344119</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47344119</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47344119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Appreciate this, very cool of you to do that</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:19:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47273151</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47273151</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47273151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "The Science of Detecting LLM-Generated Text (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It sounds like a "cursed problem". Are there any contemporary techniques that show any promise?</p>
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