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New comment by okl in "Ask HN: Are you tired too in this AI era?"

okl — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:52:58 +0000

> I am pretty sure most of you are experiencing the same as me, but: Have you found ways of using AI without increasing mental overload?

I would recommend you to try using FIM/line completion rather than the agent approach. Using FIM it makes me (feel) productive while still being in control. Oftentimes when writing code for production, documentation etc. the agent approach feels like a wash to me - sometimes it saves time, sometimes it wastes time. With FIM the gain/quality is more consistent.

NanoPutians, organic molecules whose structural formulae resemble human forms

okl — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:30:19 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NanoPutian

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49050734

Points: 4

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New comment by okl in "6 years and 360 patches to clean all instances of strnpy out of the Linux kernel"

okl — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:17:09 +0000

strncpy was originally used to write into fixed length buffers[1]. This becomes obvious when considering the padding behavior, as described in the C standard[2]: "If the array pointed to by s2 is a string that is shorter than n characters, null characters are appended to the copy in the array pointed to by s1, until n characters in all have been written."

strlcpy, often touted as a replacement, does not elicit the padding behavior but has another flaw: It is supposed to return the length of the string it tried to create, for example, so the user can call realloc without calling strlen again.[3] However, this final "strlen-tail" in strlcpy isn't bounded by the size parameter which describes dest, not src.

While strscpy is a marked improvement, there is still something to be careful about: It can read past the end of the src-buffer, when sizeof src < sizeof dest and src is not nul-terminated.[4] (Set the count argument to something like min(sizeof dest, sizeof src) to avoid that).

[1] - https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/438090

[2] - https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3220.pdf, 7.26.2.5 p. 3

[3] - https://manpages.debian.org/jessie/libbsd-dev/strlcpy.3.en.h...

[4] - https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy...

Atlas of Humanity

okl — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:42:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.atlasofhumanity.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674194

Points: 3

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The Everyday Projects

okl — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:37:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.everydayprojects.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674101

Points: 3

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Show HN: Mutex Service – Team Coordination Tool

okl — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:06:18 +0000

Article URL: https://mutex.team/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46230893

Points: 1

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New comment by okl in "MinIO stops distributing free Docker images"

okl — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:44:50 +0000

Also there is garage, which I found easy to setup: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/

New comment by okl in "Tech megacaps lose $770B in value as Nasdaq suffers steepest drop since April"

okl — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 16:45:04 +0000

Game theoretic modelling commonly results in early escalation followed by a slower de-escalating as a winning strategy. Fits into the strong-arm approach to politics of exercising power to expand power which the current US administration seems to follow. Thus, I wouldn't think that decoupling or falling of a cliff is the intended goal.

New comment by okl in "Tech megacaps lose $770B in value as Nasdaq suffers steepest drop since April"

okl — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 16:24:43 +0000

Did you know that 90% of gamblers quit before they win big? /s

New comment by okl in "EU lawmakers push to ban term 'veggie-burger'"

okl — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 11:55:58 +0000

Problem here is that the excessive focus on secondary issues raises the perception of a problem solving deficit which reduces support/legitimacy for the political system.

It would be nice to focus on solving more existential problems of which there are enough.