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The need for a new agenda for Britain

oncallthrow — Tue, 26 May 2026 22:21:48 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/InstituteGC/status/2059379354560319651

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48286794

Points: 2

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New comment by oncallthrow in "Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu"

oncallthrow — Mon, 25 May 2026 09:11:01 +0000

`git rebase -i` and `fixup`

New comment by oncallthrow in "Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda"

oncallthrow — Sat, 23 May 2026 08:28:03 +0000

It’s “trope”, not “troupe”

New comment by oncallthrow in "Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable'"

oncallthrow — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:42:11 +0000

I think this will sort itself out over time, as people realise that it’s no longer impressive whatsoever to land an AI-assisted PR to the Linux kernel.

New comment by oncallthrow in "Understanding the Linux Kernel: The Linux Kernel Startup"

oncallthrow — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:00:47 +0000

I came, I saw the em dash, I closed the tab

New comment by oncallthrow in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"

oncallthrow — Fri, 08 May 2026 10:46:22 +0000

> Matthew has personally sent out every offer letter we've extended. It is a practice he has always looked forward to because it represented our growth and the incredible talent joining our mission

Who gives a shit if you treat your staff like this?

I will add cloudflare to the list of companies that I’ll never work for. Shame, because it seemed like an interesting place

New comment by oncallthrow in "Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE"

oncallthrow — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:51:23 +0000

> this is why we don't run as root

The entire point is that you can escalate to root

New comment by oncallthrow in "Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE"

oncallthrow — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:16:42 +0000

can this also be used to obtain container escape ?

New comment by oncallthrow in "Tip: Web requests should not be measured in Hz [Hertz]"

oncallthrow — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:29:49 +0000

Just use rps

New comment by oncallthrow in "Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom"

oncallthrow — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:40:01 +0000

Shame that this report is LLM-generated slop.

New comment by oncallthrow in "I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language"

oncallthrow — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 21:04:57 +0000

A GitHub README.md without a torrent of AI-generated slop? Refreshing

New comment by oncallthrow in "Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals"

oncallthrow — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:25:22 +0000

have you considered implementing a +- operator?

For example a +- b would be [a - b, a + b]

New comment by oncallthrow in "Pope Leo XIV denounces the 'delusion of omnipotence' he says fuels the Iran war"

oncallthrow — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:53:30 +0000

I’ve spent dozens of hours reading about the conflict on social media. I don’t think I’ve seen a single western account, outside of schizophrenic conspiracy theorist anons, saying that Iran is some paradise that can do no wrong.

New comment by oncallthrow in "Pope Leo XIV denounces the 'delusion of omnipotence' he says fuels the Iran war"

oncallthrow — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:17:34 +0000

Yes, because that quite literally isn’t “news”. Western leaders including the pope have condemned jihadism for decades.

New comment by oncallthrow in "A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines"

oncallthrow — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:26:02 +0000

No, it will likely be a state actor who reaches it first, who will never give away such a capability so easily

New comment by oncallthrow in "A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines"

oncallthrow — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:24:46 +0000

No, and even if we could, it would require a migration of approaching the same difficulty of a migration to PQ, at which point why not just migrate to PQ

New comment by oncallthrow in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

oncallthrow — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:44:35 +0000

I suppose transistors is a bad example.

Perhaps a better analogy would be the Linux kernel. It's built by biological humans, and fallible ones at that. And yet, I don't feel the need to learn the intricacies of kernel internals, because it's reliable enough that it's essentially never the kernel's fault when my code doesn't work.

New comment by oncallthrow in "Lisette a little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go"

oncallthrow — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:21:54 +0000

That isn’t the same thing. Indeed, upon reading further, it appears there is no way to import non-stdlib go modules.

New comment by oncallthrow in "Lisette a little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go"

oncallthrow — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:55:29 +0000

I've read the entire page and still don't know whether or not I can import Go modules in this language, which seems rather important

New comment by oncallthrow in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

oncallthrow — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:52:39 +0000

I think this article is largely, or at least directionally, correct.

I'd draw a comparison to high-level languages and language frameworks. Yes, 99% of the time, if I'm building a web frontend, I can live in React world and not think about anything that is going on under the hood. But, there is 1% of the time where something goes wrong, and I need to understand what is happening underneath the abstraction.

Similarly, I now produce 99% of my code using an agent. However, I still feel the need to thoroughly understand the code, in order to be able to catch the 1% of cases where it introduces a bug or does something suboptimally.

It's possible that in future, LLMs will get _so_ good that I don't feel the need to do this, in the same way that I don't think about the transistors my code is ultimately running on. When doing straightforward coding tasks, I think they're already there, but I think they aren't quite at that point when it comes to large distributed systems.