Hacker News: photios

New comment by photios in "My 1992 view of the problems of computer programming in 1992"

photios — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:11:41 +0000

> Now a question: Since we're obviously thousands of times better at producing compilers than we were fifteen years ago, so much so that a single undergraduate can write a passable one in four months, why hasn't IBM invested millions of dollars and hundreds of programmer-years to produce a super FORTRAN I compiler that's thousands of times better than the FORTRAN H compiler?

s/FORTRAN I/Mythos/ for the 2026 version of this.

New comment by photios in "Identity verification on Claude"

photios — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:46:46 +0000

I love this. GLM, Kimi, and DeepSeek await :D

New comment by photios in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

photios — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:01:43 +0000

I came back to reread this last sentence three times. Well done, sir, well done!

New comment by photios in "Loreline – Tools for writing interactive fiction"

photios — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:05:55 +0000

I wonder if someone's tried IF tools like Inform 7 as the specification language you give an LLM agent. Looks like a good way to describe UI screens.

New comment by photios in "Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]"

photios — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:04:53 +0000

These people have names and addresses. Getting them out in the open will help a lot.

I'm not saying we should lynch them, but a good deal of public shaming is in order. Who knows, their kids might pick a different vocation.

New comment by photios in "GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS"

photios — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:53:42 +0000

"Everyone I don't agree with is Hitler" is not an argument.

New comment by photios in "GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS"

photios — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:16:47 +0000

> How did it come to this?

Trying not to get my account banned...

The British elite allied with non-British people and betrayed their own.

New comment by photios in "Squillions: How money laundering won"

photios — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:36:35 +0000

> I can invalidate Bitcoin, by comparing it to NFTs.

I'm sorry, that's not how it works.

New comment by photios in "Squillions: How money laundering won"

photios — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:19:48 +0000

In this day and age "money laundering" just means "not bending over and letting the state tax you to oblivion". TFA is just scare mongering.

People need to learn about Bitcoin.

New comment by photios in "macOS needs its grid back"

photios — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:10:19 +0000

The last good MacOS was System 6. Change my mind :D

New comment by photios in "Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images"

photios — Wed, 20 May 2026 04:57:20 +0000

> No use messing with Google's watermark, fellas. Go do something else that's 100x harder instead.

> works for Google

Gee, I wonder why...

New comment by photios in "Crypto industry lobbies to evade AML/CTF rules"

photios — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:39:53 +0000

All my life I've dreamt of fighting for and fulfilling FATF Recommendation 16. :D

New comment by photios in "Crypto industry lobbies to evade AML/CTF rules"

photios — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:41:45 +0000

> I'm pro-crypto camp, yet I misquote and post misleading titles about it.

What did he mean by this?

New comment by photios in "I am worried about Bun"

photios — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:43:48 +0000

"Friendship ended with Bun, now pnpm is my best friend" the post...

New comment by photios in "Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML"

photios — Sun, 03 May 2026 07:57:18 +0000

Yesterday I heard about lat.md [1] which seems to have similar ideas about annotating code with spec refs. I now need to try them both.

[1] https://www.lat.md/

New comment by photios in "Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML"

photios — Sun, 03 May 2026 07:55:21 +0000

Dreaming about ` | nindent 12` in my specs! :D

New comment by photios in "It’s Toasted"

photios — Fri, 01 May 2026 10:03:13 +0000

Somewhat tangential... I "love" how a pack of Luckies cost 10 cents in 1917 and now they are at about $10.

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com

New comment by photios in "The beginning of programming as we'll know it?"

photios — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 05:08:48 +0000

> Someday, I'll lose understanding of the code, because I didn't write it.

I've been wading through vast corporate codebases I never wrote and yet had to understand for the past 20 years. This isn't any different, and AI tools help with that understanding. A lot!

The tools and techniques are out there.

New comment by photios in "Kotlin creator's new language: a formal way to talk to LLMs instead of English"

photios — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:05:38 +0000

It's in the Quickstart article here:

https://codespeak.dev/blog/greenfield-project-tutorial-20260...

New comment by photios in "Kotlin creator's new language: a formal way to talk to LLMs instead of English"

photios — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:42:08 +0000

> codespeak login

Instant tab close!