<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: q3k</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=q3k</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:43:10 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=q3k" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by q3k in "Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, I also feel 'just use SQLite [no matter what]' is just the pendulum swinging hard after the 'just use mongodb [no matter what]' of yesteryear.<p>It's so sometimes just performative. I remember when Tailscale had a similar performative approach with 'just use a JSON file on disk'. Then etcd. Then SQLite. Like sure, you can keep picking the absolite mininum technology for your needs and then change it every couple of years... Or you could just immediately go with a solid Postgres (or Postgres-like setup, eg. yugabyte) and save yourself a bunch of faffing about with weird solutions and migrating between them. But I guess that doesn't drive engagement on your blog.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:55:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49280546</link><dc:creator>q3k</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49280546</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49280546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by q3k in "Learn how chips are made with this Rollercoaster Tycoon-inspired animation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've refurbished multiple PVD systems, I'm setting up a DIY e-beam lithography rig for Cr-on-glass photomask making and I'm bringing up an 80's photolithography mask aligner / exposure system. I've even built some terrible Al/Si(P-type) Schottky junctions already. I'm not completely clueless.</p>
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<p>I told you - it's not the correct term. Finding the correct one should be something you can achieve in 5 minutes of research, and then you can confirm your understanding with a SME.<p>To be clear, I am also not an expert - I can pick out things that are wrong because I generally know a thing or two about semiconductor fabrication, but I'm not willing to sign-off on correctness of the whole thing, especially wrt. to modern processes. I personally wouldn't publish anything about this matter without getting it checked by someone else, because I know where the limits of my knowledge are.<p>The goal of my comment was to bring that to your attention - that you need someone to actually review your content before you continue teaching people the wrong thing. When you're educating people, you're in a position of power that comes with the responsibility of making sure what you write is as correct and clear as possible. You have a duty of care.</p>
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<p>Because it's not the correct term. And that's not the only thing that's wrong, see the parent comment.<p>With all due respect, I would recommend you run any educational resources and infographics you create past an actual subject matter expert (not an LLM!) before release. Otherwise you're just spreading shiny misinformation.</p>
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<p>Also "The pattern is <i>photographed</i> onto the wafer."... shudder.<p>All subtly wrong. And no, not in the 'simplified' sense.</p>
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<p>Maybe. :)</p>
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<p>In a simplified scenario (not too far from this)? Yeah, we've done that in CTFs almost a decade ago.<p><a href="https://blog.dragonsector.pl/2017/10/?m=1" rel="nofollow">https://blog.dragonsector.pl/2017/10/?m=1</a></p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://felonybench.org/">https://felonybench.org/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49194758">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49194758</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
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<p>> addressed by name and replicated to an S3-compatible bucket you own; nodes coordinate through that bucket alone, with no control plane or consensus<p>... but that S3 _is_ the control plane and consensus layer, no? You're just pushing this down the stack to whoever runs that S3 clone.</p>
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<p>I'm just talking about a few days, so that you see the contrast. You can do that, right?</p>
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<p>> Can I ask what makes it read like slop?<p>The fact that it's slop. People know it when they read it.<p>Put Claude and other LLMs away (for coding, writing, everything - block them on your firewall fully) for a few days and then write a blog post from scratch using your own words. No asking for help, comments, editing, nothing. Then compare against this. It'll jump out at you.</p>
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<p>> My argument, Claude’s sentences. It won some of the arguments along the way. The mistakes are still mine.<p>From the footer.<p>lol. lmao, even.</p>
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<p>I do believe there's a tiny subset of people who are more productive with AI, in the same way that Erdős was more productive with amphetamine.<p>But most who keep on going about their 10x productivity gain are indistinguishable from that one obnoxious guy at a party who won't shut up about his Ayahuasca retreat last spring. And they think they're Erdős.</p>
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<p>I miss when this kind of content would've just been two paragraphs and a config snippet.<p>(also, this isn't a "Show HN")</p>
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<p>> I'm very glad they found a way to add it eventually<p>Will this integrate with existing code that uses Pin<T>? If not this will split the ecosystem even further...</p>
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<p>No, they just shop there.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 06:44:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49131759</link><dc:creator>q3k</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49131759</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49131759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by q3k in "BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Clicking on it then activates the Spider-Man™ animation, comprising a full-screen festive animation in the Control Display with aptly chosen backing music and an accompanying light show courtesy of the ambient lighting system.<p>Stop the presses, it's not an ad, it's just a “festive animation”!</p>
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<p>What do you mean? It's just simple beginner's examples in C. Should be easy enough to understand, C is famously very simple ('portable assembler' as they say!).</p>
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<p>> Duplicate keys are a parse exception.<p>Good, that's the least bad behavior. (Postel's law be damned)</p>
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<p>Happy to see that numbers are arbitrary width/precision until explicitly cast by the user. This goes against so many other JSON libraries that will always cast all numbers to double (or even float) thereby silently corrupting JSON numbers representing large values (eg. memory addresses).<p>Does anyone know how this behaves when encountering a repeated key in an object? (RFC8259 states that keys SHOULD be unique, which makes that generally allowed and implementations all behave slightly differently).</p>
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