<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>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:34:58 +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 "How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> But you can still do that, much easier, with plain human words.<p>Skill issue.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 11:00:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49855338</link><dc:creator>q3k</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49855338</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49855338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by q3k in "How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> My high school also had cameras. Isn’t that rather typical?<p>What? Absolutely not! At least not in the countries in which I went to school.</p>
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<p>> It seems to be exactly the opposite, a "fully human error"<p>"LLMize the succeses, humanize the failures." is the PR strategy at play here. Anything goes well it's because AI did it, anything goes bad it's because a human didn't catch it.</p>
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<p>> FreeiPod and DevoS50/QEMU-iOS
reply<p>It's free_my_ipod and devos50 is not capitalized like (it makes no sense if you knew that it's a derivative of a last name).<p>You might say all these things but I can't see anything but disrespect if you can't even be bothered to spell the name of the involved project/people correctly.<p>Your work wouldn't exist in this shape without those who came in before you, and all you're doing is discouraging them (at least me) from ever publishing any code or research again.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:59:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49663537</link><dc:creator>q3k</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49663537</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49663537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by q3k in "iPod Classic 6G in QEMU"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> One thing we already know is that the firmware is from Apple and is encrypted, so there's no legal download.<p>wInd3x can decrypt it.<p>> and the boot ROM cannot be read from the running device<p>Yes it can, you just need to turn on the right clock gate.<p>I'm so tired of AI slop. We've been reverse engineering these SoCs slowly and carefully for years, but this is what ends up getting published and shared.</p>
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<p>This really doesn't sound right. I've ran these from hundreds-of-watts industrial PSUs without any voltage sag and they did great. I suspect the clanker is making some shit up here, as always.</p>
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<p>More accurate credit for the RE effort would be 'q3k took scans done by someone else for the first board and turned them into a netlist, then other people did the rest'. It's really just hosted under my GH user at this point, nothing more.</p>
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<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>
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<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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