Hacker News: quectophoton

New comment by quectophoton in "The 49MB web page"

quectophoton — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:36:31 +0000

Out of curiosity, do you have (and want to share) stats about requests per second? It's always nice to know these things for future reference.

No worries if not :)

New comment by quectophoton in "Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all"

quectophoton — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 05:47:23 +0000

I think there was an SMBC comic about this topic, but I don't think I can find it, and the site doesn't exactly make it easy. I don't even remember if it was pre-2020 or not.

It was about how people would get a thing (a robot?) that would repeat whatever they said but in a more fancy way (or something along those lines), to make them sound smarter. Then the people would start depending on these robots to communicate at all, to the point their speech degrades and they start making unintelligible noises that the robots still translate into actual speech.

EDIT: Found it, from 2014: https://smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3576

New comment by quectophoton in "Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age"

quectophoton — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 04:42:10 +0000

Years later: "The current measures are a step in the right direction, but we have found them insufficient. We are now requiring the use of this specific proprietary binary blob for any action related to the verification process. It will conveniently run as a daemon so its exposed API will be accessible to any application that needs to query it, and it will automatically update itself so you don't have to worry about it, just set it up once and forget about it."

It might also include some additional text like "we have decided to collaborate with systemd to integrate this proprietary binary blob, to maximize the reach and eliminating any pains in the setup process caused by the vibrant ecosystem of package managers, while at the same time avoiding disrupting the development process of the Linux kernel".

New comment by quectophoton in "Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI"

quectophoton — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:56:48 +0000

If I had to use AI with neovim I'd probably use https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/99 or one with a similar workflow.

New comment by quectophoton in "E2E encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after 8 May"

quectophoton — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:04:26 +0000

Except instead of sending through post offices, it'd probably be through "runners" like on Mirror's Edge.

New comment by quectophoton in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

quectophoton — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 05:05:12 +0000

And even then, getting interviews is one thing, but getting offers is something completely different.

And there's also the advantage of having a current job, instead of an increasingly larger jobless gap that not only decreases your chances over time, but also contributes to the cycle of "less chance -> wider gap -> increased anxiety -> less chance".

Fumble the first few months due to a combination of a lack of interviewing practice, and of job postings that never intended to hire anyway or that are looking for someone that checks literally all their shopping list of boxes, all while still dragging you for a 4-8 journey, and suddenly your position is not that good anymore.

New comment by quectophoton in "The View from RSS"

quectophoton — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 01:24:17 +0000

Not exactly a "news" site, but this is still an example site that you'd expect would have a feed:

https://mistral.ai/news/

New comment by quectophoton in "“It turns out” (2010)"

quectophoton — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:06:12 +0000

> Language is filled with those types of phrases, the one which bugs me once it was pointed out (even though I use it myself) is "to be honest...", which could carry the implication anything said without that qualifier may be dishonest.

Supernatural highlights this on S1E08, at 27:28. Dean was talking with someone and starts saying "the truth is" but the other person instantly cuts him off saying "you know who starts their sentences with 'the truth is'? Liars".

New comment by quectophoton in "When does MCP make sense vs CLI?"

quectophoton — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:04:51 +0000

Thank you, I was going to say something like this. I've been reading all the comments here and thinking, "do ChatGPT/LeChat/etc even allow running CLIs from their web or mobile interfaces?".

Zealous Autoconfig (2008)

quectophoton — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:22:35 +0000

Article URL: https://xkcd.com/416/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077096

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by quectophoton in "Thought-Terminating Cliché"

quectophoton — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:42:39 +0000

I'll add one that's very common in HN: "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good."

Instantly closes the door to any thoughtful discussion.

Atlas: Manage your database schema as code

quectophoton — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 10:36:18 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ariga/atlas

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46922778

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by quectophoton in "First, make me care"

quectophoton — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:28:20 +0000

Same.

Also I tend to do the "Don't recommend -> I don't like this video" for those that have the thumbnails with "that face" (you know, the YouTube Thumbnail Clickbait Face, I don't even know if there's an actual term for it).

When I actually enter a video, you have my attention by default and you'll get an instant dislike for:

- "Don't forget to like and subscribe."

- Showing those like and/or subscribe buttons on screen.

- If I get suspicious that you're padding video length, talking just for the sake of stalling.

New comment by quectophoton in "LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet"

quectophoton — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:09:40 +0000

And how do you get those residential IP addresses?

Well, you just need people to install your browser extension. Or your proprietary web browser. Or your mobile app. Or your nice MCP. Maybe get them to add your PPA repository so they automatically install your sneakily-overriden package the next time they upgrade their system.

Anything goes as long as your software has access to outgoing TCP port 443, which almost nobody blocks, so even if it's being run from within a Docker container or a VM it probably doesn't affect you.

New comment by quectophoton in "Tldraw pauses external contributions due to AI slop"

quectophoton — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 12:13:02 +0000

Questions. I want to get into coding agents, so, out of curiosity: which one(s) did you use and how much money has it costed you? (Any metric is fine)

New comment by quectophoton in "How uv got so fast"

quectophoton — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 22:26:02 +0000

I wouldn't say without fear, since you're one typo away from executing a typo-squatted malicious package.

I do use it on CI/CD pipelines, but I wouldn't dare type uvx commands myself on a daily basis.

New comment by quectophoton in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

quectophoton — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:04:54 +0000

I'm just wondering if this strong hate applies to Google as well, is all.

New comment by quectophoton in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

quectophoton — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:28:20 +0000

Does he still work for Google?

If so, I wonder what his views are on Google and their active development of Google Gemini.

New comment by quectophoton in "Stop Slopware"

quectophoton — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 18:46:38 +0000

Abbreviated as "VC Cleanup Specialist".

With the ambiguity in the meaning of "VC" being intentional.

New comment by quectophoton in "Clair Obscur having its Indie Game Game Of The Year award stripped due to AI use"

quectophoton — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 14:15:59 +0000

Better blacklist Google as well. You don't want anyone on the team searching anything on Google lest their search accidentally triggers the LLM response (meaning: they prompted Google Gemini).