Hacker News: ritcgab

New comment by ritcgab in "DNS is for people, not for IT infrastructure"

ritcgab — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:05:22 +0000

DNS is a federated, read-optimized, geo-replicated key-value store with eventual consistency.

New comment by ritcgab in "An AI Hate Wave Is Here"

ritcgab — Mon, 18 May 2026 01:51:11 +0000

An AI hate wave is here, yet when I opened the link:

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New comment by ritcgab in "Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM"

ritcgab — Sat, 09 May 2026 02:54:21 +0000

People run websites on a VPS with 32MB RAM decades ago and it was fine. What is new about this?

New comment by ritcgab in "LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction"

ritcgab — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:28:01 +0000

Is "Mostly-reliable" TCP connection a real thing? A TCP connection is either reliable or not working at all. That is what a proper abstraction should be like.

New comment by ritcgab in "AI can cost more than human workers now"

ritcgab — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:07:13 +0000

Using AI: pay-as-you-go via token usage.

Using human workers: monthly subscription but rate limited due to biological nature.

New comment by ritcgab in "If you stop hiring juniors, your senior engineers own you"

ritcgab — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 03:07:36 +0000

They aren't. They act like seniors. But that is all the business needs.

New comment by ritcgab in "CEOs admit AI had no impact on employment or productivity"

ritcgab — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:07:04 +0000

They all know that, and we all know that.

So we are all in this "scheme".

New comment by ritcgab in "NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating"

ritcgab — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 02:58:47 +0000

I hope the voyagers can last longer. We are trapped on Earth, but it is just fascinating (and relieving) thinking of them expanding the boundary of human's space adventure.

New comment by ritcgab in "AGI Is Here?"

ritcgab — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:54:45 +0000

If humans are not GI, we cannot judge what is AGI.

New comment by ritcgab in "OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability"

ritcgab — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:29:26 +0000

Isn't OpenClaw itself a privilege escalation?

New comment by ritcgab in "Midnight train from GA: A view of America from the tracks as airports struggle"

ritcgab — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:15:51 +0000

Interestingly mixed usage of en dash and em dash across the article.

New comment by ritcgab in "2% of ICML papers desk rejected because the authors used LLM in their reviews"

ritcgab — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:02:02 +0000

Well deserved.

New comment by ritcgab in "What makes Intel Optane stand out (2023)"

ritcgab — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:38:50 +0000

All those nice numbers are just beaten by the unit cost. And the ecosystem is a mess.

New comment by ritcgab in "My Homelab Setup"

ritcgab — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:46:16 +0000

Hard pass whenever you host long-term storage without ECC memory.

New comment by ritcgab in "Verification debt: the hidden cost of AI-generated code"

ritcgab — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 20:30:10 +0000

At the end of the day, it's about liability. Whether you use AI tools to generate the code or not, you are the author of the code, and such authorship implies the liability that you are being paid to take.

New comment by ritcgab in "Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API)"

ritcgab — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:21:14 +0000

But you will never commit them via GitHub's web interface one file at a time :)

New comment by ritcgab in "I went from literature/language to Rust systems programming in under a year"

ritcgab — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 03:36:17 +0000

huh

New comment by ritcgab in "Ask HN: Is Linux Safe to Daily drive in 2026?"

ritcgab — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:21:02 +0000

Usually no, at least not out of the box.

If you don't sandbox your desktop applications, it is just not safe by principle. You are running binaries using the same user account with zero audit into what it is doing. You need access control.

New comment by ritcgab in "I went from literature/language to Rust systems programming in under a year"

ritcgab — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 21:19:05 +0000

I just don't see the point of denying that. People use LLMs for coding for sure and it is not a bad thing, and no one can automate a full project 100% with LLMs.

What I saw is that you created initial commits one file at a time via GitHub's web UI, with multiple follow-up commits just to remove emojis from your scripts:

https://github.com/whispem/minikv/commit/c611897f05235ea4410...

https://github.com/whispem/minikv/commit/59369fcbb2a94c5dd07...

https://github.com/whispem/minikv/commit/0e86e9e328b21170e77...

https://github.com/whispem/minikv/commit/9a4cedcd30c3a00e7ea...

Care to share why those emojis were there in the first place? I guess the next step is to say the Rust codes are 100% handwritten but scripts/docs are AI-assisted? ;)

New comment by ritcgab in "I went from literature/language to Rust systems programming in under a year"

ritcgab — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 13:48:34 +0000

Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46661308