Hacker News: ritcgab

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

New comment by ritcgab in "Prediction: Microsoft will eventually ship a Windows-themed Linux distro"

ritcgab — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 04:19:33 +0000

These posts are just new slops. An operating system is far more than what you see. And the NixOS + Hyprland + Ghostty combo is clearly a meme now.

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

ritcgab — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 04:09:19 +0000

Welp, I guess LLMs truly helped a lot of people.

New comment by ritcgab in "Purdue blocks admission of many Chinese grad students in unwritten policy"

ritcgab — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 03:47:08 +0000

Purdue is ranked the 13th on csrankings.org. Let's see how it goes in 5 years.

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

ritcgab — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 04:11:26 +0000

The commit history of this file is hilarious.

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

ritcgab — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 02:02:26 +0000

A production grade key-value store, while .DS_Store is everywhere in its repository.

New comment by ritcgab in "Toro: Deploy Applications as Unikernels"

ritcgab — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 02:53:04 +0000

All specific to runc.

New comment by ritcgab in "FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service"

ritcgab — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 23:59:43 +0000

To be fair, that is 4 dedicated cores not shared with other tenants.

New comment by ritcgab in "What Does a Database for SSDs Look Like?"

ritcgab — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 14:38:14 +0000

SSDs are more of a black box per se. FTL adds another layer of indirection and they are mostly proprietary and vendor-specific. So the performance of SSDs are not generalizable.