Hacker News: rossvor

New comment by rossvor in "Bugs Rust won't catch"

rossvor — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:31:48 +0000

In the given list of GNU CVEs in the original article, it included a buffer overrun in tail from 2021. So for a fair comparison 2021 is part of the "window of activity" (the year uu_od CVE was published).

Software Engineering Practices = Morals+Theology

rossvor — Tue, 20 May 2025 10:43:40 +0000

Article URL: https://shape-of-code.com/2025/05/18/software_engineering_practices-moralstheology/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44039997

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The disappearing Status updates map (Transport for London)

rossvor — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 08:55:40 +0000

Article URL: https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-disappearing-status-updates-map.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42422401

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

New comment by rossvor in "Claude AI built me a React app to compare maps side by side"

rossvor — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 21:55:11 +0000

With your analogy I would be the one saying that I'm still not convinced that skis are faster than snowshoes.

I still use ChatGPT/Claude/Llama daily for both code generation and other things. And while it sometimes does do exactly what I want it to, and I feel more productive, it still seems to waste my time an almost an equal amount of time, and I have to give up on it and rewrite it manually or do a google search/read the actual documentation. It's good to bounce things off, it's good as starting point to learn new stuff, gives you great direction to explore new things and test things out quickly. My guess on a "happy path" it gives me 1.3 speed up, which is great when that happens, but the caveat is that you are not on a "happy path" most the time, and if you listen to the evangelists it seems like it should be 2x-5x speed up (skis). So where's the disconnect?

I'm not here to disprove your experience, but with 2 years of almost daily usage of skis, how come I feel like I'm still barely breaking even compared with snowshoes? Am I that bad with my prompting skills?

New comment by rossvor in "Friends don't let friends export to CSV"

rossvor — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 11:03:25 +0000

Friends don't let friends export to CSV [for my specific use case]

There were no ancient computers and it's fine

rossvor — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 12:59:52 +0000

Article URL: https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/there-were-no-ancient-computers-and

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37985000

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Video Game History

rossvor — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 15:31:44 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.dshr.org/2023/08/video-game-history.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36987275

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rossvor in "Prompt Engineering Guide: Guides, papers, and resources for prompt engineering"

rossvor — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 17:44:58 +0000

Huh, my recollection is the exact opposite. I remember the good old days when I could use inurl: link: and explore the website contents fully and drill down further if necessary, compared to now, where google seems to always think to know better than you what you are looking for. If you are not happy with the initial results it gave you, you are pretty much out of options, good luck trying to drill down to some specific thing.

New comment by rossvor in "Copilot Internals"

rossvor — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 10:10:56 +0000

But aren't you afraid that whenever you veer discussion from Wikipedia/stackoverflow type explanations it's likely lying to you? This was my general experience -- it's great at querying for stuff which already exists and is popular on the internet and for conversing on a surface level or broad level but as soon you delve into details it starts confidently lying and/or hallucinating things, which undermines my trust in it, which in turn means I need to verify what it says, which means it did not increase my productivity that much after all.

It routinely invents arguments, functions or concepts which don't exist in reality or don't apply to the current context, but look like they could, so you are even more likely to get caught by this.

Mapping out the tribes of climate

rossvor — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 19:59:38 +0000

Article URL: https://nadia.xyz/climate-tribes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33806739

Points: 26

# Comments: 11

The Balto/Togo theory of scientific development

rossvor — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 08:33:21 +0000

Article URL: https://acesounderglass.com/2022/10/04/the-balto-togo-theory-of-scientific-development/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33092809

Points: 77

# Comments: 33

New comment by rossvor in "Ask HN: How to do the bare minimum when not valued at work?"

rossvor — Sun, 25 Sep 2022 09:16:03 +0000

Not to mention that self sabotaging your good work habits is counter-productive. You may think that you are getting one over them, but it's just as likely that after a few months of doing bare minimum, it will become your new "default" behaviour and carry over to your new job/endeavor.

New comment by rossvor in "Aleksandr Sorokin smashes 24-hour world record with 198.6 mile run"

rossvor — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 14:52:26 +0000

I think the GP is a bit confused and mixed Lithuania up with its neighbors. Lithuania, unlike its neighbors Estonia and Latvia, gave citizenship automatically to everyone residing in Lithuania right before the independence. While Estonia and Latvia chose to create a naturalization process aimed at excluding ethnic Russians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statelessness#Estonia_and_Latv...

New comment by rossvor in "The Futures of Inform"

rossvor — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 07:30:28 +0000

In case you'll get an itch to play IF games, and don't know which one to choose. Picking at random from this list of top 50 as voted by community, never failed me so far:

https://ifdb.org/viewcomp?id=1lv599reviaxvwo7

New comment by rossvor in "Cramming 'Papers, Please' onto Phones"

rossvor — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 21:24:13 +0000

If you see a devlog post from Lucas Pope you know it's going to be a goldmine. No matter the topic. Dude has a real knack in writing these, clearly describing the problem and the thought process on possible solution. And making it all very interesting so you yourself start thinking how would you address it or what other cool thing could be built instead.

Here's some of his other huge devlogs on TIGSOURCE:

1. Papers, Please. https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=29750.0

2. Return of the Obra Dinn. https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.0

New comment by rossvor in "Tell HN: Banned site-wide from Reddit for helping a fellow mod fight hate speech"

rossvor — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 11:07:19 +0000

>This is uncharitable: one merely filters isolated comments, the other permanently bans humans from an entire social media site.

For three days, not permanently:

>"You’ve been banned from Reddit for three days"

List of Internet Forums (2009)

rossvor — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 21:56:27 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_Internet_forums/Old_lists

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32270565

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

That time when I accidentally social engineered myself to a film set

rossvor — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 13:09:29 +0000

Article URL: https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2022/07/that-time-when-i-accidentally-social.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32263777

Points: 152

# Comments: 160

New comment by rossvor in "Ask HN: What is a sustainable methodology for taking notes of your learning?"

rossvor — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 20:41:21 +0000

I'm using Orgzly. But to be honest my use case doesn't involve much use of org-mode on the phone. And I just a had more thorough look and it doesn't support a lot of important features, to the point I should probably retract that bulletpoint not be misleading:

- No codeblock support (execution not working is probably to be expected, but I would expect at least syntax highlighting, but it doesn't do that either)

- No image support (so no charts or diagrams)

- No support for tables

New comment by rossvor in "Ask HN: What is a sustainable methodology for taking notes of your learning?"

rossvor — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 10:25:55 +0000

Emacs org-mode

Kitchen sink is yet to be implemented[1], but for everything else you are covered:

- Executable blocks

- Footnotes

- Inline charts/images

- TODOs tracking

- Multi-device support (there are mobile apps)

It's not going away any time soon, and you can always add-on stuff yourself if you familiarize yourself with emacs-lisp.

1: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TheKitchenSink