Hacker News: rubzah

New comment by rubzah in "Core PPI up 9.6% annualized (0.8% MoM) in May"

rubzah — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:20:12 +0000

Saying it seems to have become a taboo, probably because of the existential horror of it possibly being true.

New comment by rubzah in "The Road to the WASM Component Model 1.0"

rubzah — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:25:13 +0000

Suno also runs on WASM. Pretty good showcases, both, imho.

New comment by rubzah in "Under Notre Dame, a 'dig of the century' unearths 1,700 years of history"

rubzah — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:49:12 +0000

> the students of Paris threatened a general strike

Paris in 1200 was at least somewhat recognizable.

New comment by rubzah in "I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it"

rubzah — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:24:30 +0000

It's because Claude is so scary good that unleashing it would destroy the world.

New comment by rubzah in "FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home"

rubzah — Thu, 28 May 2026 10:14:15 +0000

They're very high value by weight, very fungible, and there is much less regulation about carrying them across international borders.

New comment by rubzah in "Ferrari Luce"

rubzah — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:10:18 +0000

I always wondered about this. Who races their cars around like a madman on public roads? Very few I would imagine (and hope), and even fewer take their car to a track. For a Ferrari, possibly a bit more (still probably 99% of the time they are on public roads). But every car review discusses these things at length, as if normal people race around the countryside or mountain roads, putting the cornering and stiffness of their Toyotas and Fords to the test.

New comment by rubzah in "Ferrari Luce"

rubzah — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:58:38 +0000

The Mustang Mach-E makes a fake engine sound: https://www.drive.com.au/news/ford-mustang-mach-e-v8-exhaust...

New comment by rubzah in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

rubzah — Mon, 11 May 2026 11:17:29 +0000

> Claude is a phd level mathematician

... that can't even count.

New comment by rubzah in "Nuclear receptor 4A1 linked to health effects of coffee: study"

rubzah — Mon, 04 May 2026 09:33:24 +0000

For the health benefits, without some of the downsides, I believe it is preferable to drink coffee when you are not tired. This way you don't get a crash later, because there is no adenosine build-up (the 'tiredness' signaling molecule that caffeine blocks). I believe this also helps to prevent addiction, because there is also no up-regulation of adenosine receptors.

This works great if you drink coffee for the taste, rather than as a way to stay awake (which works in a pinch but is counter-productive over the long term).

New comment by rubzah in "New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome"

rubzah — Fri, 01 May 2026 16:42:27 +0000

thanc = tanke (thought)

uuldurfadur = alfader (all-father)

uundra = under (wonder)

halig = hellig (holy)

New comment by rubzah in "New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome"

rubzah — Fri, 01 May 2026 08:47:22 +0000

This is the text in Old English for anyone looking: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47296/caedmons-hymn-5...

Actually, here is the full text with the modern English inserted:

  Nu scilun herga hefenricæs uard
  Now let us praise Heaven-Kingdom's guardian,

  metudæs mehti and his modgithanc
  the Maker's might and his mind's thoughts,

  uerc uuldurfadur sue he uundra gihuæs
  the work of the glory-father—of every wonder,

  eci dryctin or astelidæ.
  eternal Lord. He established a beginning.

  he ærist scop ældu barnum
  He first shaped for men's sons

  hefen to hrofæ halig sceppend
  Heaven as a roof, the holy Creator;

  tha middingard moncynnæs uard
  then middle-earth mankind's guardian,

  eci dryctin æfter tiadæ
  eternal Lord, afterwards prepared

  firum foldu frea allmehtig
  the earth for men, the Lord almighty.

New comment by rubzah in "Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones"

rubzah — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:01:58 +0000

The fact that you received messages at specific times can be enough to identify you, if you have the data from the sending side.

New comment by rubzah in "An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story"

rubzah — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:00:19 +0000

  https://www.myvibesite.com/?id=10; DROP TABLE customer;--

New comment by rubzah in "An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story"

rubzah — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:35:33 +0000

I assure you that these kinds of things are happening right now.

New comment by rubzah in "An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story"

rubzah — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:33:33 +0000

As the sibling pointed out, there are already plenty of laws about, for example, handling of personally identifiable data. Somehow there is a lack of awareness, perhaps what is needed is a couple of high-profile convictions (which can't be too far off).

New comment by rubzah in "An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story"

rubzah — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:29:25 +0000

I know, through personal acquaintance, of at least one boutique accounting firm that is currently vibe-building their own CRM with Lovable. They have no technical staff. I can't begin to comprehend the disasters that are in store.

New comment by rubzah in "The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'"

rubzah — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:58:10 +0000

You're right, thanks for the correction. It's a very Jack Blackesque character, in my defense.

New comment by rubzah in "The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'"

rubzah — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:33:28 +0000

It's a commercial act, the 'punk' costumes carefully chosen for the right signalling, by a couple of middle class kids. What's with this idea that your taste in music must spring from the purest and rawest authenticity, preferably (in no particular order) poor, rebellious, substance abusing, ethnic, and so on. Leading to all these musical acts styling themselves like that.

The Ramones were sellouts and posers, just like most bands. Wearing them on a t-shirt to signal 'punk', the joke's on you. It's an "industry of cool", like Jack Black's character says in Almost Famous.

New comment by rubzah in "Goodbye to Sora"

rubzah — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:09:34 +0000

Back in business school they used to tell the story of how makers of razor blades would put a good blade as the first and the last blade in the pack. I suspect the LLM services of doing something like that.

New comment by rubzah in "Goodbye to Sora"

rubzah — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:44:32 +0000

Maybe not untrained, but you work on some easy, boring shit. That may be true for a lot of developers, I don't know.