Hacker News: rzkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rzkHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 20 Oct 2026 05:09:27 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by rzk in "Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?"]]>A lot of comments here saying “don’t do it.” I think that’s shortsighted. The speed gains from LLMs are massive, and the code they produce (Opus 5.5 at least, in my experience) is correct most of the time. Once a developer or a company realizes that, there’s no going back. There are two problems, however:

1. If you keep shipping AI-written code you don’t understand, you become entirely dependent on the AI to maintain it, because you lack the mental model you’d need to jump into it quickly.

2. You can afford to do this as a senior, because you can tell when the AI does something suboptimal. But how is a junior supposed to develop that intuition when all they start out with is AI-generated code?

]]>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 22:53:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50159117rzkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50159117https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50159117<![CDATA[Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?]]>I saw this LinkedIn post from a Meta engineer and it resonated with me:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ali-hamie_im-an-engineer-at-m...

> I'm an engineer at Meta and I never felt this uncomfortable doing my job. I'm writing code these days and it all feels like a black box. This new standard of shipping with AI is moving so fast that if we're going to spend our time checking each line of code, it's going to take forever. That means you can end up with systems you've built where you don't truly understand how all the code works. You understand the high level, but not every detail. And maybe this is becoming the new standard. It goes against every instinct of being a software engineer. I'm used to understanding what I'm building. Now I'm trying to figure out how much I need to understand before I'm comfortable moving forward. Are other engineers feeling this too?

How are you handling this?

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]]>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:24:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151036rzkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151036https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151036<![CDATA[Building AGI Using Language Models (2020)]]>Article URL: https://bmk.sh/2020/08/17/Building-AGI-Using-Language-Models/

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]]>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:37:20 +0000https://bmk.sh/2020/08/17/Building-AGI-Using-Language-Models/rzkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50117159https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50117159<![CDATA[Investigation: EU citizens' private messages are run through Palantir's software]]>Article URL: https://arvidgrange.substack.com/p/investigation-eu-citizens-private

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]]>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:35:28 +0000https://arvidgrange.substack.com/p/investigation-eu-citizens-privaterzkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50100028https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50100028<![CDATA[Eliminating a gut microbe could slash gastric cancers (2024)]]>Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/eliminating-gut-microbe-could-slash-gastric-cancers

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]]>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 04:20:47 +0000https://www.science.org/content/article/eliminating-gut-microbe-could-slash-gastric-cancersrzkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50066667https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50066667<![CDATA[Your Browser Has Already Betrayed You]]>Article URL: https://logos.co/media/article/browser-betrayed-you

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]]>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:08:21 +0000https://logos.co/media/article/browser-betrayed-yourzkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50058452https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50058452<![CDATA[Hackers hijack Google domains after breaching ccTLD registries]]>Article URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-hijack-google-domains-after-breaching-cctld-registries/

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]]>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 11:54:03 +0000https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-hijack-google-domains-after-breaching-cctld-registries/rzkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50004740https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50004740<![CDATA[Dread's onion private keys compromised through a vulnerability in Gobalance]]>Article URL: https://twitter.com/DarkWebInformer/status/2107903151697256936

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]]>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 10:53:34 +0000https://twitter.com/DarkWebInformer/status/2107903151697256936rzkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50004268https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50004268<![CDATA[Moravec's Paradox]]>Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox

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]]>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:10:37 +0000https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradoxrzkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50003544https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50003544<![CDATA[Agent Collaboration over Unreliable Channels]]>Article URL: https://spakhm.com/projects/bitfuse.html

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]]>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 01:51:42 +0000https://spakhm.com/projects/bitfuse.htmlrzkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001091https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001091<![CDATA[Quad9 Rejects French Piracy Blocks, Weighs Exit as BeIN Seeks Up to €580K a Day]]>Article URL: https://torrentfreak.com/dns-resolver-quad9-rejects-french-piracy-blocks-weighs-exit-as-bein-seeks-up-to-e580k-a-day/

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]]>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:52:05 +0000https://torrentfreak.com/dns-resolver-quad9-rejects-french-piracy-blocks-weighs-exit-as-bein-seeks-up-to-e580k-a-day/rzkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49962738https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49962738<![CDATA[Government of India officially removes bitchat from the App Store]]>Article URL: https://twitter.com/jack/status/2106359514391871540

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]]>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:02:29 +0000https://twitter.com/jack/status/2106359514391871540rzkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49953146https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49953146<![CDATA[Used CPU leads to game ban]]>Article URL: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Used-processor-leads-to-game-ban-11471562.html

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]]>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:38:54 +0000https://www.heise.de/en/news/Used-processor-leads-to-game-ban-11471562.htmlrzkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49931985https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49931985<![CDATA[Vanguard warns France is 'degrading credit' as borrowing costs surge]]>Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/7820a84f-338e-4b91-a9b6-241a9bf81539

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]]>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:23:17 +0000https://www.ft.com/content/7820a84f-338e-4b91-a9b6-241a9bf81539rzkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49906837https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49906837<![CDATA[Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm]]>Related: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqzjzr893yv4o

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]]>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:27:04 +0000https://twitter.com/tuakdotsol/status/2105105417760391258rzkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49906432https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49906432<![CDATA[Cryptos Fear Credit (2017)]]>Article URL: https://sites.bu.edu/perry/2017/09/29/cryptos-fear-credit/

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]]>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:50:41 +0000https://sites.bu.edu/perry/2017/09/29/cryptos-fear-credit/rzkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49901178https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49901178<![CDATA[Cognitive Complexity – a new way of measuring understandability (2023) [pdf]]]>Article URL: https://www.sonarsource.com/docs/CognitiveComplexity.pdf

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]]>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:55:51 +0000https://www.sonarsource.com/docs/CognitiveComplexity.pdfrzkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49895505https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49895505<![CDATA[New comment by rzk in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"]]>> but often we don't acknowledge the horror of Hamas on Israel and Palestinians when talking about this conflict

Often we don't acknowledge the horror of Israel's multi-decade siege on Gaza¹ and occupation of Palestinians when talking about this conflict.

There, I fixed it for you.

[1] As early as 1967, U.S. Senator Albert Gore Sr. called Gaza “a vast concentration camp on the sand”.

]]>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:37:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49893046rzkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49893046https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49893046<![CDATA[New comment by rzk in "Anonymity Trilemma: Strong Anonymity, Low Bandwidth Overhead, Low Latency–Pick 2 [pdf]"]]>Slides: https://petsymposium.org/2019/files/hotpets/slides/coordinat...

]]>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:01:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49842346rzkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49842346https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49842346<![CDATA[Anonymity Trilemma: Strong Anonymity, Low Bandwidth Overhead, Low Latency–Pick 2 [pdf]]]>Article URL: https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/954.pdf

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]]>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:00:38 +0000https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/954.pdfrzkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49842339https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49842339