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New comment by rzmmm in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

rzmmm — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:58:51 +0000

I doubt it will end up as stable release very soon, but I'm happy to be proven wrong. I have some skepticism about this whole rewrite, Jarred Sumner has enormous internet following and it feels like an ad.

New comment by rzmmm in "A HN post with negative points – how?"

rzmmm — Tue, 12 May 2026 11:55:33 +0000

HN has downvotes but you need to have enough karma to access the feature.

New comment by rzmmm in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

rzmmm — Mon, 11 May 2026 07:33:34 +0000

Quote:

"My personal conclusion can however not end up with anything else than that the big hype around this model so far was primarily marketing. I see no evidence that this setup finds issues to any particular higher or more advanced degree than the other tools have done before Mythos. Maybe this model is a little bit better, but even if it is, it is not better to a degree that seems to make a significant dent in code analyzing."

It's a good reminder for us all that the competition in this space is rough and lots of more or less subtle marketing is involved.

New comment by rzmmm in "Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust"

rzmmm — Tue, 05 May 2026 06:07:22 +0000

Here is the Wiktionary definition for curiosity.

> (programming, neologism) A method of programming in which a developer generates code by repeatedly prompting a large language model.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vibe_coding

New comment by rzmmm in "Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns"

rzmmm — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:39:33 +0000

Why so many defensive comments? A good visual design has some personality.

New comment by rzmmm in "Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated"

rzmmm — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:49:44 +0000

I agree with you, but I hope they prevent people uploading thousands of AI generated albums. If people start doing that, it can become difficult for non-AI artists to gain visibility in the recommendation systems etc.

New comment by rzmmm in "Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7"

rzmmm — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:46:48 +0000

The alignment favors supporting healthy behaviors so it can be a thin line. I see the system prompt as "plan B" when they can't achieve good results in the training itself.

It's a particularly sensitive issue so they are just probably being cautious.

New comment by rzmmm in "The RAM shortage could last years"

rzmmm — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 08:44:42 +0000

It seems that RAM manufacturers are still reluctant to increase production. They know something that investors don't about long term RAM demands?

New comment by rzmmm in "The rational conclusion of doomerism is violence"

rzmmm — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:27:47 +0000

Too bad it's effective marketing strategy. Negative emotions are more powerful drivers than positive ones.

New comment by rzmmm in "AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel"

rzmmm — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:27:18 +0000

In certain law cases plagiarization can be influenced by the fact if person is exposed to the copyrighted work. AI models are exposed to very large corpus of works..

New comment by rzmmm in "JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware"

rzmmm — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:16:08 +0000

Browser extension maintainers routinely get contacted by more or less shady directions. This is likely a case of maintainer selling out after getting a good offer.

New comment by rzmmm in "Peptides: where to begin?"

rzmmm — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:57:58 +0000

I can't reply elsewhere so I will reply to this again.

> In my friends, all of them stopped taking GLP-1 drugs within 2 years because all of them lost the weight they wanted to. Out of curiosity, what sources lead you to believe this?

Anecdotes like this are interesting but in medicine they are not sufficient to make factual statements about drugs. In meta-analyses there is weight regain which is steeper as more weight is lost during treatment [1].

The weight regain seems to be rather slow, it can take years until the baseline weight is reached.

[1] https://www.bmj.com/content/392/bmj-2025-085304

New comment by rzmmm in "Peptides: where to begin?"

rzmmm — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:07:26 +0000

I hope it sounds less wild if you think obesity as disease of addiction. Reducing GLP1 dose can increase the enjoyment in eating, so it makes sense why treating obesity with GLP1 is like treating alcoholism with disulfiram: Effective in theory but hard to adhere outside trials.

Type 1 diabetes (or majority of diseases) doesn't involve addiction.

New comment by rzmmm in "Peptides: where to begin?"

rzmmm — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:41:32 +0000

It's kind of two separate topics: 1. Whether patients can adhere to GLP1. 2. Whether discontinuation leads to weight regain.

New comment by rzmmm in "Peptides: where to begin?"

rzmmm — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:29:01 +0000

I emphasize it's like the drug disulfiram: Very effective as long as patients take the full dose, but the lack of real-world efficacy stems from the difficulty in adhering to the treatment.

This study found that 84.4% non-diabetic patients stop taking GLP-1 drugs within two years. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

New comment by rzmmm in "Peptides: where to begin?"

rzmmm — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:43:00 +0000

I'm glad we have GLP-1, and I don't think there are really major side effects. But they are ineffective outside clinical trial setting for treating obesity.

It seems to be like treating alcoholism with disulfiram: it's a miracle in clinical trials but in the real world the patients just lower the doses or discontinue treatment after 1-2 years and go back to their old habits.

New comment by rzmmm in "Peptides: where to begin?"

rzmmm — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:38:46 +0000

My total layman view is that powerful drugs often have powerful side effects.

New comment by rzmmm in "Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with the Feb updates"

rzmmm — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:29:33 +0000

I suspect you might be right but I don't really know. Wouldn't these proposed regressions be trivial to confirm with benchmarks?

New comment by rzmmm in "r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming"

rzmmm — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:02:51 +0000

It's not about wishing it goes away, it's that people don't want to see JavaScript/Java/Swift blog articles when they visit r/assembly.

New comment by rzmmm in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

rzmmm — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:20:33 +0000

It states "curation assisted by AI" at the bottom.