<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: saganus</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=saganus</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:46:04 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=saganus" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saganus in "StarCraft returns in 2030 as an open-world shooter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's a 3-minute trailer. I don't think they spoiled anything.<p>Sure, the artists probably put tons of effort into it, but if you are reading an article instead of the short clip, then probably you didn't care about it as much anyway?</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average">https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49513305">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49513305</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:44:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average</link><dc:creator>saganus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49513305</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49513305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AWS to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind DuckDB]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/aws-ducklabs">https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/aws-ducklabs</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49513111">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49513111</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:30:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/aws-ducklabs</link><dc:creator>saganus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49513111</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49513111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saganus in "A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's just a meme at this point.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 22:21:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48999169</link><dc:creator>saganus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48999169</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48999169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saganus in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You actually do need some understanding of how a car works, no?<p>For example, you need to know it uses gasoline (or diesel), it requires oil changes every certain amount of time, break pad replacement, etc.<p>You also probably need to know that you can't operate cars over a certain amount of water, that you need a driver's license, stopping at red lights, etc.<p>Sure, you might not need to be a mechanic, but that's far from not understanding how a car works, which to me sounds similar to knowing how to shoe a horse, which is different than being a horse vet.</p>
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<p>Isn't that kinda how we got the plastic pollution problem in the ocean?<p>At first, the ocean seems immense. So much so that dumping plastic and toxic chemicals makes no difference.<p>But then we humans are great at scaling things it seems, such that at some point ocean plastic pollution became a real problem.<p>I know that space is much much bigger than our oceans, but I wouldn't underestimate the ability of mankind to scale launches to the point where debris becomes a problem.</p>
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<p>I am very aware of your work!<p>It's the only prod usage of Macaroons I know of, I think.<p>Third-party discharge seems like a great way to have human-in-the-loop gating, among other interesting things.<p>Would be great reading your thoughts if you ever write about the agentic use case, having all the fly.io experience</p>
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<p>Maybe I stated it wrong. Macaroons have the ability to attenuate the restrictions _without_ contacting the auth server, which makes it IMO fit for restricting and attenuating as much as you want, without much cost.<p>If I need a roundtrip to the auth server to attenuate, I am not necessarily going to do it as often.</p>
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<p>I am still waiting for Macaroons to be used widely. I think they are a fantastic invention.<p>It seems they were not of very much use in the past, but with the agentic-everything now, I see this as a great way of delegating permissions to subagents, third-party agents, etc.<p>Working on something along these lines but unfortunately I cannot dedicate as much time as I'd like.<p>Still, if anyone is reading, give Macaroons a try!</p>
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<p>How do you join private trackers from scratch?<p>I used to do this kind of things decades ago, but there was also still a few things not ripped and uploaded you had _some_ chance of participating.<p>Nowadays I imagine ~everything under the sun is already ripped, so how can you contribute to seed ratio? (or is that not even a thing anymore?)</p>
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<p>I got:<p>"Hello, world! Welcome to the classic programming greeting. It is the traditional test message used to introduce beginners to computer science and verify that a language's syntax is properly understood"<p>Which clearly shows that there will be an avalanche of issues when non-technical people discover the joys of non-deterministic results.</p>
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<p>How are they going to make trillions of dollars if not!?</p>
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<p>Conversely, you have "full ownership" and have the ability to decide the direction, as long as it's the same direction as your higher-ups have decided.<p>All the responsibility is still yours though.</p>
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<p>From past experiences (and I'm sure I'm not alone here), I can almost guarantee that the senior devs did communicate the problems, but they were ignored or brushed aside.<p>Very seldomly does middle/upper management truly listens to engineers, unless there's buy-in from the CTO/VP to champion the ideas and complaints.</p>
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<p>This one I did not know! Thanks for sharing</p>
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<p>Yep, me too. Still feels magical after all these years.</p>
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<p>Yeah, I understand and partially agree.<p>However I've discovered wonderful gems like this RAM video.</p>
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<p>If you haven't seen this one, I highly recommend it:<p>Indistinguishable From Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4&t=2070s" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4&t=2070s</a><p>It's quite old but I think there is no modern version of it.<p>I've tried posting to HN a few times but it hasn't gained traction for some reason, but I find it absolutely mind blowing.</p>
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<p>When I discovered the pronunciation of Houston, TX and Houston, NY... my mind was blown</p>
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<p>I've always thought I was the only one experiencing this and felt like I was crazy.<p>I guess it's "good" to know that I'm not alone.<p>The amount of times I've searched for a ticket that I know it's there (because I either have it opened in a different tab, or because I just created it), but can't find, it's just way to many.</p>
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