Hacker News: samtheprogram

New comment by samtheprogram in "Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results"

samtheprogram — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:26:45 +0000

I had to login the other day to use it. Probably getting slowly rolled out.

New comment by samtheprogram in "GLM-5.3 Artificial Analysis Benchmarks"

samtheprogram — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:26:27 +0000

If you just want it to generate UI out of nothing, the benchmarks aren't really for that.

If you want to generate a UI based on specific user input of some kind, then they are.

I'd suggest using one model for UI and another model for tacking onto that UI. LLMs are great at pattern matching, and benchmarks don't really capture one-shotting desirable UI.

That said, benchmaxxing is a thing and your experience with models is a thing. Benchmarks are fuzzy and should be taken with a grain of salt.

New comment by samtheprogram in "Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco"

samtheprogram — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:22:53 +0000

> designed

What?

New comment by samtheprogram in "Choose Boring Technology (2015)"

samtheprogram — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 01:20:14 +0000

That's an insane take. Anything?!?

New comment by samtheprogram in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

samtheprogram — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:04:02 +0000

That's solely so that you burn more money. It's totally unnecessary to assume the parent model. Sure, it could be upgraded from Haiku if there was a solid reason to, but...

New comment by samtheprogram in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"

samtheprogram — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:55:44 +0000

> None of my GOG games run on Linux, while most of my Steam games run on Linux.

Stop spreading misinformation. Even if you're a non-techie you can add non-Steam games to Steam's launcher (my extremely tech illiterate friend just did this) and they'll run with Proton.

It comes down to a game by game basis, and it's still extremely rare (outside of recent 2025/2026 anticheat AAA title stuff) that any game would have a Linux specific/impacting patch.

New comment by samtheprogram in "qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work"

samtheprogram — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 03:39:10 +0000

I disagree with this. If agents are doing asynchronous work, it's really an artifact anyone should be able to look at.

New comment by samtheprogram in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

samtheprogram — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:41:03 +0000

Check my last submission on this site -- same news story (different site). I agree with them, and it's distracting and damaging to the cause.

You're also essentially saying the same thing I did, because I'd argue most people already have a non-neutral stance on the subject.

New comment by samtheprogram in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

samtheprogram — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 02:09:56 +0000

Calling border patrol "thugs" doesn't really bolster your argument to anyone except people who already agree with you.

GrapheneOS duress PIN could land a man in prison

samtheprogram — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:20:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.androidauthority.com/grapheneos-duress-pin-us-prosecution-3691271/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49049518

Points: 15

# Comments: 8

New comment by samtheprogram in "Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16"

samtheprogram — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:00:41 +0000

You wrote "port", perhaps you meant "maintain"?

New comment by samtheprogram in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

samtheprogram — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:31:42 +0000

Abortion? Permissive drug laws? Immigration? Homelessness policies? Vaccines? American AI gave me these examples, and they're not really so cut and dry. Do you have a better example that's being left out (no pun intended)?

New comment by samtheprogram in "I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs"

samtheprogram — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 02:20:21 +0000

Passing "{}" handles most sane cases including spaces. If I'm doing bash that needs to be robust (rare and/or dotfiles) or know the folder/dataset has weird filenames, sure.

New comment by samtheprogram in "I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs"

samtheprogram — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:21:59 +0000

Literally just use xargs with -I {} and quotation marks?

New comment by samtheprogram in "DEA to Temporarily Schedule 7-Oh and Related Substances to Protect Public Safety"

samtheprogram — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:03:44 +0000

Let's ban weed and alcohol from recreational use too, if there was any benefit a doctor would prescribe it. /u

New comment by samtheprogram in "AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence"

samtheprogram — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 23:26:12 +0000

That's the point, he chose something very easy to do to illustrate how out of touch he thinks they are. It's obviously not the case.

New comment by samtheprogram in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

samtheprogram — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 16:29:01 +0000

It's a "news story". Do you think Apple would be suing OpenAI if it was just a "story"?

New comment by samtheprogram in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

samtheprogram — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 05:23:22 +0000

Based on timeline, it seems like both are true. They stopped communicating around the time of the acquisition per OP, which was announced December 3rd, and the PR integrating it is was merged the tail end of November.

New comment by samtheprogram in "Opinionated and easy Pi.dev configuration"

samtheprogram — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:21:01 +0000

Second this. I went back to vanilla zsh after oh-my-zsh. Turns out I really just wanted 2 features that are built into zsh, and a custom prompt that includes git info that I just wrote myself in ~20 neat, readable lines of shell (minus the ANSI coloring).

I maintain vim and neovim confugs, never going with a distribution of plug-ins, and can't imagine how grotesque those must be.

The difference here though is that zsh and vim are old projects. My configs with them never break. I can't say the same about neovim, and Pi also probably isn't stable.

New comment by samtheprogram in "TypeScript 7"

samtheprogram — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:03:00 +0000

....they did ...and... the camp still exists