Hacker News: self_awareness

New comment by self_awareness in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

self_awareness — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:56:06 +0000

How a person 'adopts' 408 packages and controls their build scripts?

New comment by self_awareness in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

self_awareness — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:14:22 +0000

Huh? You still don't know how this works, do you?

I mean, you can blame whoever you want, even Pikachu. Neither Niantic nor even one person cares who you blame.

New comment by self_awareness in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

self_awareness — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:22:59 +0000

Insane.

People literally traded military intelligence for Pokémon.

New comment by self_awareness in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

self_awareness — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:51:28 +0000

How's that supposed to work?

If I'm impressed by $SOMETHING, then I'm not qualified enough to judge it?

This means that only negative judgement is valid?

New comment by self_awareness in "The Ü Programming Language"

self_awareness — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:28:47 +0000

> duck-typing in templates (without mandatory template type requirements specification)

"Some may call this junk. Me, I call them treasures."

New comment by self_awareness in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

self_awareness — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:50:01 +0000

You mean: "Deskop Long + live Linux", because Wayland devs decided that's it's the best way to order the words you want to use

New comment by self_awareness in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

self_awareness — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:06:21 +0000

Eh, IDK. Maybe? After 20 years of using Linux I'm looking on Windows more and more.

Linux Gaming is now better than ever, and ideological Linux dev community torpedoes it hard with Wayland.

I mean who Linux wants to be anyway? An OS for bleeding edge hardware? I think we have Windows for that. Because Wayland doesn't even work correctly on average-aged hardware.

Greybeards have created Linux, and cool new generation will shut it down (on Desktop).

New comment by self_awareness in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

self_awareness — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:23:11 +0000

RIP Linux Desktop

New comment by self_awareness in "Bytecode VMs in surprising places (2024)"

self_awareness — Mon, 25 May 2026 10:13:51 +0000

RarVM was used in a previous version of the format, newest RAR has removed it, and RarV5 doesn't have a VM.

New comment by self_awareness in "Vivaldi 8.0"

self_awareness — Fri, 22 May 2026 10:20:36 +0000

It's not always about expansion but sometimes can be just about rotation.

People lose interest, people change, people die. Software is a reflection of user problems, and users are alive, therefore software must adapt. Software from 1960s can't solve problems of people from 2020s, even if the concept is the same, the binary format is different - OSes are different today. The same solutions had to be adapted to new environment just because the environment has changed.

If we'll stop trying to find new users and we'll only try to retain old ones, we automatically have a declining userbase. This is not healthy for any software project, any country, any group.

New comment by self_awareness in "Vivaldi 8.0"

self_awareness — Fri, 22 May 2026 05:21:47 +0000

True, but long term users often do not understand that if a project that is expected to make money doesn't try to acquire new userbase, it stops being relevant fast.

New comment by self_awareness in "Vivaldi 8.0"

self_awareness — Thu, 21 May 2026 08:47:03 +0000

I was an Opera user for years. Now I'm a Vivaldi user also since a long time. Best browser, FF/Chrome doesn't come close.

New comment by self_awareness in "LLMCap – A proxy that hard-stops LLM API calls when you hit a dollar cap"

self_awareness — Tue, 19 May 2026 09:03:11 +0000

Is this a joke project?

New comment by self_awareness in "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?"

self_awareness — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:11:22 +0000

Well, you'll still need an application to write a prompt in. And to send the prompt to an LLM. And to run an LLM. And hundreds of apps to manage the complexity of the data center.

And, well, to display the image I guess. Or maybe you'd want to print it, but the printer needs firmware, and firmware is an application itself.

New comment by self_awareness in "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?"

self_awareness — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:09:05 +0000

We don't have vibecoded Photoshop, but... I have a vibecoded hexeditor. Vibecoded debugger. Vibecoded small document writer. Vibecoded file browser. Vibecoded virtualization runner on macOS. All for my personal usage and not released anywhere.

Why would I release it? Everyone can vibecode their own.

New comment by self_awareness in "Build a radio wave detector with balls of aluminum foil"

self_awareness — Mon, 18 May 2026 09:54:31 +0000

Wait, so you're telling me that my hat instead of stopping mind control attempts is actually AN ANTENNA?

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

self_awareness — Fri, 15 May 2026 09:57:44 +0000

> Because in the software world, especially before 2022, ownership and stability have been valued.

Stability in JS ecosystem was never valued.

New comment by self_awareness in "Rars: a Rust RAR implementation, mostly written by LLMs"

self_awareness — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:47:43 +0000

5 week is a decompressor for 1 version. If this supports multiple versions of RAR, then writing decompressors alone for all of them is probably a year effort of work.

New comment by self_awareness in "Deterministic Fully-Static Whole-Binary Translation Without Heuristics"

self_awareness — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:21:56 +0000

I think this is handled by Rosetta.

New comment by self_awareness in "How Fast Does Claude, Acting as a User Space IP Stack, Respond to Pings?"

self_awareness — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:12:41 +0000

You've literally just used the same argument from the previous poster which was even addressed by me in my parent reply. Talking about not thinking!