<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: silver_silver</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=silver_silver</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:30:44 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=silver_silver" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by silver_silver in "LineageOS 24.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>jart unfortunately seems to have had some kind of a mental breakdown involving a hard rightward religious/political pivot around June according to their latest twitter and github activity. They most recently posted a video of the police breaking down their bedroom door. Very sad to see</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:18:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50043576</link><dc:creator>silver_silver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50043576</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50043576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by silver_silver in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The richest people in the world sure are lucky to have good people like you out here fighting to protect their rights</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 22:50:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49837856</link><dc:creator>silver_silver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49837856</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49837856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by silver_silver in "A misalignment of AI in mathematics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’ve gotta say ultimately I’m not convinced Herb put more thought into it beyond its purpose justifying human labour in his universe despite the massively advanced technology. There’s a similar shortcut in the Warhammer backstory.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 11:57:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49683003</link><dc:creator>silver_silver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49683003</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49683003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by silver_silver in "A misalignment of AI in mathematics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The implication in the book is that the exploitation enabled by AI in their history was somehow even worse.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 14:05:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49672445</link><dc:creator>silver_silver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49672445</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49672445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by silver_silver in "Debian polls its developers on AI: permit or ban?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are ethical and environmental concerns arising simply from use and contribution to the industry which many people take seriously</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:14:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448569</link><dc:creator>silver_silver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448569</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by silver_silver in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>AUR is an effectively unmoderated user repo. It’s not Arch Linux’s core repository, nor is it enabled by default or indeed even possible to use without manual downloads from outside the package manager.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:46:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49002712</link><dc:creator>silver_silver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49002712</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49002712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by silver_silver in "Datacentres drive up big tech's carbon emissions to a third of those of France"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unfortunately the third world will suffer the most from climate change. They do indeed already suffer (I’m from Africa originally myself) but emissions have to be <i>reversed</i>, not simply cut to zero, <i>globally</i> to avoid that getting even worse. There would likely be a midpoint where unchecked industrialisation would increase their quality of life but it would be short-lived. Farms aren’t factories and ultimately even the most developed nations will have to reckon with their dependence on nature.<p>> False. There's no sustained rising of food prices.<p>The inflation-adjusted FAO food price index has risen by 64% since 2000. The global average temperature anomaly has risen ~50% in the same period.<p>> but we don't know exactly what the tipping point is<p>We do know almost exactly what the tipping points are and that they will make the already dire trajectory worse. The uncertainty is simply how much worse. For example, AMOC collapse would prevent much of Europe from growing enough food to sustain its population. Not an impossible problem but certainly not an easy one, especially in the context of a world already having to deal with moving fertile regions and mass migrations from North Africa and the Middle East due to drought and extreme heat.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:17:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882269</link><dc:creator>silver_silver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882269</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by silver_silver in "Datacentres drive up big tech's carbon emissions to a third of those of France"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s anxiety about tipping points more than conspiracy theories. If you look at the figures in the various scenarios without even factoring them in: hundreds of millions to billions face food and water insecurity. You may be insulated enough from the direct effects but what about what they trigger? Already even our wealthy societies are being strained by rising food prices, extreme weather, and dysfunctional migration.<p>We don’t know exactly what the tipping points would lead to but we do know it would be some degree of a more severe and abrupt decline across the board.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:38:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48881147</link><dc:creator>silver_silver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48881147</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48881147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by silver_silver in "AI 2040: Plan A"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m not a booster by any stretch but I had a more positive read. To me it seems to describe a post scarcity society where ultimately the data centres are in e.g. the middle of the ocean and the robots’ labour replaces ours while still leaving us with the rewards.<p>I am extremely skeptical about whether this is even possible and even less convinced it’s a likely scenario but it seems like a good path.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 08:51:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48870140</link><dc:creator>silver_silver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48870140</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48870140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by silver_silver in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>All of those commits except the initial integration are from after the acquisition. How do we know this wasn’t done without anyone on the call’s knowledge?</p>
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<p>He’s an active, donating supporter of the far right in at least America and the UK. He speaks at political rallies?? Are you joking?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:49:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48843795</link><dc:creator>silver_silver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48843795</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48843795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by silver_silver in "Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My experience as a student has always been that most of the class will cheat given the chance. I remember in high school being one of maybe a dozen in a grade of over 200 who actually read the assigned novels. Everyone else used cliff/spark notes not just to familiarise themselves but also to plagiarise essays.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:33:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48839404</link><dc:creator>silver_silver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48839404</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48839404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by silver_silver in "Rewriting Bun in Rust"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sure, reasonably well at first glance, but to quote the article:<p>> I rewrote Bun in Rust using about 50 dynamic workflows in Claude Code run continuously over the course of 11 days.<p>> Excluding comments, Bun is 535,496 lines of Zig.<p>> How do you review a PR with +1 million lines added? How do you start to build the confidence needed to responsibly merge large quantities of LLM-authored code? A language-independent test suite with a million assertions, adversarial code review and when something does go wrong, fixing the process that generates the code instead of hand-fixing the code.<p>That’s vibe coding. This blog post is an ad for Claude, nothing more.</p>
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<p>People say a lot of things, especially when they have a vested interest in a positive outcome. Bun has been fully vibe coded into another language. There’s no way in hell it’s maintainable. Go read any analysis of the Claude Code leak for proof.</p>
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<p>It’s illegal which is why when a government does it they either classify it or farm it out to an ally. Have you read any of what Snowden leaked?</p>
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<p>People have been convinced by energy company propaganda that solar still needs a trick or selling point other than protecting the environment. There’s widespread disinformation about cost and environmental impacts from the panels themselves.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:04:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48802678</link><dc:creator>silver_silver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48802678</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48802678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by silver_silver in "MSI Center – How to gain SYSTEM privileges in seconds"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A lot of that is natively well supported on Linux now, especially for slightly older MSI laptops. I’d recommend trying out Fedora Kinoite if you’re used to Windows.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:51:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48785067</link><dc:creator>silver_silver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48785067</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48785067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by silver_silver in "Underwater suit-wearing cyborg insect capable of diving and terra-aqua travel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Posturing and pedantry like this doesn’t change the fact that the nature of exploitation is more important than its mere existence. I’m not sure what you’re trying to achieve with these comments but if it’s to convince me the original argument was made in good faith you should try doing it yourself.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 01:09:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48781758</link><dc:creator>silver_silver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48781758</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48781758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by silver_silver in "Underwater suit-wearing cyborg insect capable of diving and terra-aqua travel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes if we follow the logic that exploiting an organism is universally unethical it leads to a ridiculous conclusion.<p>Maybe it would be more precise to call it a slippery slope but I’m not sure there’s another name for this kind of reductive argument.</p>
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<p>This argument is called reductio ad absurdum. It’s often used by people like you who want to prevent others from trying to be better.</p>
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