Hacker News: smellf

New comment by smellf in "LLM Usage in Debian: Three Proposals"

smellf — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 23:58:08 +0000

I wonder how they can reconcile the stricter proposals with the LLM usage in kernel development. That seems totally untenable. I mean it all seems untenable, but with the kernel especially.

Also, what about when you inevitably get a situation where a critical vulnerability is discovered, and the only patch available is LLM generated? Do they have to wait to patch until some person who hasn't seen the LLM-generated patch does a clean room implementation?

I understand the objections to LLMs, but rejecting LLM-generated code really doesn't seem realistic.

New comment by smellf in "PYX: The next step in Python packaging"

smellf — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 03:51:48 +0000

You can have my `easy_install` when you pry it from my cold dead fingers.

New comment by smellf in "GPT-5"

smellf — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 23:40:27 +0000

The "G" in AGI stands for "general", so talking about "AGI for software development" makes no sense, and worse than that accepts the AI companies' goalpost-shifting at face value. We shouldn't do that.

New comment by smellf in "Thorium: Cross-platform patched Chromium fork"

smellf — Mon, 20 May 2024 23:59:43 +0000

Isn't that kind of like saying my pressure washer is a non-ambulatory car?

New comment by smellf in "Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not 3.14159 (2022) [video]"

smellf — Fri, 17 May 2024 15:35:46 +0000

Antichamber: https://store.steampowered.com/app/219890/Antichamber/

Also look at myhouse.wad for actual Doom in actual non-Euclidean spaces.

New comment by smellf in ""3 Body Problem" Is a Rare Species of Sci-Fi Epic"

smellf — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 18:05:45 +0000

https://archive.is/ATAkf

New comment by smellf in "Debloat non-rooted Android devices"

smellf — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 17:28:05 +0000

Don't know how it compares to other manufacturers, but I've been pretty happy with the minimal BS that comes on my last two Sony phones.

New comment by smellf in "LLM4Decompile: Decompiling Binary Code with LLM"

smellf — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 15:44:21 +0000

I think the idea is that you'd have two independently-develooed systems, one LLM decompiling the binary and the other LLM formally verifying. If the verifier disagrees with the decompiler you won't know which tool is right and which is wrong, but if they agree then you'll know the decompiled result is correct, since both tools are unlikely to hallucinate the same thing.

New comment by smellf in "Pi 5 overclocking: Silicon Lottery"

smellf — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 19:37:18 +0000

> RK3588-based SBC

Anyone know which SBCs use this chip?

New comment by smellf in "World War II 'rumor clinics' helped America battle wild gossip"

smellf — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 18:30:12 +0000

Nor even the comment they were replying to, lol.

New comment by smellf in "OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning"

smellf — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 16:22:18 +0000

Examples: https://research.myshell.ai/open-voice

Seems impressive!

New comment by smellf in "Are electric cars too expensive to tempt motorists away from petrol vehicles?"

smellf — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 10:34:11 +0000

24 * 365 times

New comment by smellf in "Astronomers detect almost 100 new extremely metal-poor galaxies"

smellf — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 06:56:07 +0000

Even if they were you still wouldn't hyphenate there.

New comment by smellf in "Cache of 19th-Century Blue Jeans Discovered in Abandoned Arizona Mineshaft"

smellf — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 18:34:42 +0000

Seconding TVR Exploring! His videos are a breath of fresh air in today's clickbaity youtube landscape. He's easily the best abandoned mine exploration channel - I can hardly even watch any of the others any more.

New comment by smellf in "We are stuck with egrep and fgrep (unless you like beating people)"

smellf — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 17:01:02 +0000

Actually it turns out that, at least in debian 11, you were right on the money:

    cat `which egrep`
    #!/bin/sh
    exec grep -E "$@"

But I agree that it would be cleaner and trivial to implement this behavior by depending on argv[0], GNU style guide be damned.

New comment by smellf in "H.264 is Magic (2016)"

smellf — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 20:01:38 +0000

From their webpage:

  Chrome: behind a flag since version 91.0.4470.0
  Firefox: behind a flag since version 90.0a1
  Edge: behind a flag since version 91
  Opera: behind a flag since version 77
  ImageMagick: since version 7.0.10-54
  XnView MP: since version 0.97.0
  ImageGlass: since version 8.1.4.18
  ExifTool: since version 12.23
  gThumb: since version 3.11.3
  OpenMandriva Lx: since version 4.3 RC
  GIMP: since version 2.99.8
  qimgv: since version 1.0.0
  PhotoQt: since version 2.4
  jxl-winthumb: with WIC-codec since version 0.1.11
  KImageFormats: since version 5.89.0

New comment by smellf in "Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Needs It"

smellf — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 20:40:38 +0000

They still do, and the quality of discourse on Slashdot is about as bad as it has ever been.

New comment by smellf in "How to split a string into an array in Bash? (2012)"

smellf — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 16:02:35 +0000

Agreed! I love bash and use it all the time, but if some solution gets to the point of needing actual data structures, that's when you know it's time to move to a real programming language.

New comment by smellf in "Amazon Sidewalk"

smellf — Tue, 11 May 2021 14:39:18 +0000

I don't understand - every set listed on that page has a nonzero score for "Smart Features".

New comment by smellf in "DALL·E: Creating Images from Text"

smellf — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 00:18:00 +0000

I looked around a bit and couldn't find Dall-e in there. A higher post in this thread said they don't usually release their models. It's a shame, this would have been fun to play with.