Hacker News: smrq

New comment by smrq in "LG says we're fake news [video]"

smrq — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 01:33:17 +0000

I don't know how you can simultaneously believe that open source is prevalent enough to kill paid software but also non-existent enough that it doesn't itself fill the void it supposedly created.

New comment by smrq in "Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables"

smrq — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 21:05:58 +0000

Modular PSU cables never go in the big box. They go back in the PSU box if I'm being smart. Then I know which PSU they came from and can throw them out in ten years along with the PSU itself.

(I'm rarely smart and have a second big box of modular PSU cables that I maybe ought to get rid of.)

New comment by smrq in "vLLM v0.28.0"

smrq — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 21:20:52 +0000

Your loss. The token dump is more interesting than the endless majority of "correct" LLM slop I've had the misfortune to read.

New comment by smrq in "Solving Fermat: Andrew Wiles"

smrq — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:58:10 +0000

That would be pretty anachronistic; jQuery didn't come around until six years later.

New comment by smrq in "7.1 Earthquake in Japan"

smrq — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:57:50 +0000

I'm sure everyone in the hospital and with collapsed houses would agree with your assessment that it's not a big deal.

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

smrq — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 02:44:20 +0000

It's kind of funny and also kind of insulting. I'd laugh if a friend said it but said seriously by some rando on the Internet, nah, find a better way to put it.

New comment by smrq in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

smrq — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:53:11 +0000

Admittedly, HN is suffering the same fate to some extent.

New comment by smrq in "It seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history"

smrq — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:10:26 +0000

Imagine gatekeeping learning. I suppose the blind are incapable of it, then? Or is taking in information via the fingers somehow more valid than via the ears?

New comment by smrq in "Home made GPU escalated quickly [video]"

smrq — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:00:22 +0000

It's quite literally a second order effect. The first order effect is light generation, and a consequence of that effect is heat generation via light absorption.

New comment by smrq in ".gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git"

smrq — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:24:38 +0000

Explain the attack that gets mitigated by reading the diff of a lockfile?

Every major npm attack I can think of essentially follows the pattern of "version X.Y.Z is secretly evil". How does seeing package@X.Y.Z in your lockfile alert you to that?

New comment by smrq in "Want your images back? That'll be $5"

smrq — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:51:27 +0000

This really seems like the exception that proves the rule, given how few Facebooks came out of that era. We had a social contract, but it turned out that being sociopathic is a winning strategy when everyone else is playing by the implicit rules. See also: modern politics.

New comment by smrq in "Show HN: 3D print Z reinforcement via injected loops"

smrq — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:11:00 +0000

Everything about that readme quote screams LLM. All it's missing is the user responding, "that doesn't make any sense, this won't work at all", and Claude responding back, "you're absolutely right".

New comment by smrq in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

smrq — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:07:20 +0000

More like they will climb even higher on the lighting-dollars-on-fire leaderboard.

New comment by smrq in "Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking"

smrq — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:47:15 +0000

Everyone loves to say this... because it's everyone's experience. I stopped using SO as a resource years ago (well before the advent of LLMs) because it got to the point where almost invariably, when I found a post that managed to perfectly articulate my question, it was closed as a duplicate of some other, distinctly unhelpful question. But it wasn't always that way. There's a fine line between strict moderation and draconian moderation, and at some point they crossed from the former to the latter.

New comment by smrq in "Squares in Squares"

smrq — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:43:13 +0000

The 4 packing takes up 100% of its square; it's trivially optimal. The 6 packing only takes up 2/3 of it, so it's not necessarily obvious that you can't do better.

New comment by smrq in "Don't Roll Your Own"

smrq — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:50:01 +0000

"Just"

Spoken like someone who's never had to work on a date picker.

New comment by smrq in "Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans"

smrq — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:20:53 +0000

This may come as a shock to capitalists, but some artists don't want to charge their fans more. Fugazi famously capped their ticket prices at $5 because they wanted their shows to be affordable.

New comment by smrq in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

smrq — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:43:47 +0000

People didn't leap from jQuery to React. It's a lot easier to imagine an AI looking at jQuery and [insert any server side MVC framework] and inventing Backbone.

New comment by smrq in "Show HN: AI CAD Harness"

smrq — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:20:43 +0000

Posing OpenSCAD as an alternative to the likes of Fusion is like posing MS Paint as an alternative to Photoshop. It's not even the same class of tool.

New comment by smrq in "HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'"

smrq — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:40:52 +0000

"We made merging to main silently drop some commits from main" was another good one recently. If GH had only one job, not doing that would be it.