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New comment by srdjanr in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]"

srdjanr — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 08:31:29 +0000

It's a very lagging metric, and also influenced by sales, market conditions for your customers etc.

New comment by srdjanr in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

srdjanr — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:19:39 +0000

Good question, I guess you can run two identical Postgress instances and check if they have a diff

New comment by srdjanr in "No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026"

srdjanr — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:03:02 +0000

They should call themselves Time Lords

New comment by srdjanr in "Rewriting Bun in Rust"

srdjanr — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:43:30 +0000

I have a few opinions on this:

1) My (and possibly other people's) last impression of this was when it was merged just based on all tests passing. In many projects, relying just on tests would definitely be reckless (not sure about coverage/quality of Bun tests).

I didn't follow much what where they doing later, maybe it is indeed good enough. For example, Claude Code using it and being fine is reassuring.

2) Making such a big decision that quickly and not (even having the time to) consulting community doesn't really inspire confidence.

3) You can be reckless even if everything ends up being perfect in the end.

Going 80mph in a city, you probably have like 80% chance of not crashing. And if you don't crash, you just had a much faster and more fun trip. Doesn't mean it wasn't reckless.

New comment by srdjanr in "Rewriting Bun in Rust"

srdjanr — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:12:36 +0000

Of course he has the right to do it, no one disputes that. The users and community also have the right to complain, or stop using and supporting Bun because they don't like his actions

New comment by srdjanr in "Show HN: Zanagrams"

srdjanr — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:40:26 +0000

Tutorial was great! And I would like the option to give up.

New comment by srdjanr in "HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88"

srdjanr — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:03:31 +0000

They could be using this just to throw out the obviously bad CVs, and then manually go over the rest. I'm not sure if they do this in practice, but the tech itself can be useful.

Also if HR was really useless (or actively hurting the company) they wouldn't still have a job (or they'll lose it eventually). No one likes burning money for no reason. So obviously they are doing something useful.

New comment by srdjanr in "HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88"

srdjanr — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:55:27 +0000

That's a good idea.

The only drawback I see is that you should compare every pair of CVs for best results, and that grows quadraticly with number of CVs. Of course you can settle for fewer comparisons and not perfect results. But then I'm not sure if you can hit a good ratio of quality and token spend.

New comment by srdjanr in "HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88"

srdjanr — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:45:34 +0000

It makes sense to me intuitively (though I'm not sure if my reasoning is actually correct).

Worse model may not "know" enough to distinguish between a 70 and a 100 candidate, so it's expected that it's output has high variance. But a better model might "know" enough, so it can be more confident and thus more consistent.

New comment by srdjanr in "HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88"

srdjanr — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:36:28 +0000

Of course, nothing can guarantee the right answer from LLMs

New comment by srdjanr in "Pull request limits are cutting down the noise"

srdjanr — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:45:50 +0000

At the end they mentioned they're exploring global trust signals

New comment by srdjanr in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"

srdjanr — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:55:48 +0000

So this is only one of the reasons, and a relatively small one:

“Our estimate is that about 200 to 400 pedestrians a year would not have died if vehicles had remained approximately the same size over the past quarter-century,” the report continued. “That represents about 10 percent of the recent increase in pedestrian deaths.”

New comment by srdjanr in "Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs"

srdjanr — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:20:29 +0000

Of course there is. If it increased from 1MB to 4MB, that would definitely be insignificant

New comment by srdjanr in "I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware"

srdjanr — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:21:51 +0000

How can they even do that without storing plaintext passwords?

New comment by srdjanr in "To study how chips work, MIT researchers built their own operating system"

srdjanr — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 07:56:39 +0000

Security researcher is a common term, there's also market research which doesn't look like it falls under your definition

New comment by srdjanr in "Midjourney Medical"

srdjanr — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:48:32 +0000

The root comment is talking about adding blood, breath, urin, spit... analysis. For body imaging only I agree with you. But if we add all this, I guess we'd be able to rule out many false positives

New comment by srdjanr in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

srdjanr — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:46:00 +0000

Are more plants coming? I think I heard it won't be many of them, because it's risky.

If the bubble bursts and RAM demand drops, then they'll have big losses. And that's not an impossible scenario over the few X years that it takes to build a plant

New comment by srdjanr in "I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID"

srdjanr — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:05:53 +0000

I don't mind it here at all, in fact I didn't even notice it's AI before reading this comment. It's clearly not a one-shot AI slop but a well thought out and edited by a human post.

Not everyone who has something interesting to say is a good writer, and I think it's great if AI can help them tell their stories.

New comment by srdjanr in "Tailwind and slop apps"

srdjanr — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:18:07 +0000

These all look fine to me, and I don't think I'd assume they're AI generated.

There definitely is a distinct AI "design" look, I just don't really see it here.

New comment by srdjanr in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

srdjanr — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:54:22 +0000

> Nobody is arguing for unsafe models

Then what are people arguing for? I see only two totally distinct options: unsafe models or someone being the arbiter of safety