Hacker News: stonemetal12

New comment by stonemetal12 in "So, you’ve hit an age gate. What now?"

stonemetal12 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:29:00 +0000

They probably need to account for parents allowing kids to use their account, so account age can be a factor but not an automatic pass.

New comment by stonemetal12 in "There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape"

stonemetal12 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:59:24 +0000

Something I recently found out about ARM Cortex M0s, they are small enough and cheap enough that they get used in USB cables to handle protocol negotiation between devices.

Given that the moon lander had a 1Mhz processor and 4kb of ram means we landed on the moon with the compute power of a Vape or USB cable. Wild times indeed.

New comment by stonemetal12 in "A Couple 3D AABB Tricks"

stonemetal12 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:09:53 +0000

For non 3d graphics people AABB -> Axis Aligned Bounding Box.

New comment by stonemetal12 in "Kernel bugs hide for 2 years on average. Some hide for 20"

stonemetal12 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:07:25 +0000

Using the data provided, memory safety issues (use-after-free, memory-leak, buffer-overflow, null-deref) account for 67% of their bugs. If we include refcount It is just over 80%.

New comment by stonemetal12 in "What is code? (2015)"

stonemetal12 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:19:54 +0000

>receptionist answering phones and scanning paper records in

They were also converting paper records to digital. Asking the data entry person where the data is or how to find paper record xyz in the digital system doesn't seem odd.

New comment by stonemetal12 in "Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?"

stonemetal12 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 19:04:13 +0000

On Android, Gmail reports as being under 200 MB. So I agree, they probably include way to much for portability.

New comment by stonemetal12 in "Vibe coding creates fatigue?"

stonemetal12 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:15:10 +0000

> Even "hacker", which started out meaning only breaking into computer systems

No. The Etymology of Hacker in the technical scene started at MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club in the late 1950s/early 1960s, "hack" described clever, intricate solutions, pranks, or experiments with technology.

A hacker is one who made those clever solutions, pranks, and technology experiments. "Hacker News" is trying to take it back from criminal activity.

New comment by stonemetal12 in "Vibe coding creates fatigue?"

stonemetal12 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:02:09 +0000

> I didn’t feel confident enough to evaluate what the agent was doing

So don't. It is vibe coding, not math class. As long as it looks like it works then all good.

New comment by stonemetal12 in "Gundam is just the same as Jane Austen but happens to include giant mech suits"

stonemetal12 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:09:17 +0000

It is kind of like how modern art doesn't mean modern today. It means that time period where people called art "modern". Novel meant new as in "novel science results". It was used differentiate prose (the new style at the time) from epic poetry back in the 16 hundreds and stuck. How that translates to Russian IDK.

New comment by stonemetal12 in "Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI"

stonemetal12 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:52:12 +0000

>"Open Source" is nebulous

No it isn't it is well defined. The only people who find it "nebulous" are people who want the benefits without upholding the obligations.

https://opensource.org/definition-annotated

New comment by stonemetal12 in "Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices"

stonemetal12 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 22:54:28 +0000

>My pet theory is that the younger generation never realized Publisher existed

For most it didn't. The non 365 Office came in 3 tiers Student, business, and enterprise. Publisher only came with enterprise.

New comment by stonemetal12 in "Alignment is capability"

stonemetal12 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 20:48:19 +0000

Fiction is I have a hypothesis, and since it is not easy to test I will make up the results too. Learning anything from it is a lesson in futility and confirmation bias.

New comment by stonemetal12 in "The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]"

stonemetal12 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:52:04 +0000

Because good code checks pre conditions and returns early if they are not met.

New comment by stonemetal12 in "Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices"

stonemetal12 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:33:03 +0000

So? At 10M revenue what are the chances they don't have an accountant who does their taxes and already has all the relevant info? Asking their accountant to crank out one extra form is not going to break the bank.

New comment by stonemetal12 in "We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months"

stonemetal12 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:02:14 +0000

Would that work for LLMs though? They hypothetically trained on news papers from the second half of the data so they have knowledge of "future" events.

New comment by stonemetal12 in "Why WinQuake exists and how it works"

stonemetal12 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 15:52:21 +0000

Unreal engine uses SDL, so more than 1% of games.

New comment by stonemetal12 in "Why WinQuake exists and how it works"

stonemetal12 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 15:48:33 +0000

You don't necessarily "need" it but what feature of Win11 or OSX is worth the making all existing software inoperable? Can't say I have seen one outside of gets security updates.

New comment by stonemetal12 in "You can't fool the optimizer"

stonemetal12 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:55:16 +0000

I go with "You are responsible for the algorithms, it is responsible for the code micro optimizations". The compiler can't optimize you out of an SQL N+1 situation, that is on me to avoid, but it is better than me at loop unrolling.

New comment by stonemetal12 in "School cell phone bans and student achievement"

stonemetal12 — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 20:46:36 +0000

Never. There has never been a time when it was OK to use a phone in class. What happened is A) Some kids do take their phone out and play with them and either get caught or not B) Something happens and kids record it aka school fight videos. C) giant moral panic that has very little basis in reality.

New comment by stonemetal12 in "100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite"

stonemetal12 — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:19:22 +0000

The table of data at the end of the article has 7 lines, only one has data for both DBs. What was the point of setting up the comparison if there is no comparison made?

Hacker News: stonemetal12

New comment by stonemetal12 in "So, you’ve hit an age gate. What now?"

New comment by stonemetal12 in "There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape"

New comment by stonemetal12 in "A Couple 3D AABB Tricks"

New comment by stonemetal12 in "Kernel bugs hide for 2 years on average. Some hide for 20"

New comment by stonemetal12 in "What *is* code? (2015)"

New comment by stonemetal12 in "Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?"

New comment by stonemetal12 in "Vibe coding creates fatigue?"

New comment by stonemetal12 in "Vibe coding creates fatigue?"

New comment by stonemetal12 in "Gundam is just the same as Jane Austen but happens to include giant mech suits"

New comment by stonemetal12 in "Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI"

New comment by stonemetal12 in "Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices"

New comment by stonemetal12 in "Alignment is capability"

New comment by stonemetal12 in "The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]"

New comment by stonemetal12 in "Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices"

New comment by stonemetal12 in "We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months"

New comment by stonemetal12 in "Why WinQuake exists and how it works"

New comment by stonemetal12 in "Why WinQuake exists and how it works"

New comment by stonemetal12 in "You can't fool the optimizer"

New comment by stonemetal12 in "School cell phone bans and student achievement"

New comment by stonemetal12 in "100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite"

New comment by stonemetal12 in "What is code? (2015)"