Hacker News: synalx

New comment by synalx in "It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI"

synalx — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:12:01 +0000

I have this problem even in codebases. Claude will work on something, and add detailed comments in which it extrapolates the from the design and confidently states intentions and decisions which aren't actually grounded in reality. Then, later sessions suffer when it reads back those hallucinations and treats them as canonical.

New comment by synalx in "I'm a USB-C Maximalist"

synalx — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:14:10 +0000

With a soldering iron and USB-CD PD trigger boards, I've successfully converted a few of this kind of thing.

New comment by synalx in "How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing"

synalx — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:10:55 +0000

Mine is obsessed with "planes". Data plane, control plane, management plane. Everything is a plane :)

New comment by synalx in "TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)"

synalx — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:23:26 +0000

I interpreted this as a visual bug with the sprites.

As a sailor, I love seeing ads or other random imagery of sailboats that's clearly photoshopped, with sails in nonsensical orientations or completely backwards with things like flags or hair blowing in the wind.

New comment by synalx in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

synalx — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:00:54 +0000

That might be challenging, I hear people are pretty short on tokens these days.

New comment by synalx in "Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)"

synalx — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:35:36 +0000

Antigravity's coding agent is worlds apart from Gemini CLI, though.

New comment by synalx in "I'm glad the Anthropic fight is happening now"

synalx — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:24:13 +0000

This stood out to me too - there's an underlying assumption that private entities _can_ say no to governments, but that's only true to a point. If the government decides it needs AI-powered killbots as a matter of national security, it can and will nationalize whatever entities it needs to build them.

New comment by synalx in "[dead]"

synalx — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 06:36:37 +0000

Vibe biology?

New comment by synalx in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

synalx — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:08:44 +0000

For 3D modeling (assuming you want to do CAD), Onshape is a fantastic alternative to native applications.

New comment by synalx in "Signal leaders warn agentic AI is an insecure, unreliable surveillance risk"

synalx — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:46:28 +0000

In that sense, AI behaves like a human assistant you hire who happens to be incredibly susceptible to social engineering.

New comment by synalx in "Show HN: BusterMQ, Thread-per-core NATS server in Zig with io_uring"

synalx — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 04:18:02 +0000

The problem with "the language tooling is already a build system" is that cross-language dependency chains are a thing. The moment you need a Rust or Zig file to be regenerated and recompiled when a JSON schema or .proto file is updated, you're outside what most of those language-specific toolchains can support. This is where Bazel absolutely shines.

New comment by synalx in "Nerd: A language for LLMs, not humans"

synalx — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 01:31:03 +0000

One major disadvantage here is the lack of training data on a "new" language, even if it's more efficient. At least in the short term, this means needing to teach the LLM your language in the context window.

I've spent a good bit of time exploring this space in the context of web frameworks and templating languages. One technique that's been highly effective is starting with a _very_ minimal language with only the most basic concepts. Describe that to the LLM, ask it to solve a small scale problem (which the language is likely not yet capable of doing), and see what kinds of APIs or syntax it hallucinates. Then add that to your language, and repeat. Obviously there's room for adjustment along the way, but we've found this process is able to cut many many lines from the system prompts that are otherwise needed to explain new syntax styles to the LLM.

New comment by synalx in "Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop"

synalx — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 05:56:27 +0000

And a major consumer of space, because they have to accommodate bigger ports even if they're only doing USB-C pass-through.

New comment by synalx in "StardustOS: Library operating system for building light-weight Unikernels"

synalx — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 06:35:05 +0000

> Stardust-oxide is a re-implementation of the unikernel in Rust.

Not "Starrust"? What a missed opportunity...

New comment by synalx in "Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run – Now Open Source"

synalx — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 22:29:28 +0000

Not a single mention of AI, LLMs, or Agents. I'm impressed :)

New comment by synalx in "Unexpected productivity boost of Rust"

synalx — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 16:31:52 +0000

More the latter. The lock guard is not `Send`, so holding it across the await point makes the `impl Future` returned by the async function also not `Send`. Therefore it can't be passed to a scheduler which does work stealing, since that scheduler is typed to require futures to be `Send`.

New comment by synalx in "Your Favorite YouTube Channel Is (Probably) Owned by Private Equity"

synalx — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 15:07:24 +0000

What I want the most here is transparency. If a creator thinks they can make better videos by partnering with a media company, great. I'm happy to judge for myself if their content is still for me or not. I donate to a number of creators on Patreon though, and I'd be angry to find out that my $ is profit for a well-funded media company instead of supporting someone working on their dream.

New comment by synalx in "Accountant Simulator 2025"

synalx — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 19:24:34 +0000

I wonder if this is due to the common trope in science fiction literature that changing the past in even a small way has a butterfly effect of unintended and frequently disastrous consequences.

New comment by synalx in "Does Earth have two high-tide bulges on opposite sides? (2014)"

synalx — Thu, 22 May 2025 21:46:57 +0000

If you're ever in SF, it's really worth going to see. Such a cool mixture of art and technology.

New comment by synalx in "Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to troll Mark Zuckerberg"

synalx — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 19:59:12 +0000

Well, it is an all black shirt...