<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: szmarczak</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=szmarczak</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 21:03:26 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=szmarczak" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by szmarczak in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I got banned from yt-dlp for stating that Deno is vibe coded and that AIs are responsible for 54% commits since Feb 01. Also see <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48241873">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48241873</a><p>> Someone was writing all that trash by hand.<p>And reading code written by AI isn't the same as reading code written by a real expert person.<p>There still exists the difference of quality of the written code and people who use AIs are lazy enough to accept code with vulnerabilities - see <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45034496">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45034496</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 13:27:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257134</link><dc:creator>szmarczak</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257134</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by szmarczak in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> One shotting slop is very different from iterating back and forth with an AI.<p>Bun is also iterating back and forth with AI. The rewrite only got popular because of bigger scope. The bigger the scope is, the more bugs there are.<p>> getting node compatibility tests passing<p>So does Bun.<p>> which is something an LLM is very good at.<p>Doesn't matter. The code those LLMs operate on is simple enough that any middle software engineer can do.</p>
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<p>Since when small vibe coded slop became the norm? Because there exists bigger vibe coded slop, it's no justification to have a smaller vibe coded slop.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 19:28:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48240372</link><dc:creator>szmarczak</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48240372</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48240372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by szmarczak in "Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The prospects of making a living in the midlist are unbelievably bad, and getting worse.<p>Sure, but it's not an excuse for making the world a shittier place by publishing more AI content. It's very known that AIs have agreement bias and mostly agree with you.<p>44% of new music uploaded to Deezer is AI generated.<p>Source: <a href="https://newsroom-deezer.com/2026/04/ai-generated-tracks-represent-44-of-new-uploaded-music/" rel="nofollow">https://newsroom-deezer.com/2026/04/ai-generated-tracks-repr...</a><p>Also she said 4 years ago that "literature is not for idiots". I don't think calling people names is a good way of promoting your content. And now she's complaining that the amount of people reading her works is declining?<p>Furthermore, she accused academic teachers of narrow thinking (apparently calling people 'idiots' wasn't enough). Honestly, Andrzej Dragan works [1] are arguably more important, but who am I to judge?<p>[1] <a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeqEKD_20RZoMRPCZ39ZPd8oP3RwtjQKQ" rel="nofollow">https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeqEKD_20RZoMRPCZ39ZPd8oP...</a><p>Maybe she instead of glazing herself should get a reality check.<p>Also see this comment:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196708">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196708</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 22:05:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214869</link><dc:creator>szmarczak</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214869</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by szmarczak in "Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's not religion. Let me reiterate:<p>> She uses the AI for a job that should be hers, not the AI's.<p>Also what would she otherwise buy the AI for? Cooking recipes? I'm on the free plan and hardly hit any limits.<p>She didn't ask it "what profession could person X be in an Y novel". She asked it to <i>develop</i> (rozwinąć) a story.<p>It's not that hard to understand that developing a story is actually <i>her</i> job.<p>Small details (profession, name, colours) are ok (my opinion). Developing parts of the story is not.<p>You may wonder where the line is - many reputable Polish writers are in consensus - no AI.<p>AI should have no place in creative works.<p>You are free to think otherwise. However I don't think those writers are wrong, especially if they're talking on a subject that is their profession, I'm no writer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 20:38:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48213775</link><dc:creator>szmarczak</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48213775</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48213775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by szmarczak in "Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The fact is she didn't actually use AI<p>She actually did. See my other comment:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48210766">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48210766</a><p>She also said:<p>> jak fantastycznie powiększa on horyzonty i pogłębia myślenie kreatywne<p>> how incredibly it widens horizons and deepens creative thinking<p>AI doesn't have the ability to improve one's creative thinking. In order to improve, you have to practice - there's nothing more to it and it applies to all professions.<p>Also, I wonder how did she come to the conclusion that it does so.<p>She uses the AI for a job that should be <i>hers</i>, not the AI's.<p>Furthermore, she publicly stated she bought the highest plan without specifying the model.<p>> None have managed to at the level we are talking about.<p>You seem to be implying somebody accused her of relying purely on AI, which no one actually did.<p>Many good Polish writers (as stated in the Lubimy Czytać article) said that for them it's unimaginable to use AI for writing, in any form.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 20:11:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48213423</link><dc:creator>szmarczak</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48213423</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48213423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by szmarczak in "Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How is paraphrasing AI text different from paraphrasing AI images? It's still paraphrasing (with different mediums).</p>
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<p>> Being the first to do something is always impressive.<p>The companies are making the AI creative (whatever the definition), not her. Don't give her credit for something she had no impact on.<p>She's using AI for world building and working on top of it. Ask a few people whose job is world building (e.g. games) and no one will tell you that using AI is to be proud of.</p>
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<p>> If you can prompt your way to a nobel-class novel, that is almost even mors impressive<p>I wouldn't call outsourcing your creativity "impressive".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 17:11:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48210880</link><dc:creator>szmarczak</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48210880</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48210880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by szmarczak in "Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> It's clickbait. She gave an interview where she said she used AI to help get her brain going, and the headline made it sound like she had AI write the book.<p>It's not clickbait.<p>> Często wprost rzucam maszynie pomysł do analizy z prośbą: kochana, jak mogłybyśmy to pięknie rozwinąć?<p>> I often directly throw an idea at it for an analysis asking: darling, how could we expand this beautifully?<p>Source: <a href="https://lubimyczytac.pl/aktualnosci/23065/olga-tokarczuk-o-ai-kochana-jak-moglybysmy-to-pieknie-rozwinac-internauci-oburzeni" rel="nofollow">https://lubimyczytac.pl/aktualnosci/23065/olga-tokarczuk-o-a...</a><p>It's exactly like using AI for song creation where you direct it where it's going. It's no different than asking AI to generate an image and you redrawing it so it doesn't have AI traces.</p>
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<p>If she doesn't, why did she use it?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 16:53:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48210617</link><dc:creator>szmarczak</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48210617</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48210617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by szmarczak in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>a) there's an infinite amount of things that can't be proven/disproven and this includes all sorts of human imagination. We should focus on things that we can actually prove or disprove. The source of a god is human imagination, so you can't even prove that any god exists because you just don't know what it is (iow what exactly you're trying to prove).<p>b) This being a fundamental question proves scientific curiosity. We wouldn't have achieved current technology if not for scientific curiosity.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 12:15:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48178629</link><dc:creator>szmarczak</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48178629</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48178629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by szmarczak in "How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, it's the browsers. Check how much memory they commit and how much is actually resident. Firefox often commits 2x more memory than it is actually using.</p>
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<p>Wait till you hear about <a href="https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61478" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61478</a></p>
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<p>Apple? Sure. What about other developers? Firefox, Chrome already use gigabytes of RAM.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 00:03:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48129370</link><dc:creator>szmarczak</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48129370</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48129370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by szmarczak in "Bun v1.3.14 might be the last version in Zig"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Zig not having destructors was a mistake.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 19:11:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48099341</link><dc:creator>szmarczak</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48099341</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48099341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by szmarczak in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Kowalska works at the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, which is developing the first artificial intelligence factory in Poland and integrating it with a quantum computer, one of 10 on the continent financed by a European Union program.<p>I don't think quantum computing currently is able to help in the AI industry, I don't think this is having any impact.<p>WIG20 is essentially 5 banks, 3 energy providers, clothing, small shops + Allegro + CD Projekt Red. I don't think any of this has major world impact.</p>
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<p>I wouldn't argue that it doesn't give any benefits. However, it's not worth the current cost unless you <i>already</i> own RTX PRO 6000 to run any reasonable LLM. I'm using Claude Free and I'm happy with what I get, especially for the cost of $0.<p>I'm eagerly waiting for the prices to come down so I can upgrade my PC to AM5 and run Gemma 4.</p>
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<p>So much for their commitment to quality: <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-commitment-to-windows-quality/" rel="nofollow">https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-com...</a></p>
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<p>No because the object does not exist after std::launder. It only exists after std::start_lifetime_as. The bytes being there says nothing about the object, per the C++ standard.</p>
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