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New comment by theK in "Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?"

theK — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:37:56 +0000

Isn't this the perfect classical capitalist advertisement? Every number goes up.

- code? up - build budget? Up - developer output? Up - developer oprrational costs? Waaay up!

Why is this Bad? Every one involved profits somehow.

New comment by theK in "Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?"

theK — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:33:10 +0000

Accurate but manageable. Just like a pm works with properties an engineer also does. The Product person wants to deliver the right product properties so they model their process around identifying the ones they want and then creating the right framework to get them. On the engineering side its the same thing. Define what you want, give agents an environment they can succeed in, iterate.

New comment by theK in "Europe EV sales rose 70.3% in September, 32.6% of market share"

theK — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:21:54 +0000

That is correct. I think the alleged "dumbess" comes most from voting for the people that won't do the things you mentioned in your second paragraph.

But as I always say, it is not a property exclusive to US citizens. currently it looks like there is a drinking contest on which country will do the most ridiculous election result. The US started it but Germany said "halt meine Leberwurscht" and whent straigt to the top.

New comment by theK in "Europe EV sales rose 70.3% in September, 32.6% of market share"

theK — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:14:37 +0000

Well, to be fair we Europeans kinda topped that by doing everything right and then in months killing all regulations that drove those things. #TechnologyOpenness

New comment by theK in "Europe EV sales rose 70.3% in September, 32.6% of market share"

theK — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:10:10 +0000

> The way these past few years have shown the absolute precarity of fossil fuel systems

I agree with you but wasn't the primary takeaway of these past years that there is so much corruption anywhere even remotely related to burnable fuel that one needs not one but two actual wars (key to the fossil rich world) to provide a somewhat level playing field?

New comment by theK in "Pirating the Pirates"

theK — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:13:50 +0000

> to record the nature of the world around you for the future

That's cool.

> The future needs it, kinda.

Agreed but we seem to be in the minority seeing that most people nowadays seem to be speed running to make Asimov's Foundation into a documentary.

New comment by theK in ".name Termination"

theK — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:51:25 +0000

Never heard of DNTLS, thanks for sharing. I skimmed the Website and am a bit uncertain what the ai angle is. Shouldnt naming be, well, just naming?

New comment by theK in "Over 400 Linux CVEs published in the last 24 hours alone"

theK — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:06:31 +0000

> CVE-2026-64012: net/sched: sch_sfb: Replace direct dequeue call with peek and qdisc_dequeue_peeked.

You are right, its over.

On a more serious note. Yes and no. The kernel is secure. It is probably the most scrutinized piece of software in existence. LLMs will find things but most probably they just will help contributors fix bugs.

New comment by theK in "Kimi Work"

theK — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:57:31 +0000

I think it can safely be argued that (only) good UX but also great marketing are the reason of that.

New comment by theK in "TLS certificates for internal services done right"

theK — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:33:37 +0000

I never understood the issue with DNS-01. if you have a process that you trust to maintain a zone's TLS identity what is the big deal about letting it control a record in that zone?

New comment by theK in "Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents"

theK — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:47:13 +0000

> Json as a common language for human in visualization has been around for a while

Plant, Mermaid, Graphviz are all declarative textual representations designed for human authoring, JSON is made for tools. Its not a criticism just a statement that if interop across agent and human was intended this is not the simplest option.

New comment by theK in "Chatto is now open source"

theK — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:44:14 +0000

Yeah, there are definitely valid contexts for hosting chat like this. E2EE has the benefit of not needing to trust the host, which I personally like but I can see this being fine or even wanted for lots of cases.

New comment by theK in "Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents"

theK — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:14:10 +0000

> requiring them to explicitly make visual decisions that are supposed to be handled by a good compiler

Isnt graphviz there for the same reason?

Edit: I see it is using JSON as the declaration language, I am OK with llms being "good at json" but a syntax also consumable by humans it is not!

New comment by theK in "Chatto is now open source"

theK — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:39:36 +0000

So encrypted at rest but no E2EE, did I read that right?

New comment by theK in "Podman v6.0.0"

theK — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:51:10 +0000

> for years

Don't know about that. I did a ddg search "using docker compose (v2) plugin with podman" I do get some tutorials but they all are from 2026. This also aligns with my experience from late 2024 where you where typical advised to use `podman compose` or the compose script.

New comment by theK in "Podman v6.0.0"

theK — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 05:36:27 +0000

The CLI plugin or the script? Last time I checked the podman CLI did not support docker CLI plugins and the script is EOL since years.

New comment by theK in "Podman v6.0.0"

theK — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 05:34:43 +0000

I spent about a week last year trying to move from docker+compose plugin to a podman hosted variant. It has issues on multiple stages of the lifecycle as I mentioned in my original comment. Mac users lose fs events, a lot of compose.yml features are flaky (post start events), buggy (reset and import), or just not implemented (don't remember the exact features).

If you use podman and have no issues that is awesome but your use case is probably quite narrow, you are most probably on a non fedora based Linux and keep compose usage to a minimum.

New comment by theK in "Podman v6.0.0"

theK — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:04:31 +0000

Last time I checked podman compose was only a superficial docker compose equivalent. Also stuff like inotify seems to randomly break a lot on the podman side.

I'd love to be able to recommend people use podman but not having a good docker compose compatibility and missing inotify on volumes makes the DX just too problematic.

New comment by theK in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

theK — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:56:21 +0000

Don't requirements like online server based verification and advancing crypto make it almost impossible to pirate these games?

New comment by theK in "Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days"

theK — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 05:20:01 +0000

I don't know how this works nowadays but when I got taught to write (the pencil and paper kind) and specifically when I got taught syntax, it was "if you want to introduce a clause that explains or expands upon something that precedes it, you draw a small horizontal line" no mention of special chars, Unicode or whatsoever. So why is it so special other than being authors fancy?