Hacker News: throwaway127482

New comment by throwaway127482 in "I doubt that anything resembling genuine AGI is within reach of current AI tools"

throwaway127482 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 03:18:41 +0000

You're describing ASI, not AGI.

New comment by throwaway127482 in "GPT-5.2-Codex"

throwaway127482 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:29:46 +0000

They did some interesting wordsmithing here to cover their ass without saying it directly.

New comment by throwaway127482 in "Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed"

throwaway127482 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:49:37 +0000

See, this is what happens when you turn off thinking completely.

New comment by throwaway127482 in "Show HN: Gitlogue – A terminal tool that replays your Git commits with animation"

throwaway127482 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 22:24:13 +0000

How is it more helpful for debugging compared to just looking at the git patch? As far as I can tell, this is meant to be more of a cool presentation type thing, rather than something to assist with development

New comment by throwaway127482 in "Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks"

throwaway127482 — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 15:07:17 +0000

Not a realistic solution at all

New comment by throwaway127482 in "Language models are injective and hence invertible"

throwaway127482 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 12:59:06 +0000

I think you're misunderstanding. If you have an extremely large number like 2^256 you will almost certainly never find two people with the same birthday (this is why a SHA256 collision has never been found). That's what the top-level comment was comparing this to.

New comment by throwaway127482 in "The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (2020)"

throwaway127482 — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 17:07:37 +0000

This was covered in my computer architecture class, which was mandatory for my CS degree.

New comment by throwaway127482 in "Pointer Pointer (2012)"

throwaway127482 — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 04:00:31 +0000

Conspiracy theory: that explanation is a lie, and the real reason for the delay is that it helps hide the fact that there isn't a unique image mapped to each pixel. If you click two pixels very close together, it shows the same image, but slightly shifted to exactly match your pointer. If the images were displayed immediately, it would be much more obvious what's going on.

New comment by throwaway127482 in "Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month?"

throwaway127482 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 03:40:21 +0000

Completely and utterly off topic: why on earth does HN use a dim gray font for the post description? It's so hard to read. I understand why downvoted comments are grayed out but why the post description???

New comment by throwaway127482 in "Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP"

throwaway127482 — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:58:27 +0000

Correct. And we know the AI will read the docs whereas people usually ignore 99% of docs so it just feels like a bad use of time sometimes, unfortunately.

New comment by throwaway127482 in "How to tame a user interface using a spreadsheet"

throwaway127482 — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 01:40:06 +0000

I love spreadsheets and use them a ton but I have to agree, creating charts is hard

New comment by throwaway127482 in "TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)"

throwaway127482 — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 01:28:35 +0000

Getting a 404 from that link

New comment by throwaway127482 in "Garbage collection for Rust: The finalizer frontier"

throwaway127482 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 04:06:04 +0000

With data intensive Go applications you eventually hit a point where your code has performance bottlenecks that you cannot fix without either requiring insane levels of knowledge on how Go works under the hood, or using CGo and incurring a high cost for each CGo call (last I heard it was something like 90ns), at which point you find yourself regretting you didn't write the program in Rust. If GC in Rust could be made ergonomic enough, I think it could be a better default choice than Go for writing a compiled app with high velocity. You could start off with an ergonomic GC style of Rust, then later drop into manual mode wherever you need performance.

New comment by throwaway127482 in "Environment variables are a legacy mess: Let's dive deep into them"

throwaway127482 — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:26:39 +0000

cgroups aren't relevant here, I think. Not sure if that was just a typo, since you did mention namespaces in the first sentence. PID and user namespaces in particular are relevant here.

New comment by throwaway127482 in "Red Hat confirms security incident after hackers breach GitLab instance"

throwaway127482 — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:36:59 +0000

Engineers who are smart enough / talented enough, and who feel secure, can push back on security issues even if it will hold up a deal. This tells me that the most valuable engineers at Red Hat either do not push back enough on security concerns, or don't care enough (or aren't experienced enough) to know that the concerns exist in the first place, or they feel insecure in their position.

New comment by throwaway127482 in "Drunk CSS"

throwaway127482 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 02:31:46 +0000

It's really nothing like being drunk, not to say that you should try it though.

New comment by throwaway127482 in "SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3"

throwaway127482 — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 17:50:49 +0000

SecureHyperTextShell (SHTS)

I meant this in jest but now that I think about it, it actually could be a decent name (?)

New comment by throwaway127482 in "SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3"

throwaway127482 — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 17:48:07 +0000

Doesn't /3 mean v3? I mean, for HTTP itself, doesn't the HTTP/3 == HTTPv3? If so, I don't see how this is any better than SSH3 - both SSH3 and SSH/3 read to me like "SSH v3"

New comment by throwaway127482 in "DuckDB NPM packages 1.3.3 and 1.29.2 compromised with malware"

throwaway127482 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 14:45:47 +0000

Genuine question: why is `curl https://trusted-site.com | sh` a security risk?

Fundamentally, doesn't the security depend entirely on whether https is working properly? Even the standard package repos are relying on https right?

Like, I don't see how it's different than going to their website, copying their recommended command to install via a standard repo, then pasting that command into your shell. Either way, you are depending entirely on the legitimacy of their domain right?

New comment by throwaway127482 in "Protobuffers Are Wrong (2018)"

throwaway127482 — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 14:52:27 +0000

> But why do you need serialization? Because the data structure on disk is not the same as in memory.

Not always - in browser applications for example, there is no way to directly access the disk, nevermind mmap().