Hacker News: tovej

New comment by tovej in "DeepSeek Harness developer preview"

tovej — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:14:08 +0000

Using git hooks vs an LLM to run pre-commit checks does not require hindsight.

New comment by tovej in "Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland"

tovej — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:19:55 +0000

You think cows are the only animals that require food production from farms?

New comment by tovej in "AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job"

tovej — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:27:48 +0000

Nuh-uh

(please use your words to construct a full argument)

New comment by tovej in "AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job"

tovej — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:26:15 +0000

Who is using them successfully and what _are_ the great new products?

Examples, please. It's easy to prove your point if it's true.

New comment by tovej in "AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job"

tovej — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:22:38 +0000

What people? What is the definition of success?

You can't appeal to something happening in the real world if you don't say what you mean.

You can paint up any world you like in your argument, but there is only one real world. Please tell us who it is, in the real world, that the hacker news crowd is gaslighting.

New comment by tovej in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

tovej — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:24:09 +0000

The half time show did, however violate the letter of the rulebook. There is a maximum duration for half time breaks, which was exceeded easily.

New comment by tovej in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

tovej — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:21:15 +0000

Co-ops or democracies are the only type of organization that has some resistance to power hungry conmen.

New comment by tovej in "Claude Is Not a Compiler"

tovej — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:28:11 +0000

Human developers generally don't autocomplete.

New comment by tovej in "Claude Is Not a Compiler"

tovej — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:27:28 +0000

It's not. It's a cargo cult developer that produces more code than you can review and confidently pushes bugs to prod.

New comment by tovej in "Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now"

tovej — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:08:23 +0000

I do. The only thing I need dynamic allocations for is queues of asynchronous events, and that's just because I'm too lazy to calculate an upper bound for how many there may be.

New comment by tovej in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

tovej — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:37:23 +0000

The lesson is: write your own code, it's not that hard.

New comment by tovej in "Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives"

tovej — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 05:51:59 +0000

Do you feel this way about everything? What about pre-moderating CSAM?

Clearly some things are harmful enough that they should be banned.

New comment by tovej in "Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives"

tovej — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:53:58 +0000

Do you serve the instance on the public internet or on a VPN?

I've been thinking about self-hosting myself, but for my purposes (open source), I'm worries about scrapers and other sources of DOS-like traffic.

New comment by tovej in "Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives"

tovej — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:51:17 +0000

Well, that's a good thing. Being "neutral" _is_ taking a side. It means you're taking an amoral stance even in big questions.

Every organization has a stance. We're just become used to companies that take a stance of "as long as we get paid".

New comment by tovej in "A Tiny Compiler for Data-Parallel Kernels"

tovej — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 08:08:57 +0000

I've also had terrible performance with Eigen when compared to LAPACK. Would not recommend unless you want to spend time profiling performance issues.

New comment by tovej in "Wikipedia Workers to Seek Union Recognition"

tovej — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:25:42 +0000

Please. Share.

New comment by tovej in "Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI"

tovej — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:45:16 +0000

"You people"? Is your paranoia getting to you?

20% is an interesting number, though. The percentage of Palestinians who were Arabs in 1918 was around 90%. I wonder if that might have something to do with why the Arabs are upset?

Oh right, Israel _has_ destroyed nearly all the entire Arab society that lived in Palestine. As opposed to your claim that "Hamas and Iran and Hezbollah _want_ to destroy Israel in the name of Islam".

You think a hypothetical backlash to an ethnic cleansing is worse than the ethnic cleansing itself?

It seems you're the one who seems to be ignoring the factual crimes against humanity that Israel commits, and only care about imagined ones that Israel would be victim to.

New comment by tovej in "Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI"

tovej — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:38:01 +0000

I'm going to need some more basis than that.

Otherwise this is just the good old "Anyone who criticizes Israel is Hamas" trope.

New comment by tovej in "Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI"

tovej — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:36:18 +0000

Ah, yes. So if Piker, when looking at the Houthi/Israel dichotomy, is more sympathetic to the Houthis, that means he adopts all of their positions?

That doesn't follow. Not even a little bit.

New comment by tovej in "Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI"

tovej — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:12:17 +0000

By Palestinian Mizrahi, I mean Mizrahi who are culturally Palestinian. Who have some ties to Palestine. Someone you could call native.