Hacker News: trakkstar

Solo Developer Rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust Using Claude

trakkstar — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:37:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/video-editing-graphic-design/solo-developer-rebuilds-adobe-creative-suite-in-rust-using-claude-releases-it-free-to-all-targets-100-percent-parity-in-one-month-despite-piracy-claims-and-safety-warnings

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50034554

Points: 2

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OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information"

trakkstar — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:00:26 +0000

Later: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/09/openai-fired-researchers-ai-...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50018350

Points: 357

# Comments: 219

New comment by trakkstar in "Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school"

trakkstar — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 10:48:07 +0000

No shit.

New comment by trakkstar in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

trakkstar — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:41:40 +0000

This piece is so god damn spot on. I have recently been raising every single one of these exact issues in our team. AI prerequisites good working practices and ways of working more than ever before. And people need to own their contributions, no matter how they produced them.

Detailed animation of today's solar eclipse trajectory

trakkstar — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 06:50:29 +0000

Article URL: https://dojo.amcharts.com/solar-eclipses/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49268684

Points: 2

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New comment by trakkstar in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

trakkstar — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:30:01 +0000

Well, AI is probabilistic by nature ;)

New comment by trakkstar in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

trakkstar — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:06:29 +0000

Girls and boys, this is a prime example of a rhetoric question.

New comment by trakkstar in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

trakkstar — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:13:37 +0000

Taking ANY Microsoft products with you to space is proper Russian roulette, I mean, what could go wrong?

New comment by trakkstar in "Flighty Airports"

trakkstar — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:43:45 +0000

Absolute metrics like "Most Disrupted Airlines" are completely useless if they are not normalized by the number of flights per each airline.

New comment by trakkstar in "Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]"

trakkstar — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:40:40 +0000

Posted this here one week ago.

New comment by trakkstar in "Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs"

trakkstar — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 13:23:14 +0000

The actual article is quite good but the HN title is quite miserable in summarizing what the article is actually about.

New comment by trakkstar in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

trakkstar — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 13:11:03 +0000

As a meteorologist with a PhD in solar energy modelling, currently working as a quant developer in the energy industry: I hate to break it to you but I don't think this information is anything new.