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Essay explainging OpenAI's safety collapse [video]

vincentkriek — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:04:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bta18wTOr_k

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47716258

Points: 1

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New comment by vincentkriek in "After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand"

vincentkriek — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:27:42 +0000

Github copilot used to only be in line completion. That is not vibe coding.

New comment by vincentkriek in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"

vincentkriek — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 10:09:47 +0000

No, Rust is in the kernel for driver subsystems. Core linux parts can't be written in Rust yet for the problem you mention. But new drivers *can* be written in Rust

New comment by vincentkriek in "Why I (Still) Love Linux ?"

vincentkriek — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 08:15:13 +0000

As an init manager, systemd is the best thing that has happened to the wider linux ecosystem. Being able to indicate dependencies, document order and being able to let an application tell the init manager it is done and dependents of it can be started makes starting up way better.

I understand the downsides people have of systemd, but I have the feeling the huge upside is often overlooked.

New comment by vincentkriek in "Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia"

vincentkriek — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 06:30:03 +0000

And ASML is not in Holland, nor is Nexperia or ASMI. I can't think of any semiconductor business in "Holland".

New comment by vincentkriek in "Libghostty is coming"

vincentkriek — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 06:36:07 +0000

The person you replied to agreed, but the maintenance could be done by other people while Hashimoto could continue to improve other technologies.

Beeper is getting a big security upgrade with on-device connections

vincentkriek — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 06:10:07 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.beeper.com/2025/07/16/the-new-beeper/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44590204

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by vincentkriek in "How I like to install NixOS (declaratively)"

vincentkriek — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 18:01:23 +0000

The language and the compiler infrastructure is for me the biggest problem. It's very hard to understand what is going wrong when it goes wrong. Most advice feel like copy pasting existing code without knowing what it does.

Learning this also complicates things as I am feeling overwhelmed with all the things needed for simple configuration structures instead of starting out with a simple program.

New comment by vincentkriek in "Calibre 8.0"

vincentkriek — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 10:05:29 +0000

Kobo Sync as it's called in the documentation (https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/wiki/Kobo-Integratio...) works very well, and is very easily enabled (updating a single line in a config file on the ereader that appears when you mount it on your computer).

It will convert books to Kepub automatically and you can select to only sync certain shelfs.

New comment by vincentkriek in "Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail"

vincentkriek — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 09:45:14 +0000

There is no difference to a .Add() function, that's true but even for strings you wouldn't have an Add function. It would be an Append() most likely which explains much more what is happening.

And verbosity helps, forcing users verbosity helps the general level of quality. Programmers could overestimate themselves and think they are doing it correctly. Looking back in my code from a year ago I see things I should have done differently. I like languages that avoid me making real dumb mistakes

New comment by vincentkriek in "WebVM is a server-less virtual Linux environment running client-side"

vincentkriek — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 08:19:14 +0000

IRC has no chat history either, right. I get the simplicity of IRC but searchable history is a bonus for Discord. As long as the service is available, searching is kinda possible. With irc you have to find out which bot provides history, which is then usually split over multiple files

New comment by vincentkriek in "My (Neo)Vim workflow"

vincentkriek — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 18:58:59 +0000

Never said it can't be good in an IDE. But there is something that draws people to vim, which isn't just the cool factor. IDEs often even have vim modes but vim itself is a nicer editor.

Same way an IDE is a nicer debugger, linter, profiler, test run platform...

New comment by vincentkriek in "My (Neo)Vim workflow"

vincentkriek — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 18:49:07 +0000

I usually doubt about this, am I missing out on useful tools because I like my terminal based environment. Editing is much better when you have tools that are keyboard first, I think everyone agrees about that.

My conclusion now about an integrated environment (like an IDE) versus a more handbuilt (like vim) is that a handbuilt one requires the dev to know it's tools. With an IDE you are seduced to trust the magic black box, that the box will help you. This makes it that when stuff goes different then expected (usually user error), you are lost.

With a more custom environment you are pushed to learn your tools. And while this is not a given, I like this approach more. I might miss some fancy new tools, but the tools I do use, I *know*. This could be done with an IDE but is more forced in a terminal based flow.

New comment by vincentkriek in "Welcome to the safest time to give birth in human history"

vincentkriek — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 07:18:14 +0000

And what would be the answer then? Where would it be safer somewhere in history than it is now?

New comment by vincentkriek in "I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL"

vincentkriek — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 10:50:22 +0000

I think the fork has to do with the following item:

> Unlike SerenityOS, Ladybird will have a relaxed NIH policy (instead of "no 3rd party code!"), and will leverage the greater OSS ecosystem.

SerenityOS wants to be an OS from scratch, to see how to do things better from existing implementations. When ladybird wants to target that OS as well, using 3rd party libraries would make it hard to stay compatible. Which is easier to do on just MacOS and Linux.

New comment by vincentkriek in "Review of the MoErgo Glove80 Keyboard"

vincentkriek — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 07:36:51 +0000

What is a "native keyboard"?

New comment by vincentkriek in "Linux Crosses 4% Market Share Worldwide"

vincentkriek — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 08:23:45 +0000

How so? I find it very interesting to see how many servers use windows or what software is used in embedded applications

New comment by vincentkriek in "Paying Netflix $0.53/H, etc."

vincentkriek — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 15:24:52 +0000

According to your source of 3.2h a day it would be closer to 90h a month (28 days * 3.2h) for the shortest month we have.

New comment by vincentkriek in "Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggesting a long fight ahead"

vincentkriek — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 08:25:22 +0000

In the Netherlands WhatsApp became popular because they offered free SMS.

New comment by vincentkriek in "Tutanota is now Tuta"

vincentkriek — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 09:50:30 +0000

What is $normalemailprovider? I have been looking for an alternative that is more standard, but it seems like only Fastmail is big in this space. The rest are small shops that don't convey a lot of confidence.