<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: vmasto</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=vmasto</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:12:25 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=vmasto" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vmasto in "Claude Desktop spins up a VM without no way of stopping it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ah, hardware products.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:55:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48481731</link><dc:creator>vmasto</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48481731</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48481731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vmasto in "Show HN: I wrote a small lib to turn a USB gamepad into a Bluetooth one"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can you explain why it makes a difference what the answers are?<p>When using an open source library assumptions should be:<p>- The code does what it advertises.<p>- The owner is responsible for the functionality.<p>- The owner's reputation is based on the quality.<p>You're making it sound that you're more sure for the above when the code is "hand-written" than LLM-driven. Why exactly? Do you tend to deeply understand the strengths and limitations of every coder whose software you're using in your projects?<p>As long as the owner is responsible for the quality of a project why does it matter how it was executed?</p>
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<p>Stress most times doesn't reveal itself like that. What you're describing is short term excitement and perhaps anxiety.<p>Stress is a silent killer. It's basically being mostly unhappy, feeling unfulfilled and trapped. It's a spectrum that can range from simply being unhappy to being deeply depressed.</p>
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<p>The dual landings for me were far superior. It was straight out of science fiction.</p>
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<p>I'm very confused. Grade school problems? Didn't ChatGPT 4 ace the entire curriculum of MIT a while back?</p>
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<p>Intelligence does not imply agency or consciousness.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2023 21:33:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37731086</link><dc:creator>vmasto</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37731086</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37731086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vmasto in "Ask HN: What tech choices make “new” Reddit so unbearably slow?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you missed the fact that I'm talking relatively (i.e. within a software house as I say) and the quotes around "working class".<p>Still, If we want to be pedantic and literal (i.e. assume I'm talking about the Marxist definition) it still holds true, as class is not defined by compensation but by the role of the individual within the production process.</p>
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<p>I don't work at Reddit but I take personal offense when someone so unfairly criticizes the "working class" of a software house like that (ie the non manager level software engineers).<p>What makes you think that whatever is wrong with Reddit is due to lack of talent? It almost never is.</p>
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<p>* even at light speed</p>
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<p>What would some common/helpful use cases be?</p>
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<p>This was a 100m asteroid (city killer), not 1km.</p>
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<p>Can you expound on the concerns?</p>
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<p>IntelliJ supports editorconfig just fine.<p>I'm not sure why you were disappointed, editorconfig does not advertise the features you mentioned. For more involved autoformatting you need some kind of tool like gofmt or Prettier for JavaScript.</p>
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<p>I'm not following, how does memorizing algorithms correlate with intelligence and skill in the engineering discipline of the job?</p>
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<p>I don't think that's nothing, you learned to code better :)</p>
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<p>I'm not following. Clearly the grandparent comment misconstrued the article as to have been written by a male, as did I. They are talking about the author.<p>For what it's worth the url and the author's handle threw me off. "harthrur", simply thought of someone named Arthur in their first name, not the last. I completely ignored the website's name as well it seems.</p>
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<p>> 1 trillion chances per planet<p>Not meaning to be condescending, that's not how probability works or is expressed.<p>Also, the fact that the ocean "is a large place" says nothing about how probable or not the events to create and sustain life are.<p>I understand most people have this gut feeling that because the universe is vast and ancient there <i>must</i> be something out there (and I have it too), but we just don't know.<p>We just have no idea exactly how hard life is to develop and be sustained. We just started having theories (a handful at that) about how we transcended from chemistry to biology. The prevalent theory for example is that the moon's unusually big size and proximity was the catalyst for that to happen. How many planets have extremely big moons in such close proximity?  How many million other factors played a role assuming the tide theory is even close to accurate?<p>It's just an infinitely complex problem and we just don't know.</p>
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<p>I don't get this point. The probability argued would take this into account. It could be that the probability is _that_ small that even if you keep rolling you don't reach it.</p>
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<p>A NAS setup or Backblaze. Personally I use both for redundancy.</p>
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<p>The technique is called "windowing" and it's not extremely hard to implement properly. For react we have react-virtualized and react-window, and I'm sure there are other libraries for different UI frameworks.<p>I'm running infinite scroll in production serving thousands of photos and it works pretty well, constant 60fps, low memory consumption and you could literally scroll infinitely (given infinite content).</p>
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