Hacker News: vultour

New comment by vultour in "SQLite is all you need for durable workflows"

vultour — Fri, 29 May 2026 23:54:14 +0000

The GitHub statistics for the project this website represents are insane. It has a sole author that has averaged approximately 20,000 lines of code every week in the past month. How do you even maintain that alone?

New comment by vultour in "OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens"

vultour — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:30:17 +0000

I’ve never gone through a paid training course that wasn’t a complete waste of time. It’s at the point where people at work know there isn’t even a point in offering these to me. “But why don’t you take the Terraform training?” Because I’m not going to waste my time with a 3-day course where it takes the first day to install and configure Terraform. I can install it on my computer in 5 minutes. I think people usually see these as a paid vacation, but I find them so insufferably boring I’d rather just work.

New comment by vultour in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

vultour — Tue, 12 May 2026 11:09:24 +0000

I'm going to be honest with you, I never even considered that the pinnacle of enterprise software would have a public issue tracker (do they?). If something doesn't work the way I expect I just accept it and move on.

New comment by vultour in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

vultour — Tue, 12 May 2026 07:33:02 +0000

No, just relative within the repo. Some repositories just happen to have a very deep folder structure.

New comment by vultour in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

vultour — Tue, 12 May 2026 07:18:34 +0000

GitLab could be the perfect case study on AI-powered efficiency improvements. I have never interacted with a piece of software that, for every single problem I found, there was an open issue always at least 4-7 years old that was just being shuffled around by managers adding and removing random labels.

Surely with all of these ridiculous developer productivity gains enabled by AI, they should finally be able to fix all of these ancient issues quickly and clean up the backlog.

Nope, “workforce reduction” thanks to AI again. This charade is getting boring.

New comment by vultour in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

vultour — Thu, 07 May 2026 09:05:15 +0000

My colleague had a problem with commit messages, so now they're all written by AI. I don't know what depth of hell he managed to get the prompt from, but they're all now in the format "Updated /path/to/file: fixed issue in thingamabob", which means they're all at least 200 characters long and half of it is the file path, an absolutely pointless thing to put in a commit message. The best part is that whenever you look at GitLab or GitHub, instead of seeing the commit message next to the file you just see the file name again, then the message is cut off.

New comment by vultour in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

vultour — Thu, 07 May 2026 08:46:38 +0000

There is simply no chance that LLMs are saving you 30 hours of work a week, especially if they're doing something where you'd have to do the research yourself. Either you're just simply wrong, or you went from understanding the code you were writing to skimming whatever the magic box spits out and either merging it outright or pawning off the effort of review on someone else.

New comment by vultour in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

vultour — Sat, 02 May 2026 21:42:24 +0000

Are you ashamed of other people finding out you used Claude? I think the co-authored-by bit should not be a setting at all, AI-generated code should be clearly identified.

New comment by vultour in "Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players"

vultour — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:32:27 +0000

I'm sorry but none of this sounds in any way exciting or like a breakthrough. There are ASML machines that hit microscopic tin particles with a laser 50,000 times per second, but it's somehow an achievement we've managed to create a ping pong paddle that's fast enough to hit a ball? Precision robotics have been used in manufacturing for decades.

New comment by vultour in ""The new Copilot app for Windows 11 is really just Microsoft Edge""

vultour — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:28:46 +0000

Is this a joke? You proclaim your support for a party that proudly posts AI-generated pictures of Obama as a monkey, shits out vitriol-filled messages on literally every holiday, and sends the gestapo to execute American citizens in the streets, and then you demand civil discourse? I'm sorry but that ship has sailed, there is no reason why someone should maintain a civil discussion with you.

New comment by vultour in "CERN uses ultra-compact AI models on FPGAs for real-time LHC data filtering"

vultour — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:28:30 +0000

Because if it’s not an LLM it’s not good for the current hype cycle. Calling everything AI makes the line go up.

New comment by vultour in "Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised"

vultour — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:07:58 +0000

These have been popping up on all the TeamPCP compromises lately

New comment by vultour in "Aqua Security locking down trivvy gh; Restricting to allowlist of IPs"

vultour — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:58:34 +0000

A bunch of AquaSec stuff has been getting compromised since the initial incident at end of February. Apparently in the latest attack they managed to compromise their internal organisation: https://opensourcemalware.com/blog/teampcp-aquasec-com-githu...

New comment by vultour in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

vultour — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:09:46 +0000

I spend probably thousands of hours in Firefox every year and I don't think I've ever had it crash.

New comment by vultour in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

vultour — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:23:49 +0000

The comment perfectly exemplifies the kind of person that would work at OpenAI. Government AI drones could be executing citizens in the streets but they’d still find some sort of cope why it’s not a problem. They’ll keep moving the goalposts as long as the money keeps coming.

New comment by vultour in "Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona"

vultour — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:07:36 +0000

Considering the things he is directly responsible for, he might as well be.

New comment by vultour in "Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies"

vultour — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 09:37:16 +0000

Right, that's why they have massive churches adorned with gold and intricate sculptures. Just because it technically isn't required to pay does not mean that years of brainwashing won't condition you to give your money away. I've only been a few times, but seeing old people queue up to give a sizable part of their pension to the church just made me sad.

New comment by vultour in "America's $1T AI Gamble"

vultour — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:09:50 +0000

This is such a hilarious out of touch SV techbro comment I can't believe it's real. You're a monkey with a computer that knows how to Google, there's an endless amount of people who can replace you.

New comment by vultour in "Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars"

vultour — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:28:36 +0000

This is mostly an issue with German cars. A lower-end Skoda comes standard with features that would cost half the car's price if optioned on a Mercedes.

New comment by vultour in "Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling"

vultour — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 01:25:33 +0000

I just can't take anyone who uses that term seriously. Just because a billionaire CEO told you it's not gambling doesn't mean it's true.