<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: waterTanuki</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=waterTanuki</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:47:05 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=waterTanuki" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by waterTanuki in "U.S. exempts oil industry from protecting Gulf animals, for 'national security'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Everyone who sat out the 2016 and 2024 elections is responsible for this clown getting into office.<p>*Democracy is not a spectator sport*. You don't get to complain about corrupt politicians and then go on to make excuses about why you can't vote. You're wasting your citizenship. Either go vote or move to a dictatorship where voting isn't a concern.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:59:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47596259</link><dc:creator>waterTanuki</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47596259</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47596259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by waterTanuki in "Slop is not necessarily the future"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> No one has ever made a purchasing decision based on how good your code is.<p>RollerCoaster Tycoon.<p>> The general public does not care about anything other than the capabilities and limitations of your product. Sure, if you vibe code a massive bug into your product then that'll manifest as an outcome that impacts the user negatively.<p>People care how fast you're able to ship updates, new features, and bugfixes. If you're working with a pile of vibe-coded spaghetti slop it's going to take longer to deliver these.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:42:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47594941</link><dc:creator>waterTanuki</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47594941</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47594941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by waterTanuki in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What exactly do you think the argument is?<p>The issues have everything to do with npm as a platform and nothing with JS as a language. You can use JS without npm. Saying you'll escape supply chain attacks by not using JS is like saying you'll be saved from an car crash with a parachute.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:57:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584517</link><dc:creator>waterTanuki</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584517</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by waterTanuki in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The engineers at NASA believe it is safe. The astronauts believe it is safe.<p>This take completely ignores Camarda's observations that there is a culture of fear spreading at NASA which punishes whistleblowers. I'm not saying he's 100% correct, but how can you claim such a take is truly balanced if there's a possibility one of the parties is engaging in a cover-up?<p>The engineers at NASA & astronauts aboard Columbia & Challenger also believed the programs were safe.</p>
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<p>The semantics are irrelevant. The effect is what's important: Hijacking widely used software to exploit systems. The OC is somehow under the illusion that avoiding JS altogether is a silver bullet for avoiding this.<p>Forest > Trees</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:35:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47583516</link><dc:creator>waterTanuki</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47583516</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47583516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by waterTanuki in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> That context is a moon program that has spent close to $100 billion and 25 years with nothing to show for itself, at an agency that has just experienced mass firings and been through a near-death experience with its science budget. The charismatic new Administrator has staked his reputation on increasing launch cadence, and set an explicit goal of landing astronauts on the Moon before President Trump’s term expires in January of 2029.<p>This is the most frustrating part. The Pentagon can fail the same audit multiple times and be missing <i>trillions of taxpayer dollars</i> but NASA has to move heaven and earth to show their relatively paltry $100B budget isn't going to waste. I'm tired of the double standards.</p>
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<p>Because no other language has ever had supply chain attacks ever, in history. Nope.<p><a href="https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/05/10/malicious-crate-rustdecimal/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/05/10/malicious-crate-rustde...</a><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log4Shell" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log4Shell</a><p><a href="https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2024-12-11-ultralytics-attack-analysis/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2024-12-11-ultralytics-attack-an...</a><p><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-catches-mongodb-go-module-supply-chain-attack/" rel="nofollow">https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-catches-mongodb-go-modu...</a><p><a href="https://www.reversinglabs.com/blog/packagist-php-repo-supply-chain-threat-what-you-need-to-know" rel="nofollow">https://www.reversinglabs.com/blog/packagist-php-repo-supply...</a></p>
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<p>When your senior developers retire, and if the LLMs haven't caught up to their level by that time, where do you think new senior developers will come from?</p>
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<p>> Homebrew is working on an official Rust frontend that will actually have full compatibility. Hopefully this will help share effort across the wider ecosystem.<p>Where can I read more on this effort?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:04:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47513097</link><dc:creator>waterTanuki</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47513097</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47513097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by waterTanuki in "Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>LocalStack built a <i>mock</i> of proprietary APIs, not on <i>top</i>. There's a distinct difference.</p>
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<p>Firefox doesn't seem to like your website. I get an insecure connection warning.<p>Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG<p>Works on chrome though</p>
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<p>Debian isn't known for being bloated so I don't get what the selling point here is. If I want a stripped down barebones system why not just use Arch?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:49:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47408768</link><dc:creator>waterTanuki</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47408768</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47408768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by waterTanuki in "Show HN: Oxyde – Pydantic-native async ORM with a Rust core"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We need more creative names for rust packages because this is going to cause confusion<p>There's already Oxide computers <a href="https://oxide.computer/" rel="nofollow">https://oxide.computer/</a> and Oxc the JS linter/formatter <a href="https://oxc.rs/" rel="nofollow">https://oxc.rs/</a>.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:08:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47406307</link><dc:creator>waterTanuki</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47406307</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47406307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by waterTanuki in "Type systems are leaky abstractions: the case of Map.take!/2"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not to sound harsh, but it sounds like you're greenfielding most projects and don't have to worry about collaborating with a large dev team or onboarding new developers which is a luxurious position to have. It's been the exact <i>inverse</i> for me where getting up to speed or maintaining a python codebase is exhausing and maintaining rust/go/typescript projects has been much less of a burden.<p>Any time I've worked on a python codebase with 3 or more people on a reasonably sized project, it turns into a mess than becomes much more of a cognitive load than any compiled language. Here are my experiences:<p>- numerous lsp errors and warnings that drown out real bugs and issues (no one is null checking in python, or correctly typing their functions beyond the primitive types)<p>- hodgepodge of tools like conda, python version <= 3.5, etc. required for project (because one person refuses to migrate to uv)<p>We've seen the <i>exact</i> opposite trend of what you've said. Typescript has surged in popularity because the quality of LLM output scales with context, and untyped languages like python/JS leave most of that context out that no machine can parse. These tools <i>do not reason</i>. They are token generators. Pure functions. Some outputs have more weight than others.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:53:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47395054</link><dc:creator>waterTanuki</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47395054</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47395054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by waterTanuki in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not a FAANG engineer but also working at a pretty large company and I want to say you're spot on 1000%. It's <i>insane</i> how many "commenters" come out of the woodwork to tell you you're doing x or y wrong. They may not even frame it that way, but use a veneer of questions "what is your process like? Have you tried this product, etc." as a subtle way of completely dismissing your shared experience.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:59:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47393431</link><dc:creator>waterTanuki</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47393431</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47393431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by waterTanuki in "Stop Sloppypasta"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I find your comment disingenuous at best.<p>> The internet was not a bastion of high quality content or discourse pre-AI.<p>I have read thousands upon thousands of pages of AI-related discourse, watched hundreds of videos since 2022, maybe even a thousand now on it. NEVER at any point in time did people opine for the "high quality" internet of before. They opined for the imperfect HUMAN internet of before. We are now seeing once pristine, curated corners of the internet being infected with sloppypasta.<p>This is quite a broad brush to paint the internet with. It's like saying The Earth is not a bastion of warzones/peaceful places to live. That is HIGHLY dependent on location.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:52:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47393392</link><dc:creator>waterTanuki</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47393392</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47393392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by waterTanuki in "Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A camera doesn't use unlicensed IP from other sources to produce an image. The makers of the camera explicitly gave you a right to own the photograph taken with the parts used to assemble the camera.</p>
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<p>If you're concerned about the amount of RAM, this isn't the laptop for you. Grandma doesn't need 16GB to browse Facebook and look at family photos.<p>I'm actually glad they restricted the memory, because it will create market pressure for devs to stop wasting system resources on bloated electron apps and NextJS. With RAM prices skyrocketing these days people need to be more conscious of how much system resources they're taking up.</p>
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<p>I've grown to <i>hate</i> using python in production since LLMs have been around. Python cannot enforce minimum standards like cleaning up unused variables, checking array access, and properly typing your functions. There's a number of tools built to do this but none of them can possibly replace a compiler.<p>Compiled languages like Go and Rust are my new default for projects on the backend, typescript with strict typing on for the frontend, and I foresee the popularity growing the more LLM use grows. The moment you let an LLM loose in a Javascript/Python codebase everything goes off the rails.</p>
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<p>Are you working for 3x less the time <i>compounding monthly</i>?<p>Are you making 3x the money <i>compounding monthly</i> ?<p>No?<p>Then what's the point?</p>
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