Hacker News: weare138

New comment by weare138 in "'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online"

weare138 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:12:47 +0000

You could always this stuff online.

New comment by weare138 in "Will you have spent more of your life with computers than your family?"

weare138 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:51:42 +0000

You haven't met my family. Half the reason I got into this stuff when I was young was to get away from them.

New comment by weare138 in "Ask HN: Why is every company encorporating AI everywhere?"

weare138 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:49:35 +0000

To make the line go up.

New comment by weare138 in "OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened"

weare138 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:24:12 +0000

There will inevitably be some people who dismiss this story as a dishonest marketing trick by OpenAI to make their models sound terrifyingly effective. I found 81 instances of the term “marketing” in the Hacker News discussion of the incident.

But a marketing stunt isn't the only possibility. Until this is all verified by investigators or 3rd party experts we can't rule out an act of corporate espionage either. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

New comment by weare138 in "IDEs are done, and they are not coming back"

weare138 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 04:25:42 +0000

And back when modern IDEs became a thing we were told code editors like vi and emacs were dead.

New comment by weare138 in "Show HN: Shirei, cross-platform GUI framework in native Go"

weare138 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:51:31 +0000

Where's the actual repo then?

New comment by weare138 in "Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty"

weare138 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:07:00 +0000

That's alot of time, cost and effort just to avoid making better pizza.

New comment by weare138 in "Right to Local Intelligence"

weare138 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:53:08 +0000

Just a suggestion, add a section with the relevant proposed legislature.

New comment by weare138 in "Claude Code is steganographically marking requests"

weare138 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:19:42 +0000

But what's stopping someone from modifying or injecting code into the client to bypass this 'restriction'? This type of security should be implemented server-side and at the network perimeter not in the client, especially one written in TypeScript.

New comment by weare138 in "Xsnow "protestware" in Debian"

weare138 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:06:29 +0000

The issue with that claim is xsnow already displayed the Ukrainian flag regardless. And it's in no way a critical app most people would even have installed to begin with. I had no idea it was even still being maintained.

New comment by weare138 in "Xsnow "protestware" in Debian"

weare138 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:03:22 +0000

Has anyone confirmed who this 'Alexander Ivanov' person is or even if this is a real person and not some AI bot? I searched for the email address used and it only appears recently in these handful of posts about xsnow.

New comment by weare138 in "Words Are a Byproduct of Consciousness. For LLMs, It's Backwards"

weare138 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:29:00 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_collapse

New comment by weare138 in "HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88"

weare138 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:14:03 +0000

I'm from genx. This has been a serious issue in the tech industry for decades even before AI somehow made it worse. The real problem is resumes themselves. It's an outdated format that was originally designed for completely different industries that just doesn't work with ours. And this is a great example of what I'm talking about:

The scoring is out of 100, with up to 20 bonus points on top:

35 points for open source contributions

30 for personal projects

25 for work experience

10 for technical skills

Up to 20 bonus points for startup experience, a portfolio site, a technical blog, etc.

All the AI is doing is trying to sus out the candidates portfolio which is really what we should be submitting when we apply for a position instead of being forced to somehow condense it to a set of BS business-speak bullet points. Especially when employers are now deploying AI systems just to figure out what's in a candidate's portfolio to begin with.

When all you have is a hammer every problem is a nail. The process itself is broken. We need to kill the outdated concept of resumes before it kills the industry.

New comment by weare138 in "FizzBuzz in Smalltalk"

weare138 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:09:08 +0000

Just for reference, in case anyone was wondering, this is what it should be outputting:

  perl -E 'say for map { ( $_ % 3 ? "" : 'fizz' ) . ( $_ % 5 ? "" : 'buzz' ) || $_ } 1..shift' 42

New comment by weare138 in "A stray "j" ruined my evening"

weare138 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:01:48 +0000

I was poking around with this and I noticed wl-copy has an option to trim newlines. Maybe that's why they added the option but I'm leaning towards gurk being the culprit. wl-copy itself seems to handle newlines ok, at least for me. This works as expected:

  echo -e "test\n" | wl-copy

  wl-paste

New comment by weare138 in "There are no instances in ATProto"

weare138 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 22:05:58 +0000

The AT Protocol has a federated network architecture, meaning that account data is stored on host servers, as opposed to a peer-to-peer model between end devices. Federation was chosen to ensure the network is convenient to use and reliably available. Repository data is synchronized between servers over standard web technologies (HTTP and WebSockets).

https://atproto.com/guides/overview

New comment by weare138 in "CEOs Who Think AI Replaces Their Employees Are Just Bad CEOs"

weare138 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:23:39 +0000

CEOs see that AI can do their job and assume it can do everyone else's too.

New comment by weare138 in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"

weare138 — Fri, 29 May 2026 03:50:23 +0000

Blew Origin

New comment by weare138 in "On Labubu and the Hyperreal"

weare138 — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:51:50 +0000

We've had beanie babies before.

This. None of this is new. It's just Beanie Babies for millennials.

New comment by weare138 in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

weare138 — Tue, 26 May 2026 03:44:26 +0000

People still use programming books, they just don't purchase new retail books as often. Books have become magnitudes cheaper for publishers to produce but the books didn't get cheaper for consumers. I went to O'Reilly's site, clicked on the first book that popped up and it costs $67.99 for a digitally printed paperback book:

https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/book/345913182/ai-engineering/c...

Take a guess why so many younger devs will opt to pirate a PDF rather than purchase retail programming books. Publishers are pricing themselves out of the market.