<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: well_ackshually</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=well_ackshually</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 17:52:38 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=well_ackshually" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by well_ackshually in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>C/C++ are doing fine without package managers.<p>They're not either, every one of these projects contains a gigantic vendor/ folder full of unmaintained libraries, modified so much that keeping up with the latest changes is impossible so they're stuck with whatever version they copied back in 2009.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 06:46:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48059520</link><dc:creator>well_ackshually</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48059520</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48059520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by well_ackshually in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>They fit Final Fantasy 3 (SNES) with 3 CDs of music (albeit low quality) and Mode 7 graphics for the airship onto like 3 MB.<p>Sure, the good old days where _all of this didn't work without specialized hardware that you bought with every single cartridge_. Mode 7 didn't come for free, it was an entire additional, single purpose chip in the cart on a console that didn't have any concept of task management or even OS. But hey, if you want to have to plug in and swap PCIE cards for each piece of software that you want to run, feel free to reinstall DOS.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 13:13:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48049026</link><dc:creator>well_ackshually</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48049026</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48049026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by well_ackshually in "LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You force yourself onto my life (because, for various reasons, most of the career listings are there for example) and then you attempt to make it miserable too, by using and abusing every FOMO tool in the box ?<p>You bet your ass I'm going to make your life difficult. If you want it to stop, you're the one with the ball on your side of the court, you know exactly what to do.<p>It's a very American concept, to believe you can just ignore systems and networks. The guy shitting in your yard every day doesn't go away just because you're not looking at him do it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 12:58:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048867</link><dc:creator>well_ackshually</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048867</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by well_ackshually in "DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Aw man, I'm going to shed a tear, the poor AI companies that stole books, works of art, writings any anything they could get their grubby hands on while happily telling everyone that their jobs are over by the exabyte are getting their precious little tokens stolen by big evil chinese LLMs :(<p>It's morally right to fuck over Anthropic (and OpenAI, or any other lab). Works generated by AI are not copyrightable anyways, and their terms of service have zero legal value.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 15:20:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47987198</link><dc:creator>well_ackshually</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47987198</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47987198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by well_ackshually in "We need a federation of forges"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Devault being a gigantic dick head has no bearing on whether or not tangled does things. If sourcehut wants to remain the isolated hermit of forges because the greybeards that be think it was better before, let them do so and remain their island of weirdos. We already do the same with the freebsd guys (except that freebsd is actually good and impressive unlike sourcehut)<p>Sourcehut does not matter, and federation of repos is already a real thing. The ones that don't want to federate just.. don't?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:26:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951535</link><dc:creator>well_ackshually</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951535</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by well_ackshually in "Waymo in Portland"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The same Waymo that says that they don't give a shit that they're stopping in bike lanes because their selfish passengers pay for it? - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47912645">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47912645</a><p>Good luck to Portland getting fucked by Waymo.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:08:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939076</link><dc:creator>well_ackshually</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939076</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by well_ackshually in "Composition shouldn't be this hard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your Godot scene doesn't work in Unreal Engine. I always felt that composition is unnecessarily hard in game engines infrastructure. I do web development as a hobby, and any .js file targeting the DOM works on any browser. I can't even run GDScript in Unity!<p>You're just comparing the wrong things. Yes, when you're locked into one environment, everything works together well. The moment you interact with outside systems, all hell breaks loose. If anything, what you're saying is just that platforms should have a much larger stdlib, or abstract platform differences properly (hint: this is only doable if you're a game engine and can afford to absolutely ignore _everything_ the OS does and just concern yourself with reinventing every wheel).<p>Not to say there's nothing good in the games side of things: a bunch of software could benefit from accepting that some systems like a big fat central message bus and singletons can be good when handled well.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:20:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47889223</link><dc:creator>well_ackshually</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47889223</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47889223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by well_ackshually in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If your definition of "real businesses" is "Fortune 500, US based tech company with more money than sense or just happy to bleed VC money", sure, 99.999% of businesses are not real businesses.<p>You may also have a very narrow view of how the world actually works, left as an exercise to the reader to figure out which one it is</p>
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<p>Indeed, yours has both more allocations and a bug (+3 instead of +5)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:37:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854833</link><dc:creator>well_ackshually</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854833</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by well_ackshually in "Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The US is the biggest threat to the world right now, and is actively supporting a genocide in Palestine as well as war crimes in Lebanon.<p>I'm perfectly happy to let the chinese get a piece of the pie and fight the US, no matter how bad they are right now.</p>
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<p>>Valve certainly doesn't seem to give a shit<p>Valve is nonexistent in the modern gamedev community, Source 2 is used by approximately noone, and overall releasing one game every decade doesn't exactly make Valve a prominent voice in the gamedev community.<p>However, yes, companies lock their engines at whatever it was when they started their project, and any upgrades comes from internal engineering. Decade long undertakings like the "recent" FF7 remakes are still on UE4 and will stick with that for the third game, because that's what they started with, and at this point the rendering pipeline and workflow is theirs</p>
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<p>> he's not a con.<p>When you're putting the bar that low, sure.<p>He's about as knowledgeable as the junior you hired last week, except that he speaks from a position of authority and gets retweeted by the entire JS slop sphere. He's LinkedIn slop for Gen Z.</p>
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<p>I need you to know that you're defending and justifying war crimes while blindly swallowing the propaganda of a genocidal regime.<p>Needless to say, it's not exactly making you look too good.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:51:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47811428</link><dc:creator>well_ackshually</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47811428</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47811428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by well_ackshually in "The local LLM ecosystem doesn’t need Ollama"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>solved the UX problem.<p>>One command<p>Notwithstanding the fact that there's about zero difference between `ollama run model-name` and `llama-cpp -hf model-name`, and that running things in the terminal is already a gigantic UX blocker (Ollama's popularity comes from the fact that it has a GUI), why are you putting the blame back on an open source project that owes you approximately zero communication ?</p>
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<p>Then don't. Obsidian's search is plenty good enough to find that note after.<p>Obsidian is the simplest thing in the world. Write text.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:54:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47758356</link><dc:creator>well_ackshually</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47758356</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47758356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by well_ackshually in "European AI. A playbook to own it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"I sent money to the god knows how many trillion parameters fully closed source machine built on billions of dollars and it worked better than the model that I can self host from the guys next door"<p>yeah, no shit ? All you're saying is that you're happily locking yourself in to models you have zero control over and that Anthropic can fuck you over at any time.<p>However, yes, Mistral is not in the business of providing you with a perfect, general purpose model. They fine tune from their base models for specific tasks.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:44:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47744869</link><dc:creator>well_ackshually</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47744869</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47744869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by well_ackshually in "Building a SaaS in 2026 Using Only EU Infrastructure"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><American Company> European means nothing. They are all subject to the US Cloud Act, and the moment you start using their services, it inevitably has one or two services that end up contacting us-east-1 anyways. And that's without taking into account that they are all trying to fuck you over from.behind anyways as they sign data exchange agreements between Europe and the US.<p>The large US players are not an option if you want your data safe from the US.</p>
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<p>No. Because the only reason you then get hit by this new version with malware is either that you're not pinning your versions (and that's irresponsible), or you're blindly bumping (and that's irresponsible.)<p>The software is provided as is.</p>
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<p>Multiple generations of builders working together on a grand plan, constantly interrupted by multiple generations of ~~kings~~ multibillion dollar corporations to please add ~~a grand mural remembering his great deeds~~ yet another flag to control exactly the timing of GC pauses because it turns out our server can only do GC between 3 and 3:30 AM.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:45:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47740340</link><dc:creator>well_ackshually</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47740340</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47740340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by well_ackshually in "JVM Options Explorer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's a nice source, from where up your ass did you find it ?<p>Go's GC is absolutely awful and leads to nondeterministic pauses and catastrophic latency spikes, especially when the memory pressure and capacity is high. Throw the go GC against a 256GB heap, see how well it survives.<p>Technologies have strong and weak points. Go's strong points are small, targeted pieces of software and having 66% of a binary basically be if err != nil return err. Rust's strong points are that you get to have the symbol<():soup<_, |_| of { c++ }>> while not saying you're writing c++ and feeling really smug when you say that you only needed to use 5 Arc<Mutex<T>> and rewrote your entire software three times but at least it runs almost as fast as some shitty C that does fgets() in the middle of a hot loop. Java lets you spawn spring boot and instantiate a string through reflection because why not.<p>I promise you, I can write allocation heavy FizzBuzzEnterpriseFactoryFactories in Rust too.</p>
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