Hacker News: xarope

New comment by xarope in "Starfish by Peter Watts (1999)"

xarope — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:59:43 +0000

I've read blindsight and echopraxia, but not starfish, so thanks for the reminder.

If starfish is even despairing than blindsight and echopraxia, then this should be "fun"!

New comment by xarope in "Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony"

xarope — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:07:41 +0000

part of this I understand is survival. And I understand why you do this.

The other part of this is why it's so frustrating for me to find the right person. Everybody's resume looks perfect for the role, and I have to waste 30-45 mins digging into their actual experience. You have done yourself a great disservice by wasting that time sitting in an interview you were not qualified for, and worse still I always feel there are other, more qualified people, who I have missed/passed over their resume since it wasn't AI tuned.

Sincerely, I don't know how t make this better.

New comment by xarope in "The Eternal Sloptember"

xarope — Mon, 25 May 2026 06:16:55 +0000

that's a very dangerous analogy, because you would be considered the domain expert and you are just asking for synonyms for something you already know but may not remember off-hand.

now, what if you asked for the synonym for "provides" in a language that has gender differences (e.g. spanish/portuguese) as well as societal nuances (e.g. japanese) and it gives you "confers", how would you now know that's correct?

ah, so you say you tell it to take into consideration gender differences, as well as societal nuances. What are those, if you were not already familiar with the language?

New comment by xarope in "Migrating from Go to Rust"

xarope — Mon, 25 May 2026 05:48:13 +0000

if you are hitting pauses due to GC issues, you should into putting appropriate data structures into a memory arena, here's a reasonable read:

https://uptrace.dev/blog/golang-memory-arena

These are all tools. Java used to have this all the time, and we (ex-java programmer) had ways around this until the JVM improved.

New comment by xarope in "Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks"

xarope — Tue, 19 May 2026 05:22:45 +0000

something about the current trend of AI vulnerabilities reminds me of the old Asimov Robot series and the three laws of robotics:

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

New comment by xarope in "OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors"

xarope — Mon, 04 May 2026 05:32:57 +0000

In healthcare, HIPAA/GDPR equivalent would block this. Let's be realistic in our discussion; this is not the same as google buying up a library worth of books, scanning and destroying them

New comment by xarope in "Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race"

xarope — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 06:56:14 +0000

the consensus seems to be that the foam itself is the spring (hence the successful adidas evo sl and dynafish xiaonian), and the carbon plate/rod/whatever is more to control/manage that "spring".

New comment by xarope in "Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now"

xarope — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:24:30 +0000

I can see the dichotomy forming in the "post AI" world;

1) massive companies spending millions of tokens to write+secure their software

2) in the shadows, "elite" software contractors writing bespoke software to fulfill needs for those who can't afford the millions, or fix cracks in (1)

(Oh wait, I think this is what is happening now, anyway, minus the millions of tokens)

New comment by xarope in "DIY Soft Drinks"

xarope — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:40:53 +0000

can't several small hometown grocers get together to be able to make that volume/quantity? Surely that would be better than just buying from costco?

New comment by xarope in "A perfectable programming language"

xarope — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:33:14 +0000

interesting the ones they chose to name; I would have probably started with 6502/68000/68020/z80 assembly, fortran, cobol, basic, c, ada, simula 67, sh, zsh, bash, napier 88, tcl, perl, rexx, before hitting the next generation of python, c++, etc.

New comment by xarope in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

xarope — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:57:37 +0000

somehow mixed grip makes me twist slightly which caused me back problems; after a few tweaks to the lower back, I decided that mixed wasn't worth it (I don't compete anymore). Yes, you are right, I do use the hook grip, since I also do some weightlifting.

New comment by xarope in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

xarope — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:10:59 +0000

my clothes haven't changed in size, but I fill them out better, is probably best to describe it!

New comment by xarope in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

xarope — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:08:14 +0000

ditto. I don't have great numbers, my bench is terrible, not even 1.5x BW, but I did manage to get my DL to ~2.5x in a competition, then tweaked my back and now only double overhand, which means my grip tends to go when I get to ~2x BW (my gym doesn't allow chalk, and I don't use straps, so it is what it is).

New comment by xarope in "Peptides: where to begin?"

xarope — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:14:06 +0000

It's interesting you mention this (anhedonia), since the guardian just published this article: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/06/is-retatruti...

How did you actually feel? Disinterested in stuff, ennui, or other?

New comment by xarope in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

xarope — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:53:10 +0000

wasn't one of the controversies, that the simulation didn't account for the fact that Red's boats couldn't actually/launch carry the cruise missiles that were used to sink these ships?

be that as it may, the lesson still stands

New comment by xarope in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

xarope — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 05:58:58 +0000

Absolutely. Let's say I have a problem with gRPC and traced it to code generated using the gRPC compiler. I can reproduce it, highlight it and I'm pretty sure the gRPC team would address the issue.

Replace gRPC compiler with LLM. Can you reproduce? (probably not 100%). Can anybody fix it short of throwing more english phrases like "DO NOT", "NEVER", "Under No Circumstances"?

Probably not.

New comment by xarope in "How the Turner twins are mythbusting modern technical apparel"

xarope — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 05:34:09 +0000

I've done a lot of long hikes (200+km in the sahara, 6000+m mountains in kazakstan), and 2kg extra means a lot, like the difference between carrying extra fuel/food versus just clothing.

Anyway, you can try it yourself, wear a 2kg wax cotton jacket versus a 500gm technical jacket and see how you feel after a day's hiking.

New comment by xarope in "Document poisoning in RAG systems: How attackers corrupt AI's sources"

xarope — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:37:38 +0000

keen eye. 4 days old account, verbose comments.

Sigh.

As far as I know, the problem is still how to segment data flow from control plane for LLMs. Isn't that why we still can prompt inject/jail break these things?

New comment by xarope in "“Design me a highly resilient database”"

xarope — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:25:59 +0000

I have previous CTO experience in the POS space, you would be right on both counts.

(till this day, I can walk into a shop, look at the POS screen and identify if its one of those visual basic/PHP/windows XP compatibility mode required stuff).

New comment by xarope in "Runners who churn butter on their runs"

xarope — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:16:42 +0000

TIL - next time I go to the dolomites, I might seriously try this; ice cream after 6-8 hours of hiking and via ferrata sounds wonderful.