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New comment by xav_authentique in "Claude Is Not a Compiler"

xav_authentique — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:38:56 +0000

> I read a vanishingly small amount of the actual code.

This sentiment kind of saddens me. I'm all for burning tokens to write throwaway code just to prototype a solution, but I don't get not reading (or at least familiarizing yourself with) the code that you will deploy to prod.

New comment by xav_authentique in "The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)"

xav_authentique — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:03:56 +0000

maybe they're betting on improvement in models to plateau, and that having a fairly stablized capable model that is orders of magnitude faster than running on GPU's can be valuable in the future?

New comment by xav_authentique in "Web development is fun again"

xav_authentique — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 19:57:24 +0000

Sure, but, in the real world, for the software to deliver a solution, it doesn't really matter if something is modelled in beautiful objects and concise packages, or if it's written in one big method. So for those that are more on the making /things/ side of the spectrum, I guess they wouldn't care if the LLM outputs code that has each iteration written separately.

It's just that if you really like to work on your craftsmanship, you spend most of the time rewriting/remodelling because that's where the fun is if you're more on the /making/ things side of the spectrum, and LLMs don't really assist in that part (yet?). Maybe LLMs could be used to discuss ways to model a problem space?

New comment by xav_authentique in "Web development is fun again"

xav_authentique — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 19:35:11 +0000

I think this is showing the difference between people who like to /make/ things and those that like to make /things/. People that write software because they see a solution for a problem that can be fixed with software seem to benefit the most of LLM technology. It's almost the inverse for the people that write software because they like the process of writing software.

New comment by xav_authentique in "Sony PS5 ROM keys leaked – jailbreaking could be made easier with BootROM codes"

xav_authentique — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 17:57:04 +0000

If anyone is interested in the cryptography mistake that Sony made I recommend watching the Console Hacking talk at 27c3 by the fail0verflow team: https://youtu.be/DUGGJpn2_zY?t=2096

New comment by xav_authentique in "Two recently found works of J.S. Bach presented in Leipzig [video]"

xav_authentique — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 22:08:21 +0000

Interesting to read that the complexity in his music is praised and seen as speaking to the intellect, whereas that is not the case when it comes to complexity in software.

New comment by xav_authentique in "Eternal Struggle"

xav_authentique — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 20:41:53 +0000

You can execute this in the devtools console:

data.whiteBall.v.x = 5; data.whiteBall.v.y = 5;

data.blackBall.v.y = 5; data.blackBall.v.x = 5;

New comment by xav_authentique in "Streaming is changing the sound of music"

xav_authentique — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 23:24:28 +0000

Who says you’ll have that choice?

There Is No Such Thing as a Microservice

xav_authentique — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 17:18:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXCLLsCGY0s

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35471452

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by xav_authentique in "Over the past 21 months I’ve written a code editor from the ground up"

xav_authentique — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 08:53:59 +0000

I'm working on a new programming language and every point resonates with me on a spiritual level. One thing that helped me a lot was writing more integration tests at the outer edges of the application, opposed to unit tests of individual modules. Usually the logic doesn't change between rewrites, so keeping a somewhat stable interface keeps me from breaking stuff in between grand rewrites.

Assembly interpreter inside of TypeScript's type system

xav_authentique — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 19:59:25 +0000

Article URL: https://judehunter.dev/blog/assembly-interpreter-in-typescripts-type-system

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33629612

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by xav_authentique in "Looped Square Or ⌘"

xav_authentique — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 06:42:53 +0000

Susan Kare talked about the backstory in this presentation: https://vimeo.com/97583369#t=493s

New comment by xav_authentique in "Nano98: Windows 98 that boots and runs under 5MB (2003)"

xav_authentique — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:53:44 +0000

No love for Windows 2000? NT kernel with the classic Windows interface. It ran pretty well on Windows 98 machines and was extremely stable.

New comment by xav_authentique in "How bad is your Spotify?"

xav_authentique — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 14:38:20 +0000

It looks like they request these permissions: user-top-read, playlist-read-private, playlist-read-collaborative and they also gets your your name, username and profile picture.