Hacker News: xmprt

New comment by xmprt in "Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Compare bribes statistics department wise"

xmprt — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 03:39:19 +0000

Not much to see here. Crowd sourced, vibe coded app. Not sure what "verified" means because the only verification they did was require a checkbox that "I confirm this is a genuine experience"

New comment by xmprt in "Grok 4.6"

xmprt — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:17:42 +0000

> Yes that's been obvious since the beginning

But if it's so obvious, then why are we still relying on it in the system prompt. It's just wasting context at this point.

New comment by xmprt in "Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids"

xmprt — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:49:59 +0000

You can brush that $177M fine aside but I'm almost certain that none of the Chinese companies above with these security vulnerabilities will pay even $1 in fines.

New comment by xmprt in "“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers"

xmprt — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:46:47 +0000

> Ask claude, use ssh with key-based auth and he will take care of it :) just saying

This already goes over the heads of most non-developers.

I think you're misunderstanding my point. It's not that LLMs aren't a useful tool or that they won't replace some developers. But rather that software development as a specialty won't go away because most people can't build software with LLMs in a way that won't blow up.

New comment by xmprt in "“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers"

xmprt — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:02:16 +0000

Most of the people who say LLMs will replace developers have never built and deployed a real app. I know someone working on an app that they were deploying and after "writing" thousands of lines of code with Codex, they needed help to deploy it despite getting pretty clear (IMO) instructions from the LLM. Later they were struggling to set up a test environment or add backups to the point that I was worried they might break production.

The few people who manage to write good quality production apps with AI are developers whether they like it or not and that number isn't high enough to obsolete existing developers.

New comment by xmprt in "Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids"

xmprt — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:23:32 +0000

To be fair, in many (maybe all?) of those cases, those companies faced consequences. I highly doubt this company is going to face any consequence for this data breach.

New comment by xmprt in "Devtools must be open source"

xmprt — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:13:30 +0000

It's still the same problem. Now instead of checking if the code is correct, you have to check every day if your prompt is still validating the correct features that you expect to work.

New comment by xmprt in "Go 1.27 Interactive Tour"

xmprt — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 05:47:48 +0000

One of the reasons it took so long to implement generics in Go was because there was a lot of stuff you could do that didn't need it. Now that generics are there, a lot of that stuff is still the best way to solve the problem and many of the methods that require generics are in the standard library so it's rare that you absolutely need it.

New comment by xmprt in "The Kurzgesagt Situation is Insane [video]"

xmprt — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:15:18 +0000

Because Content ID was built following a $1B lawsuit by Viacom regarding copyright infringement. Google doesn't have an incentive to build something similar for creators until some celebrity or large corporation starts suing them for using famous actor's likenesses. YouTubers alone can't fix this because they make too much money from YouTube to be able to take a stand (such as move content off platform to Nebula or the like).

New comment by xmprt in "The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder"

xmprt — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 21:38:20 +0000

There's more truth to the "Forbes 30 Under 30 to prison pipeline" than people give it credit.

New comment by xmprt in "The AI trade now runs on borrowed money, and the lenders are repricing it"

xmprt — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:51:44 +0000

I think in this case, the OP is talking about "loss" from a financial perspective. Airlines are incredibly useful for society but don't make money and operate on razor thin margins. AI will likely have a similar financial picture. Of course you'll have you Claude and Codex enthusiasts just like you have the Delta vs United frequent flyers but a lot of people just book the cheapest ticket they can find from an aggregator website.

New comment by xmprt in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

xmprt — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:28:11 +0000

I can agree that it definitely makes it a different game/playstyle but I'm still not sure if it's guaranteed worse. Putting ads during the break is obviously bad and a cash grab but from a gameplay perspective, it's not clear that a short break during the half is necessarily worse.

New comment by xmprt in "Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'"

xmprt — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:18:11 +0000

Agreed. But I think newspapers like The Economist have argued points like "Brexit is bad" quite well and it's not very nuanced because however you slice it, it has been catastrophic for the UK unless you're a corporate lawyer who has suddenly gotten a lot of new business.

Saying something deserves nuance because 1 out of 99 experts disagrees is exactly how you end up with increasing measles cases or adding 6 more lanes to a highway.

New comment by xmprt in "Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'"

xmprt — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:23:49 +0000

> Even if I agreed with them I don't like "100%" biased news

I can understand why this might seem like a good take to have but sometimes you need 100% biased news because some things are 100% biased. Things like climate change is real or genocide is bad should not be controversial takes. Convincing people that there are two sides to an argument is exactly how you end up with sensationalism and extreme views that push the Overton window.

New comment by xmprt in "Exercise works for depression. So why isn't it treated like real medicine?"

xmprt — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:48:52 +0000

The idea that doctors are not talking about exercise as if it's some big conspiracy to make more money from the top is ridiculous. Any doctor will say that exercise is the best thing you can do for yourself but most people also know that it's super inconvenient and most people don't follow that advice.

If anything, the people making it out to be some big conspiracy against mainstream medicine are doing it more for the money because they're often peddling some alternative medicine or supplements.

New comment by xmprt in "The startup's Postgres survival guide"

xmprt — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:43:24 +0000

ORMs are just tech debt. Even if your highest cost is developer salaries, you're just pushing that cost down the line.

New comment by xmprt in "Kaiser nurses say AI, workplace surveillance are making their jobs, care worse"

xmprt — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:49:27 +0000

Nursing and PCP are very different jobs. Ones a lot more cognitive than the other whereas the other involves actually doing/executing on a plan. I can see how AI would help reduce the cognitive burden while actually increase stress on the execution side.

New comment by xmprt in "My car’s OTA update broke Android Auto"

xmprt — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 02:34:01 +0000

Android Auto sucks but I guarantee that any software that those car companies would have made in house would be many times worse.

New comment by xmprt in "The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB"

xmprt — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:14:15 +0000

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what this means in that case:

> a 1,024,000² (1M²) area of the Overworld (Dec 25 2025 - Apr 13 2026), > a 512,000² (512k²) area of the Overworld (Nov 11 2024 - Dec 12 2024), > a 256,000² (256k²) area of the End (Jan 23 2026 - Feb 15 2026), > a 100,000² (100k²) area of the Nether (Jun 9 2025 - Jun 14 2025)

How do they both provide a single snapshot of the world while also providing a date range.

New comment by xmprt in "The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB"

xmprt — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:23:34 +0000

"The largest available Minecraft world" implies we're talking about one world. Then "totaling 15TB" implies the world is 15TB large which would be incredibly impressive and potentially involve multiple shards of minecraft servers stitched together. But 15TB of world files means there's multiple copies of the same data. Still impressive but not the same as a single 15TB world.