Hacker News: xprnio

New comment by xprnio in "Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service"

xprnio — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 07:44:53 +0000

Let that sync in

New comment by xprnio in "Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger"

xprnio — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:38:36 +0000

A game where you're narcoleptic and keep falling asleep at random unannounced times. While taking a flight from A to B, you wake up at different times entirely, on the same (or an equivalent) flight, seeing whatever was going on back then. Sometimes it's a flight with the Wright Brothers, sometimes you're flying during WWII, and sometimes you might just be on the plane heading towards the twin towers (right as you wake up back on your own original flight). Maybe even some mini-games where you might have the chance to foil a hijacking in progress, or maybe you need to be "the doctor on the plane", or maybe you wake up as the guy that's carrying the crying baby. You never know when, where, or who you'll wake up as.

New comment by xprnio in "Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions"

xprnio — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 05:41:13 +0000

The value to Google - sure. But the market value of the exploit itself - the black market I think is a factor in that regardless of what Google offers.

The value of something is dictated by what _the market_ offers, and just because Google throws a lowball price because _they_ don't value it doesn't necessarily mean that the value of the exploit itself is as low as they dictate.

There will always be someone who would screw Google just for the love of the game, and if they got a better price from elsewhere, I don't see why _morality_ would really play that big of a role. It all comes down to incentives, and if Google doesn't incentivize doing the good thing enough, then someone _will_ incentivize them to do the bad thing just a bit more.

New comment by xprnio in "To become a better writer, read as much as you can"

xprnio — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:30:53 +0000

I feel like there’s parallels to be made for everything that has potential upside without clarity into the “downsides” unless you yourself get into them. Now when AI can “do everything”, everyone* (exaggeration) wants the potential upside of (1) being a software engineer, (2) being a write, (3) being a solo business owner, etc without wanting to put in the effort to learn how to do it.

New comment by xprnio in "Finger: the 1971 social network that never died"

xprnio — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:33:48 +0000

No, that I think would be Match.com or something along those lines. This is like the grandfather or grand-grandfather of Tinder, but not even intentionally.

What I find funny is how an Estonian proverb/saying would fit here quite nicely: “don’t try to teach your grandfather how to have sex.” In this case, the grandfather didn’t need teaching - it was molded by the era into what was necessary.

New comment by xprnio in "Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI"

xprnio — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 03:15:01 +0000

Trending towards the Homo Amens Mechanicus: the mechanical thoughtless human. What a goal

New comment by xprnio in "Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone"

xprnio — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:27:25 +0000

What might the “parameters/layers to gates” ratio look like? My naive and uninformed guess would be that 1B+ parameter would also need a 1B+ gate FPGA, but according to google they typically range from tens of thousands to several million (which would still be a fraction of a billion).

New comment by xprnio in "Apple engineer says he was fired after refusing to send cust. device IDs to AT&T"

xprnio — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 03:23:53 +0000

HackerNews will always be here to welcome you

New comment by xprnio in "Mark Zuckerberg is becoming the king of the 'side quest'"

xprnio — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:05:54 +0000

That’s the thing - his side quests have nothing to do with weed (aside from him occasionally mixing it in) - Twitch streaming, a cooking show with Martha Steward, a kids songs and nursery rhymes channel (Doggyland), and so much more.

And then lizard man is what… going to the gym, grilling in his backyard, and going live on facebook. Essentially just trying to show us that he TOO is a Real Boy

New comment by xprnio in "Mark Zuckerberg is becoming the king of the 'side quest'"

xprnio — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:02:00 +0000

It’s second top, so it’s almost as good, especially considering my lack of meaningful addition to the conversation about Cuckleburger

New comment by xprnio in "Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free"

xprnio — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:59:56 +0000

Yeah, that seems to be the general pattern across vi-emulation. However, back when I was on IntellJ stuff (pre vi-emulation), I was already quite deep into the plethora of keyboard shortcuts within IntelliJ, so although you couldn’t do everything with just vi-emulation, you could still do essentially almost everything without leaving the keyboard. Not the same as full blown vim, but it was a solid workflow in my eyes.

The main reason I switched was because of finances and hardware limitations, as I’m now rocking an 8GB M1 MBP

New comment by xprnio in "Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free"

xprnio — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:13:15 +0000

IntelliJ actually does (did) have quite solid vim emulation, at least from my experience of using it before going full into neovim (now on Emacs, btw)

New comment by xprnio in "Mark Zuckerberg is becoming the king of the 'side quest'"

xprnio — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:59:56 +0000

No, that award will forever be bestowed to Snoop Dogg, at least in my book

New comment by xprnio in "Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up"

xprnio — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:47:01 +0000

I love how the closer we get to “the edge of the Reality”, the more it sounds like the ramblings of someone that got their hands on some of that GOOD stuff

New comment by xprnio in "Memory safety absolutists"

xprnio — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:04:20 +0000

Didn’t the primary maintainer already signal burnout or frustration or something like that? If an AI company actually did port ffmpeg *successfully* (not like claude CC), the dude might get the release he might have been yearning for

New comment by xprnio in "Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment"

xprnio — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:20:48 +0000

On something that is inherently non-deterministic? Something which is also to a great extent distilled from other frontier models, meaning it has the possibility to generate similar outputs to those meaning that just pattern detection might also not be as effective? Easier to ban everything that’s open, than try to figure out which one of them is Chinese

New comment by xprnio in "Ask HN: How do you use Vim in the era of AI?"

xprnio — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 05:07:25 +0000

I switched to Emacs. Whatever AI did to TreeSitter caused it to constantly yell at me about errors because of markdown which I do not have the energy to figure out, while losing syntax highlighting and formatting support entirely whenever that happens.

Otherwise though - same as usual, although I do keep my AI agent and my editor separate since I still choose to review, verify, and even write a lot of the code myself (too poor to constantly throw money at an LLM)

New comment by xprnio in "Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025)"

xprnio — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:13:10 +0000

The cannabis to cocaine pipeline sadly is real, whether we want to or not. As long as the same people we buy our weed from also have a chance of being the people that have cocaine for you to buy, all that’s left to figure out is the money and the willingness to buy some.

(Sadly speaking from experience)

New comment by xprnio in "Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors"

xprnio — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 04:23:33 +0000

(As a non American) I remember hearing a joke that goes something like “How do you fix a Chevrolette? Buy a Ford”, but nowadays I guess a bike is a better option

New comment by xprnio in "Fintech Engineering Handbook"

xprnio — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:20:50 +0000

Round it up