<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: yxre</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=yxre</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 01:45:12 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=yxre" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yxre in "A Libertarian Island Dream in Honduras Is Now an $11B Nightmare"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think this is a pretty common goal. This video is a bit pessimistic, but it shows a lot of evidence that many tech billionaires are aspiring to that end. Most notably Peter Thiel<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no&t=67s&pp=ygUQZGFyayBnb3RoaWMgbWFnYQ%3D%3D" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no&t=67s&pp=ygUQZGF...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2025 22:39:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43053863</link><dc:creator>yxre</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43053863</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43053863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yxre in "Git cheat sheet [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The use case for more is managing the history of it in a specific way to make it easier to understand. Most applications don't need this level of management since most applications don't have lives depending on them</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2024 01:18:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40486788</link><dc:creator>yxre</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40486788</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40486788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yxre in "How Might We Learn?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>its getting worse. Noticably very bad.<p>I have started double checked with web searches more and more. It went from 100% of the time to only 20%</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2024 18:36:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40432119</link><dc:creator>yxre</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40432119</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40432119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yxre in "Tell HN: Stripe Destroyed Our Business after 7 months of building our product"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I hate to be that guy, but this is super common for stripe</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2023 16:14:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37546613</link><dc:creator>yxre</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37546613</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37546613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yxre in "Ask HN: Looking for a resource on Linux kernel module development"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am also learning about the linux kernel, but not in an embedded context. Here are some good resources I have found.<p><a href="https://man7.org/tlpi/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://man7.org/tlpi/</a> This book is considered the best overview of linux kernel interface. Its old, but still gives a broad coverage of topics.<p><a href="https://lkml.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://lkml.org/</a> Browsing LKML is really helpful since it shows you where current development is happening and how kernel devs think. Some conversations get very advanced and nuanced.<p><a href="https://kernelnewbies.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://kernelnewbies.org/</a> is a good starting place for starting to compile and deploying kernel builds<p>Other than that, reading and tracing the source is probably the most productive thing to do for an experienced dev to do</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2023 11:44:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37444269</link><dc:creator>yxre</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37444269</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37444269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yxre in "Throwing away 10 months of work after 2 months on the job"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Expanding on your first criteria. The technology stack is fundamentally wrong is a good reason for a re-write. Language too slow. Doesn't handle the workload well. Other stacks have a better ecosystem.<p>Re-writes are also needed when the architecture doesn't match the problem space well. This can be incrementally done. Single threaded loops instead of using parallel-safe constructs like tasks and jobs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2023 18:28:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37180030</link><dc:creator>yxre</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37180030</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37180030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yxre in "Systemd auto-restarts of units can hide problems from you"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Observability is so key for successful infrastructure. A poor infrastructure with good observability is going to be more successful with than good infrastructure and no observability</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2023 13:13:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36955521</link><dc:creator>yxre</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36955521</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36955521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yxre in "Why is OpenAI making ChatGPT increasingly dumber? What's the motivation?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Conspiracies aside, there are a lot of reasons for this. Reducing liabilities. Responding to complaints. The "Shiny new thing" effect reducing over time.<p>This is going to be the biggest problem with general AI chat systems in the future, inconsistency. Often, they are too complex to know precisely how they work. Small tweaks will break some use cases while improving others. As more complexity is added to fix the next series of bugs, the systems will become less effective overall while user's have their workflows broken then mysteriously fixed.<p>From the end-users perspective, consumers will lose trust and move on.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2023 06:48:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36953105</link><dc:creator>yxre</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36953105</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36953105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yxre in "Investors are happy to pay premium for tech, but not for AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>1955 with the advent of the field with some very hopeful mathematicians, but the research never produced anything.<p>1980 after the foundations of neural networks, but it was too computationally intensive to be useful<p>2009 with Watson<p><a href="https://www.hiig.de/en/a-brief-history-of-ai-ai-in-the-hype-cycle/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.hiig.de/en/a-brief-history-of-ai-ai-in-the-hype-...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2023 15:55:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36944559</link><dc:creator>yxre</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36944559</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36944559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yxre in "DEA Quietly Turned Apple’s AirTag into a Surveillance Tool"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Apple products communicate with each other even if they don't know each other, so an airtag will utilize the cellular of a nearby iphone in order to get information to apple's servers. I think google has a tracker that does something similar.<p>Its easy to imagine that previous generation tracking devices that sends its information across a broader range than an airtag will need to be larger battery thus being larger.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2023 10:20:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36940659</link><dc:creator>yxre</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36940659</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36940659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yxre in "Meta forced to reveal anonymous Facebook user's identity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Subpoenas are for criminal cases. It looks like this was a civil matter.<p>A better comparison would be the Twitter user that was tweeting Elon Musk's jet flights. This was before twitter was purchased, and Elon Musk was not able to get the court to order Twitter to hand over that information.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2023 10:11:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36940599</link><dc:creator>yxre</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36940599</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36940599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yxre in "What Self-Driving Cars Tell Us About AI Risks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For the most part, ML doesn't control high-risk things with a human in the loop. The worst cases for ML so far have been stock market crashes from algo trading.<p>Its entirely possible that an update to self-driving car's algorithms cause a day of chaos as the self-driving cars lose control and crash. Worst case scenario.<p>I agree that the secondary effects of the ML systems are going to be far worse than the primary. We can only see how it goes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2023 10:03:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36940533</link><dc:creator>yxre</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36940533</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36940533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yxre in "What Self-Driving Cars Tell Us About AI Risks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Another article conflating AGI risks with ML risks. AGI has catastrophic possibilities. ML risks can range from accidents to annoyances.<p>Other than that, good insights from someone that works with self driving cars</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2023 02:09:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36938095</link><dc:creator>yxre</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36938095</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36938095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yxre in "Japan’s population fell by 800k last year as demographic crisis accelerates"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Japan is a fascinating case. It's GDP is stable despite a shrinking population. Is it only staying stable because of the population change?<p>If western countries with a similar birth rate problem stopped immigration, would western countries have a similar economic outlook as Japan?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Jul 2023 12:35:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36919671</link><dc:creator>yxre</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36919671</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36919671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yxre in "PLJS – JavaScript Language Plugin for PostreSQL"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thank you for creating this. I have used it a lot in a few different projects. So much better than postgres's procedural built in</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2023 11:54:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36846410</link><dc:creator>yxre</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36846410</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36846410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yxre in "Google restricting internet access to some employees for security"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think its possible for any platform that allows for arbitrary code execution to be completely safe. The exploits of today are far more sophisticated than they needed to be 20 years ago, but they still exists and are harder to find and fix.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2023 05:54:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36782576</link><dc:creator>yxre</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36782576</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36782576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yxre in "Ask HN: Anyone else notice that HN isn’t full of JavaScript frameworks lately?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think there are a lot of frameworks on the edge of viability, but the bar is a lot higher than it used to be for front end tooling. React(70%), Angular(25%), and a little bit of Vue.js(5%) is the market for front end positions with React owning the Lion's share. There are always new things being built, but being used is different.<p>The React team has done a great job of being generic enough for a broad range of use cases. As new use-cases arise, someone can build a new framework to support it. SSR has gotten much more popular than the SPA style, and the core React team has moved to support it with server side components.<p>If they can continue to follow the innovators, React will continue to dominate the front end landscape.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2023 02:22:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36781415</link><dc:creator>yxre</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36781415</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36781415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yxre in "Swig – Connect C/C++ programs with high-level programming languages"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cython is pretty good for C interop. Numpy is implemented in it</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2023 11:54:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36770841</link><dc:creator>yxre</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36770841</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36770841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yxre in "PostgreSQL reconsiders its process-based model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If they choose to move forward with this migration, it will be huge for the project. Make or break type of decision. They are socializing this pretty well<p>Processes -> Threads is the same improvement that Nginx had over Apache, and its pretty clear that Nginx is the preferred web server these days. Also, Nginx's configuration system is 
 much better, so it's hard to say why they have won out so clearly</p>
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<p>I find that any IDE-type setup in vim causes vim to lose the most important thing, speed. If your movements slow down because of too many plugins, the experience is far worse than in a normal non-modal IDE.</p>
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