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joaohaas
·5 gün önce·discuss
Interesting premise for a post, but I had to stop midway due to the AI slop writing adding meaningless information.
joaohaas
·11 gün önce·discuss
Important to note that the cost graphs are heavily distorted. The agentic serch one for example is divided into 3 'columns': $0-$2, $2-$5 and $5-$10.

And yet, the $2-$5 section is the widest, even though it only contains a single point.

I can't even say if this is making the product look better or not, but it sure is weird. Maybe Claude just hallucinated those splits xD
joaohaas
·19 gün önce·discuss
This is not the main reason for the ban. You can read the linked post in the article that explains the AI ban thing in more depth.
joaohaas
·29 gün önce·discuss
>open link

>AI slop art right at the start

Instant close
joaohaas
·geçen ay·discuss
I'm assuming it fails to do face recognition, but yes the article is clearly very one sided on making 'digital ID' look bad.
joaohaas
·2 ay önce·discuss
I know general consensus on this is that it is good, but I hate this. The fact that both assignments do completely different things (with the map one doing heap allocs!) is insane. This would've been much better if it only allowed for anonymous structs.

  var A string = "A"
  type Foo struct { A string }
  var a Foo
  var b map[string]string
  
  a = {A: "abc"}
  b = {A: "abc"}
joaohaas
·2 ay önce·discuss
This post is specifically about backend development, where you're not shipping software to regular users.
joaohaas
·2 ay önce·discuss
>NTSYNC isn't the first time Linux has gained a new feature specifically because Windows games needed it. A few years back, Linux added a way for software to wait on several events at once, which is something Windows had built in for decades, but Linux didn't.

Lol.

Post doesn't sound explicitly vibewritten, so probably just a non-technical person.
joaohaas
·2 ay önce·discuss
Definitely a 'your LLM' case here.
joaohaas
·2 ay önce·discuss
Welcome to modern HN.
joaohaas
·2 ay önce·discuss
What study?

And I don't see how Go design patterns would be any worse. The main issue people have with it is the repetition/verbosity, which LLMs handle just fine.
joaohaas
·2 ay önce·discuss
Rust uses Zulip for lang-related discussions. The 't-lang/effects' channel is still somewhat active.
joaohaas
·2 ay önce·discuss
The specific use case the GNU maintainer listed followed this exact pattern.
joaohaas
·2 ay önce·discuss
>the article says "The Rust rewrite has shipped zero of these [memory saftey bugs], over a comparable window of activity." However, this is not true

That bug got fixed before the Ubuntu release, and is from way before Canonical was even involved with the project.
joaohaas
·2 ay önce·discuss
Most (if not all) of these issues do not matter at all outside the scope GNU utils run in.

For example, using filepaths instead of FDs does not matter in most cases in controlled server environments, or in processes that will never run with elevated privilege (most apps).
joaohaas
·3 ay önce·discuss
The grass most cows eat also need to be planted. The point of this post is that we could be planting stuff we can eat so you don't have to 'pay' the conversion cost.
joaohaas
·3 ay önce·discuss
I think most people oustide the area do not care and do not know about who's on top, and the negative perception is much more related to how the tech will enable users to misuse it (replacing phone lines/support, AI art, things losing quality, etc) than about the companies themselves.
joaohaas
·3 ay önce·discuss
I can't think of a single big provider that does not provide a status page.

Not a lot of them provide uptime in % values, but Anthropic doesn't either.
joaohaas
·3 ay önce·discuss
With the recent barrage of AI-slop 'speedup' posts, the first thing I always do to see if the post is worth a read is doing a Ctrl+F "benchmark" and seeing if the benchmark makes any fucking sense.

99% of the time (such as in this article), it doesn't. What do you mean 'cloneBare + findCommit + checkout: ~10x win'? Does that mean running those commands back to back result in a 10x win over the original? Does that mean that there's a specific function that calls these 3 operations, and that's the improvement of the overall function? What's the baseline we're talking about, and is it relevant at all?

Those questions are partially answered on the much better benchmark page[1], but for some reason they're using the CLI instead of the gitlib for comparisons.

[1] https://github.com/hdresearch/ziggit/blob/5d3deb361f03d4aefe...
joaohaas
·3 ay önce·discuss
> This is not just product simplification. It is a distribution and deployment strategy.

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