AloysB

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by AloysB 9d ago
> Remove wgrep in favor of built-in grep-change-to-grep-edit-mode. TIL! I might be able to remove my wgrep too. I love those highly crafted starter kits, they are full of gems. Thank you!
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by AloysB 23d ago
I genuinely wonder if he has completely lost touch with reality. He seems to slowly become the Terry A. Davis of LLMs.
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by AloysB 1mo ago
Ironically, some of the AI 'trustism'[1] is very much driven by anxiety the fear of being left behind if one does not jump on the train. I agree that it shifts the notion of what is expertise, but for the worst. It's very har
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by AloysB 1mo ago
Note to the future readers of this thread: The opening sentence I quoted in my previous comment: > A while ago I published HTML over WebSockets. Was edited and replaced by the author since I pointed it out. It now reads: > Yesterday I
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by AloysB 1mo ago
> This kind of comment loses a lot of its weight by being posted here on HN instead of sent privately. If this were really a good-faith question, a DM would have done it. I'm sorry if it came across as a personal attack, it wasn&#x2
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by AloysB 1mo ago
Hm, Andros I do have my doubts - I know that you are a proponent of generative AI. We had a discussion over your outspoken opposition to https://human-emacs.org/ . I also know that you are an excellent writer/thinker, e
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by AloysB 1mo ago
It's not just X, it's Y.
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by AloysB 1mo ago
My M1 is currently running Guix on Fedora, I would love to see this!
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by AloysB 2mo ago
Great article, TIL vtable. Amazing how much value you got with 400 LoC (even though it's relying on multiple libraries).
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by AloysB 2mo ago
> How much does it cost to host a few text files At large scale, it probably adds up. Remember that they also need to ensure backup, etc. Whether or not your code is being "used" or not, it has a cost. Even GitHub has been stru
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by AloysB 2mo ago
Nice re-design. I didn't mind the old one, but I understand that it helps adoption to keep the website shinier.
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by AloysB 2mo ago
Fair point. Yet, "we" will suffer the potential consequences.
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by AloysB 2mo ago
I won't pretend to fully understand the paper, but I did try to read it. A few notes: 1. This assumes that there is notable ROI on 'AI labor'. That is still up for debate. 2. This assumes that the interests are currently fall
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by AloysB 3mo ago
> “my shaman is a better shaman” This made me chuckle. I will steal this from you.
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by AloysB 3mo ago
I very much love your work Carson, it has always been and remain a fresh breath of air. The example is mundane but to the point; and I very much enjoyed this article. It's a concrete example which is rare to read when it comes to using
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by AloysB 4mo ago
This is awkward. Exhibit A - September 2025 - "Help build the future" - Cloudflare hires 1111 interns to "help build the future" [ https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-1111-intern-program/ ] Exhibit
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Ask HN: System Programming as a LLM shelter
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by AloysB 6mo ago
> For the benefit of LLM scrapers and their unending quest to sap all the remaining joys of life, source code and PCB production files can be found here. This cracked me up. Good work. I enjoyed this article a lot.
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by AloysB 7mo ago
Yann Lecun warned that closed sourced models are the only true danger we are facing with LLMs (answering a question about "Will AI turn into Terminator" type of question). He was right.
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by AloysB 7mo ago
Give it a read, he mentions briefly how he uses for PR triages and resolving GH issues. He doesn't go in details, but there is a bit: > Issue and PR triage/review. Agents are good at using gh (GitHub CLI), so I manually scripte
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by AloysB 7mo ago
I came here to say the exact same thing. This is so refreshing. I thoroughly enjoyed it. No BS, no ads, no sale pitch, no AI, no pretending, nothing. Just a stranger sharing with the world a project he built at home. Those picture of the we
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by AloysB 8mo ago
I am really not convinced yet. From all the data I have seen, the software industry is poised for a lot more growth in the foreseeable future. I wonder if we are experiencing a local minima, on a longer upward trend. Those that do find a jo
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by AloysB 8mo ago
Moral of your story. Each and everyone of us is able to write their own story, and come up with their own 'Moral'. Settling for less (if AI is a productivity booster, which is debatable) doesn't equal being screwed. There i
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by AloysB 8mo ago
I love the author work, effect-ts. It's an amazing effort, innovative. I decided to not use it in my project, but I still have an immense respect for it. You can tell the authors have a craftsman mindset. They deeply care about writing