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Better to sell spades than mine for gold...
Re:Clean room implementation of Adobe products on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @07:34AM (#49991309)
"clean room" with AI is impossible
Mermaid works great for fixed layouts like sequence diagrams and Gantts. For flowcharts, where position is king, it's bad.

I've tried using svg in my MD files but they get unwieldy quite fast. This is a great idea. My first reaction was - but what's if I need something more exact. But reflecting on it, I've realized that this relative positioning is probably enough.

Re:CEO of Mistral: AI is software. It can be controlled on Saturday September 26, 2026 @01:19PM (#49858616)
> If you want to stop it hacking websites, you don't give it access to the internet

I think the Hugging Face incident proves that isn't as clear cut as you say.

Re:How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs on Saturday September 26, 2026 @10:12AM (#49856763)
Spoke like a true manager.
Re:Why didn't anybody tell me about Redis Hash Slots? on Friday September 25, 2026 @11:43PM (#49853000)
I can see how the author put some work in this article. But I can't handle any more AI speak, even more after spending the whole day talking to Claude. It's too bad - blogging has been dying (well, at least in decline) for half a decade, and AI might be the final nail in the coffin.

"You sound like a robot m" has a whole new meaning for me.

Re:Autism is genetic – and why this information matters now on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @07:50PM (#49734643)
There are two fallacies in your analogy.

Segfaults are precise symptoms - they occur only when there's a memory issue. Autism isn't precise, is a collection of characteristics that manifest differently in each person.

Genetic is, for the purpose of this conversation, a precise diagnosis - means you carry parent genes that will cause the issue. Memory management isn't: what caused it? Code error? OS error? Processor? Is it a bad code path or a unexpected exrtenal state?

Finally, an analogy of your analogy: you measure someone temperature and it's 40C. You diagnose a fever.

Segfaults are fever, just a symptom.

Re:Ask HN: How can I browse HN in dark mode? on Sunday September 13, 2026 @03:55PM (#49688002)
I use Dark Reader on my Firefox Mobile and on any of my pc browsers.
Re:CUDA for AMD on Windows on Sunday September 13, 2026 @03:19PM (#49687621)
Commercially it's better to have AMD support CUDA which can help break Nvidia soft monopoly.
Never heard of this... Any examples?
Re:We never use AI. For anything on Monday August 24, 2026 @09:11AM (#49419298)
Reads like religion, not fact based analysis.

I'm by now past the point where I thought "this is a great tool that will help me programming" to the fear phase where I know it will destroy my job and career. But still I can't agree fully with the article. Hallucinations are not the issue. We can extract value from it even when it does hallucinate.

The only reason we're having this discussion is because AI is intelligent and therefore poses a threat to us.

Re:Death to the Self-Playing Game on Friday August 21, 2026 @04:38PM (#49393497)
Exactly
Sure they do. And yet they still stand, which says something about their quality
Shut up, kid.
Re:Leave your screen unlocked, meet developers paypal.com on Sunday August 16, 2026 @02:25PM (#49322409)
Hard read as the AI tells are everywhere. Too bad; as a tale of a different time it could be interesting.
That's what affecting me the most. Pure Claude hallucinated analysis that the poster has not really read; worse part is that I can ask Claude for the same analysis, so there's no benefit, only long questions that waste my time.
Re:Leave your screen unlocked, meet developers paypal.com on Sunday August 16, 2026 @10:27AM (#49320416)
Don't forget to flip the photo and them flip the monitor.
Re:Leave your screen unlocked, meet developers paypal.com on Sunday August 16, 2026 @10:26AM (#49320412)
You sound fun!
Re:Leave your screen unlocked, meet developers paypal.com on Sunday August 16, 2026 @10:26AM (#49320402)
In Brazil we had a soccer player who was the cover of a gay magazine back in the 90s. That was the wallpaper of choice.
Re:No One Can Afford to Make Myst Games Anymore on Saturday August 08, 2026 @12:46PM (#49223460)
As a professional coder, I both agree and deeply hate this position.

And code indeed has its values. See all algorithms invented by Carmack like BSPs, z-fail, etc.

Re:"Clean" Code, Horrible Performance on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @12:01PM (#49170778)
You don't understand code quality, it seems.
Re:"Clean" Code, Horrible Performance on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @12:00PM (#49170766)
Thank you! I always see this stupid conversation about performance and nobody seems to get this.
Re:EU Fines Google $1.02B for Favoring Its Own Services on Monday July 27, 2026 @07:15AM (#49067873)
~don't~ be evil
Me too. Why I clicked the link.
Poor AI labs... All they hard earned training, done via scraping a lot of people works for free, now being scraped through payed subscriptions...
Re:Gleam Is Now on Tangled on Saturday July 18, 2026 @01:16PM (#48960035)
What's tangled? Which Gleam?
Looks nice, congratulations.

I feel like we've done full circle. Languages are back to being (mostly) procedural. I'm not sure I like it, but it seems that this is what people prefer.

Personally, I'd rather see something like dependant types on a dotnet language. An addition, not just a simplification.

Re:C++20 Improved the For-Loop Syntax on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @09:36PM (#48915195)
Given both Lua and python use a enumerator, the C++ example isn't really the correct equivalent.

  for (auto [i, v] : std::views::enumerate(vec)) {
      std::cout << i << ": " << v << '\n';
  }
This is how you'd do it.
Re:Microsoft deleted my account and OneDrive on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @07:52PM (#48914480)
People don't understand the difference. They talk about preservation, without acknowledging that a PlayStation can refuse to play a disc if servers say so.

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