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r0x0r007··on Contrastive Language Models
what's with that dino run? Jev is slow but it jumps correctly, their model always touches the cactus or whatever it is...I am guessing it doesn't matter? Or does it?
r0x0r007··on Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude
'Researchers at Anthropic then spent several hundred hours learning enough cryptography research to validate the model’s claim, and to prepare the research paper itself, which we are releasing along with this blog post'

So model outputs something, that can be completely bogus, and a lot of people spend a lot of hours checking if it's worth anything(not for the sake of science, but for the sake of publishing and marketing). And then even more people need to spend even more hours to understand that paper? And that paper gets feed to LLM and reused in next prompt....and this is cutting edge research? Can I apply for a position, I can prompt just fine and can be very motivational with model when needed- I just got complimented by a rival model: "In moments when progress seemed distant, your resolve was the constant that kept the work moving forward. Your example turned doubt into determination."

r0x0r007··on If AI writes your code, why use Python?
Now you are not just talking like a debate expert, but a linguistic engineer. This is next level communications.
r0x0r007··on The Claude Code Leak
I dont understand why so many people have the need to emphasize the code vs product battle. There is no battle. Coding/developing/software engineering is a skill, that just like any other skill has certain requirements and best practices that have to be followed in order to make a quality, maintainable and adaptable application that can stand the test of time from the software perspective. Product, features, marketing bla bla that is entrepreneurship part, and is not related to software, other than directing the software requirements,but not beacuse product people think about requirements, but instead just because they come naturally from the required features they envision.Just because programmers can write code doesnt mean they can ship good products.Just because a plumber can lay pipes doesnt mean he can run his own company or invent a new way of laying pipes. But I will tell you that a bad plumber who lays pipes and doesnt know how to connect them, bend them or shield them will surely have inferior product/service in the long term. And by the way, success of a company is measured over time, we will see where claude code will be in 10 years time when the hype dips a little, then we can say yeah the code was bad but everyone loved it and uses it still. I mean they leaked entire code online and this guy says yeah code was bad but who cares, what world are we living in? The fact that anything got leaked is a serious breach of best practices and security also at this point, something a company that used to work for DoD(W) shouldnt be doing, it can even be considered a national threat at this point. I know mistakes happen, I do them all the time, but then again the 'best' companies should be almost immune to mistakes cause stakes are high.But of course, move fast and break things is more important.Am I wrong?
r0x0r007··on Choosing learning over autopilot
'If I had to guess, I'd say that is the main "skill" being lost'(to endure frustration).

I think this might be true for you, but for less experienced and new developers, well, they actually won't get to that stage because their 'learning' is basically prompting and they have nothing to forget nor remember. And that might be bigger issue.

r0x0r007··on Show HN: TCP chat server written in C# and .NET 9, used in the terminal
yeah maybe, I guess it's fine, I meant no disrespect for the person learning. I can see some git issues so probably a new dev showcasing.I just don't understand how the hn posts work. Shouldn't there be some upvoting of stuff to be on the main page, or it was just released so it appeared?
r0x0r007··on Show HN: TCP chat server written in C# and .NET 9, used in the terminal
wow, a simple project made by chatGPT reaches hacker news top page. Way to go C# devs! And yes, I am one of them.
r0x0r007··on DiLLeMma
We, as developers are currenty using a technology where: - we add things like 'You are an expert developer/DBA/{whatever}' to improve its performance - we add things like 'please' to make it work better - we no longer code, we write novels that describe code(features) - we pretend to be doing technical work, when all we do is write english, often yelling and cursing at the technology From the wannabe millionaire perspective that looks at devs and engineers like expenses, I get it. You write what you want and you are promised to get it.

But as developers we need to push back and point out few things, beacuse of professionalism and safety: - To describe a feature and get it, there are only 2 ways: - LLM is soooo amazingly good and knows not just to code, but what you need, what you meant and what you didn't mean, it knows your business, knows your clients it knows everything, it works alone it is amazing. This will never happen, and certainly not with this technology. - You are a technical user that is able to describe to llm exactly what you want, all the important steps, and all the edge cases and important stuff. Then you review it's code, fix it, prompt it more and so on. In this case, there are several big issues: - you already need to be a fairly experienced technical person (which kind of beats the whole LLM point) - you need to prompt the shi* out of it to make it work - you need to spend many a hours debugging issues around code you didn't write - you don't remember the code cause you didn't write it - how can you add new features if you didn't write the code? Tests? If LLM wrote them what's the point? These are pretty serious roadblocks, why aren't people talking about them? Why the fuc* are we doing todo apps instead? If llm's do everything what about new concepts, programming languages,paradigms? Are we supposed to use same forms, code block for everything forever? That might even be a good thing if the code was well written! But the crux of it is, programming is technical, if you don't write code you are not programming and are not meant to be churning out code. People could get hurt. And llm is not at fault, you are, check the contracts and warnings. If you are not programmming and are instead prompting, you should think about switching to alternate carrer like a novelist or scriptwriter. All is good, I just kind of wanted to ask you, did you actually buy the ticket and board the AI train?

r0x0r007··on History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts
ffs, to find out what figures from the past thought and how they felt about the world, maybe we read some of their books, we will get the context. Don't prompt or train LLM to do it and consider it the hottest thing since MCP. Besides, what's the point? To teach younger generations a made up perspective of historic figures? Who guarantees the correctness/factuality? We will have students chatting with made up Hitler justifying his actions. So much AI slop everywhere.
r0x0r007··on GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT
I am too old for this sh...
r0x0r007··on .NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser
It's great to have .NET ecosystem expanding. I am a .NET dev, and I still use web optimized for mobile as my mobile platform(where applicable). Tried MAUI and all the other stuff, just doesn't cut it for me. You can make an app using it, but I would rather not to. The best 'mobile platform' for me was blazor hybrid, but then again - if it's already blazor why not go full web...I guess it depends on the 'seriousness' of your mobile application. If I had to develop a complex mobile app, I might choose another language framework, cause MAUI uses XAML and MVVM stuff that is quite a big overhead IMO.
r0x0r007··on Oldest woman to finish Ironman World Championship in Kona
yes, in fact If she was asked about her greatest achievements I would bet she would say having (grand)children.
r0x0r007··on What the hell have you built
"just use postgres" is an excellent advice. How about incidental complexity and ridiculous limitations of an ORM? Time spent learning how to use an ORM can better be spent 'refreshing' your SQL knowledge. Also, when you learn how an ORM works, you still don't know proper SQL nor how do databases works, so when you switch language now what, you quickly take a course on another ORM? SQL is a language, ORM is not,it's just ' an entire layer of code that your application doesn't really need' and in some applications you could never ever use an ORM.
r0x0r007··on Skyfall-GS – Synthesizing Immersive 3D Urban Scenes from Satellite Imagery
Seems like it could also be useful in planning combat(strategic) actions ad hoc, given limited resources, but I guess military already has some other tech for this...
r0x0r007··on The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership
'the underlying idea is "they better reach AGI, because that's the only way they could make money."'

Yeah, that's what I was going for.

r0x0r007··on AI's Dial-Up Era
not unless you are working on todo apps.
r0x0r007··on New prompt injection papers: Agents rule of two and the attacker moves second
Nice, why don't we apply the same principles to our regular applications? Ooh, right, cause we couldn't use them and a whole industry got created that's called cybersecurity and it's supposed to be consulted BEFORE releasing privacy nightmares and using them. But hey, regular applications can't come up with cool poems.
r0x0r007··on 1X Neo – Home Robot - Pre Order
Hahah,some things can't be unseen...
r0x0r007··on The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership
I think they will reach AGI pretty soon, because only AGI can find a way to make them profitable.
r0x0r007··on Understanding the Worst .NET Vulnerability
That feeling when you open a brand new project in VS and immediately get: "The solution contains packages with vulnerabilities"
r0x0r007··on The new calculus of AI-based coding
"For me, roughly 80% of the code I commit these days is written by the AI agent" Therefore, it is not commited by you, but by you in the name of AI agent and the holy slop. What to say, I hope that 100x productivity is worth it and you are making tons of money. If this stuff becomes mainstream, I suggest open source developers stop doing the grind part, stop writing and maintaining cool libraries and just leave all to the productivity guys, let's see how far they get. Maybe I've seen too many 1000x hacker news..
r0x0r007··on Why can't transformers learn multiplication?
I agree with you, seems like we are trying to make the shoe fit. Not only are we missing the understanding of what is happening inside transformers, but now we are trying to teach them and see how they respond and then interpret it. That seems fine with viruses and animals, but we are talking about a piece of software here. Shouldn't we know what's happening inside? Maybe these kinds of papers can shine more light and give us better understanding though, still it feels backwards to me...Regarding the multiplication itself, shouldn't pure understanding of the meaning of multiplication(it's a summation basically) be enough for 'AI' to call it a day? If AI or human understands that, then the rest is computation part. We already got that covered, so instead of having 'AI' learn it on its own on crazy amount of data and get it right 99% of time, shouldn't we just give it a calculator? Somebody PLEEAASE give this AI a calculator :-)
r0x0r007··on Claude Code on the web
Wow, so nice! Now I can read hacker news, watch youtube shorts and solve tickets and add new features at the same time! What could go wrong!? Thanks AI!
r0x0r007··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
https://thecoderssage.com Trying to build a platform for creating specific tailored coding lessons from prompts or your own code, with interactive coding, quizzes and exercises.Kind of youtube shorts but for coding lessons, on demand.
r0x0r007··on The role of the University is to resist AI
Students are like the electrical current, given the path with least resistance they will follow it(as with most of people). Cutting off such a path is NP hard to do at scale IMO. But definitely agree on the idea of the article.
r0x0r007··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
Trying to leverage LLMs for creating custom lessons(from prompts)that use stuff like dev-typing simulation(instead of just copy/paste), narration, theoretical concepts and quizzes. Basic idea is to use 'AI'(yeah I know...) to increase our coding knowledge and curiosity about other languages and overall fingers memory, instead of just copy/pasting from LLMs.

https://thecoderssage.com/

r0x0r007··on The Coder's Sage – AI Led learning platform for developers
Hi,

I created an AI led learning platform for developers. The idea was to create lessons that are custom and specific to user's needs, using AI.

Users can create coding lessons based on their prompts, including: -code generation -lesson theory generation -full narration(AI voices+ subtitles) -code typing simulation synchronized with narration -dual editors(so you can type while watching the lesson) -linking lessons into full courses

Basically I tried to simulate actual typing and narration as if a developer was explaining the concepts himself.

There is also an option to create the code yourself and just type the narration. This could be great for sharing code and best practices.

If you think this is an interesting concept and give it a go I would really appreciate your feedback.

I find this kind of learning interesting and use it myself, but I’m aware there’s still a long way to go to make it foolproof

Cheers