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srdjanr··on Rewriting Bun in Rust
I have a few opinions on this:

1) My (and possibly other people's) last impression of this was when it was merged just based on all tests passing. In many projects, relying just on tests would definitely be reckless (not sure about coverage/quality of Bun tests).

I didn't follow much what where they doing later, maybe it is indeed good enough. For example, Claude Code using it and being fine is reassuring.

2) Making such a big decision that quickly and not (even having the time to) consulting community doesn't really inspire confidence.

3) You can be reckless even if everything ends up being perfect in the end.

Going 80mph in a city, you probably have like 80% chance of not crashing. And if you don't crash, you just had a much faster and more fun trip. Doesn't mean it wasn't reckless.

srdjanr··on Rewriting Bun in Rust
Of course he has the right to do it, no one disputes that. The users and community also have the right to complain, or stop using and supporting Bun because they don't like his actions
srdjanr··on Show HN: Zanagrams
Tutorial was great! And I would like the option to give up.
srdjanr··on HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88
They could be using this just to throw out the obviously bad CVs, and then manually go over the rest. I'm not sure if they do this in practice, but the tech itself can be useful.

Also if HR was really useless (or actively hurting the company) they wouldn't still have a job (or they'll lose it eventually). No one likes burning money for no reason. So obviously they are doing something useful.

srdjanr··on HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88
That's a good idea.

The only drawback I see is that you should compare every pair of CVs for best results, and that grows quadraticly with number of CVs. Of course you can settle for fewer comparisons and not perfect results. But then I'm not sure if you can hit a good ratio of quality and token spend.

srdjanr··on HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88
It makes sense to me intuitively (though I'm not sure if my reasoning is actually correct).

Worse model may not "know" enough to distinguish between a 70 and a 100 candidate, so it's expected that it's output has high variance. But a better model might "know" enough, so it can be more confident and thus more consistent.

srdjanr··on HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88
Of course, nothing can guarantee the right answer from LLMs
srdjanr··on Pull request limits are cutting down the noise
At the end they mentioned they're exploring global trust signals
srdjanr··on The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs
So this is only one of the reasons, and a relatively small one:

“Our estimate is that about 200 to 400 pedestrians a year would not have died if vehicles had remained approximately the same size over the past quarter-century,” the report continued. “That represents about 10 percent of the recent increase in pedestrian deaths.”

srdjanr··on Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs
Of course there is. If it increased from 1MB to 4MB, that would definitely be insignificant
srdjanr··on I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware
How can they even do that without storing plaintext passwords?
srdjanr··on To study how chips work, MIT researchers built their own operating system
Security researcher is a common term, there's also market research which doesn't look like it falls under your definition
srdjanr··on Midjourney Medical
The root comment is talking about adding blood, breath, urin, spit... analysis. For body imaging only I agree with you. But if we add all this, I guess we'd be able to rule out many false positives
srdjanr··on Hetzner Price Adjustment
Are more plants coming? I think I heard it won't be many of them, because it's risky.

If the bubble bursts and RAM demand drops, then they'll have big losses. And that's not an impossible scenario over the few X years that it takes to build a plant

srdjanr··on I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID
I don't mind it here at all, in fact I didn't even notice it's AI before reading this comment. It's clearly not a one-shot AI slop but a well thought out and edited by a human post.

Not everyone who has something interesting to say is a good writer, and I think it's great if AI can help them tell their stories.

srdjanr··on Tailwind and slop apps
These all look fine to me, and I don't think I'd assume they're AI generated.

There definitely is a distinct AI "design" look, I just don't really see it here.

srdjanr··on Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable
> Nobody is arguing for unsafe models

Then what are people arguing for? I see only two totally distinct options: unsafe models or someone being the arbiter of safety

srdjanr··on Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable
It seems like they run a classifier model before going to Fable (or falling back to Opus), so it should be fine
srdjanr··on CSS: Unavoidable Bad Parts
My understanding is that it's designed for fixed-size documents? There's a big difference between a layout system for that, and one where size of a document can vary wildly, up to completely opposite aspect ratios
srdjanr··on AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere
There's a difference between the driver intentionally driving into crowd, and not intentionally but possibly still recklessly (drifting and losing control, falling asleep, etc). In those cases I would probably use "car hits the crowd", at least in my language
srdjanr··on AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere
We should treat it as attempted attack in the sense of preparing for the next one, but I don't see why we should call it "attack" without any evidence
srdjanr··on MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second
I frequently tell agent to do something, wait ~10 min (which is just enough that I can't/don't want to start anything else), ask it to change something, wait a few minutes again, and so on. So I'm basically idle while waiting for agent, and it would be great if it was faster.

It's like your compile times were ~10 min. Sure, it's not a huge deal, but it's sooo anoying

srdjanr··on Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot
Why should the chatbot team necessarily take the blame? For all we know, they could have got approval from the tool team to make it public, and passed additional security review for making it public.

Also, why fire anyone after a single mistake?

srdjanr··on Can we have the day off?
Well fun can be the gain
srdjanr··on I manage teams without a single call
Why? You can (and should) ask for consent, and you already need to trust your app (assuming Teams etc) for calls/messages. You can also run transcription models locally
srdjanr··on Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods
I wouldn't call floods "very common"
srdjanr··on “Too dangerous to release” or just too expensive?
I read it, and it is AI
srdjanr··on DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal
Whether I'm using Google or not is completely unrelated to whether I use OpenAI (for example) API or run LLM locally
srdjanr··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
Products will low/negative margins just won't happen or will get killed. But if the margin increases, they might live.

Also with higher margins, more money can be invested in research/experimental products

srdjanr··on IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields
It definitely is visible, OS login screens usually warn you if caps lock is on when typing password
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