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syngrog66on Tune Code Before Your Garbage Collector

I stopped reading early when it became clear the author didn't understand the terms (or perhaps the entire language) they were using. Several indicia.

syngrog66on Show HN: LastShelf – an emergency map of your family's documents bills& contacts

Literally nothing about this requires AI, nor would be wise to involve it, or become dependent on a startup biz service about it.

syngrog66on Ask HN: Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking news?

YC and related VC are all-in on AI. they're simply talking up their book. VC cash is fueling all of this bubble, directly or indirectly.

The pop and deflation may have already started...

syngrog66on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)

Location: Colorado, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Golang (Go), C, Python, Java, SQL, git, Docker, Linux/POSIX, Internet & web dev, cloud IaaS, distributed, concurrency & threading, performance & scalability, some math & ML

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/mkramlich/portfolio/raw/refs/heads/master...

Email: groglogic+hn2026jul@gmail.com

programming for decades. solid fundamentals. troubleshooter. tech lead/arch. SRE-ish. solved legacy Heisenbugs & shipped, many times.

author of perf cheatsheet

writing book on HPC

US citizen, native English

ex Orbitz on core tech (JVM, GC, perf regress follow-up, ops, logs, instrum, caches, sessions, threads, db conns)

research & due diligence for US State Dept on public defenses against foreign adversarial propaganda & disinfo (ie. natsec)

game engine creator & toolmaker since kid. once built small sw biz

recent client: sys prog R&D on mem alloc latency & SEGV resilience. C on Linux. delivered code, benchmarks, diagrams & report on how to upgrade perf & avail of their soft-RT (micros mattered), $-impacting backend

LatLearn: FOSS Golang latency instrum & reporting lib

syngrog66on Google copybara: moving code between repositories

That seems like a tool easily adoptable by folks engaging in dark patterns on GitHub, particularly the malware bait repos.

syngrog66on Claude Sonnet 5

I'd rather upgrade myself to a more effective version, thanks. in part because I have a monopoly in the market on providing Me

syngrog66on I ported Kubernetes to the browser

"Just because one can do a thing does not mean one should do that thing."

syngrog66on A native graphical shell for SSH

not sure what problem this solves. smells like setup for a security exploit. tho my most generous take is its CV-ware

syngrog66on Dirty Little Zine – a tool for making an 8 page printable Zine

vi, pandoc

syngrog66on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

meanwhile all I need is a cursor (lowercase) and I can program and do all the actual software engineering I need. been true for many decades and likely will for many more

syngrog66on SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere for $60B

vim

syngrog66on Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?

pre-replaced it with combo of my brain, vim, an assortment of other CLI/TUI tools, etc

syngrog66on Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

book on performance; latency instrumentation; DCC TTRPG adventure module; OCPP software; latency/stability issues & upgrades for legacy backend codebase

syngrog66on Launch HN: Expanse (YC P26) – Unlock Wasted GPU Capacity

great, thanks. just saw this, btw

syngrog66on Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

scratched my own itches related to OCPP, latency, git, ssh and JMX. none involved AI

syngrog66on Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds

topics & individuals

whether something fad or not does not matter to me

syngrog66on Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

unfortunate name: very similar to Godot at passing glance. my brain already stumbles going back and forth between seeing LLVM and LLM, IP (Internet protocol) and IP (Intellectual property). Don't me started on X vs X vs X vs ...

I do like that it reinforces this rule of thumb:

  Q: "How do you know if any given piece of software is written in Rust?
  A: "Oh they'll tell you. They *will* tell you. Upfront and over and over again."

syngrog66on Launch HN: Expanse (YC P26) – Unlock Wasted GPU Capacity

I'm writing book on perf optimization, love to ask you questions sometime. email me (in my bio here) if interested. thanks!

syngrog66on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)

Location: Colorado, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Golang (Go), C, Python, Java, SQL, git, Docker, Linux/POSIX, Internet & web dev, cloud IaaS, distributed, concurrency & threading, performance & scalability, some math & ML

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/mkramlich/portfolio/raw/refs/heads/master...

Email: groglogic+hn2026jun@gmail.com

programming for decades. solid fundamentals. troubleshooter. tech lead/arch. SRE-ish. solved legacy Heisenbugs & shipped, many times.

author of perf cheatsheet

writing book on HPC

US citizen, native English

ex Orbitz on core tech (JVM, GC, perf regress follow-up, ops, logs, instrum, caches, sessions, threads, db conns)

research & due diligence for US State Dept on public defenses against foreign adversarial propaganda & disinfo (ie. natsec)

game engine creator & toolmaker since kid

once built small sw biz

LatLearn: FOSS Golang latency instrum & reporting lib

syngrog66on GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories

between all the Linux LPEs and Claude's known security flaws, alone, I'd be shocked if Github and Microsoft hadnt gotten hacked by now. reasonable bet we mainly hear it when big shops get bit

syngrog66on I’ve joined Anthropic

I have respect for Karpathy. Not for anyone who made Claude or promotes it. So this is a shame. But I can't fault anyone for accepting an offer with (I assume) lots of 0's in the dollar part.

syngrog66on OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta

https://chatgpt.com

syngrog66on OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens

Facts for context:

Malta has a population of only 550k.

Everyone in Malta could already, before this deal/plan, and even without it now, use ChatGPT (or any other LLM model/service, whether free or premium.)

syngrog66on Claude for Legal

if ever there was a domain for an LLM to be sloppy, reckless or emit lies or hallucinations it would be related to law advice and legal documents

er, wait

syngrog66on Int a = 5; a = a++ + ++a; a =? (2011)

The smart nerd will know precisely how to decode that line's results.

The wise nerd will not allow lines like it in their codebase, in the first place and, having seen one, will refactor it (probably involving more lines or parentheses) to make it more clear and easier to maintain.

The latter approach scales better, in long run.

syngrog66on The Emacsification of Software

whoosh goes the point of Markdown over some youngster's heads

syngrog66on Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable

Zuck is a billionaire sociopath. All else flows from that.

syngrog66on Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

Or we could just use our brains, eyes, fingers, and programming languages. Which all clearly work just fine, despite what the AI promoting hypesters would have you believe. Plain text is fine. Markdown is fine. All of it is OK. Don't give in to FOMU and peer pressure, kids. Conformity is not required.

syngrog66on I am building a cloud

I want to like a Crawshaw startup but seeing anything related to Clawdbot or LLMs is a hard showstopper. Poor judgment or grift.

syngrog66on DuckDB 1.5.2 – SQL database that runs on laptop, server, in the browser

sqlite