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vivzkestrel··on Write Linters and Tools Before Code
is your post actually AI generated? it sure reads like one
vivzkestrel··on Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes
- i have bearish from day 1

- i have no idea how anyone thinks the mighty next token predictor is going to eradicate diseases and eliminate poverty https://blog.florianherrengt.com/how-llms-work.html

- i also have no idea what everyone and their momma on HN is running for more than 5 mins in the name of "agentic AI"

vivzkestrel··on Prediction: GPU's are currently the cheapest they're ever gonna be
I predict the opposite, the whole Ai bubble s gonna come crashing following all the IPOs that go bust and RAM and memory prices ll come crashing too
vivzkestrel··on Show HN: Redis City – Explore how Redis works in an interactive 3D model
add this to list of S-tier HN resources https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49183198
vivzkestrel··on I built an Instagram data dashboard with a REST API back end
what is the legality of such projects? anyone mind shedding some light
vivzkestrel··on My Health Insurance Denied My Cancer Treatment. I Emailed the CEO
- if the solution was to email the CEO for every denial

- how should the CEO handle this?

vivzkestrel··on CUDA for AMD on Windows
stupid question

- what exactly is CUDA?

- is it patented hardware tech that AMD cannot replicate?

- is it a library that ll also work on AMD while it currently works on nvidia

- can AMD cook an equivalent of CUDA, if so why havent they done it?

vivzkestrel··on Show HN: Exploring the intersection of prediction markets and social media
- what is your process of selecting the initial videos?
vivzkestrel··on Device Drivers lab exercise – COSC562
stupid question once again

- as a guy who knows a little c++ and absolutely nothing about kernels and drivers

- what are some top tier guides you recommend that explains how drivers are made, how low level programming is done and more importantly the why behind many many assumptions

vivzkestrel··on Show HN: Analyst Index – analysts who make money telling you good stock calls
they wont delete if we consider past predictions in the yellow category, start from today and mark all future ones in green. we ll fetch their videos every hour
vivzkestrel··on Show HN: Analyst Index – analysts who make money telling you good stock calls
- i ll give you an even better idea

- find all the YT videos that talk about trading

- find all their predictions and the time on their video when the prediction was made along with the stock

- find today s time and evaluate whether the prediction was good or bad and how much profit / loss in percentage

- create a coinmarketcap type website of all YT channels sorted in descending order of how many good / bad predictions and percentage gain / loss etc

- would be a wild freaking website and the idea could be extended further to blogs

vivzkestrel··on AgentsDock: An IDE designed for agentic AI research
- arent there 10000 projects that do this

- what makes this one special?

vivzkestrel··on Rune is now open source
stupid question

- what exactly is first principles?

- does everyone even agree upon what it is supposed to constitute?

vivzkestrel··on Txt: A fast, keyboard-driven terminal text editor for engineers
- one of these days...

- it would be absolutely amazing if one of the guys writing posts along the lines "here is our super duper text editor"...

- would actually explain in a series of blog posts how they built a text editor from scratch and I am not talking about code...

- I am talking about architecture, methodology, how each feature is implemented on paper before coding it, thought process behind one..

- I am amazed that we live in a world where people create all types of software and yet little to no blog posts ever discuss the thought process and methodology behind them...

- like why did you do this...

- why is this feature implemented in this way and what are the alternative implementations and why did you pick this implementation over the others

vivzkestrel··on Setting up OpenCode with Ollama and sbx on Mac
- Stop using OLLAMA

- https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/

- also can we get a post on how to do this with llama.cpp

vivzkestrel··on The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac
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vivzkestrel··on On Next-Gen Transformer: Loops Are Not What You Need
- 404 not found on the most searched page?

- https://zartbot.github.io/blog/

vivzkestrel··on iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
- tired of fitting all the 7 inch phones

- can I get a 5 inch phone please?

vivzkestrel··on iPhone Duo
- where do i get a 5 inch iphone?

- no seriously i dont want a 6 inch / 6.5 inch screen, any recommendations?

- ok how about a 5 inch anyphone?

vivzkestrel··on This Month in Ladybird – August 2026
few stupid questions as always so that i can become a smarter person

- what is the process of making a browser engine? what does the requirements look like

- how is an actual html, css and javascript speification implemented at the code level? are we painting an empty canvas or is it more complicated

- how is backward compatibility implemented?

- is all the code written in c++ or is it rust these days?

- how many people in a team do you need and how long would it take to write a browser engine from scratch

- what test cases do you consider for making something like this? how do you determine if you have handled all the outliers or not?

- how is mobile vs desktop handled at the browser engine code level?

vivzkestrel··on Coop – Isolated VM Environments for Running Claude Code and Codex
isnt eclipse enclave using docker internally? https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aeclipse-enclave%2Fenclave...
vivzkestrel··on .gitignore Everything by Default
- or you could stop scratching your head so hard and actually use the gitignore templates for every programming language officially recommended by github itself

- https://github.com/github/gitignore

- funny how I did not see a single comment talk about this

vivzkestrel··on How to Create a Tor Exit Node (2015)
thank you very much, my biggest concern is i want to be learn how to use tor and how it works and fiddle with it and what not but the 3rd point is my major concern. i dont want to get tagged for someone that is just experimenting with it
vivzkestrel··on How to Create a Tor Exit Node (2015)
stupid questions for a guy with no idea about TOR

- how is it better than a VPN

- how is it untraceable

- what makes you think you dont get tagged by 3 letter agencies when are you trying to download it for the first time?

vivzkestrel··on “Next-token predictor” is the wrong mental model for LLMs
- It is a next token predictor OP https://blog.florianherrengt.com/how-llms-work.html

- deal with it and stop whitewashing, greywashing it

vivzkestrel··on VC isn't VC anymore
well the reason i asked is because chat gpt and others claim to have bazillions of users and you are saying most of that demand is fake, so what are these users? actual people or bots?
vivzkestrel··on O&O ShutUp10 – The antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11
- imagine a version of windows made from the ground up with 0 spyware, 0 adware, 0 bloatware

- 100% minimal designed for absolute performance coded ground up in rust

- backward compatibility by required drivers on the fly instead of bloating the OS with 30 yrs of support for all the. 456257963423512 hardware device types

- Its called "Windows Maximal" priced 4x the cost of Windows Home

- when are we getting this version of windows?

vivzkestrel··on VC isn't VC anymore
I am going to need a little more evidence for your claim that says "a huge chunk of demand is fake"
vivzkestrel··on VC isn't VC anymore
- you need 2 hands to clap, dont want a data center i ll give you a plan

- stop using claude

- stop using open AI

- guess what happens?

- user base drops to 0

- demand drops to 0

- both companies go bankrupt

- no need for data centers anymore? see its that simple

- in the first step, convince all the HN guys to cancel their subscriptions

vivzkestrel··on Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
- just imagine what kind of chaos would be unleashed if by some magic it and every single LLM model permanently went down

- i think it would be one of the biggest events in this century

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