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0pointson The current state of LLM-driven development

> Cool right?

100s of single commit AI generated trash in the likes of "make the css background blue".

On display.

Like it's something.

You can't be serious.

0pointson Show HN: Llmswap – Python package to reduce LLM API costs by 50-90% with caching

I hate to be that guy, but your AI should have suggested you used one of the off-the-shelf in-memory key-value databases.

The most popular probably being redis.

0pointson The current state of LLM-driven development

> my own https://tools.simonwillison.net/colophon collection has grown to over 120

What in the wooberjabbery is this even.

List of single-commit LLM generated stuff. Vibe coded shovelware like animated-rainbow-border [1] or unix-timestamp [2].

Calling these tools seems to be overstating it.

1: https://gist.github.com/simonw/2e56ee84e7321592f79ceaed2e81b...

2: https://gist.github.com/simonw/8c04788c5e4db11f6324ef5962127...

0pointson GPT-5 leaked system prompt?

> I asked GPT5 directly about fake system prompts.

Your source being a ChatGPT conversation?

So, you have no source.

You have no claim.

This is literally how conspiracy theories are born nowadays.

Buckle up kids, we're in for a hell of a ride.

0pointson Gate-level emulation of an Intel 4004 in 4004 bytes of C

Why don't you take a moment to understand what you just commented on, maybe you will learn something today.

0pointson Spotting base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys

> GIF, PNG, JPG

It makes more sense to transmit binary formats in binary.

You would save bandwidth, memory and a decoding step.

Then you could also inspect the header bytes, instead of memorizing how they present in some intermediate encoding.

0pointson Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest

> By an astonishing coincidence, the number of bits in the input format is approximately the log2 of the number of MD5 evaluations that a five-year-old GPU can do in an hour.

I read this to mean he calculated a matching hash on his GPU, in order to tune the magic constants of his app to produce the desired output.

> There are no magic numbers in the program

There are several:

    long z,x,G;main(){for(puts("P1\n80 80"),scanf("%10lx",&G);3-z/2160;x=++z%81/8-5)putchar(5>x?!(16>>(x^-(x<1))+1&G<<5>>z/648*5)^49:10);}

0pointson We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness

I was pointing out that besides parent being a 90s incel, there were other ways of life.

So sorry that triggered another incel /s

0pointson Show HN: WebGPU enables local LLM in the browser – demo site with AI chat

> Am I missing something?

Realistic expectations.

0pointson We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness

I was a teen meeting real girls from IRC.

Guess you missed out on the S part.

0pointson We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness

> Web surfing (when is the last time you heard that phrase?) has never been a group activity.

You must have missed the 90s chat rooms we visited while in school, or even the more recent chat roulette in 2010.

Heck, even geocaching is a web surfing group activity.

0pointson Microsoft is open sourcing Windows 11's UI framework

The taskbar is a feature of explorer.exe.

The news being discussed is not about explorer being open sourced.

0pointson This Month in Ladybird

> And most mainstream GUI toolkits are, as well.

No. Windows use UTF-16 internally. Most GUI toolkits do not.

> It can be said that UTF-16 is the de-facto standard in-memory representation of unicode strings, even though some runtimes (Rust) prefer UTF-8.

No, that wouldn't be true at all.

Your technical merit seem to be limited by your Windows experience, and even that is dated.

Microsoft recommends UTF-8 over UTF-16 since 2019 [1].

1: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/global...

0pointson This Month in Ladybird

What do you even mean "if their blog had a RSS feed"?

The feed is right there in the link being discussed.

0pointson This Month in Ladybird

Those are two you-problems.

0pointson LLM leaderboard – Comparing models from OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek and others

There are code generators for CRUD. You could be a 10x AI programmer without AI if the measure is how fast you bang out CRUDs.

0pointson I tried Servo

Not strange, satisfied people don't usually run around declaring how perfectly OK everything is.

0pointson Show HN: Dlg – Zero-cost printf-style debugging for Go

> I'm not a fan of aiming for 100% coverage

"100% coverage" is just a measure of line coverage and is highly useless to reason about.

For testing to become meaningful, you should have test data covering way more than that for the relevant parts.

0pointson Show HN: Dlg – Zero-cost printf-style debugging for Go

> Any feedback is much appreciated.

There is way too much going on in this code whose feature essentially boils down to

    func Printf(f string, v ...any) {
        if CONDITION {
         fmt.Printf(f, v...)
        }
    }

Writing a stack trace is fully unrelated to Printf(), and should be separated.

0pointson Stargate Norway

> That maybe the attempt of capital to finally replace pesky labor with cheap machines isn't worth risking it all?

Who's gonna purchase the goods if noone gets a salary? That will work out like the french revolution.

0pointson Stargate Norway

In Norway, we call them Å.

0pointson What is X-Forwarded-For and when can you trust it? (2024)

X-Forwarded-For lets us bypass geoblocking ;-)

0pointson Inter-Planetary Network Special Interest Group

> The lack of involvement from industry in a field where stuff is happening suggests to me this is one of them.

Remind me again, which companies are going inter-planetary?

0pointson Mwm – The smallest usable X11 window manager

I find your stance uneducated.

I use tiling vm fully (sway) and mostly work in single app full screen, one desktop per app, which is the least disruptive way possible to use a PC for work. You should try it.

0pointson Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought (2023)

Many of us are. It's not a unique identifier.

0pointson Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS – I say that's freedom

Just wanted to add an important piece about us not living in authoritarian states...

Palantir, founded by Peter Thiel (currently funding JD Vance), is building a vast person database [1].

I believe their biggest customer is the US government, and is being used by ICE [2].

1: https://beyondthefirewall.substack.com/p/palantirs-new-maste...

2: https://www.404media.co/leaked-palantirs-plan-to-help-ice-de...

0pointson I watched Gemini CLI hallucinate and delete my files

Yea, with an AI resume.

Are you missing the point, or do you genuinely consider LLM output a proof of merit?

0pointson SIMD Perlin Noise: Beating the Compiler with SSE (2014)

Nice write-up, and congratulations on the result! Since it's about perlin and performance, have you had a look at opensimplex?

PS. bonsai looks really cool! Checking it out right now

0pointson Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS – I say that's freedom

Okay, I was not aware of this distinction. Thanks for correcting me!

FWIW, the distinction is not as clear cut to me. In the 1970s, the ruling government body (social democrats) passed on information in order to make registers of political opponents in the far left and far right to SÄPO.

More of that part here: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A4kerhetspolisen#%C3%96ve...

The Nixon watergate scandal was also similar to your first definition there.

0pointson AI coding agents are removing programming language barriers

> I can sense a little vinegar at the end of your comment. Presumably something here annoys you?

Thanks for your responses.

Really sorry about the vinegar, not intentional. I may have such personality disorder idk. Being blunt, not very great communication skills.