HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

kunley

1,961 karma · joined February 15, 2009

submissionscomments
kunley··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)
[flagged]
kunley··on Is Russia Maneuvering to Threaten an Iceye Satellite?
nice troll
kunley··on Go: Support for Generic Methods
You're not meant to apply poor man's psychology everywhere just because you have heard about a certain psychological term.
kunley··on Prolog Coding Horror
What Joe Armstrong et al took from Prolog is mainly the syntax.
kunley··on Grafana Labs internal source code accessed
I was recently considering an engineering job offer at Grafana. At the end I was turned off by the amount of their AI-related mindless propaganda and demands they have put right in the job offer. (Which is by the way quite rare; it is rather untypical to state in the position description how a developer should use AI tools; even though everyone can imagine how it looks like).

Looks like they could have invested more energy in the processes and security rather than catching up "innovation" craze that much

kunley··on I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
That's great.

Is it possible to have any means of private communication with you where you would share the information who this employer is?

kunley··on I was asked to install malware during a fake interview
Kudos for giving the actual names of the guys.
kunley··on GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values
It was just buzzwords from the beginning, so at least now it's less pretending to make any sense
kunley··on Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%
The behavior of companies when "adapting to AI" is like a famous phrase about communism - they heroically struggle overcoming problems created purely by themselves.
kunley··on The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy
Not only this, but also:

Bun's fork will exhibit indeterministic behavior.

kunley··on Humpback whales are forming super-groups
They are going to save us from that XXIII century probe, right
kunley··on XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub?
XOR appears a lot in any code touching encryption.

PS. What is static vs dynamic count?

kunley··on Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers (2008)
Also:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-functiona...

kunley··on Understanding Clojure's Persistent Vectors, pt. 1 (2013)
Would be cool to have recent findings on persistent data structures via the lenses of cache locality
kunley··on Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?
I started with this one:

https://medium.com/@icelain/a-guide-to-building-a-realtime-h...

And then, modified a lot. At some moment I will open it back. (Author's MIT license allowed closing it; I did it actually because I embedded a number of idiosyncrasies related to the radio service that shouldn't be disclosed; but with some amount of work it can be divided into an open and closed part).

The broadcasting skeleton from that original blog/github project is good, though! It might work for your case.

Please keep in mind it's better to stream AAC than MP3. Basically any format you'd probably want to use can be converted to AAC with ffmpeg.

AAC has a simple frame format and it's easy to decipher it; I use it to always send full frames, even when one would want to skip to the next song - by doing that the client behaves more smoothly.

kunley··on Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?
Working on an audio streaming platform powering an indy internet radio. Looks like Icecast & friends show its age and a similar product can be easily built with the functionality cast down to simply robust streaming & handling "timed playlists". I enjoy every bit of knowing exactly what happens in the code. It's not open source atm, but will be. It's in Go, is a pleasure to write and the deployment takes minimal amount of resources.

Other project is to continue a bit stalled progress of a configuration language BCL - add functions, more structures and fix some hidden scoping issues. Making languages is an endless fun. https://github.com/wkhere/bcl

kunley··on Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why
Misleading.

Sounds like "computer driving Artemis spacecraft" while is is realy "some computer onboard Artemis spacecraft".

Very big difference.

kunley··on Proton Meet Isn't What They Told You It Was
Thank you for bringing back the Signal's statement, btw.
kunley··on EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
"..aims to be compatible with WordPress functionality"

What does it mean, to be "compatible with functionality"?

At a first glance this statement promises a lot, but does it really mean anything technically?

kunley··on Live: Artemis II Launch Day Updates
Somebody needs to say that:

What was the AI usage in this endeavour?

Zero, huh?

kunley··on 4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches
Well in my European country therapists hourly rates are very flat and practically the same as hourly rates for physiotherapists, massage practitioners and basic doctors, plus an LLM can really quickly tell that, so it is much faster to get to know if one can afford it than to look for a general solution of the whole problem.
kunley··on 4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches
Your sarcasm sounds like we'd be living in some extreme 1984-like dystopia, while the reality is: there is more bullshit one can read online than a bullshit one can get from a poor doctor/therapist.

From my experience, the best one can do is to get a good and affordable therapist by a word of mouth.. and sometimes one can get lucky as such person is doing also service for a state, for free. Main point is to actively start searching

kunley··on The Two Worlds of Programming
Perhaps this submit deserves expanding a bit the title here on HN, as the current one doesn't tell much about quite interesting points the author is making
kunley··on MM120, a pharmaceutical form of LSD, shown to reduce anxiety symptoms (2025)
LSD experience causes a serious lack of sleep. Is the quoted relative quietness after the experience simply an effect of a sleep deprivation? Why to take drugs to have it, then?
kunley··on MM120, a pharmaceutical form of LSD, shown to reduce anxiety symptoms (2025)
It is tragically funny to consider linking quietness of mind with LSD. It is everything but quiet
kunley··on Greg Kroah-Hartman Stretches Support Periods for Key Linux LTS Kernels
Actually, as the article falls into that "ad begging" category and requires time-consuming disabling of tracking, I can understand why someone posts a summary.
kunley··on Sam Altman (OpenAI) and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) Refuse to Hold Hands
Does not compute.

You seem to think I will be unhappy because I don't have unhealthy obsession about tech celebs - and yes they are ephemeral, because in said 10 years these personas will be substituted in terms of celebrities by other personas, all of them with pretty much zero impact on my real life.

So, the reality is precisely the opposite: I will be more happy by not having described obsession, thus, I don't see how I should have hard time. The repetition of your false claims in more languages doesn't make them more true.

kunley··on AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton
Author compares X to Y and then goes:

- Y has been successful in the past

- Y brought this and this number of metrics, completely unrelated to X field

- overall, Y was cool,

therefore, X is good for us!

.. I'd say, please bring more arguments why X is equivalent to Y in the first place.

kunley··on Sam Altman (OpenAI) and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) Refuse to Hold Hands
que?
kunley··on Sam Altman (OpenAI) and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) Refuse to Hold Hands
I for one refuse to be thrilled by the shallow affairs of ephemeral celebs
← PreviousPage 2 of 30Next →