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xvinci··on Show HN: Hacker News, without AI
It does not have a license so it cannot be used though.
xvinci··on GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2
Not my observation. If you never look at the code and dont have basic guardrails in place (linters, architecture tests, some guidelines for best practices) - probably.

But as soon as you do minimal reviews and high-level corrections, applications turn out just fine.

Can there be bugs? Sure. That's the price of not reading or understanding every line. It should depend on the criticality of your software how much of these you tolerate and how much you don't (reviewing, understanding, testing everything 100% like you were used to if you had written it yourself will kill most if not all of your gained speed)

But I never got the impression of unmaintainability or unfixable bugs.

Actually the other side around: A really good cleanup pass, architectural changes, or bugfixes are seldom more than a few prompts and 2 hours away, provided your overall base is decent and you actually gave a fuck from the start.

xvinci··on Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO
Do you have a source for that? As to my knowledge advanced systems (such as lights on the twy directing you) are only present at very few airports. Recent incidents even happened due to RWY incursion without a ground controller noticing under bad visibility. So we are at a level where your runway is not even protected accordingly, let alone your 50+ taxiways.
xvinci··on Gemini 2.5 Flash
Maybe I am not understanding something here.

But there are third party options availabe that to the very same thing (e.g. https://aider.chat/ ) which allow you to plug in a model (or even a combination thereof e.g. deepseek as architect and claude as code writer) of your choice.

Therefore the advantage of the model provider providing such a thing doesn't matter, no?

xvinci··on Directus – real-time REST and GraphQL API of any SQL database
Microsoft has something very similar (i did not do a full feature comparison, just speaking about apis and auth) which is mit licensed. Works also with on-prem databases despite it's name. https://github.com/Azure/data-api-builder
xvinci··on What the Black Hawk pilots could see, just before the crash
Thats the kollsman window and as far as i am concerned is pretty common also in modern avionics?
xvinci··on Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world
I think it brings forward all the low-performers and people who think they are smarter than they really are. In the past, many would just have stayed silent unless they recently read an article or saw something on the news by chance. Now, you will get a myriad of ideas and plans with fatal flaws and a 100% score on LLM checkers :)
xvinci··on A three month review of kagi search and the orion web browser (2024)
It's great and I'm never going back as long as it stays great. But I have one complaint: Maps. I have no solution to offer, but google maps is so damn good, the maps in Kagi which appear when clicking certain results (e.g. looking for a doctor) are almost unusable for me (slow, outdated).
xvinci··on Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow
You are right, BUT: Those denials have to follow contractual terms. I know a local (Europe) real world example where a friend of a friend (insurance company area manager) literally was told "this is your sum of money on claims that you can accept in this quarter, it cannot go above that". Which either you get lucky and make the quota, or you screw people over and hope they don't sue. And since we live in a world where the company wants "a little more" each year, well.. I don't see how this ends well.

The same problem does not apply to our social services (including health insurance) as they dont have to make profits at all costs.

xvinci··on The Future of Htmx
Fully ack. But this can actually be turned into something good imho: I try to challenge all layers (Analysis, UI / UX design) on simplicity: "Do we really need X parts of the page all be affected / updated by something? How could we design it differently with locality in mind? Can we simplify the state somehow?" -> I think that the resulting solutions are often simpler, cheaper, and work just as well.
xvinci··on The Future of Htmx
I dont intend it to be an all-in, but I do believe it could do the job in 50% or more cases just as well as any SPA framework. A lot we do is "just crudl" with some sprinkles on top.

A large chunk of our business comes from Spring Boot, so we are experimenting with JTE - looks decent so far (Thymeleaf feels just old nowadays).

My sell is pretty simple: You have regulations coming up in europe which will require you to keep applications up-to date and secure. Extending your SBOM by 1k NPM libraries is a huge cost. I want to get rid of that.

xvinci··on The Future of Htmx
I am still trying to get HTMX adopted in a ~ 800 employee software development company. And while we do not yet have a project using HTMX in production, I like to use it a lot in thought experiments with mentees: Could you do it with HTMX / Fragments? If yes, how would you design it? Do we REALLY need an SPA?

Kudos to the developers.

xvinci··on Types are a basic tool of software design (2018)
> One of Haskell’s most basic innovations (well, I’d guess it probably wasn’t first, but compared to other relatively mainstream languages) was the ability to write the type of a function separately from writing the function body.

Anyone familiar with the initial versions of C / C++? Both languages have offerd the ability to define your function signatures in header files for as long as I have known them, so if you wished to separate from the actual function body you should have been able to do that.

But then Haskell can hardly have been the first mainstream? But maybe someone with more ancient knowledge could share some insights - thx.

xvinci··on American Airlines is boarding flights again after nationwide groundstop
Incorrect w&b can affect a lot of things. From longer ground roll during landing, to wrong brake settings, to worse handling of the aircraft and increased stall speeds. Under normal circumstances it should not be a problem due to huge safety margins, but if other things go wrong it starts adding up. One more hole in the swiss cheese model.
xvinci··on Exposing the Clearingstelle Urheberrecht Im Internet (CUII)
That's a very naive take imho. As far as I am aware your default DNS server on widnows is obtained via DHCP, meaning for most people it is chosen by the hardware provided by your ISP. Most people would include working DNS resolution to their "I bought internet access from you", even though they might not know about DNS and you are tecnically right. But I bet even judges would see it that way.
xvinci··on Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages
I was pretty good at CS:S, semi-professional level. I nevertheless still enjoyed hanging out on public servers with friends. I cannot tell you how often I have just been banned.

Another example: I was an anti-cheat admin in a major league about 20 years ago. I am quite confident a lower double digit percentage of banned players were innocent - it was simply too hard to get enough competent people for doing manual checks (you'd have to be really good at the game yourself to confidently tell what might be intuition and what cant while evaluating pro players with money-prizes on the line).

So while I appreciate that sentiment, and maybe you found THE one community where all that really worked out for you, but it was by no means the "best alternative" from where I am standing.

xvinci··on Why does everyone run ancient Postgres versions?
Sure, but then chances are it's hosted on a nas with other data which you dont want ransomware'd, has access to other parts of the network, etc. - it's easy to underestimate the potential impact
xvinci··on Why does everyone run ancient Postgres versions?
"What the application does" may not be what you think of, as it is dependent on how secure the application or the layers beneath it are. This is how people get everything pwned step by step. The database server may then reveal credentials to other apps etc.
xvinci··on Moonlight
Maybe worth mentioning the ppen source server side component as well since it is unclear how long gamestream will continue to work? : https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine

Worked like a charm for me in 4k

xvinci··on Moonlight
What do you mean with single user? It does support multiple controllers.
xvinci··on Hacked Tesla FSD computers disclose alarming raw data on deadly accidents
This is just repeating what musk says though without giving it much thought. There are many ways to tackle this problem with different tradeoffs.
xvinci··on Zed Editor automatically downloads binaries and NPM packages without consent
Can you elaborate on that, at least for js? We are a large (1k) fullstack development company and do all of our js / typescript SPAs and others on Intellij and I am not aware of it being an unpleasant experience.
xvinci··on Southwest flight came within 400 feet of crashing into the ocean
> It's not a question of whether you are strong enough to move the flight controls.

Anybody who flew a badly trimmed plane at high speed will disagree. Of course more airflow over the wings will mean your GA cessna 172 controls require more human strength to operate. They are also more effective as you say, but that's not what the previous poster meant.

xvinci··on Redis is forked
I did evaluate a few vector databases for our RAG PoCs with quite a significant amount of metadata for permission handling on both the vector and the query, and execution time was in the area of milliseconds as far as I remember. The RAG performance hit pales in comparison to what computing time larger LLMs need, so I am not sure you are on the right track here.
xvinci··on Why so many of us were wrong about missile defense
I mean here is a different take on the topic: Both "real" targets were struck.

https://twitter.com/RealScottRitter/status/17796491189288101...

We probably will not know what really was and what could have been anyway, I guess it's part of the game.

xvinci··on Show HN: PostgreSQL index advisor
I'm sorry but you just cannot say that "OR is bad" - it being a key part of SQL . It's most likely your use that is bad (e.g. your intermediate result exceeding some cache size).

But "bad performance always due to indexes" gives a hint that you are somewhat new: No, bad performance in my experience was almost always due to developers either not understanding their ORM framework, or writing too expensive queries with or without index. Just adding indexes seldom solved the problem (maybe 1/5 of the time).

xvinci··on Now available: Free data transfer out to internet when leaving Azure
Azure now complying with the European Data Act - thanks for that one EU.
xvinci··on Apple is lobbying against right to repair 6 months after supporting it
I knew founders who cared about making a positive impact to our planet in some way. Or to simply give as much people as possible a good workplace and development opportunities. So from my point of view you are incorrect. They mostly all care about making ENOUGH money to not act in a negligent way and having to close at first signs of trouble, but thats not what you wrote.
xvinci··on Passenger flight flying over Pacific reaches 822 MPH in jet stream
In my PPL training you either use the latitude-axis (X) on the equator only, which you will not have in your maps when flying in US or Europe. The alternative is to use the longitude axis (Y) which will always be 1° = 1 NM which can then be readily used in a "what is my groundspeed in knots per hour and what is my ETA" - so to the best of my knowledge you are correct. Then again I am no native speaker.

But it really helps you as in you are able to pick any distance you want to fly on the map and by moving your fingers to the Y axis roughly guess the distance within a few seconds. Even in a very small cockpit and with turbulence. So i absolutely see the need for this with relation to navigation.

xvinci··on How Open ID Connect Works
Maybe I am really missing something seeing how other comments didnt mention it, but is this REALLY explaining how OIDC works? I don't see it.
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