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_shadi commented on Tell HN: HN was down · Posted by u/uyzstvqs

dang · 17 hours ago

Yes, sorry! We're investigating, but my current theory is we got overloaded because I relaxed some of our anti-crawler protections a few days ago.

(The reason I did that is that the anti-crawler protections also unfortunately hit some legit users, and we don't want to block legit users. However, it seems that I turned the knobs down too far.)

In this case, though, we had a secondary failure: PagerDuty woke me up at 5:24am, I checked HN and it seemed fine, so I told PagerDuty the problem was resolved. But the problem wasn't resolved - at that point I was just sleeping through it.

I'll add more as we find out more, but it probably won't be till later this afternoon PST.

_shadi · an hour ago

> anti-crawler protections

what type of protections are used on HN? rate-limiting? ip range blacklist?

_shadi commented on I am a programmer, not a rubber-stamp that approves Copilot generated code prahladyeri.github.io/blo... · Posted by u/pyeri

_ZeD_ · 2 months ago

what baffles me is how much more rage is coming from any other creative workers (painters, filmmakers, musicians) than from programmers.

Why are programs - the result of the ingenuity of people working in software field - not protected against AI slop stuff.

Why is there not any kind of narrative out there describing how fake and soulless is code written by any AI agent?

_shadi · 2 months ago

> Why is there not any kind of narrative out there describing how fake and soulless is code written by any AI agent?

because soulless code does not matter. For other fields the result is more subjective, I don't like movies with desaturated color palette, a lot of people like them, maybe LLMs can produce new genre of movies, which people who appreciate classic films or music find it soulless, and find it sad that the peasants kind of like these films and the whole thing a risk for their careers or whole craft and the human effort in making their art work.

In code its objective, either the result work or not work, I guess you can stretch "it works" to have a different meaning that can include maintainability where it starts to get more subjective, but at the end of the day you will also can get to a point where the whole thing can collapse under its weight.

I think this is the main difference in reaction to LLMs between different fields, fields that are subjective and more to sensitive to receiver taste you can notice a rage(I think range is an overstatement) against it, while fields where the result is objective the reaction from people is simply saying it does or doesn't work.

_shadi commented on ‘No Other Land’ consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler latimes.com/entertainment... · Posted by u/_shadi

hermitcrab · 5 months ago

I am guessing that no-one ever gets convicted for this murder. One small part of state condoned ethnic cleansing (if we are being generous) / genocide (if we are being less generous).

_shadi · 5 months ago

> I am guessing that no-one ever gets convicted for this murder.

He was arrested by Israeli police for questioning, but was later released on house arrest while an investigation continued.

About a dozen Israeli soldiers raided the mourning tent, pushing those attending out while keeping a thumb on the pin of a stun grenade. Soldiers declared the area a closed military zone and said only residents of the village could be present. They arrested two activists and threw stun grenades at journalists who were too slow to leave.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/palestinian-aw...

_shadi commented on Intel CEO Letter to Employees morethanmoore.substack.co... · Posted by u/fancy_pantser

johngalt · 5 months ago

The strangest part to me about the current trends: why do all these business leaders all do the same things at the same time? E.g. Layoffs + micromanagement + cost focus etc... Is this truly about macroeconomic forces that every business is responding to? Or is it just following the latest fad?

There seems to be significant opportunity to zig as others zag. Imagine the Intel letter saying "we are going to take advantage of the current hiring environment to scoop up talent, and push forward on initiatives."

_shadi · 5 months ago

One theory that I saw earlier was that the industry is bloated, big tech companies executives knew that but they continued to hire anyway to make sure that the people they don't hire don't start competitors when there was funding, there is less funding now so that risk is no longer there so companies can reduce their size to their actual needs, but maybe that does not apply to intel since they seem to be really in a bad situation now.

_shadi commented on Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels github.com/fosrl/pangolin... · Posted by u/miloschwartz

_shadi · 5 months ago

This project sounds really interesting as an alternative to cloudflare and for decentralizating the internet, but for some low traffic home server what would I gain with using it instead of directly exposing a single port on my home server with nginx, I have static IP from my ISP, right now it is exposed as the server IP, what would I gain if I use a cheap vps as a proxy first?

_shadi commented on AI: Accelerated Incompetence slater.dev/accelerated-in... · Posted by u/stevekrouse

mewpmewp2 · 7 months ago

You can ask the why, but if it provides the wrong approach, just ask to make it what you want it to be. What is wrong with iteration?

I frequently have LLM write proposal.MD first and then iterate on that, then have the full solution, iterate on that.

It will be interesting to see if it does the proposal like I had in mind and many times it uses tech or ideas that I didn't know about myself, so I am constantly learning too.

_shadi · 7 months ago

I might have not been clear in my original reply, I don't have this problem when using an LLM myself, I sometimes notice this when I review code by new joiners that was written with the help of an LLM, the code quality is usually ok unless I want to be pedantic, but sometimes the agent helper make new comers dig themselves deeper in the wrong approach while if they asked a human coworker they would probably have noticed that the solution is going the wrong way from the start, which touches on what the original article is about, I don't know if that is incompetence acceleration, but if used wrong or maybe not in a clear directed way, it can produce something that works but has monstrous unneeded complexity.

_shadi commented on AI: Accelerated Incompetence slater.dev/accelerated-in... · Posted by u/stevekrouse

viraptor · 7 months ago

> it doesn't reason about ideas, diagrams, or requirements specifications. (...) How often have you witnessed an LLM reduce the complexity of a piece of code?

> Only humans can decrease or resist complexity.

It's funny how often there's a genuine concept behind posts like these, but then lots of specific claims are plainly false. This is trivial to do: ask for simpler code. I'm using that quite often to get a second opinion and get great results. If you don't query the model, you don't get any answer - neither complex or simple. If you query with default options, it's still a choice, not something inherent to the idea of LLM.

I'm also having a great time converting code into ideas and diagrams and vice versa. Why make the strong claims that people contradict in practice every day now?

_shadi · 7 months ago

A big problem I keep facing when reviewing junior engineers code is not the code quality itself but the direction the solution went into, I'm not sure if LLM models are capable of replying to you with a question of why you want to do it that way(yes like the famous stackoverflow answers).

_shadi commented on Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project (2021) intuitiveexplanations.com... · Posted by u/jaynpatel

jongjong · 2 years ago

This is deceptive as his specific role at Replit had nothing to do with his later open source work. Also, Replit is not innovative as there exist many similar solutions. How can you be accused to copying someone's work if that work is itself a copy of other existing work?

Moreover, quote from his article:

> I worked for Replit in Summer 2019, where I was asked to rebuild Replit’s package management stack

What does a package management stack have to do with an open source IDE?

If someone interned as a doctor's assistant at a medical center and then later started their own medical center. Can their previous employer sue them for that? It's nonsense. There is nothing innovative or exclusive about launching a medical center. Just like there is nothing innovative or exclusive about launching an IDE. It's old tech that has been implemented 1000 times. The author is the only one who innovated on the concept by making it open source.

If Replit can sue this guy, then Cloud9 can sue Replit, WebStorm can sue Cloud9, Microsoft can sue WebStorm, etc, etc... Who even invented the first IDE?

Replit was deceptive. They know they are in the wrong and used malicious, unfounded legal threats to scare him into doing what they wanted.

_shadi · 2 years ago

> If someone interned as a doctor's assistant at a medical center and then later started their own medical center. Can their previous employer sue them for that? It's nonsense.

As I said the legality of this is not so simple to answer, yes you can intern as a doctor at one place and then open a similar one, and if someone tries file a suit about this then I think it will be very hard to find a sympathetic judge to look into it, but once you bring IP into this it becomes a lot more complicated, calculus is also about ideas, yet it didn't stop Leibniz or Newton from making accusations of plagiarizing.

>If Replit can sue this guy, then Cloud9 can sue Replit, WebStorm can sue Cloud9, Microsoft can sue WebStorm, etc, etc... Who even invented the first IDE?

the difference here is that the guy worked/interned at replit, this what moves it for me from the founder being an asshole to a grey area where he sees someone had access to all resources at the company and now wants to use that knowledge(or at least having access to it) to create an alternative and he decides to go with a heavy handed approach before it becomes a big headache, was he nice in how he went about it? no

_shadi commented on Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project (2021) intuitiveexplanations.com... · Posted by u/jaynpatel

_shadi · 2 years ago

Someone interned at a company, saw and worked on the IP and architecture, and after leaving created something that can be viewed as a copy(the emails say that even some of the UI design and languages description were copied) of the core business of the place they worked at, maybe the response was a bit too heavy handed, but you don't exactly expect roses after doing something like that.

This seems somewhat unethical, and whether it is legal or not that is up to lawyers and specialized people of law to decide, and the founder wanted those people to get involved to decide that, again nothing crazy to expect after you create a copy of a project you were paid (or at least trained) to work on and learn all about it.