TIL I have a "open Hacker News" hand reflex
Readit Newsmanbitesdog commented on Tell HN: HN was down · Posted by u/uyzstvqs
manbitesdog commented on You can't fool the optimizer xania.org/202512/03-more-... · Posted by u/HeliumHydride
> However, if you try `dis.dis('ATOMS_IN_THE_WORLD = 10*50')` you will get LOAD_CONST 10, LOAD_CONST 50...
I do not get that, I get LOAD_CONST 500.
Tested on: Python 3.9.3 MacOS (Apple provided), 3.13.3 (uv provided) MacOS and Linux, and 3.14.0 (uv provided) MacOS and Linux.
Sorry, I meant 10**50; HN formatting removed one asterisk
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manbitesdog commented on Show HN: Explore what the browser exposes about you neberej.github.io/exposed... · Posted by u/coffeecoders
> but at some point non-vibe coded (hard coded? brain coded?) software might become less error-prone that vibe-coded
Did you mean more instead of less?
Yes (ᵕ—ᴗ—)
manbitesdog commented on You can't fool the optimizer xania.org/202512/03-more-... · Posted by u/HeliumHydride
> I always code with the mindset “the compiler is smarter than me.”
Like with people in general, it depends on what compiler/interpreter we're talking about, I'll freely grant that clang is smarter than me, but CPython for sure isn't. :)
More generally, canonicalization goes very far, but no farther than language semantics allows. Not even the notorious "sufficiently smart compiler" with infinite time can figure out what you don't tell it.
To add to this, the low-level constraints also make this assumption noisy, no matter how smart the compiler is. On the CPython case, if you do `dis.dis('DAY = 24 * 60 * 60)` you will see that constant folding nicely converts it to `LOAD_CONST 86400`. However, if you try `dis.dis('ATOMS_IN_THE_WORLD = 10*50')` you will get LOAD_CONST 10, LOAD_CONST 50, BINARY_OP **.
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manbitesdog commented on Show HN: Explore what the browser exposes about you neberej.github.io/exposed... · Posted by u/coffeecoders
May I ask if this code is the result of 'vibe coding'?
It looks AI-assisted, based on these two commits:
* https://github.com/neberej/exposedbydefault/commit/503bd6519...
* https://github.com/neberej/exposedbydefault/commit/16693ba17...
But to what extent should we care for such a small website? The AI witch hunt won't get us too far, and this new way of producing is only getting started. The loss of control to a non-deterministic black box is worrysome, but at some point non-vibe coded (hard coded? brain coded?) software might become less error-prone that vibe-coded
manbitesdog commented on GitHub: Git operation failures githubstatus.com/incident... · Posted by u/wilhelmklopp
It is insane how many failures we've been getting lately, especially related to actions.
* jobs not being picked up
* jobs not being able to be cancelled
* jobs running but showing up as failed
* jobs showing up as failed but not running
* jobs showing containers as pushed successfully to GitHub's registry, but then we get errors while pulling them
* ID token failures (E_FAIL) and timeouts.
Same! The current self-hosted runner gets hung every so often
manbitesdog commented on What if you don't need MCP at all? mariozechner.at/posts/202... · Posted by u/jdkee
The hate for MCP here is absurd.
It's JSON-RPC, with some descriptors.
And some comments about OAuth 2.
The value is in the consensus. You can make a tool that agents can connect to with no apriori knowledge.
Things like OpenAPI have existed for 15 years now and they also offer standarization.
The value on MCP is not on its features or innovation, but on the rate of adoption it has had. Companies have now an incentive to open, document and standarize their APIs to enable this new distribution channel.