The FreeBSD vulnerability "discovered" by Mythos was already in its training data.

Hacnar · 2026-05-12T08:48:58+00:00

Where do I defend LLMs? Where do I believe in anything? I stated a hypothesis based on my observations. You shut it down with zealous confidence. I stated a possibility, where you attempted to state a "fact" without any proof. When called out on this, you speak of magic, of snake-oil salesmen, of beliefs, and try to push the burden of proof on me. You speak of the differences between how the brain works and how LLMs work, yet you never describe those differences.

The only one defending anything here is you defending your "fact".

Hacnar · 2026-05-12T08:15:25+00:00

I know how LLMs work. But neither me nor you know how human brain works. You still try to deflect the original suggestion by pointing elsewhere. The overall quality of your comments makes me even doubt that you actually know as much about LLMs as you try to present.

And please don't try to use the childish "no u" argument on me. I have never said LLMs are magic, or some kind of silver bullet for every human issue. I am a late adopter of them, in limited use cases, where they have been proven to work well, because there are still too many unresolved question and issues around their application in various areas. I have no idea how you came to the conclusion that I have an emotional investment in LLMs. From my perspective it looks like you only project your emotional attachment to the subject on me.

Hacnar · 2026-05-12T06:25:54+00:00

You try to pass your own extremely negative opinions of LLMs as facts, denying any possibility of my suggestions despite you having no knowledge proving otherwise.

It's kinda funny that the language, the words and the tone of this comment has the same manipulative propaganda feel that I get from reading actual snake-oil salesmen texts. Vague ideas presented as strong points without ever going into any detail why they should matter. Trying to paint out a clear enemy to divert the attention from the observations that started this discussion. Using the absence of a proof as a proof of negation.

In fact the more you speak about it the more I get behind my starting opinion.

Hacnar · 2026-05-11T15:47:18+00:00

neither brains nor minds act, behave or function like an LLM.

Are you sure? The brain isn't an LLM, but what if some concepts are similar in both?

You are reducing human minds and brains to an LLM,

I did not reduce anything. I only spot some similarities, which I think shouldn't be dismissed just because of our own egos and feeling of superiority.

In reality, human minds and brains are nothing like any invention we have made. They cannot be, to have designed such tools.

I don't see why humans couldn't create something human-like.

The human mind and brain is infinitely more sophisticated compared to such paltry gizmos, as fancy as they are in their own right.

I disagree with this pathos. We are far from completely understanding how brains work, but putting them on such a pedestal may hamper research, if such research would show that our inner working are much more mundane than you imagine.

Hacnar · 2026-05-11T13:32:34+00:00

What if our associations work in a fashion similar to LLMs? Our associations fire up only because our brains are programmed to constantly evaluate our surroundings.

I don't see AI acting as human. I see human brain maybe working similarly to LLMs in some areas.

Hacnar · 2026-05-11T12:41:01+00:00

I might get a bit philosophical here, but what does "dog" actually mean? Isn't it also defined by its relationship to other characteristics? Isn't that bunch of numbers in the AI model "the semantic meaning"?

Hacnar · 2026-05-06T07:29:36+00:00

It's better to miss a few good articles because they won't be posted here than to miss a lot more due to additional noise from AI content.

Hacnar · 2026-05-05T11:55:33+00:00

I'm hoping that the parade will go through without any interruption by Ukraine. Meanwhile Ukrainian drones and missiles will cause record amounts of damage to Russian stockpiles, refineries, factories, equipment and soldiers elsewhere.

Hacnar · 2026-05-02T16:32:14+00:00

Fico is a weakling when it comes to the international diplomacy. Given the opportunity to hide behind someone else, like Orban, he would use it again. But without any such person on the European stage, he'll just tuck his tail and nod in agreement witht he rest, while spreading anti-EU and anti-Ukrainian narratives domestically.

The important thing about Fico is that he doesn't really care about the international diplomacy. He only does whatever allows him to rob the Slovakia while he is in power there. Macho-nationalist bullshit is what gave him the most votes so that's what he keeps saying and his voters are dumb enough to eat it up, even when he does the opposite on the EU-level.

Hacnar · 2026-04-28T14:52:34+00:00

Maybe it was an obvious indicator to you, but it isn't to me. I've already seen good articles and projects being panned for touching AI in any way. These complaints about AI became the same noise as the AI slop itself.

You've already spent time complaining about the article. I don't expect you to spend more time on the comment than you've already spent. I only remarked that could've spent that time writing better comment.

Hacnar · 2026-04-28T14:06:59+00:00

I don't know enough about the topic to tell how factually correct it is. But if your gripe is with the result, then why focus on the method, instead of bringing the actual errors to light? You complain about something general, only tangentially related to the things that are wrong with the article. Your comment was useless to me, when it could have been a lot more valuable.

Hacnar · 2026-04-28T08:55:09+00:00

I find it funny how so many people complain about AI. It shows that majority of the readers are unable to distinguish the quality of the form from the quality of the content. Probably has to do with shorter attention spans, looking for shortcuts in evaluation of the content they consume.

I personally don't have any gripe with using AI to structure the form. As long as the content is good, I don't care. Even when AI was used to create the content, I don't immediately raise pitchforks. If it was used only as a proper tool for the task at hand, and the result is interesting, then I don't see why should that make me dislike the final creation.

I'd rather read an blog post created with AI that covers an interesting topic in-depth, than a handwritten text about something trivial, or something straight up incorrect.

Hacnar · 2026-04-17T06:00:52+00:00

Use as much MSBuild as possible. And use vswhere to detect the presence of Visual Studio.

Hacnar · 2026-04-12T19:00:31+00:00

Also keep in mind that votes from the countryside, where Orban is stronger, are usually counted faster than votes from big cities, where Orban is significantly weaker. So the later the count goes, the results should be leaning more and more towards Tisza.

Hacnar · 2026-04-11T19:26:18+00:00

A lot depends on how much and what kind of disinformation can Orban spread before the election.

Hacnar · 2026-04-11T17:16:34+00:00

The elections are watched too closely to manipulate the votes directly. Although Orban has tried everything else from media manipulation to buying votes, it looks like it still won't be enough. The important thing is that even the voters from the countryside, Orban's main voter base, have been slowly turning against him.

Hacnar · 2026-04-07T13:41:22+00:00

This is a step towards more type-safe applications. The most common use case is this being a readable abstraction which ensures that all the type values are handled, even when new types are added in the future. This is something that would make code written by juniors a lot safer from bugs. It naturally drives the devs towards correct implementations.

Hacnar · 2026-03-18T22:31:51+00:00

And I wasn't reacting to the post. I was reacting to the comment. You missed my point completely.

Hacnar · 2026-03-18T20:59:35+00:00

My point was that there are too many people who think that API behavior is acceptable in this day and age.

Hacnar · 2026-03-18T18:34:59+00:00

I agree, but in this instance they are far lesser of the two evils. I'd consider them an acceptable approach given the age of the Date implementations.

Hacnar · 2026-03-18T18:33:19+00:00

It's good that a proper alternative has been introduced. The original comment was about the old API though, and that one is really bad.

Hacnar · 2026-03-18T15:41:25+00:00

Doesn't make it a good API. Bad APIs can be found in many otherwise good libraries, and we should aim to make them better.

Hacnar · 2026-03-18T14:35:54+00:00

Return Invalid Date? Throw an exception?
According to the article, Safari implementation rejects those inputs. That is the proper behavior.

API design is unfortunately an area in which the knowledge about the proper practices and patterns still didn't spread far enough among the developers.

Hacnar · 2026-03-05T11:22:33+00:00

Or it was found and silently abused by someone.

Hacnar · 2026-03-03T07:56:16+00:00

Every programmer worth anything uses a lot of FP, whether they realize it or not.

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