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Show HN: A unique twist on Tetris and block puzzle

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1•lastodyssey•2m ago•0 comments

The logs I never read

https://pydantic.dev/articles/the-logs-i-never-read
1•nojito•3m ago•0 comments

How to use AI with expressive writing without generating AI slop

https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/bakhtin-collapse-ai-expressive-writing
1•cnunciato•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LinkScope – Real-Time UART Analyzer Using ESP32-S3 and PC GUI

https://github.com/choihimchan/linkscope-bpu-uart-analyzer
1•octablock•5m ago•0 comments

Cppsp v1.4.5–custom pattern-driven, nested, namespace-scoped templates

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1•user19870•6m ago•1 comments

The next frontier in weight-loss drugs: one-time gene therapy

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1•bookofjoe•9m ago•1 comments

At Age 25, Wikipedia Refuses to Evolve

https://spectrum.ieee.org/wikipedia-at-25
1•asdefghyk•12m ago•3 comments

Show HN: ReviewReact – AI review responses inside Google Maps ($19/mo)

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2•sara_builds•12m ago•1 comments

Why AlphaTensor Failed at 3x3 Matrix Multiplication: The Anchor Barrier

https://zenodo.org/records/18514533
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Ask HN: How much of your token use is fixing the bugs Claude Code causes?

1•laurex•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Agents – Sync MCP Configs Across Claude, Cursor, Codex Automatically

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1•amtiyo•17m ago•0 comments

Hello

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FSD helped save my father's life during a heart attack

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2•blacktulip•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Writtte – Draft and publish articles without reformatting, anywhere

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Portuguese icon (FROM A CAN) makes a simple meal (Canned Fish Files) [video]

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1•zeristor•25m ago•0 comments

Brookhaven Lab's RHIC Concludes 25-Year Run with Final Collisions

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2•gnufx•27m ago•0 comments

Transcribe your aunts post cards with Gemini 3 Pro

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1•nielstron•31m ago•0 comments

.72% Variance Lance

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ReKindle – web-based operating system designed specifically for E-ink devices

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1•JSLegendDev•34m ago•0 comments

Encrypt It

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1•Halinani8•35m ago•1 comments

Personalizing esketamine treatment in TRD and TRBD

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SpaceKit.xyz – a browser‑native VM for decentralized compute

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NotebookLM: The AI that only learns from you

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2•byandrev•37m ago•2 comments

Show HN: An open-source starter kit for developing with Postgres and ClickHouse

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1•saisrirampur•38m ago•0 comments

Game Boy Advance d-pad capacitor measurements

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1•todsacerdoti•38m ago•0 comments

South Korean crypto firm accidentally sends $44B in bitcoins to users

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2•layer8•39m ago•0 comments

Apache Poison Fountain

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1•atomic128•41m ago•2 comments

Web.whatsapp.com appears to be having issues syncing and sending messages

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1•sabujp•41m ago•2 comments

Google in Your Terminal

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1•johlo•42m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Defrag.exfat Is Inefficient and Dangerous

https://github.com/exfatprogs/exfatprogs/issues/318
40•dxdxdt•1mo ago

Comments

forgotpwd16•1mo ago
>After reviewing the core defrag logic myself, I've come to a conclusion that it's AI slop.

Will call it a human slop. AI may've given them some code but they certainly haven't use it fully. I uploaded the defrag.c in ChatGPT asking to review on performance/correctness/safety and pointed the sames issues as you (alongside bunch of others but not interested at the moment to review them).

stuaxo•1mo ago
Talk about a baptism of fire for the dev.

Seems like they are very new to tbings and didn't expect it to be adopted, but were hoping for a bit of feedback.

dxdxdt•1mo ago
I did the same. Was genuinely curious. Didn't get much from it. I'm still confused.

The code base is huge for an LLM to handle, perhaps it was generated over multiple prompts idk. Not sure if someone can train a model on the kernel code or exfatprogs and generate the code. I doubt someone with such expertise would even go through the process when they can just write the code themselves which is much easier.

forgotpwd16•1mo ago
Multiple prompts are mandatory for anything non-trivial or/and larger in scope. That said, the exfatprogs repo is ~60k tokens (in 8k LOC) and Linux's exfat driver* is ~40k tokens (in 6k LOC). So directly relevant code is ~100k tokens (in 14k LOC). Not that extensive.

>Not sure if someone can train a model on the kernel code or exfatprogs and generate the code.

They can certainly finetune such a model. Not a crazy idea, just computationally expensive. (But less expensive than training from scratch.)

*Of course Linux driver also uses many includes so if consider those alongside linked code the number goes significantly up.

dxdxdt•1mo ago
> just computationally expensive. (But less expensive than training from scratch.)

Model training requires GPUs w/ 1kW TDP. I can shit out code on noodles and red bulls. Not sure about the quality, but still way less energy :)

Jokes aside, the defrag program probably was a slob to some extent.

burnt-resistor•1mo ago
Sigh. Piss poor engineering, likely by humans. For the love of god, do atomic updates by duplicating data first such as in a move-out-of-the-way-first strategy before doing metadata updates. And keep a backup of metadata at each point of time to maximize crash consistency and crash recovery while minimizing the potential for data loss. An online defrag kernel module would likely be much more useful but I don't trust them to be able to handle such an undertaking.

If a user has double storage available, it's probably best to do the old-fashioned "defrag" by single-threaded copying all files and file metadata to a newly-formatted volume.

doubled112•1mo ago
That last paragraph sums up the ZFS defrag procedure at one shop I worked at. Buy new disks and send/receive the pool.

At our size and use case the timing was usually close to perfect. The pools were getting close to full and fragmented as larger disks became inexpensive.

dxdxdt•1mo ago
Yeah. Pretty much.

Read the defrag code in other well-established fs like ext4 or btrfs. They all have limitations(or caveats, if you will). It's one of those problems where you just have to throw money at it and hope for the best. Even Microsoft kinda just gave up on it because it's really a pointless exercise at this point in time and age.

ycombinatrix•1mo ago
>We prioritized simplicity and correctness first, and plan to incrementally introduce performance optimizations in future iterations.

Sir, this is a correctness issue.

zapzupnz•1mo ago
Does nobody else think the responses from the person who wrote the code read like the usual sycophantic “you’re absolutely right!” tone you get from AI these days?
pajko•1mo ago
There at least 2 AIs.
zapzupnz•1mo ago
Probably. The way nobody is calling that out in the thread is wild.
rcxdude•1mo ago
It's plausible that they are using an LLM for translation, which would create the tone but not necessarily mean that they are delegating all thought to it.