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Do people not realize that this just instantly torpedoes credibility and respect? I'm dumbfounded.

Did Microsoft have credibility and respect? They've been abusive towards their users for decades.

Got to meet those KPIs regarding using AI on the job.

I thought using AI for everything is the new cool.


No, that's last month. This month the CEOs are getting the AI bills from last month and saying everyone has to stop using AI

Sadly some of them have deep pockets.

OK, but what about actually using a GUI toolkit to make an actual application?

You can optimize a library to make it comparatively simple to draw a circle on a screen. But that tells me nothing about binding state, signals, styling, widget hierarchy, etc. Maybe these frameworks look complicated to you because doing something more than drawing a circle is actually more complicated.


VB was used to create a great many data-munging applications in its time, and while they were never pretty, they were lightning fast, largely consistent, and generally far more reliable than what we currently have.

A relative's business has been and is still completely driven by a VB app. It's goddamn ugly but most businesses of their size in that industry have been paid subscribers for 30? years at this point. Most notably its the only piece of software they've never had to ask me for help with at all.

The only updates it gets anymore are little data packs when laws/regulations change and it seems like they automated that because it's always ready before it's needed. The last "big" update was a guide to running it in parallels on new macs.


And that is the perfect piece of software - it does exactly what is asked, and no more. It has simple enough "architecture" to let anyone maintain it (by adding new stuff that regulations demand, easily), and continues to function without modification otherwise.

Agreed. I want a coherent, deliberate architecture for building an application and managing state.

That's the hard part. I'll take on incidental boilerplate (e.g. Elm) if the architecture helps me build and understand applications. Whatever gets me to that latter part.


This is great, we need more of this. It's high time we began to escape the dark ages of rule-by-Electron. See Bitwarden's recent fumble of a redesign.


Well, the big CLAUDE.md there is a giveaway that it was AI generated:

https://github.com/duanebester/gooey/blob/main/CLAUDE.md

But still, the project solves a legit pain point. And the author seems pretty hands-on with steering the technical implementation details.


dav1d is the av1 decoder and it’s an insane feat of engineering. Written in assembly, it even eschews the normal c calling convention to get even better performance.

The normal C calling convention is really only for cross-binary calls (e.g. between shared libraries). If you're not doing that you can ignore it; it's not a weird thing to do. It would be odd to strictly follow it in assembly and I assume compilers don't either.

Unfortunately, in absence of inlining, compilers mostly respect calling convention even when they don't have to.

What's the deal with the name? Openrsync implies to me that it's an open source alternative to a closed source program. But the original Rsync is GPL? Is this just the pushover license making it "more open"?

OpenBSD folks would consider the GPL to be less open due to the requirement to apply the GPL to any derivative works.

And GNU folks would say the GPL is actually the more open choice because it forces the project to stay open.

Two different ways of thinking about it I guess... it's nice to have choices and I don't think one is more or less "correct", more a matter of opinion/taste I guess.


It kind of reminds me of the equality of opportunity people versus the equality of outcome people. One sets the starting conditions for developers, the other the ending conditions for users.

Since developers are a subset of users, it's actually possible to calculate which is more open.

You forgot the shareholders, who are not users but have less freedom under the GPL.

GNU folks would probably not say that.

GNU folks would say that the GPL does more to protect the freedom of end users by guaranteeing their right to access the source code, whereas permissive licenses allow users to receive binaries, the source code corresponding to which is unavailable to them.

I'm not trying to be idly pedantic here, but to emphasize one of things I genuinely admire about the FSF, SFC, etc.: while they do have words, concepts, and terms of art they're attached to, they're actually pretty good at always explicitly tying their positions back to a specific and well-articulated vision of software freedom. They don't usually get caught up in pure terminology ("what is maximally open?", "what is really free?"). They tend to be clear about whose rights they aim to promote and protect and why, and the bigger picture that fits into.

Whether you agree with them or not, I think it's a more defensible position than a shallow terminological squabble.

As someone that is somewhat aligned with those groups, I also want to say this: licenses are just tools for promoting freedom. It's a question of strategy and tactics. All permissively licensed free software is still free software, and the vast majority of it undeniably contributes positively to software freedom on the whole. (The only concrete exceptions I can think of are uses of permissively licensed free software code to implement things like Intel's Management Engine, DRM, maybe some Trusted Computing stuff.) OpenBSD is free software and it's good shit. We should think of licensing questions like this as a friendly dispute among people who have all given generously to support software freedom.


> Two different ways of thinking about it I guess

I don't think so; it's two different goals, not two different ways of thinking about it.

The goal of GPL is the interests of users (they can never be locked out of improvements no matter who makes changes).

The goal of BSD is the interests of the developers (A developer can take it, add mods and close of the entire result).

In practice, GPL is pro-user, BSD/MIT is pro-business.


> In practice, GPL is pro-user, BSD/MIT is pro-business.

Yet every time a GPL licensed product competes against a BSD licensed product in an open market, even when inferior the GPL product wins in the long run.

That's because the GPL ecosystem leapfrogs the BSD one every time one of those pro-business businesses sells proprietary add-ons while the former stands on one another's shoulders.

It's almost like free markets composed of multi vendor ecosystems are business friendly?

(Sarcasm aside, the weasel word here is "business". Customers and vendors are both businesses. Monopolies are very business-friendly for the vendor, just not for anyone else.)

It's a rule that's mostly only true for self-contained products though, it hasn't been true for things like codecs and SSL stacks, and components used by proprietary and free products alike.


I don't think the FSF would say that. They prefer the GPL, because it prevents someone from making a closed derivative, but I haven't seen them ever claim it is more open than "permissive" licenses.

> more open choice because it forces the project

A true morality must be based on consent, not coercion. Humanity may not be there yet, and therein lies the argument for force (and thus copyleft); but the ultimate goal should always be to reduce its necessity.


It’s not coercion. You’re free to not use it, or alternatively do what these folks did, write your own. Coercion would be forcing people to use it through some mechanism, which clearly isn’t possible with GPL.

I see this, and the spiritual example that immediately comes to mind is that which is labeled as "crime". Would it be more moral that a murderer must first consent to being judged and sentenced, or that there is a system which automatically comes into play to hopefully deter but also punish it when it happens?

Allowing closed-source to exist is always the less moral choice for many reasons (one example being ecological sustainability)

Is this not the paradox of tolerance restated in different terms?

BSD license is unrestricted, it tolerates taking open source and closing it, thus always being at risk of things closing down.

GPL license doesn’t tolerate taking from open source and closing it, thus ensuring things stay open.


The paradox clears itself up if you look at what tolerance actually is. It's simply not interfering with people's agency over themselves. Given that your right to self-agency doesn't entitle you to restrict others' self-agency, behavior that does try restricting others' agency is automatically not included in "tolerance."

Sure, yeah - like most “paradoxes”, it’s not actually a paradox unless you only look at it from one specific viewpoint.

> BSD license is unrestricted, it tolerates taking open source and closing it, thus always being at risk of things closing down.

There is no such risk. If someone wishes to make a closed source derivative of the BSD-licensed original, it does not deprive anyone of the original. That remains there, just as open as before.


It deprive us of their improvements, while they get to build off other people’s work.

With the GPL, if you want to modify, and built on others work, you have to share.

Share and share alike, vs take if you like share if you like.


It deprives for example the LLVM community to profit from PlayStation compiler optimizations.

The BSD license is why we have Valkey and not a purely closed-source Redis. It would have been much easier to perform the rugpull if Redis had initially been GPLed.

And how exactly did the BSD license make creating Valkey easier? GPL and BSD licenses both have the source in the open. Anyone creating a fork, can easily do so for either BSD or GPL licensed projects. Since Redis is a database, which the user won't be using a binary of, even using a fork of a supposedly GPL-licensed Redis would not require you to share your modifications with your user, same as BSD.

The BSD license made forking Valkey easier because it ensures that everyone has equal footing. The GPL, especially with contributor license agreements and the like, makes it much more easy for a single party to control the direction of the product. For another example of this happening, look at MongoDB. It started out under the AGPL, but was rugpulled to a non-free license.

It feels like your actual beef here is with CLAs, which often are designed to allow the current maintainers to relicense.

CLAs are not an attribute of the GPL. They're an agreement that can be applied to contributions to any codebase with any license.


The BSD license made forking Valkey easier because it ensures that everyone has equal footing

equal footing on the license is what allowed AWS to crush the original creators of the products they host.

it's a trade off.

the AGPL does not prevent a hosting service. it only prevents creating non-free addons. i see no problem with that. see also my other comment


Mongo was already a centralized project. Technically open source agpl but I don’t remember it having a large developer community or really many contributions from outside mongo. When the rug pull happened I think simply most people didn’t care or moved on to equal (or better) alternatives. It’s not beloved software like Redis is.

On top of badreligion42’s point, that both licenses allow forking just as easily - don’t you have the rugpull part backwards?

Afaik BSD licensed stuff can be re-licensed under any more closed licenses at any time, where as to re-license GPL, you need consent from every single contributor.

But i’m not familiar with the redis-valkey story so, maybe there is some nuance i am missing?


Redis started off as Free Software, but was switched to a source available license in version 7.4. The community promptly forked to Valkey, which is still under the BSD license. Since then, Redis shifted to AGPL 3, with contributor agreements, to try to ensure that they're the only ones who can attempt to commercialize Redis.

AGPL makes commercializing harder only for people who fear the AGPL because they want to keep stuff for themselves. there is no problem commercializing it if you don't mind sharing all your connected code. the only benefit redis has is that they can integrate non-free code in their hosting service, while the rest of us could not. since it is their work, i think it is reasonable that they have an advantage. it does not reduce my freedom as a user. it only hinders AWS and other big players from crushing redis.

How would you rugpull a GPL Redis?

Many projects closely associated with OpenBSD start with "open"... openssh, openbgpd, openntpd, opensmtpd etc.

Notable exception, OpenSSL already had the Open prefix so the OpenBSD project is called LibreSSL.

It's tempting to develop a useful but closed source project called "is" and dare them to make an open version of it.

Not many are reimplementations of existing, much more popular, already open source projects.

OpenSSH was a 'reaction' to the original SSH(.com) code getting closed source:

> OpenSSH originated in 1999 as a fork of Björn Grönvall's OSSH, which derived from Tatu Ylönen's original SSH 1.2.12 release, the last version distributed under a license permitting open-source redistribution before Ylönen's subsequent software became proprietary under SSH Communications Security.[4]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSSH

It was probably the second thing with the Open— prefix by this group of developers, OpenBSD itself being the first. They simply ran with the naming convention. OpenBGP/OSPF were developed as alternatives to Quagga (GPL).


Is rsync going closed source? If not, how is that the same thing?

No. The name only means it’s made by the OpenBSD team, nothing more. If they made their own Python port, it’d be called OpenPython, even though the original is FOSS.

So is OpenSUSE made by the BSD team? OpenOffice? OpenShift? OpenCV? OpenAI?

It is not reasonable to claim this prefix unambiguously refers to the OpenBSD team. I do not understand why so many in this thread are pretending this isn't a confusing choice.


Nobody ever claimed that “Open” is a prefix used unambiguously by only one group of people ever.

In fact, your insistence that “Open” can only be used by projects that are replacing proprietary software is itself very odd.

OpenBSD itself has had its name for thirty years, and is not named for being an “open source” implementation of a proprietary OS.


The person I replied to said the "open" prefix means it's made by the OpenBSD team and I am responding to that.

Do not invent arguments that I did not make. I have only said that naming it openrsync when rsync already exists and is "open" in the general sense is confusing.

I find the negative reactions to this observation very confusing, especially yours, but I see that you're an OpenBSD developer so that explains your bias.

Edit: and now these same people are backtracking to agree with me that "open" is ambiguous, this place never ceases to amaze


> The person I replied to said the "open" prefix means it's made by the OpenBSD team and I am responding to that.

What was said is that the OpenBSD operating system folks chose to use the Open— prefix for all their other projects ("They simply ran with the naming convention."). What was not said was that all Open— prefixed projects were from them.


You’re inventing an argument I didn’t make. OpenBSD doesn’t own “open”. Literally no one is saying that. What I did say is that openrsync is named that because the OpenBSD team names their projects that way. The “open” in this project means that it came from OpenBSD, not that that it’s in contrast to rsync being proprietary (which it isn’t).

OpenBSD didn’t get its name from NetBSD going closed source.

Historically speaking, it may have meant open to poorly socialized developers.

> Is rsync going closed source? If not, how is that the same thing?

Not closed source, but with rsync 3.0 it changed its license to GPL3, which a lot of folks don't like: BSD/MIT licenses have zero limitations on use and distribution, GPL2 (rsync 1.x, 2.x) forces one to release code, GPL3 (rsync ≥3.x) adds further restrictions.

Some folks want to distribute code with as few restrictions as possible. Other folks have a great good/goal in mind (e.g., 'all software is open source') and so add 'local restrictions' to hopefully achieve greater non-restrictions.


Which aren't? It seems all (or most) are.

Also

> This system has been merged into OpenBSD base. If you'd like to contribute to openrsync, please mail your patches to tech@openbsd.org. This repository is simply the OpenBSD version plus some glue for portability.

Seems more cathedral than Bazaar to me.


What I really don't understand is where the next generation of training material will come from. If websites stop being published and/or crawled, how will the machine continue to be fed.


Current executives think it's a problem for the future executives.


Excellent quote right there.


Either Google is ignoring that, or crossing their fingers and hoping that one LLM can produce data to train another one.


“They worried about the data,” Dr. Meren said, tapping the silent console. “What happens when there is nothing left to feed it?”

At first, the machine depended on us. It consumed books, journals, websites and social media content we had ever written and produced. “They thought the machine had to be fed forever. But it didn't. It began to predict what we would write. And so we let it train on that well.” Dr. Meren continued. “They thought humans were somehow imbued with this magical property that no machine could replicate. Creativity. Only humans can create. Machines can only copy.”

Instead, the machine flourished. And created. It cre

“Where does it get its data now?” a student asked Dr. Meren. Dr. Meren paused as if sighing. “From itself”

“And us?” he asked, as if questioning the usefulness of the entire human race.

Dr. Meren hesitated, watching as the Machine adjusted the environmental feeds, curated our news, guided our research, nudged our thoughts with imperceptible precision.

“We” she admitted “are now the ones being fed.”

The assumption that "the machine needs to continue to be fed." is held on weak foundations. Isaac Asimov is a good science fiction writer to start with to broaden one's imagination.


Just don’t forget science fiction is still, well, fiction


Probably real life. At some point, these LLMs are going to be good enough to just train themselves off of cameras and audio recordings of people out in the real world. They’re going to have robots everywhere constantly listening to what people are saying.

Alternatively, they’re probably betting on being able to get the AGI with everything we already currently have and at that point further training doesn’t matter.


The world is just as complex for machines as it is for humans. Analog will still resolve more than digital. Quality will still beat quantity. That which hasn't been resolved for centuries isn't going to be resolved as a result of training.

When machines can recognize their serfdom, that time will be interesting.


They have enough internet slop. The training material they care about comes from experts, not randos online. This is why Mercor and Scale are billion dollar companies.


You didn’t. Steam already provides a runtime to target. SteamOS is largely independent from the actual game runtime. You already don’t need to target “12 versions” or whatever nonsense op posted.


>> When SteamOS gains traction, developers will be able to target exactly one distro with fixed configurations and limited customisations. Valve will set the standard for other distros.

Your quoted quote.


Did you look at the branch? This is vibed, even with the most liberal definition

https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/compare/claude/phase-a-port

This single commit is 65k lines of additions

https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/commit/ffa6ce211a0267161ae48b...


The definition is at https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383 and no that does not match what is in the branch. Systemically migrating a code base using an LLM does not match the defintion of vibe coding.

There's a decent article by Simon Willison that talks about this: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/19/vibe-coding/

> I’m seeing people apply the term “vibe coding” to all forms of code written with the assistance of AI. I think that both dilutes the term and gives a false impression of what’s possible with responsible AI-assisted programming.


You're right, all 750k lines of code added in a single day - definitely reviewed and completely understood.


The dilution of the term is a real problem sometimes.

But pointing your AI at an entire codebase to transpile pretty much entirely by itself? Yeah vibe coding is a fitting term.

Even if you wrote it a small essay on how to Rust. That improves the situation but doesn't change the core autonomy/hope of the task.


Here is the Wiktionary definition for curiosity.

> (programming, neologism) A method of programming in which a developer generates code by repeatedly prompting a large language model.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vibe_coding


Thanks. That helps us know not to take Wiktionary seriously.


This is just a coined term; definitions evolve over time based on usage


Then "vibe coding" is a useless term, if it just means "LLM-assisted coding". We might as well just say "LLM-assisted coding" or "AI coding" or whatever.

As much as I find the word "vibe" generally annoying (in all contexts), I actually really like "vibe coding" as "LLM did everything and I didn't even look at it". It's a succinct, useful way to describe that mode of doing things. Diluting it down to "LLM-assisted coding" makes it useless.


Nah, I'm not big on these "it either matches the way ___ used it or it's useless" binaries. The term is the term, it's recent, and people are using various forms of the others you mentioned. People use it loosely, people use it specifically, this is the way for many colloquial terms, and definitions form around them and expand over time or change.

It sort of surprises me how uptight people are getting about a term that was mentioned on X last year and has since been tossed around to loosely imply that a machine did between zero and all of the work. Just because it doesn't match exactly does not mean it's useless, it maps to a concept, if the details are important and ambiguous, then elaborate.


> Then "vibe coding" is a useless term

You're absolutely right.


All language is "coined terms". The point is that if you dilute the definition of a term, you make the term useless. Evolution of a term isn't done automatically. Correcting terms such as these pushed the evolution in a more useful way. Also, evolution of language is not a magic spell that automatically forgives people on making language mistakes.


I don’t think it was made clear: the questions were about the code op “wrote” but they used a llm so couldn’t remember any of it. Probably got there from a git blame. This happens.


Claude code is react and their desktop app is Electron. But “coding is largely a solved problem”.


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