YHK - yet another hacker news clone

You can look at what being achieved right now with AI, GoW3 (an absolute master piece BTW) on the PS4 Remaster can be played on Linux at 120FPS thanks to some decompilation/reverse engineering framework with AI.

I am generally also fed up of politics (whatever they are) forced into projects.

Also AI doesn't make you stupid. It is bullshit, he has cherry picked information to sooth his own biases.

On the contrast, libreboot's stuff reads like a parody or a shitpost. It's hard to believe they're being entirely serious.

[1] https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/pulls/11407

It's a distribution. That is, they build and distribute firmware images. Coreboot just ships source.

Coreboot's docs lists the variety of distributions: https://doc.coreboot.org/distributions.html

So yes, yes we will.

Most people use browsers without major incidents.

Agentic AI has allowed 86Box to make massive strides forward. This includes a substantial contribution to emulate the Intel Inboard 386 that was created by someone who describes himself as a non-programmer. The community is now bigger and stronger, although we’ve had some aches and pains with slop AI generated PRs.

The same goes for Gravity Linux which is booting in my M4 Macs with working GPU and most other peripherals. What used to take years now takes weeks, so we can do much more thorough testing and ultimately have a better end product.

Not to say this "radical" behavior is helpful, and I understand why people don't like it.

I think there are extremely legitimate reasons to be critical of that part at the very least, and I don't think it's a particularly "radical" stance within Free Software, which is fundamentally conscientious of such questions.

(I don't know whether the Libreboot authors have this particular point in mind.)

Already in 2022, before the rise of these LLMs, there was a book "Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence" by Dan McQuillan.

And then:

> The rapid development of digital technologies, including applications of artificial intelligence (AI), is having a significant impact on the social, economic, and political life. From the way individuals communicate and form relationships to the methods by which political discourse and economic transactions occur, digital technologies increasingly mediate our lives and societies. But while presented as milestones in innovation and progress, these technological transformations have also raised concerns about democracy (Nemitz 2018; Kreps and Kriner 2023; Jungherr 2023; Coeckelbergh 2024) and seem to introduce and support mechanisms of control, forms of organization, and ideological patterns that bear striking resemblances to historical fascist phenomena.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-02862-9

Further,

> being plausible but slightly wrong and un-auditable-at scale-is the killer feature of LLMs, not a bug that will ever be meaningfully addressed, and this combination of properties makes it an essentially fascist technology. By “fascist” in this context, I mean that it is well suited to centralizing authority, eliminating checks on that authority and advancing an anti-science agenda.

https://blog.bgcarlisle.com/2025/05/16/a-plausible-scalable-...

Marc Andreessen have called one of the two authors of the very Fascist Manifesto his patron saint. Search for Marinetti on https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/

A very influential blogger, Curtis Yarvin who have started Dark Enlightenment, the philosophy behind it all regularly posts straight nazi shit. He also has influenced JD Vance and Peter Thiel who have been instrumental in the creation of OpenAI. https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-the-optimist-open-a... More on Dark Enlightenment https://www.cccb.org/en/w/articles/nick-land-or-the-origins-... and https://qz.com/1007144/the-neo-fascist-philosophy-that-under... "a few consistent themes, circling around technology, warfare, feudalism, corporate power, and racism".

I know this won't be popular with this crowd but most of you have become supporters of the rising fascism in the United States by not resisting these LLMs.

It's libreboot. The entire point of its creation was to take coreboot and rip out the non-libre blobs. Its author is trans (IIRC), which also carries its own very pointed perspective on the world.

Some of it goes too far in my own opinion - I have no problem trusting AMD's final microcode for the Opteron 63xx any differently than the baked-in mask for the 62xx. But regardless, I respect someone who is pushing the whole envelope as they see it. At the very least their effort creates a lot of things I do care about!

People say AI or not, if the thing is good then it should be used. But if a group actively rejects it (which is valid even if I’m not that militant myself) it compromises the project suddenly?

Not using LLMs is a practical choice. The tech doesn't work, and if you let it run amok in your software, your software becomes crap. I try to avoid projects that use LLMs for development as much as I can, because those projects have a much higher likelihood of being a buggy mess.

> think AI makes you super hacker? think again: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089 ["Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity"]

> https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-...

> consider that the infrastructure for AI is economically unsustainable; when the bubble bursts, and it will, we will suddenly be left with millions of people thoroughly deskilled who will be useless. lots of reeducation needed, and lots of people will just be left behind.

> consider that it is controlled by only a minority of very wealthy individuals; with it, they have unprecedented control over human thought through manipulation of information, and control over what information is presented through filtering (what they call training).

> AI is a threat to the health and democracy of our entire world.

> libreboot will not facilitate its use. AI is the most dangerous technology ever invented by human beings.

...

They have plenty of reasons not to.

for my part, when i do work on this, what i will do is this: re-use existing nuke.list mechanism in lbmk (used already to delete dubious files, e.g. code files with unclear licensing in u-boot) to delete the slopped files. then provide cleaned versions of the same files, with necessary patching re-written as necessary, and files that use it patched to include e.g. foo.deslop.c instead of foo.c - then git history is removed inside tarballs. filter out the changelogs for projects accordingly.

this is the most reasonable way to do it on projects with very little slop. with projects that become almost entirely slop, a hard fork becomes necessary.

> ...it is my intention that I and others will audit these projects in the future, de-slopping them...

Time will tell if these new AI allowed projects like artcraft will prove more popular than fully human curated ones.

i do not believe you are asking that question in good faith.

and, if you are the leah who wrote the policy, i am positive this would be a completely fruitless discussion as you are obviously entrenched in your beliefs. i am not under the delusion that anything i could say, show, or prove to you would change your mind.

Just like most technologies AI algorithms and tools get continuously refined/improved over time.

One thing modern AI has gotten especially good at in the last year is reverse engineering, it went from struggling and frequently making mistakes when analyzing binaries even with say a specialized Ghidra MCP integration to being able to very quickly and accurately analyze even heavily stripped BROM binaries with almost no user guidance or specialized environments. Binaries that would previously take days or weeks to analyze can be analyzed by a modern AI in minutes to hours.

The difference is massive and obvious to anyone who has been working with these tools over these time periods.

For me it's only been in the last month with Opus 5.5 that I've been seeing code quality I actually respect (though this is with substantial human effort in the loop). Though this experience is from work where I don't have access to non-Anthropic models, nor Fable.

however, productivity is sensitive to the model, and models have significantly improved in the last 1.5-2 years. sometimes things move quickly and research gets outdated. ai is not the first field where this has happened.

the research is still valuable, it just has to be acknowledged that it is specific to a point in time. using it for an argument 2 years later just shows that the leah is being intellectually dishonest, and it weakens the overall message.

Robot friends enable you to get much more done faster and more accurately, that if you call yourself an engineer you're a damn fool not to make use of them.

How so?

After the SCO mess, I'm very shocked he didn't reject AI out of hand simply for the provenance and liability issues.

Would you be OK if a repo had Visual Studio files that were designed to crash visual studio if they are used, just because the maintainer hates Microsoft? That's what this feels like, a deliberate malicious abuse of the intent that adding agents.md would otherwise imply.