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twothreeonetoday at 2:37 AM3 repliesview on HN

wow, very humbling. I'm actually amazed how many people contributed to this. It's easy to get attribution for "cool new features", but arguable removing bad features is even more important for something as fundamental as the kernel. Cudos!

I'm sure these are the sorts of things that will go down as folklore from the "founding ages", when everyone will have forgotten how to understand source code in 50 years and the Claude/Codex cruft just silently keeps piling on and burning the majority of our planets energy.


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skywal_ltoday at 5:38 AM

Reminds me of Deepness in the Sky (Vernor Vinge) where a guy maintains a ship by doing software archeology. He is the only guy who knows what the Unix epoch is.

zaiktoday at 12:13 PM

> everyone will have forgotten how to understand source code in 50 years

I don't think this will happen. Human desire to understand how things work will still be around in 50 years.

nuc1e0ntoday at 9:51 AM

I'm of the opinion AI slop code will become untenable way before that.

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