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Re:Any Nix package, live in the browser by rvz on Sunday September 06, 2026 @01:43PM (#49588922)
Just looked at this and wondered, how much Claude AI slop went into this project and unsurprisingly a lot of it.

The entire site reeks of Claudisms and I doubt that the author even cares or knows what they are doing. The GitHub put me off immediately.

It's quite ridiculous to see such slop here and we are just going to see more of this.

Re:Any Nix package, live in the browser by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday September 06, 2026 @01:49PM (#49588985)
It's a good idea, and the implementation works. Are there actual problems, or are you just complaining that AI was used?
Re:Any Nix package, live in the browser by rvz on Sunday September 06, 2026 @02:03PM (#49589127)
> It's a good idea, and the implementation works.

Just because something "works" doesn't not mean it makes sense to use in the long run. It is incredibly memory inefficient and will cause the user's machine to crash. Not everyone is running the latest ThinkPad or Macbook with 64GB RAM.

Without those considerations, I believe it is complete AI slop.

Re:Any Nix package, live in the browser by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday September 06, 2026 @02:12PM (#49589208)
> It is incredibly memory inefficient and will cause the user's machine to crash. Not everyone is running the latest ThinkPad or Macbook with 64GB RAM.

Thankfully, you don't need that:

> Lastly, we have an upper-bound on the size of the closure we can fetch. The whole closure has to fit in tab memory, which is set to a hard limit of ~1.5GiB as of now and WebAssembly has a hard limit of 4GiB as it is a 32-bit address space.

And it works fine on my 3-year-old phone with 8G of RAM, so I think your complete dismissal of VMs is excessive.

Re:Any Nix package, live in the browser by kclejeune on Sunday September 06, 2026 @08:25PM (#49592398)
you’re on hacker news, since when has “making sense to use in the long run” ever been the point?

if you had actually read far enough to evaluate the article on its merits, you would know that this has a hard memory consumption upper bound

Re:Any Nix package, live in the browser by wrxd on Sunday September 06, 2026 @02:00PM (#49589099)
Have a look at the submissions from that websites. The quantity alone indicates that the author is vibing full steam.

Nice ideas but 100% slop

Re:Any Nix package, live in the browser by teroshan on Monday September 07, 2026 @04:00AM (#49595328)
That being said, isn't it the best use-case for slop? Generating working, interactive ideas to sell an idea and kick-start a discussion to see if it's anything worth pursuing?

Rewriting it after that first MVP with a first round of inputs is better engineering anyway, right?

Re:Any Nix package, live in the browser by Powdering7082 on Sunday September 06, 2026 @07:42PM (#49592071)
The author's talks on nix go back to 2020: https://fzakaria.com/talks

I suspect they know and care

Re:Any Nix package, live in the browser by tomberek on Sunday September 06, 2026 @07:55PM (#49592178)
The ability to quickly try out and verify ideas is valuable. This would have taken immensely more time to get to a stage to reasonable verify or dismiss as an idea otherwise. This saves time for builders.

The author cares; this is not a post-a-quick-project-as-slop-to-get-cred situation.