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Re:Chinese entrepreneur Zhang Xue's homegrown motorbike makes historic... on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @11:44PM (#47609745)
He makes electric vehicles. The extreme weight sensitivity of motorcycles means that high-performance racing motorcycles, whether fully electric or hybrid, are not practical; if they have a power battery, that already makes them unsuitable.
Re:Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with a... on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @10:03PM (#47609185)
In the era of Windows 95, having a network connection was still a rarity. Expecting modern systems to have package management and sandboxing mechanisms would have been 20 years ahead of their time.
Re:Show HN: Claude Code rewritten as a bash script on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @09:54PM (#47609128)
Even that TUI is written in React.
Re:Artemis II lifts off: four astronauts begin 10-day lunar mission on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @09:36PM (#47609010)
The Space Shuttle’s technology is indeed quite old, but by today’s standards it is not exactly outdated. What matters is that we have lost the ability to carry out that technology — or even the ability to organize and coordinate a project like that. Otherwise, the price of the SLS as an “off-the-shelf product” would not be so outrageous, and it would not keep getting delayed again and again. Technology gets forgotten and capability is lost as people and suppliers disappear. The fact that we could build the Saturn V half a century ago does not mean we could still build it today; even the fact that we could build the F-22 twenty years ago does not mean we could still produce it now once the production lines are gone. Restoring that capability is always a good thing, considering the indirect effects.
Re:The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @09:30PM (#47608966)
I recently had a similar idea. https://github.com/Water-Run/Cmdset
Re:Artemis II lifts off: four astronauts begin 10-day lunar mission on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @09:23PM (#47608917)
ICBMs also have a similar speed at the terminal warhead stage — only the direction is different.
Re:Artemis II lifts off: four astronauts begin 10-day lunar mission on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @09:21PM (#47608898)
Starship is not designed for high-orbit deep-space missions; it is more like a cargo truck for low Earth orbit.
Re:Artemis II lifts off: four astronauts begin 10-day lunar mission on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @09:19PM (#47608888)
Developing something like this would push the frontiers of human technology. Without the Apollo program, not to mention anything else, the personal computer boom in the 1970s might have been delayed by a long time.
Re:Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @10:11AM (#47601162)
Traditional programming requires the absolute precision provided by digital circuits; a single bit flip can lead to a completely different outcome.

Large models do not require that kind of exactness. They are somewhat like a "field" or a "probability cloud": as long as the main directional tendency is correct, a few individual deviations—or even a whole cluster of them—make almost no difference.

Re:The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, under... on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @10:09AM (#47601132)
Is Anthropic's acquisition of Bun alone still not enough to infer their tech stack? What more obvious signals would be needed?

Also, honestly, given the speed constraints of large models, it makes almost no difference what language an agent is written in. The small performance differences between programming languages do not even begin to matter compared with network latency, let alone the speed at which a large model streams tokens.

Re:The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, under... on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @10:07AM (#47601099)
So what do you think the obfuscated .js code in a 2026 engineering project was generated with? Nim?
Re:Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @05:57AM (#47598853)
Thanks to Claude Code, we got such a beautifully polished and dazzling website that gives a complete introduction to itself the very moment the leak happened :)
Re:Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @05:54AM (#47598837)
Feels a bit like gradually moving back toward analog circuits, step by step. There is less and less need for the precision that digital circuits provide.
Re:The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, under... on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @05:50AM (#47598805)
Anthropic acquired Bun. Clearly, Bun is not a runtime for C++, Rust, or Python. For an engineering project, strongly typed TypeScript was basically the only possible choice for them.

Show HN: luainstaller – Package your Lua scripts into binaries

Posted by WaterRun on Monday December 15, 2025 @01:55AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/Water-Run/luainstaller

There are two common ways to package .lua scripts into binary executables today: the traditional srlua, and the newer luastatic, which can produce a true native binary (instead of simply concatenating the Lua interpreter).However, both approaches have notable limitations.srlua:- Can only package a single .lua file- Requires manual compilationluastatic:- Linux-onlyIn addition, neither of them...

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Show HN: SimpSave – A lightweight Python KV store with read‑and‑use persistence

Posted by WaterRun on Monday December 08, 2025 @04:27AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/Water-Run/SimpSave

How do you persist data in Python? The most standard way is, of course, using a database. But for many small scripts or student assignments—where the data size might be just a few thousand entries, a few dozen, or even just a handful—not to mention SQLite, even something as light as tinydb might feel “not portable enough.”simpsave, as the name suggests, is an extremely lightweight Python...

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Show HN: Bat‑KV – A tiny single‑file KV database for Windows Batch scripts

Posted by WaterRun on Monday December 08, 2025 @04:11AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/Water-Run/Bat-KV

Windows Batch (BAT) is well-known for its limited capabilities and retro syntax — to the point where even basic persistent storage lacks simple, generic tools. Bat-KV, as the name suggests, is a tiny “BAT library” that provides the simplest possible persistence layer: basic CRUD operations stored in a custom plain-text .bkv file.It’s ultra‑lightweight (the whole project is just 346 lines —...

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