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Re:Do not install Zod 4.6.6 – might be infected on Monday October 12, 2026 @04:31AM (#50053223)
This is so bad it doesn't even try to hide itself.
Re:This Silicon Valley campus was a paradise. Bulldoze it on Sunday August 23, 2026 @02:41AM (#49406537)
I tried to read this article but the website needs be bulldozed.
Re:From Rust to Ruby on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @04:26AM (#48291329)
With an LLM. So next week he can write about JavaScript and the next.
Re:From Rust to Ruby on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @04:17AM (#48291249)
2016 check out my new JavaScript Library!

2026 check out the work I didn't write!

2036 how I've written 200 lines in this ancient Latin called C

I appreciate the honesty of saying this is using electron.

I'm not sure what problem it actually solves or aims at solving other than being cool?

Visual orientation does matter in UX of the real world, video game worlds and to some degree operating systems, is this the goal?

Re:Use Boring Languages with LLMs on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @05:42AM (#48277348)
We are the point now where we let LLM dictate the language?
Re:XS Programming Language on Sunday May 17, 2026 @06:19AM (#48167601)
Impressive work. There is a ton of work done in there.

You can improve it by giving a reason for people to want to adopt it. That is bring novel ideas and push the envelope.

As is, it's a very impressive homework.

How's FFI with it? Can we just link any C lib?

Re:Layoffs at Block on Thursday February 26, 2026 @05:07PM (#47172626)
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I've been amazed by this jam. It's like bigger and better every year (in terms of jams going deeper and deeper).

I imagine we're 5 years away of "Make your own OS, language, compiler, VM and game in 12 minutes, 36 seconds. Extra points if you gave yourself a stroke."

Re:Always Bet on Text on Friday December 26, 2025 @07:35PM (#46397938)
The last 2 paragraphs were quite poetic.

PS: 2014

Impressive work. I shipped couch multiplayer games on PS4 in the past and it has passed its heyday (it didn't do too well, financially).

So seeing it done on the web actually makes a lot of sense.

Re:Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @08:15PM (#46381196)
There are still plenty of things that VSCode does and Zed doesn't. E.g. Dart debugging.

Also there is the VC money problem with Zed, at some point, that money will want returns on every dollar spent.

Re:I'm Just Having Fun on Monday December 22, 2025 @01:21AM (#46351851)
It wouldn't hurt if they could capitalise their sentences every now and then.
Re:NTSB Preliminary Report – UPS Boeing MD-11F Crash [pdf] on Friday November 21, 2025 @04:13AM (#46002709)
All cargo companies run a wide fleet of many different plane types, particularly to avoid this very problem of being grounded by the FAA. But yes, these were still widely used in cargo transports. Although newer 2 engine planes can haul the same kg and use a lot less fuel.
Re:OpenBSD 7.8 Released on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @12:17AM (#45664841)
hmmmmm youth.

I remember running windows95 overnight so that it could be a "server".

The next morning, moving the mouse was making the harddrive go nuts, it was paging just by moving the cursor!

Memory leak galore.

This makes me want to run linux as my daily driver! [1]

[1] https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95/blob/master/Screensho...

Re:OpenBSD 7.8 Released on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @12:14AM (#45664828)
Incidentally it was also on a thinkpad that I had installed it.

Honestly I've never owned any other laptops than thinkpads and macbooks. Every other laptop I've ever touched in a computer shop left me with "eww".

Re:OpenBSD 7.8 Released on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @12:02AM (#45664784)
I'm surprised seeing improvements in Suspend/Hibernate support.

I've used OpenBSD on laptops before and it was _fine_. I thought they primarily target servers. This feels like laptop specific improvements. Perhaps to the benefits only to those developing OpenBSD.

Re:Show HN: I'm making a detective game built on Wikipedia on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @01:23AM (#45652717)
This is a very clever idea. I've toyed with the idea of making a multiple site mystery challenge in the past, a bit like a geo game with real world tagging and drop boxes.

Never got around to it, but this is clever.

Re:The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation on Monday October 20, 2025 @10:17PM (#45651734)
Ok, thank you for this.
Re:The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation on Monday October 20, 2025 @06:15PM (#45650109)
That is not what deflation is. Deflation is prices are going up and wages are stagnant or falling.
The next one probably won't be caught by running noticeably slower than usual.

It was a pure fluke that it got discovered _this early_.

Re:Moonlander.BAS on Saturday October 18, 2025 @09:17PM (#45631474)
I used to load up tapes for 15' on my spectrum and then poke around trying to understand what was under the hood.

All I had was a thick book in a language I didn't speak yet.

No internet, no friends to bounce it with. Infinite time.

Good times.

Re:The IDEs we had 30 years ago ... and we lost on Saturday October 18, 2025 @09:40AM (#45627290)
What a wonderful write up and I feel the same.

I've been working on my free time on a tui code editor in the same vein eventually with make and lldb built in.

Nice, bookmarked.

But if you're serious about reducing carbon waste, don't make visitors download 7.5MB to load the webpage.

Re:Love C, Hate C: Web Framework Memory Problems on Friday October 17, 2025 @01:53AM (#45613676)
Thanks I didn't know about this. I just read some article and took it for granted.
Re:Codex Is Live in Zed on Thursday October 16, 2025 @07:56PM (#45612059)
and for me it's the dart debugging!

we all want something.

Re:Qbecc – QBE based C compiler on Thursday October 16, 2025 @07:15PM (#45611816)
Sorry late response/question.

Do you have a good source of documentation regarding QBE?

I tried to use it in the past and it was a PITA as I was left basically helpless. I don't do the discord thing.

Re:Love C, Hate C: Web Framework Memory Problems on Friday October 10, 2025 @02:28AM (#45535883)
The irony is also that AI could have been used to audit the code and find these issues. All the author had to do was to question.
Re:Love C, Hate C: Web Framework Memory Problems on Friday October 10, 2025 @02:25AM (#45535864)
The safer the C code, the more horrible it starts looking though... e.g.

    my_func(char msg[static 1])

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