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Re:Gemini 4 Carbon
on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @04:17PM (#50280282)
Too bad there's no way to actually use it
Re:Mathematical Origami
on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @09:07AM (#49908414)
This is not origami.
Re:Ask HN: What're You Reading?
on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @02:27AM (#49905171)
Did you start the silo book? Loved the show as well.
Re:A Desktop Made for One
on Sunday May 03, 2026 @06:37PM (#48002331)
Thanks for explaining!
Re:A Desktop Made for One
on Sunday May 03, 2026 @04:34PM (#48001171)
Did you have to look or review any of the code produced, to get the performance/capabilities that you wanted, or were all interactions through CC? In other words, did you hit any walls with the pure agentic workflow?
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
on Monday March 09, 2026 @04:08AM (#47306088)
I’m working on Radiant Computer: https://radiant.computer — a new from-scratch personal computer and OS.
A.I. and the Future of Computing
Re:Understanding the Go Compiler: The Linker
on Saturday February 14, 2026 @04:22AM (#47013023)
The title is misleading
Re:Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implementations la...
on Saturday February 14, 2026 @04:20AM (#47013008)
Can you elaborate? Zig has a lot of traction already.
Re:Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leaving iPhone
on Friday February 13, 2026 @03:41PM (#47007559)
Uhm yeah, a touch screen is not a keyboard. It will never be one.
Re:Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antid...
on Thursday January 29, 2026 @06:08AM (#46808555)
So 5000 IU is the recommended amount?
Re:The secret medieval tunnels that we still don't understand
on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @04:13PM (#46697819)
Hyperion, anyone?
Re:
on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @05:43AM (#46431842)
What's MC/DC?
Re:Static Allocation for Compilers
on Monday December 29, 2025 @04:37PM (#46426027)
How does this work? Files need to reference other files eg. for calling functions from other modules, which means semantic analysis needs both files in memory to check the types. This is especially complicated with mutual recursion across modules (separate compilation doesn't apply here). If you're building a language like C where everything requires forward declarations, then maybe, but anything more modern seems difficult.
Re:Rust Errors Without Dependencies
on Monday December 29, 2025 @06:56AM (#46419807)
I think you’re right with regards to the intention — but I’ve personally not experienced the case of an std lib being too big — good examples of “the right size” would be Go or Zig.
Re:Rust Errors Without Dependencies
on Sunday December 28, 2025 @04:51PM (#46414876)
The fact that you either need a third party dependency or a large amount of boilerplate just to get decent error reporting, points to an issue in the language or std library design.
I've started also dropping `thiserror` when building libraries, as I don't want upstream users of my libraries to incur this additional dependency, but it's a pain.
Re:Why Reliability Demands Functional Programming
on Sunday December 28, 2025 @08:54AM (#46411098)
False dichotomy.. if reliability matters, you have to invest in both. Fault tolerance is not a replacement for correctness.
Re:A Guide to Local Coding Models
on Monday December 22, 2025 @04:11AM (#46352452)
What’s wrong with your keyboard haha
Re:A Guide to Local Coding Models
on Sunday December 21, 2025 @06:07PM (#46349561)
For sure, and I guess that's kind of my point -- if the OP says local coding models are now good enough, then it's probably because he's using things that are towards the middle of the distribution.
Re:A Guide to Local Coding Models
on Sunday December 21, 2025 @04:31PM (#46348714)
In my experience the latest models (Opus 4.5, GPT 5.2) Are _just_ starting to keep up with the problems I'm throwing at them, and I really wish they did a better job, so I think we're still 1-2 years away from local models not wasting developer time outside of CRUD web apps.
Re:Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles for...
on Thursday December 18, 2025 @11:10AM (#46314511)
And your point is? Shipping garbage is better than not shipping anything?
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
on Monday December 15, 2025 @02:38AM (#46271469)
https://radiant.computer
A new vertically integrated operating system and computer for the next generation.
Working on the native language and OS currently!
Re:Show HN: Detail, a Bug Finder
on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @02:59PM (#46209826)
Looks interesting, but I self host so it would have to work with plain Git URLs.
Re:Why we built Lightpanda in Zig
on Friday December 05, 2025 @05:08PM (#46168035)
> LLMs deserve a 100x better browser.
Hold on, why can't humans have a 100x better browser?
Re:The Ethical Computing Initiative
on Friday November 28, 2025 @11:15AM (#46079924)
Nice, this aligns with what we're working on at https://radiant.computer -- it would be nice to gather all such projects in one place.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
on Monday November 10, 2025 @02:42AM (#45873452)
I’m working on Radiant Computer.
It’s a new kind of computer that attempts to part from the unix heritage and offer something really accessible and modern.
Re:Radiant Computer
on Thursday November 06, 2025 @02:12AM (#45832361)
Yes, good idea — I know about Rebol but haven’t looked at it from that angle.
Re:Radiant Computer
on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @04:36PM (#45828365)
Thanks for your comment.
I do think Linux is good enough (it's what I use daily), but I'm a software person. I don't think linux is good enough for the average person or for kids learning how to use computers. It's hard to use and quite unfriendly, even distros like Ubuntu.
The second point is simply that I think we can do better. Progress does not stop here, but most people are afraid to take on big problems, so they never try.
Re:Radiant Computer
on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @04:28PM (#45828272)
In five years time, "I want AI" will be 99% of computer users. Sure, neural nets are opaque, but having an AI assistant running locally and helping you with your tasks does not make your computer any harder to understand.