hbbio
Re:Gemini 4 Argon
on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @08:35PM (#49916292)
Yep! In our tests, we found Zig to be a pretty good fit to translate C++ codebases.
And static analysis + agents are good enough at keeping the memory management in check. Compared to Rust, there's no magic so it's easy for devs and agents to reason about.
If you're curious: https://github.com/okcontract/oksolc
Re:AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons
on Sunday September 20, 2026 @09:41AM (#49775797)
There are both good and aspects of the AI "revolution". Yes, it's easier than ever to create free software.
But wrote just yesterday on a related impact of AI agents on open source repos: https://medium.com/@hbbio/when-software-becomes-cheap-trust-...
When Software Becomes Cheap, Trust Becomes Expensive
Re:I made a build profiler to understand Bun's compile times
on Sunday September 13, 2026 @05:14AM (#49681772)
Zig 0.17 should solve this with incremental compilation. What you said will stay but should only apply for the first compilation.
Re:I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop your coding agent from burying the answer
on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @12:34AM (#49621040)
Just in case the model has ADHD too, I am using a minified version of it:
https://gist.github.com/hbbio/2faf096cbb77e197233ab9a2958beb...
Re:New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @10:45AM (#49435077)
Yes, and they specifically mention "Up to 10.7x faster LLM prompt processing in LM Studio" which is probably using the neural accelerator for prefill.
Re:Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload
on Thursday August 20, 2026 @08:45PM (#49382264)
You can't imagine how much your example calls home!
In my opinion, library authors should really minimize the amount of dependencies they have. Back to TypeScript, we are also the authors of https://github.com/okcontract/cells and we made a point of almost not having dependencies or even devDependencies.
Re:Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload
on Thursday August 20, 2026 @10:46AM (#49375370)
Rust suffers from the same faults as the JS ecosystem. Any significant crate imports hundreds if not thousands of dependencies. The probability that one of the authors gets targeted by AI-assisted attacks is just too high.
Also most of these dependencies provide a breadth of features that the end package does probably not need.
Re:Google replaced Git tags for certain source code with obtaining via...
on Thursday August 20, 2026 @07:53AM (#49373366)
> They'll sell far fewer Pixels because of these overall changes.
Was considering a Pixel 11 Pro, just cancelled it. Will wait for the Moto release. Thanks for your work!
Re:Pixel Watch 5
on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @11:26PM (#49281451)
This. I don't see the point of using a Pixel Watch or an Apple Watch or any watch that has 1 or 2 days of battery max.
My 3 year old Garmin has 2+ weeks battery life and is tracking activity, ox (ok, it's not medical grade), sleep, etc.
Also it does _not_ have a mic (something we're going to pay extra in a few years the way things go) and is not connected to anything wirelessly. No need for another device to set it up and you decide when you get data out using USB.
Show HN: NoDiff, a framework that lives in your monorepo
https://github.com/hbbio/nodiff
Played with this idea a few months ago, but forgot to share.Basically, it's a minimal web framework (I've been writing these for the last 15 years, notably with Opa) that AI agents should maintain together with an app in a monorepo. So you can always extend it your way. Curious to see what HN thinks of the concept.
Re:Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects
on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @11:17PM (#49016466)
Another beauty of free software is they took the project from gitea and gogs before that.
Re:Unsloth GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally
on Monday June 22, 2026 @08:49PM (#48638671)
Yes, a single GB300 workstation also does it, probably even more than 120tok/s.
Official price 85k...
Re:Ice Water Drowning Survival After 147-Minute Submersion and Hypothe...
on Friday June 19, 2026 @02:30AM (#48595483)
Reminds of Chris Lemons, who survived for 30+ minutes without oxygen at the bottom of the North Sea. Cold water (and experience, like staying calm) probably played a large part.
He went back to diving a few weeks after!
They made a movie about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Breath_(2019_film)
Re:Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool
on Thursday June 18, 2026 @01:04AM (#48581032)
Interesting setup, thx for sharing.
How many tokens/sec do you get with 27b? Are you using MTP?
Re:The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it duri...
on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @04:33AM (#48552300)
Acquired by a patent monetization business...
Re:Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed offline pr...
on Saturday May 30, 2026 @11:40PM (#48342818)
OnlyOffice is better than LibreOffice for people who want a more direct alternative to Microsoft Office
(it's AGPL... there is an ongoing dispute with a fork now)
Re:Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
on Saturday May 16, 2026 @05:56AM (#48158648)
I also misread the updated title.
"Frontier models break the open CTF format" is good
"Frontier AI..." means wtf is Frontier AI.
Because of course it exists (just googled it): https://frontierai.company/
Show HN: NoDiff, TSX for browser apps without React or a virtual DOM
Re:Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust
on Monday May 04, 2026 @10:06PM (#48017288)
Given they have "unlimited" AI usage, do we expect the port to be complete tomorrow?
Re:The IBM Granite 4.1 family of models
on Sunday May 03, 2026 @04:05AM (#47994605)
"This approach presents a significant opportunity for optimization and strategic realignment to better meet our core objectives."
The iPhone Camera Problem
Re:MacBook Neo and How the iPad Should Be
on Thursday April 23, 2026 @07:18AM (#47874379)
The elephant in the room is something else.
iPhones need desktop mode. Your apps, your data. USB-C screen + Bluetooth keyboard/mouse. Running like iPadOS or even macOS.
Re:Show HN: Marky – A lightweight Markdown viewer for agentic coding
on Thursday April 16, 2026 @09:15PM (#47801525)
Congrats on shipping!
Been also building this slowly, mostly assisting my kids.
What they built is Apple-only, since it's a native iOS/macOS app in Swift. It's been a very interesting experience for me, as even capable frontier LLMs still can't write Apple SwiftUI/AppKit properly. They constantly get the bridges wrong, and any feature prompt puts your previous architectural efforts at risk :)
Re:Claude Opus 4.7
on Thursday April 16, 2026 @07:37PM (#47800882)
Unless they're measuring capex
Re:Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto? My Quest to Unmask Bitcoin's Creator
on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @08:05PM (#47697743)
> I would ping him over the Signal app
Signal, the free encryption app used by journalists
Re:Show HN: Ghost Pepper – 100% local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for ...
on Monday April 06, 2026 @11:52PM (#47670565)
In the most possible Apple fashion, I am waiting for MacOS 27 or 28 to have this builtin.
Re:Delve Removed from Y Combinator
on Saturday April 04, 2026 @12:40AM (#47635805)
This other profile is still up:
https://www.forbes.com/profile/delve/
30U30 never ceases to amaze.
Re:Siclair Microvision (1977)
on Sunday March 29, 2026 @07:15AM (#47562170)