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Re:Four Months of Zig
on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @07:42AM (#50272014)
Doesn't that assume there are no intrinsic differences between single-threaded, multi-threaded and async execution? Plenty of code works fine single-threaded but breaks once it's run multi-threaded or async, and some works fine multi-threaded but breaks under async. With explicit async you have precise control over where you yield back to the event loop. With Zig's Io you don't get that unless you deliberately design for it, and at that point you've just got an implicitly coloured function.
Re:Why Common Lisp Is Now the Best Programming Language
on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @07:30PM (#49985688)
What's wrong with top-level functions?
Re:An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows
on Saturday October 03, 2026 @01:00PM (#49945913)
The underlying APIs are very similar, but you can't just install an extension from the Chrome Web Store.
Re:Effect 4.0
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @06:11PM (#49927659)
It literally says:
> Works with JavaScript arrays
Re:Suits Are Better Tech Than Modern Clothes
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @06:00PM (#49927564)
Just wear underwear.
Re:Suits Are Better Tech Than Modern Clothes
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @05:55PM (#49927532)
> Guessing others feelings about things also.
Yet you confidently decided that they're not neurodivergent based on a comment?
Re:Gemini 4 Argon
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @05:43PM (#49927410)
And use worse models?
Re:Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks fr...
on Sunday September 27, 2026 @06:41PM (#49871547)
Mano, seu comentário é incompreensível.
Re:U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain...
on Friday September 25, 2026 @06:07PM (#49850568)
So you recognise that today the pervert issue is real?
Re:Platform-Independent SIMD in Go
on Friday September 25, 2026 @05:31PM (#49850227)
Yes, but Rust gets you both.
Re:Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
on Friday September 25, 2026 @02:24PM (#49848162)
That's not a licence to routinely adopt extreme opinions.
Re:Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy
on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @11:32AM (#49817656)
- macOS doesn't natively support "alt tab"-like behaviour (Cmd-Tab and Cmd+` are not analogous). You need something like alt-tab.app.
- You can't have the trackpad use "natural scrolling" and an external mouse use "normal scrolling" at the same time. The setting applies to all devices at once, so you need an external app (like LinearMouse) to use it.
That said, it's not like OSs and DEs don't have annoying things you need to fix (eg adding plugins to fix GNOME weirdness).
Re:Asking Authors About Their Own Papers
on Sunday September 20, 2026 @07:40PM (#49781299)
The character limit thing is real. Another problem is that even if you manage to address all of their points, they're not required to engage with that. They can just ask the LLM to write a basic response back and say they won't change the score.
Re:Laya the open source version of Jev
on Saturday September 19, 2026 @04:32PM (#49769877)
This technique is so obvious to anyone who spends more than a minute with multiple choice tasks. It's wild they're claiming it as a feature.
Re:Asking Authors About Their Own Papers
on Saturday September 19, 2026 @02:29PM (#49768982)
This already happens. It's clear when a reviewer used an LLM, and it's very annoying for the authors that have to respond to what are usually low quality, superficial reviews.
Re:Asking Authors About Their Own Papers
on Saturday September 19, 2026 @02:27PM (#49768975)
There is. NLP conferences, like the ACL family (and the ARR) require you to disclose in the paper if you used LLMs for writing and coding, which ones and how. Whether every author is honest is a different matter.
Re:What Zig felt like, coming from Rust
on Saturday September 19, 2026 @02:03PM (#49768761)
Comptime is a big one too. You can achieve similar things in Rust with generics and macros, but comptime makes certain things easier (and other things harder).
Re:How to Write with an LLM
on Friday September 18, 2026 @08:03AM (#49753170)
I like the "strong opinions, loosely held" approach myself.
Re:Small Programming Tricks
on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @06:39PM (#49734036)
You don't need to use fzf. Zoxide has an interactive function too.
Re:Google WeatherNext 3
on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @08:04AM (#49625151)
Oooh, that is very useful. Thanks for sharing!
Re:Google WeatherNext 3
on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @08:19AM (#49609316)
Why do they show different information (temperature, rain etc.) for the same location?
Re:Emacs Bedrock 2.0 Released
on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @08:15AM (#49609279)
I'm missing a good way to turn on/off plugins and settings depending on the directory. Eg turning off rust-analyzer on some projects, or using pyright instead of mypy as the LSP.
Re:Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one
on Monday September 07, 2026 @05:50AM (#49596265)
You have to indent the text by two or more spaces to count as code. Hacker News doesn't use Markdown, so backticks don't work.
FWIW, this is clear in the "help" link by the textarea.
Re:GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter
on Sunday September 06, 2026 @07:35AM (#49585501)
No, you don't. There have been technological advances beyond just "more random Internet text", and they lead to more powerful models with more refined emergent behaviours.
Re:GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter
on Saturday September 05, 2026 @06:42AM (#49575205)
I don't see how this is proof, and not just that the model got the better. You're comparing models a year and a half apart; this is a lifetime in LLM development.
Re:Pre-Release of Polars 2.0
on Thursday September 03, 2026 @11:14AM (#49551292)
You can still have extensive "compile-time" checking with linters and static type checkers. This makes Polars even better in typed Python, as it type-checks much better than the dynamic mess that is Pandas.
Re:Should We Have Kept the American Empire?
on Monday August 31, 2026 @06:24AM (#49507985)
It's quite an effective strategy, sadly. People look at Cuba and see a failed state without considering the material conditions.
Re:Should We Have Kept the American Empire?
on Monday August 31, 2026 @06:09AM (#49507892)
Why would a colonialist power ever be benevolent towards its colonies?
Re:Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root
on Sunday August 30, 2026 @01:07PM (#49500528)
WSL2 is also a virtual machine.
Re:You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It
on Saturday August 29, 2026 @05:38PM (#49493575)
The UK is banning the sale of tobacco to people born on or after 1 January 2009 entirely. That will eventually kill the industry (which is good).