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Re:Rethinking Database Programming on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @11:20AM (#49346992)
Which end? This moves one end to reach frontend code
Re:Zed: Delta on Friday August 14, 2026 @12:30PM (#49301040)
I like to ask for a code tour using snippets of the most important types and functions. Much better to read through
I think this could have used tigerbeetle instead?
Re:Xiaomi-Robotics-1 on Monday July 20, 2026 @11:53AM (#48980605)
We need Amdahl's law for limbs
Power law:

The number of people decrease as a power of the distance you travel away from popular spots

Goodhart's law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"
Re:Swift is a more convenient Rust on Monday February 02, 2026 @04:54PM (#46862217)
You still lose the benefits of Affine Types in Rust though
Re:In Praise Of –Dry-Run on Monday February 02, 2026 @04:47PM (#46862112)
It can be type safe and testable with free monads
Re:Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @01:37PM (#46436418)
That's why I love the Readex Pro font. It also has glyphs for Arabic and a lot more languages in the same file, so I can use one font file for everything.
Re:Go Away Python on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @11:38AM (#46435029)
You can also use jbang to run java scripts with dependencies

https://www.jbang.dev/

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025) on Monday December 15, 2025 @01:15PM (#46278198)
I'm trying to build a native postman alternative using Rust + Iced. I want it to use .http files as its collections and .env files as its environments. So that data is stored in plain text and easily editable by AI and usable by other apps like VSCode rest client.

https://github.com/sharno/zagel

Whenever I'm filling a long form on an official website, I feel like I'm racing against an invisible clock because of this session time out thing that happened to me countless times.
Re:Push Ifs Up and Fors Down on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @01:58PM (#44044167)
That's almost the same thing as parse don't validate: https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-va...
Re:New Mac Mini with M4 on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @02:28PM (#41987810)
It’s portability for a price especially if you already have your own peripherals
Re:Russ Cox is stepping down as the Go tech lead on Thursday August 01, 2024 @10:21PM (#41135588)
I’m sure if Go had nullable types and/or sum types from the beginning, it’s have been much more popular

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