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Re:How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026 on Friday October 02, 2026 @09:19AM (#49933241)
Checked out your GitHub profile. This is an insane amount of LLM usage. You created 7 full-blown apps, and each of them is very recent. The earliest commit was only 2 days ago.

I'm normally against fully vibe-coded apps, but at this point, I'm just impressed.

Re:You could have invented PageRank on Thursday August 27, 2026 @09:20AM (#49464501)
But now, you can hire smart people.
Re:Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite on Saturday July 18, 2026 @08:34AM (#48957587)
That's only true in theory. In practice, you'll be rate-limited first. Even if you aren't, the database won't be the bottleneck because SQLite is so fast. Their Ruby on Rails stack will suffer thread starvation way before the WAL grows. Rapid requests still leave microsecond gaps between context switches for SQLite to run an automatic checkpoint. To actually make SQLite stall, you'd need an endpoint that lets you hold a massive write transaction open indefinitely, which lobste.rs doesn't expose anyway (I hope).
You’re literally agreeing that the parent’s argument is bad. I was just applying his logic, and I didn't draw any conclusions.
> Just search "segfault" on the Zig issue tracker and you'll see why people are starting to be skeptical of the future utility of such a language in the face of something like Rust.

Zig has 110 open "segfault" issues [1] versus Rust's 175 open "segfault" issues [2]. So, by your logic, Rust is also bad.

edit: I was just trying to point out that the parent's "just search segfault" argument is lazy. Also, Zig is still in beta.

[1] https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/issues?state=open&type=all&...

[2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20stat...

Re:Zig: Build System Reworked on Sunday May 31, 2026 @10:05AM (#48345785)
Wish I had this mindset. If I did, I would already have many published apps :(
Re:MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector tile format on Monday January 26, 2026 @09:20AM (#46765938)
Unrelated, but I noticed that clicking the logo goes to the current permalink rather than the homepage, might be unintentional.
Re:Monodraw on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @07:36AM (#45038235)
> Monodraw does not use activation or any other form of DRM. We have complete trust in our customers.

Interesting. But, why?

Re:Hyper-Typing on Thursday May 08, 2025 @05:40AM (#43924604)
I don't use typing for correctness. I use it for documentation. That's why I prefer JSDoc these days. I only type top-level variables/functions to get hints from my editor. Everything inside a function body remains untyped unless necessary. It’s the benefit of using Typescript without being forced to write dumb code just to satisfy the compiler.
Re:Show HN: Matle – A Daily Chess Puzzle Inspired by Wordle on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @11:02AM (#42950434)
That's quite challenging for a first puzzle, though it is a well-known mate. Guessed in 3 tries
Re:Manifest V2 phase-out begins on Friday May 31, 2024 @07:18PM (#40541256)
Agreed. It's not just a placebo effect, it really is slower. People often don't notice this because they use relatively high-end machines. If you're skeptical, try running it on a low-end laptop or a Raspberry Pi. The difference is like night and day.

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Hey folks,This is my longest and most complex side-project, which took me approximately ~500 hours of work.- Background I like front-end programming but don't like the process of web design. Implementing design in Figma and then reworking it in HTML feels redundant. I want to skip Figma if possible. A solution to streamline that process would be a web builder, I thought. But a web builder like...

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