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New comment by 0xpgm in "My Google Workspace account suspension"

0xpgm — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:02:33 +0000

Instead of getting more dependant on Big Tech's AI products, I think the perfect use for AI is develop tools and workflows that decouple one from Big Tech.

New comment by 0xpgm in "Talk like caveman"

0xpgm — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:00:52 +0000

Not specifically about your case, but some people are usually just more verbose than others and tend to say the same thing more than once, or perhaps haven't found a clear way of articulating their thoughts down to fewer words.

New comment by 0xpgm in "Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming"

0xpgm — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:32:00 +0000

Quite a nice insight there!

I should probably be thinking more in this direction.

New comment by 0xpgm in "Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming"

0xpgm — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:24:56 +0000

Yeah, structured data implies some processing on raw data to improve its meaning. Alan Kay seems to want to push this idea to encapsulate data with rich behaviour.

New comment by 0xpgm in "Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989)"

0xpgm — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:20:19 +0000

Sure, static typing adds some sort of process that provides a coarse interpretation of the data.

New comment by 0xpgm in "Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989)"

0xpgm — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:51:44 +0000

Reminded me of this thread between Alan Kay and Rich Hickey where Alan Kay thinks "data" is a bad idea.

My interpretation of his point of view is that what you need is a process/interpreter/live object that 'explains' the data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11945722

EDIT: He writes more about it in Quora. In brief, he says it is 'meaning', not 'data' that is central to programming.

https://qr.ae/pCVB9m

New comment by 0xpgm in "Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student"

0xpgm — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:33:20 +0000

To beat to death a well-known quote:

You may be able to go fast with AI, but you can only go far with humans.

New comment by 0xpgm in "Python: The Optimization Ladder"

0xpgm — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 08:44:22 +0000

As a mostly Python programmer and partly TypeScript programmer, my subjective thought is that a bit more 'noise' with TypeScript than Python.

Just a little more to parse with my eyes and a little more to type with TypeScript.

But hey, with all these cool kids with their AI coding agents, reading and handwriting code may soon be obsolete!

New comment by 0xpgm in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

0xpgm — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 02:43:00 +0000

Yup, since around 2016 HN and other tech spaces got infested with people who cannot separate their political ideology from technical discussions.

When it comes to FOSS they claim that FOSS has always been political to justify the politicization of everything they touch.

Things used to be much better when the people adhered to the age-old wisdom "Keep politics and religion out of the office" and carried this attitude to neutral spaces online.

In part, some of us got into tech because it was one of the places where meritocracy ruled and you could get away from those who thrive by overwhelming others with BS.

I apologize for the rant.

AI Didn't Kill Programming, You Did

0xpgm — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:26:30 +0000

Article URL: https://learncodethehardway.com/blog/39-ai-didnt-kill-programming-you-did/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47350988

Points: 3

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New comment by 0xpgm in "Two Years of Emacs Solo"

0xpgm — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:14:22 +0000

A good reason is that Lisp has almost no syntax. So it can act as a neutral language that is easy to learn for developers from other languages.

New comment by 0xpgm in "AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton"

0xpgm — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 05:55:15 +0000

There is such a thing as a distinct LLM writing style that is not just good structure. Anyone who's read more than five books can tell that.

And the comment itself seems completely LLM generated.

New comment by 0xpgm in "Linux from Scratch"

0xpgm — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:07:33 +0000

Is there such a thing as a modern Linux stack?

Isn't it by design that linux has many optional components and one can pick and choose as they desire to create their distribution?

New comment by 0xpgm in "Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere"

0xpgm — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 23:44:18 +0000

I guess it happens when engineers stop driving decisions and the finance people take over. Won't be too good for the company's valuation if people can access the content elsewhere.

I guess that's why Discord is also locked down as much. They have community content that is inaccessible anywhere else but Discord.

New comment by 0xpgm in "Five Years of Tinygrad"

0xpgm — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 10:08:19 +0000

To me, it's better than spending months of your free time grinding leetcode to get past an interview (everyone wants to hire like FAANG now).

You get a small reward in return if the contribution is accepted and you get to contribute to the world corpus of knowledge.

Eventual Rust in CPython

0xpgm — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 09:54:48 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1046933/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46442806

Points: 3

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New comment by 0xpgm in "Five Years of Tinygrad"

0xpgm — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 08:10:24 +0000

I don't think they intend to supplant cPython, but to make it easier for someone to take a piece of software written in high-productivity Python and make it more performant on specialized hardware by using a similar syntax.

Long term it can find applications outside of ML-specific hardware.

New comment by 0xpgm in "Five Years of Tinygrad"

0xpgm — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 08:04:46 +0000

Eating your own dogfood is good validation.

New comment by 0xpgm in "LLVM AI tool policy: human in the loop"

0xpgm — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 05:26:12 +0000

I think it's part of the "AI replacing software developers" hype.

Many beginners or aspiring developers swallow this whole and simply point an AI to a problem and submit the generated slop to maintainers.

Oral History of Richard Greenblatt (2005) [pdf]

0xpgm — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 15:34:44 +0000

Article URL: https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Oral_History/Greenblatt_Richard/greenblatt.oral_history_transcript.2005.102657935.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46384992

Points: 18

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