Hacker News: 392

New comment by 392 in "Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran"

392 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:32:52 +0000

origins are very relative, it seems to have [started a bit before](https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/176965/what-do-i-a...) :D

New comment by 392 in "Valen's Memory Safety: A New Kind of Borrow Checking"

392 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 13:49:27 +0000

You are in good company.

https://venge.net/graydon/talks/VectorizedInterpretersTalk-2...

New comment by 392 in "Shaders, WebGPU Components for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, JavaScript and Framer"

392 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:11:57 +0000

I am on a $3k Macbook and scrolling on shaders.com yielded a few frames of blank screen jank before the rest of the page rendered. This is unacceptable performance for serious websites, but I appreciate the new heights that webshit attains each year.

New comment by 392 in "EmbeddingGemma 2: An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model"

392 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:19:16 +0000

well EG2 doesn't have an encoder so can't use it for OCR, for one

New comment by 392 in "Polars 2.0"

392 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:23:49 +0000

my understanding is Polars is faster, scales better without using external solutions, better API, +Rust. Pandas wins if you want to use what the vast majority of folks are using and have used in the past. Probably has a more complete set of helpers / recipes for the little things you bump into when using it thoroughly, but in the age of LLMs, I think that's minor.

New comment by 392 in "Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams"

392 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:59:40 +0000

I understand that approach before LLMs made mechanical porting super easy

New comment by 392 in "The death of web development education"

392 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 02:22:48 +0000

Agreed entirely. It is the birth of true software "engineering" for the masses rather than the pile of coders we had before.

New comment by 392 in "Writing Rust code that's fast by asking agents to make the code faster"

392 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 23:32:36 +0000

Well if any labs want to scrape my knowledge of such things into model weights or faster training runs, I do consulting at movsoft.io :-)

It really is [as simple](https://github.com/ratatui/ratatui/pull/281#issuecomment-160...) as the Molly rocket video about terminals makes it seem; I am sure the models will catch up eventually. They have to overcome a lot of bad training data in most languages, but I find in Rust they usually do ok the first time.

New comment by 392 in "What will our economic future look like?"

392 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 01:24:03 +0000

I'm sure their numbers show the tablet in use, as corporate desires. I place my order with the waitress and she picks up the tablet to place it, citing "that's what they want us to do"

New comment by 392 in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

392 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 02:47:10 +0000

I think it's a plausible play that keeps the AI boom in session for a year or two longer.

Or at least, $13b to stay at the head of the race (or keep the race running) must be worth it to someone's desk.

There's only $50b in datacenter buildout nationally (Source: Gemini, 2026).

So it is a bit of a puzzling choice for what amounts to a pile of software, in my opinion. but I don't know shit.

New comment by 392 in "Crafting QR Codes: A deep dive into QR code art (2024)"

392 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:27:17 +0000

I resent the accusation that no one uses the all caps version :-)

I found support for generating it to be hit or miss with the free online generators, but it really improved scannability for a QR I was pasting onto a vehicle!

New comment by 392 in "Back to the Future of Handwriting Recognition (2016)"

392 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:51:40 +0000

what is the state of the art now, that runs on-device? the article didn't mention the Q$ family, but I haven't found anything better than that plus mixing/co-judging with a dynamic-time-warping based approach

New comment by 392 in "The Cold Email"

392 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:22:07 +0000

You should ask him if we can read the email please :-)

New comment by 392 in "Rayforce"

392 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:33:06 +0000

Perhaps the fact that 99+% of today's workloads could be running on the client if it were as easy as shipping Rayforce and the data directly to the client.

Besides that, pure C that you can embed into your app is much easier to deploy for some (and likely 100x more performant) than stuff that comes via Helm chart [cries in JVM 'big'-data solutions]

New comment by 392 in "Ask HN: What hard problems are still underexplored?"

392 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 19:32:09 +0000

I've been experimenting in this space, where might I find a guide for what to build that would be useful to you? I suspect most existing approaches are an order of magnitude slower and harder to use than they need to be.

New comment by 392 in "America Has Become a Digital Narco-State"

392 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:19:03 +0000

Did the decades of Oxy which caused this epidemic not count as safe and legal access? I suspect we've tried allowing opiates more than once or twice in the millenia we've been here.

New comment by 392 in "Ask HN: How does one get involved in FPGA development?"

392 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 02:00:21 +0000

What would you plug this FPGA into? Where will you trade? How much more will you make thanks to the FPGA's lower latency?

New comment by 392 in "Jury trials scrapped for crimes with sentences of less than three years"

392 — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:54:09 +0000

Magna Carta: 1215 Boolean logic: 1847

New comment by 392 in "Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?"

392 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 13:02:08 +0000

Email your audiologist and ask for your audiogram. Should be straightforward to apply an equalizer to match it, esp if can find an equalizer with db(a? m?) labels

New comment by 392 in "Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?"

392 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 12:57:07 +0000

Least equipped to provide? They've been working on machine learning algos for exactly this purpose for twenty years.