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New comment by 63 in "Show HN: Ironwall, a safety-first native programming language and compiler"

63 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 01:11:49 +0000

I'm not sure most systems programmers would agree that a language with GC is suitable for their work.

"No syntactic sugar" and "no macros" sounds like a recipe for boilerplate that will be offputting for many.

Please consider adding some code samples to the front page of documentation, as syntax can be important to people.

I disagree with some other details, but I do think that a low level GC language that doesn't have some of Go's particular warts (particularly nil and error checking) is worth pursuing.

Writing the initial compiler in Typescript is an interesting choice but I suppose that won't matter after it's bootstrapped.

Ultimately it's hard for me to take the project seriously at such an early stage but I don't think it's fundamentally flawed. Good luck

New comment by 63 in "News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development"

63 — Fri, 29 May 2026 02:37:09 +0000

It seems like esp32 boards have taken over the pi's original market as developing for them has gotten easier while pis have gotten more expensive

New comment by 63 in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

63 — Fri, 29 May 2026 02:00:34 +0000

My understanding is that 50% of people in the state of Utah are mormon. I'm not saying there wasn't corruption, but it could very well be pure chance with those odds.

New comment by 63 in "Google’s AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back"

63 — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:01:45 +0000

Seems like a lot of entities are "quietly" doing things these days. The llm-ification of every piece of text on the internet is driving me crazy

New comment by 63 in "Gaining control of every projector and camera on campus"

63 — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:16:45 +0000

Even running a port scanner is enough to face disciplinary action at many US colleges. Taking down the network for the entire school for 15 minutes surely deserved more consequences than were doled out here. I'd encourage the author to focus their efforts and talents on something more constructive.

New comment by 63 in "Could a Claude Code routine watch my finances?"

63 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:29:32 +0000

Maybe my net worth is too low but I just don't see a value proposition. I don't want daily emails from LLMs and if I need updates on my investments any more often than quarterly (at most), I should probably seek safer investments. I am a bit interested in budgeting tools, but I want them to be completely deterministic. For me at least, financial planning is pretty uneventful and time spent optimizing expenses more than I already have would be better spent seeking a higher paying job.

New comment by 63 in "A Journey Through Infertility"

63 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:43:56 +0000

Another quick thought - so long as we live in a world where children in need of adoption exist, I hope we can make adopting more normal too. If you're in a position to become a parent, why on Earth would adoption not be the default? It seems much better for everyone involved. The fixation on breeding and having children whose genetics perfectly match your own is strange and mildly alarming to me.

New comment by 63 in "A Journey Through Infertility"

63 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:40:10 +0000

There's many reasons why this piece wasn't made for me, so I don't want to begrudge anyone, but I wonder how much we can do to alieve this as a society by normalizing childlessness. I never wanted to have kids, but if I did, I doubt I would've been willing to endure what the author did for it. You can (and honestly I think most people should) live a long and fulfilling life without having kids. Myself and so many of my peers were raised in households that really were not good places for children. I'm of course grateful to exist and indebted to my mother for her countless sacrifices, but it pains me to think about how much happier she might have been if she didn't feel compelled to become a mother. I hope someday having children becomes the exception rather than the norm, because it doesn't feel like something that should be taken lightly. I hope that finding out you're infertile can be met with "Oh, okay. I guess I'll do something else then," the same way that folks with imperfect vision can't be pilots or astronauts and those with tremors can't be surgeons. I'm glad IVF is available for people who want to pursue it, I just want to live in a world where no one has kids "by default" without truly accepting the toll it will take.

New comment by 63 in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

63 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:16:57 +0000

While I agree the name change has not (yet) been made with the proper authority, I'm quite partial to the name and prefer to use it despite its prematurity. I think it does a better job of communicating the types of work actually done by the department and rightly gives people pause about their support of it. Though I'm sure that wasn't the administration's intention.

New comment by 63 in "Proposal: Add "AI generated" as a flag reason"

63 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:23:19 +0000

For context, lobste.rs has been struggling lately with a high uptick in posts on the front page that were either clearly vibecoded themselves or just about vibecoding something small, while the userbase is polarizing itself into two groups: one that dislikes ai for usually ethics-related reasons and makes anti-ai comments on every post that mentions it, and a smaller but still present pro-ai group that tries to discuss using coding models in good faith. Imo it's something of an identity crisis for lobste.rs.

I realize that this comment comes off as pro-ai, but I mostly agree with the first group that a lot of these posts are low effort and annoying. To me "This weekend I used Claude Code to poorly copy someone else's markdown editor here's Claude's story of how it did it" and similar is about as interesting as "I copied a bunch of code snippets I don't understand from stack overflow, here's all the links to them."

Somehow or another, HN has done a better job of keeping up a greater variety of content on the front page so it's not as much of an issue for me here, though it does still happen on e.g. days with big model releases.

New comment by 63 in "Password managers less secure than promised"

63 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:10:07 +0000

The article is nearly useless for users of the software who want to know how their data may have been affected. The researchers' website is more descriptive, especilly wrt specific findings.

https://zkae.io/

New comment by 63 in "Eight more months of agents"

63 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:37:18 +0000

I have no problem with experienced senior devs using agents to write good code faster. What I have a problem with is inexperienced "vibecoders" who don't care to learn and instead use agents to write awful buggy code that will make the product harder to build on even for the agents. It used to be that lack of a basic understanding of the system was a barrier for people, but now it's not, so we're flooded with code written by imperfect models conducted by people who don't know good from bad.

New comment by 63 in "Claude Composer"

63 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 22:19:33 +0000

There were always musicians who were better than you. If that didn't stop you, why did AI? Were you only making music to be the best? Surely you knew that was extraordinarily unlikely. If you like making music, then make music and like it.

New comment by 63 in "Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak"

63 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 22:00:10 +0000

That's really cool. I was looking at them and thinking "I could probably make these with vanilla html/css but it'd be pretty tedious." Perfect use case for AI. I need to work on developing a reflex for it.

New comment by 63 in "US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes"

63 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:29:14 +0000

"From" other countries is overly broad and I assume not what you intended. I am actually interested though in the idea of legislating how frequently home owners have to actually be within range of the home, for example. A friend has had a hell of a time with a landlord in Malaysia who's never seen the property.

New comment by 63 in "Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner"

63 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:08:28 +0000

At least in my case, I'm pretty sure I can afford to own all the music I listen to. I only listen to 5,000 minutes per year of mostly the same few hundred songs. I've spent 8 years x 12 months x 13 = $1248 on Spotify in my life so far, so even at $.99 per song (which is above average if I buy albums), I'm losing money

New comment by 63 in "Public Domain Day 2026"

63 — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 13:52:00 +0000

Imagine all the incredible fan works that could spark careers and businesses if e.g. the original star wars trilogy were public domain, or how many indie dev studios could get started by riffing on pokemon. But alas, fans of both franchises continue to make works but can't profit from them and need to pray that Disney and Nintendo won't send lawyers after them if they get popular

New comment by 63 in "Backing up Spotify"

63 — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 23:49:41 +0000

Attracting the ire of the music industry seems like a huge, unnecessary risk. I wish they had performed this as some kind of other entity to try to keep the ebook archive protected from the fallout. I fear this will not end well.

New comment by 63 in "France is taking state actions against GrapheneOS?"

63 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:52:04 +0000

I am personally quite grateful that Edward Snowden talked to journalists.

New comment by 63 in "Programming with Less Than Nothing"

63 — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:31:08 +0000

I like the way that the framing calls attention to the disparity between academic computer science and industry software development