Hacker News: Bootvis

New comment by Bootvis in "I was just scammed by Polymarket"

Bootvis — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:12:33 +0000

It’s a terrible adage. There are thousands of ways to cheat honest people that place bets. For example, they definitely cheated everyone that only placed bets before June.

New comment by Bootvis in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

Bootvis — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:45:47 +0000

He went to prison, served his time, paid his debt to society. There is no need for further punishment.

New comment by Bootvis in "The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble"

Bootvis — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:30:23 +0000

But do they use it when their homework is due?

New comment by Bootvis in "Show HN: Daemons – we pivoted from building agents to cleaning up after them"

Bootvis — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:49:33 +0000

I do really like the idea.

But pardon my ignorance, but one could quite easily roll this themselves? Script the hooks and fire off a headless agent with a hook specific prompt.

New comment by Bootvis in "France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain"

Bootvis — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:56:20 +0000

What is the benefit of realizing the gains for France? They had gold, they still have gold. They don't pay tax on their gold or gains.

New comment by Bootvis in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

Bootvis — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:05:24 +0000

> Nice

< Look at the tasteful colouring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God.

New comment by Bootvis in "A single-file C allocator with explicit heaps and tuning knobs"

Bootvis — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:55:47 +0000

On the other hand, others don’t have to adopt, use or like your stuff which would be the reasons to publish it.

One big commit definitely doesn’t help with creating confidence in this project.

New comment by Bootvis in "Atlassian says it had right to fire engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk'"

Bootvis — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:48:01 +0000

Proving her point.

VolaDynamics/vtz: A C++ timezone library offering performance for date and time

Bootvis — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:37:22 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/VolaDynamics/vtz/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47375619

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Bootvis in "Show HN: The Mog Programming Language"

Bootvis — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:08:20 +0000

Also for a * b + c ? I know clang tidy wants me to do this but I think it is overkill.

Ibex – Typed DataFrame DSL

Bootvis — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:11:53 +0000

Article URL: https://bobjansen.github.io/Ibex/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47171416

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Ibex: A Typed DataFrame Language with C++ Code Generation

Bootvis — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 13:32:38 +0000

Article URL: https://bobjansen.net/ibex-a-typed-dataframe-language-with-c-code-generation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110873

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Trump's Global Tariffs Struck Down by US Supreme Court

Bootvis — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:06:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-20/trump-s-global-tariffs-struck-down-by-us-supreme-court

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47088902

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by Bootvis in "Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship"

Bootvis — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:06:26 +0000

From the Stockfish docs at https://official-stockfish.github.io/docs/stockfish-wiki/Sto....

> Rating Stockfish against a human scale, such as FIDE Elo, has become virtually impossible. The gap in strength is so large that a human player cannot secure the necessary draws or wins for an accurate Elo measurement.

[1]: https://computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/

Intel and SoftBank Subsidiary Saimemory Collaborate to Advance Next-Gen Memory

Bootvis — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:24:09 +0000

Article URL: https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Intel/Policy-Intel/Intel-and-SoftBank-Subsidiary-SAIMEMORY-Collaborate-to-Advance/post/1735559

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873942

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Bootvis in "xAI joins SpaceX"

Bootvis — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:38:09 +0000

A large telecommunications satellite operates at about 15kW. A Blackwell GPU consumes 1kW so you would be at 15 Blackwells per satellite. The cooling surface needs to scale linearly so there is little return to scale.

This doesn't sound like a good idea to me.

New comment by Bootvis in "In praise of –dry-run"

Bootvis — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 21:31:13 +0000

There is no relation.

New comment by Bootvis in "Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning"

Bootvis — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:46:06 +0000

The phone not being steady matters for sound recording? How?

New comment by Bootvis in "I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?"

Bootvis — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 21:10:34 +0000

The author was frustrated that the error message identified him as an organisation (that was disabled) and mockingly refers to himself as the (disabled) organisation in the post.

At least, that’s my reading but it appears it confuses about half of the commenters here.

New comment by Bootvis in "Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced"

Bootvis — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 06:39:17 +0000

Should have asked Claude how to write it better.