Hacker News: Decabytes

New comment by Decabytes in "Libghostty 1.0"

Decabytes — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 01:14:37 +0000

I’m curious why they chose to use C for this as opposed to Zig with a c like interface.

New comment by Decabytes in "Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11"

Decabytes — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:43:36 +0000

Would probably be Emacs for me

New comment by Decabytes in "Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]"

Decabytes — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 15:38:09 +0000

It’s funny to see people in the STEM field focus more on the human aspect of creation. It used to be that the result mattered more than your feelings. Now we are moving the goal posts about how things should be done.

I wonder if we will begin to actual value human creation more at the end of all of this

New comment by Decabytes in "How SpaceX streamlined the Raptor engine"

Decabytes — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 14:17:16 +0000

He also unbanned a lot of people and got Trump back, got to ride the AI wave with Grok, pushed paid subscriptions and implemented paying people for tweeting. I would argue growing the platform by bringing back people that were brought back for violating the original rules is not a win. Nor is attracting people to the platform that follow those people, Nor is riding the AI train.

And even with all of that, the new users, the AI, the paid subscriptions, None none of that actually fixed the major underlying issues that Twitter is not profitable. Jack Dorsey couldn’t fix it and neither did Elon. I think he just realized having a modern media platform he controls is more powerful than it making money. He inherited a platform built by someone else, and keeps the lights on with a skeleton crew. I don’t see that as a success

New comment by Decabytes in "Swift 6.4 Released"

Decabytes — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:32:17 +0000

Yes to the subprocess 1.0. CommandLine utils are how I try out any new language. I feel like Swift hits the sweet spot for me in terms of safety, cross platform capability, ahead of time compilation, and automatic memory management compared to other languages currently available.

New comment by Decabytes in "Mistral raises €3B"

Decabytes — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:15:54 +0000

So what is the sentiment on Mistral? Does it get the same hate as other AI companies? Or does its European and open focus make people give it some slack? It doesn’t really seem like anti AI people care if something was AI generated with Mistral vs something else. If it’s AI generated it is bad and that’s that.

Doesn’t seem like if LibreOffice partnered with Mistral for more ethical AI features, people would be excited about it

New comment by Decabytes in "Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice"

Decabytes — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 20:25:01 +0000

I feel like setting up the social media is a solved problem. And while getting users is hard, if you hook up to the fediverse, you can piggy back off other Platforms. I think the harder problem is making it profitable

New comment by Decabytes in "ChatGPT Is Throwing 404"

Decabytes — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:36:01 +0000

Laughs in small local model

New comment by Decabytes in "GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven"

Decabytes — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:31:20 +0000

I moved to KDE from Gnome for a variety of reasons, but I genuinely miss Gnome and Native GTK apps. They weren't as customizable, but the features you did get work so well.

One of my main issues with KDE is that the default keybindings for desktop operations feel like they were designed by people who don't navigate their desktop with a keyboard.

Then there are little things like in Gnome the screenshot implicitly copies to the clipboard, while in KDE you have to click the copy button. There are just little points of friction I experience in KDE that make me yearn for Gnome's workflow. I think my ideal world I would have a KDE desktop that used all the Gnome shortcuts, and worked more like Gnome.

New comment by Decabytes in "Stop Making TUIs"

Decabytes — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 11:42:32 +0000

Isn’t the GUI version of a TUI just an Electron app?

New comment by Decabytes in "Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?"

Decabytes — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:18:01 +0000

One think I think is strange about the m programming world we live in now is the mythologization of pre llm code. As if people weren’t copying code from stack overflow, auto completing their way through APIs using intellisense, intellicode, tab nine, or checking in code there didn’t properly test or understand

New comment by Decabytes in "Writergate: Zig I/O Interface Overhaul"

Decabytes — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:17:18 +0000

Can someone help me understand the advantage of no hidden control in this context? Are people really optimizingI/O interfaces such that they need an api that is verbose just for the sake of having no hidden flow?

It feels to me that most people will just use the abstracted interface instead

New comment by Decabytes in "Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering"

Decabytes — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:27:28 +0000

As expected Google completely forgets about it’s other language, Dart

New comment by Decabytes in "To save C, we must save ABI (2022)"

Decabytes — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:35:42 +0000

One of the most frustrating things in my opinion about new systems languages, is that they refuse to have a stable ability to, so everything has to pretend to be C at the boundaries.

New comment by Decabytes in "Chicken Scheme 6.0"

Decabytes — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:09:32 +0000

Why do people use chicken over gambit? Is it due to chicken’s larger ego system and eggs, or is there more?

New comment by Decabytes in "Squeak 6.1"

Decabytes — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:10:41 +0000

one thing I love about Smalltalk is being able to inspect the code as it's running. Especially from the GUI. You can just be like Oh I wonder where the code for this button is from, inspect it, and it takes you right to the code. It's a shame we can't have this level of introspection without negative performance implications.

New comment by Decabytes in "Why Do Fewer Renters Expect to Move?"

Decabytes — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:53:19 +0000

It is very common in Japan to have to pay key money when moving in, which is typically 1-2 months of rent. This isn’t like a security deposit as it is non refundable and is basically a “thank you for letting me live here”

Also if you are actually getting paid in Yen then the gap narrows between NY and Tokyo. Then there is the fact that your home could be destroyed in a massive earthquake but everyone has a different price for that risk

New comment by Decabytes in "SwiftUI After 7 Years"

Decabytes — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:25:37 +0000

There was a post on here awhile ago from Jeffrey Snovers blog about how Microsoft screwed this up as well. Given how many people have moved to electron, and how big companies don’t seem to be able to handle native GUI’s anymore, have we just made the desktops too complicated?

New comment by Decabytes in "Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6"

Decabytes — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:06:17 +0000

Has anyone ever done a comparison between the smaller models like Luna, against the previous GPT 5 frontier models? Have we gotten to the point where the small models are as good as the frontier models of the past, or is there still a way to go?

New comment by Decabytes in "Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2"

Decabytes — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:22:31 +0000

As someone who didn’t play many of the point and click adventures growing up, thimbleweed park was a lot of fun. I also like the genre more than visual novels. I kind of felt like the dialogue was supposed to be cheesy so I just rolled with it. Were some of the things a little frustrating? Yea, but I think there is a lot of life left in this genre and I’m sure Ron will make some improvements. I can’t wait to play the next one.