Hacker News: EraYaN

New comment by EraYaN in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

EraYaN — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:39:59 +0000

I mean at least the pipelines almost always seem to work...

New comment by EraYaN in "The RAM shortage could last years"

EraYaN — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:48:02 +0000

The real disconnect is that the user doesn't really care all that much. It's mostly the designers who care. And Qt for example but also WPF let you style components almost to unrecognizable and unusable results. So if everyone will need to make do with 8GB for the foreseeable future, designers might just be told "No.", which admittedly will be a big shock to some of them. Or maybe someone finally figures out how to do HTML+CSS in a couple of megabytes.

New comment by EraYaN in "We should revisit literate programming in the agent era"

EraYaN — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:27:38 +0000

Because the why can be completely unrelated to the code (odd business requirements etc). The code can be known to be non-optimal but it is still the correct way because the embedded system used in product XYZ has some dumb chip in it that needs it this weird way etc. Or the CEO loves this way of doing things and fires everyone who touches it. So many possibilities, most technical projects have a huge amount of politics and weird legacy behavior that someone depends on (including on internal stuff, private methods are not guaranteed to not be used by a client for example). And comments can guard against it, both for the dev and the reviewer. Hell we currently have clients depend on the exact internal layout of some PDF reports, and not even the rendered layout but that actual definitions.

New comment by EraYaN in "Museum of Plugs and Sockets"

EraYaN — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:36:41 +0000

There are GFIs that can deal with a welder, you will have to swap it at the panel.

New comment by EraYaN in "Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC"

EraYaN — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 12:37:09 +0000

No, they will point out that the way to make GCC better is not really in the code itself. It's in scientific paper writing and new approaches. Implementation is really not the most work.

New comment by EraYaN in "Accepting US car standards would risk European lives"

EraYaN — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 13:32:58 +0000

The difference is visibility, with a van you can often see as close as 1,5 m in front of you due to the short hood. The problem is a lot of the newer trucks and SUVs are so tall that a full child (or 5) just disappear in front the car.

New comment by EraYaN in "Blender Lab"

EraYaN — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:52:15 +0000

Essentially that someone needs to get involved that wants it/uses it and is also willing to pay for it.

New comment by EraYaN in "Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states"

EraYaN — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 13:56:09 +0000

Well you should mostly do that in the primaries, when you are down to two, pick the least evil one.

New comment by EraYaN in "Chaining FFmpeg with a Browser Agent"

EraYaN — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 15:10:58 +0000

Wouldn't that intern just use an NLE (be it Premiere, Davinci Resole etc) anyway? If you need to style subtitles and edit shorts and video content, you'll need a proper editor anyway.

New comment by EraYaN in "Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates"

EraYaN — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 10:14:45 +0000

The non-passing test was only added like 17 hours ago: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/14d24f7a530f58...

So this is a good thing even for coreutils itself, they will slowly find all of these untested bits and specify behaviour more clearly and add tests (hopefully).

New comment by EraYaN in "The death of thread per core"

EraYaN — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:04:30 +0000

There are some neat tricks to remove almost all the pack and unpack time. Apache Arrow can help a ton there (uses the same data format on both CPU and GPU or other accelerator). And on some unified memory systems even the send time can be very low.

New comment by EraYaN in "My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]"

EraYaN — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 13:21:59 +0000

YC isn't that unknown and you can absolutely judge that org for funding stuff like this, you really don't need that much detail. And if you have interacted with a lot of the "founders" you know that statistically you're in the clear to judge them all too. It's a pretty weird world where a lot of dumb exists, like A LOT. The realities of their lives are frankly immaterial anyway, it's about the output (and input in case of VC money).

New comment by EraYaN in "My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]"

EraYaN — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 13:15:10 +0000

Well be prepared for it to get MUCH MUCH worse, two AI agents battling it out trying to get each other to mess up. While all the human have no idea what the hell is happening.

New comment by EraYaN in "Fictional K-pop bands zoom to top of US music charts"

EraYaN — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 11:06:26 +0000

This is just an animated movie sound track which had a normal production team and voice actors.

New comment by EraYaN in "The Rise of Whatever"

EraYaN — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 09:45:58 +0000

Most of the financial services and systems are all still on very boring old databases (hell quite some cobol still touches a ton of it). Since well they don't need to get hype funding for their Series A or whatever. Databases are just pretty good and processing data efficiently. It's a tiny tiny part that actually runs on some blockchain.

New comment by EraYaN in "The Rise of Whatever"

EraYaN — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 09:34:23 +0000

If you use a nice enough writing tool it will do en/em and any other dash for you semi automatically anyway. Even Word does it when AutoFormat is turned on. Although it normally chooses the En-dash (U+2013) instead of the Em-dash (U+2014), this also depends on your language.

New comment by EraYaN in "systemd ParticleOS"

EraYaN — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 14:57:53 +0000

Well the key is to always do clean-installs and join the fleet and decommission the old machines. Machines are essentially immutable and disposable, so upgrades are done with full machines. And if anything hardware goes bad on whole or sometimes half racks.

New comment by EraYaN in "Is the world becoming uninsurable?"

EraYaN — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 10:02:00 +0000

I don't think you quite get how little money it is for these types of operations, 25m is essentially missing 2-3 zeros before it becomes anywhere near usable and even worth it to bother.

New comment by EraYaN in "Is the world becoming uninsurable?"

EraYaN — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 09:40:25 +0000

I think the point is more that the insurers are not the real target for your wrath. You should not motivate your congress person to do something about the insurance necessarily. It's probably better to look at a level further up the chain for example.

New comment by EraYaN in "Is the world becoming uninsurable?"

EraYaN — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 09:25:57 +0000

All of those are a result of American's favorite hobby though, not maintaining infrastructure, because ooh no taxes. LA has not raised enough revenue for decades it seems. The amount of pot holes in even the most expensive neighborhoods was already to damn high.

At some point the US really needs to do bit of cultural reform so they can start paying for all that low density development and the costs associated with it. So stuff can actually be maintained.