Hacker News: Iridescent_

New comment by Iridescent_ in "Zig's new bitCast semantics and LLVM back end improvements"

Iridescent_ — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:51:58 +0000

I think Andrew is a big part of it, and the people he surrounded himself with are the other part. What kind of pre-1.0 language hosts conventions? Crazy that they manage to do that. Andrew's vision has always been clear and inspiring to me. I think this got Zig its initial following, and they have capitalized extremely well on it to grow as a community.

New comment by Iridescent_ in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

Iridescent_ — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:20:40 +0000

How do you even warp these things? Had mine for 3y, sturdy as hell. So sturdy in fact that the only piece I've had to replace is the charger, what's the point in swappable parts now right? /s

New comment by Iridescent_ in "Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank"

Iridescent_ — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:52:37 +0000

Well it sure must seem real for Palestinians. And it's just called life on Earth.

New comment by Iridescent_ in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

Iridescent_ — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:09:58 +0000

It has a very lego-like feeling, with simple, orthogonal design that lets you build the language and constructs you need. Very elegant.

New comment by Iridescent_ in "Neovim 0.12.0"

Iridescent_ — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:06:10 +0000

Kakoune has replaced many features with multicursor, including the sed-like commands (where you just select an area, search for patterns inside it to create the multiple cursors, then perform regular edits (which also means you can perform much more complex than simple replaces). It is really useful for refactors, e.g. even if you don't have any LSP (e.g. for plain text) you can easily rename symbols, reorder/select in log files, etc

New comment by Iridescent_ in "What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust"

Iridescent_ — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:34:29 +0000

Rust has editions for strong stability guarantees, and has had them for nearly a decade i believe. Besides, tech backing has grown way past the risky point.

New comment by Iridescent_ in "Lightpanda migrate DOM implementation to Zig"

Iridescent_ — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:18:30 +0000

This one is far from prod-ready however

New comment by Iridescent_ in "The New Right-Wing Tech Intelligentsia"

Iridescent_ — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 20:16:36 +0000

Who deserves to receive help (and, by contrast, who is undeserving of even basic decency) should never, ever be the decision of a few ploutocrats. The state should decide on such matters, and be the upholder of equality. Else, misery becomes a contest for who can be the most compelling, most attractive miserable to the elites.

New comment by Iridescent_ in "Using LLMs at Oxide"

Iridescent_ — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 09:51:51 +0000

> Oxide employees bear responsibility for the artifacts we create, whatever automation we might employ to create them.

Yes, allow the use of LLMs, encourage your employees to use them to move faster by rewarding "performance" regardless of risks, but make sure to place responsibility of failure upon them so that when it happens, the company culture should not be blamed.

New comment by Iridescent_ in "Flight disruption warning as Airbus requests modifications to 6k planes"

Iridescent_ — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 21:53:22 +0000

The proper reaction when you have a potential issue in your engineering

New comment by Iridescent_ in "Liberté, égalité, Radioactivité"

Iridescent_ — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 19:31:07 +0000

We have the ecologists we deserve... and boy do we not deserve anything nice... Afaik this is one of the least terrible of them we have...

New comment by Iridescent_ in "Hypervisor 101 in Rust"

Iridescent_ — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 06:11:41 +0000

No, that would be https://1000hv.seiya.me/en/ Easy mistake to make though, it is the 3rd such guide being posted in a week, definitely seems like the subject has a lot of traction.

New comment by Iridescent_ in "Code formatting comes to uv experimentally"

Iridescent_ — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 05:25:39 +0000

Not all devs have very deep knowledge of the ecosystem, some will get to use a tool only if it's part of the default set of tools they're provided. Plus, it saves on memorizing a name if you only use python once in a long while. There just isn't much of a reason not to.

New comment by Iridescent_ in "Ask HN: Does the Framework laptop stand the test of time?"

Iridescent_ — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 09:18:05 +0000

I fully expect that the intention is to force you into opening up the laptop to install the RAM. RAM is so easy to install that there's basically no risk of the customer messing up, and it exposes you to how easy it is to open up your laptop and how high quality the build is. Worked very well for me, I knew I would not accept buying anything of a lower standard before I even powered it on for the first time.

New comment by Iridescent_ in "Limits to Growth (1972)"

Iridescent_ — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 15:28:56 +0000

Shale oil is extremely unreliable, and its producers have barely ever been able to make any margins out of it because the required investments are heavy and constants. Wells reach maturity after months or weeks, and then they need to be replaced. If we have not yet reached peak all oils, then it will probably happen in the coming years.

New comment by Iridescent_ in "Limits to Growth (1972)"

Iridescent_ — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 15:26:39 +0000

Conventional has already peaked, and it is possible that even producers will decide to stop extracting nonconventional oil because it is too expensive and the price of a barrel fluctuates too much (IEA 2020)

New comment by Iridescent_ in "Brian Kernighan Reflects on Unix: A History and a Memoir [video]"

Iridescent_ — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 22:00:32 +0000

Read it too, and I had a similar feeling. To me it was the thought that we will probably never see a place like Bell labs -a temple to knowledge, to gather great minds and let them work on whatever they think might have interesting outcomes, no matter how long it takes to obtain results and without having to worry about short-term financial issues. Now researchers -in my country anyways- are forced into mostly researching ways to obtain funding and doing a little bit of actual research, almost as a side gig.

New comment by Iridescent_ in "Determinism in League of Legends: Implementation (2017)"

Iridescent_ — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 16:18:56 +0000

Except the strike is not really against LoL as a game, but as one of the largest clients of the actually targeted company. The strike is purely an industry strike and does not have much to do with players, as it originates in the VA company trying to pull a scummy move to bypass an union. The strike's goal was to force Riot to take position and disavow the company, which has been successful.

New comment by Iridescent_ in "Are We Anti-Cheat Yet?"

Iridescent_ — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 05:55:20 +0000

Not trusting the clients and redoing all calculations server-side would require massive processing on the server side. Your idea then multiplies the load on the server.

New comment by Iridescent_ in "UltimateAntiCheat"

Iridescent_ — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 20:24:10 +0000

Well of course if you sell it