<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: JBits</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=JBits</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 20:23:20 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=JBits" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JBits in "I trained a small transformer in 1.5hrs and it beats many LLMs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They look at each problem individually.<p>As the ARC AGI guidelines [1] state, 'a core design principle of ARC-AGI is that the test taker must not know what the test will be.'<p>[1] <a href="https://arcprize.org/policy#dataset-security">https://arcprize.org/policy#dataset-security</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:05:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49531592</link><dc:creator>JBits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49531592</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49531592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JBits in "Mojo is now open source"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Being a superset of Python may not be necessary to be successful, but perhaps non-committally proposing it was necessary for Modular to win the funding they wanted. While lots of people indirectly run GPU kernels with PyTorch, I think the number of people wanting to write their own kernels is considerably smaller and that this niche already has established players (plenty of whom even already build on top of MLIR), making Mojo's most obvious use case difficult to sell.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:52:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395544</link><dc:creator>JBits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395544</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JBits in "Mojo is now open source"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think it was there for marketing purposes and that there was little actual intention to work on it.<p>From the roadmap:<p>>Mojo may or may not evolve into a full superset of Python, and it's okay if it doesn't.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:40:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49385421</link><dc:creator>JBits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49385421</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49385421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JBits in "Mojo is now open source"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think the goal of being a true Python superset ever existed.<p>Given that there are so many failed attempts to optimise arbitrary Python code, it was dubious from the start. Furthermore, the documentation completely ignored these challenges and made it clear that Mojo's goal was to compile to MLIR in order to write kernels for machine learning. The first example of Mojo code was a low level matrix multiplication kernel taking advantage of fancy compilation features and the documentation advertised pointers inspired by Rust's move semantics, neither of which are typically considered friendly or relevant to high level programmers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 23:17:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49381599</link><dc:creator>JBits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49381599</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49381599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JBits in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>An AI able to play Slay the Spire sounds pretty impressive!<p>What do you mean by agent in this context? Does it mean LLMs?<p>What search problem are you solving for deck building and is MCTS for combat the same as that in Go AIs?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 01:36:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238264</link><dc:creator>JBits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238264</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JBits in "Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At the time, Java ran on the web so he could easily share demos.<p>He used LWJGL, which probably covered a lot of his library needs.<p>Java has a JIT, so it's not comparable to Ruby and Perl.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 02:22:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48973733</link><dc:creator>JBits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48973733</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48973733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JBits in "Why Vanilla JavaScript"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is it mainly the reactivity part of Vue that you benefit from, or are there other aspects which are important?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 02:31:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48887157</link><dc:creator>JBits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48887157</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48887157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JBits in "Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>While perhaps this is on me for not stating my position while repeating Bill's comment, I think you are unfairly assuming bad faith.<p>You are wrong to state that I am motivated by fanatism or jealousy.<p>I have no involvement whatever with Odin and am in agreement with the parent article (though I think it's personal criticisms veer a bit too far). The creator of Odin using Odin at jangafx is not an appropriate source in my view.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:28:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48784931</link><dc:creator>JBits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48784931</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48784931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JBits in "Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is disappointing to see that the v programming language has a Wikipedia article given it's history of being essentially fraudulent.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 01:08:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48781749</link><dc:creator>JBits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48781749</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48781749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JBits in "Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Perhaps it is because Malbolge is notable within the category of esolangs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:56:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48781680</link><dc:creator>JBits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48781680</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48781680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JBits in "LuaJIT 3.0 proposed syntax extensions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is there any reason why they're not considering a single '?' like rust? Is it a parsing issue?<p>So you'd have: obj?:method(…)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:46:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672532</link><dc:creator>JBits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672532</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JBits in "The Coming Loop"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But it demonstrates that LLMs struggle with basic reasoning.
A criticism of LLMs is that they're imitating without a understanding of what they're doing and without a clear plan, so this inability to solve a simple logic puzzle is very relevant.
If LLMs didn't struggle with reasoning problems then something like ARC-AGI wouldn't exist.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:04:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48650551</link><dc:creator>JBits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48650551</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48650551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JBits in "Mojo 1.0 Beta"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you're happy with NumPy's API, then surely JAX is exactly what you're looking for.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 23:46:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070160</link><dc:creator>JBits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070160</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JBits in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can't claim to have superior knowledge if you admit you're wrong.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:00:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47634430</link><dc:creator>JBits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47634430</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47634430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JBits in "Minecraft Java is switching from OpenGL to Vulkan"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Once this happens, players will be able to switch between OpenGL rendering and Vulkan rendering<p>I think this means you'll be able to continue using Minecraft with OpenGL.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 08:54:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071546</link><dc:creator>JBits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071546</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JBits in "Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What would be the best way to use Vulkan 1.4 in Rust today?
Using the C headers with bindgen or writing my own vk.xml generator?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 23:38:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009371</link><dc:creator>JBits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009371</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JBits in "Adobe Animate (formerly Flash) will be discontinued on March 1st"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Clip Studio Paint seems very popular for animation.
You could also consider Aseprite for pixel art animation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:57:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46864771</link><dc:creator>JBits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46864771</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46864771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JBits in "Spherical Snake"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Really fun!
Developing my intuition for a sphere as I played was a nice experience.
As other commenters have mentioned, the game ramps up a bit too slowly. Perhaps it would worth adding more than one food item.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 01:23:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46521325</link><dc:creator>JBits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46521325</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46521325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JBits in "Python numbers every programmer should know"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One of the reasons I'm really excited about JAX is that I hope it will allow me to write fast Python code without worrying about these details.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 21:21:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46458120</link><dc:creator>JBits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46458120</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46458120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JBits in "Unity's Mono problem: C# code runs slower than it should"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Has the talent moved to anywhere in particular?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 08:14:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46418514</link><dc:creator>JBits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46418514</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46418514</guid></item></channel></rss>