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Is it all just vapourware?

Lyngbakr — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:03:43 +0000

Article URL: https://kirahowe.com/2026/aug/8/is-it-all-just-vapourware

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235859

Points: 98

# Comments: 192

SpaceX shares sink after first earnings report reveals AI spending plans

Lyngbakr — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:45:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0qvpveg20vo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49183747

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by Lyngbakr in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

Lyngbakr — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:58:35 +0000

But I think there will be a lag. The US has (willingly) forfeited some of its soft power and we may not see the impact of that immediately.

New comment by Lyngbakr in "Natural experiments prove phytoplankton carbon removal works"

Lyngbakr — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 22:47:28 +0000

Even if you get it to the seabed, the majority will be remineralised there. And if you pump enough down there to bury significant amounts of organic carbon, the bottom waters will likely become hypoxic as a result.

New comment by Lyngbakr in "How to read more books"

Lyngbakr — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:41:48 +0000

While I like the idea of using small pockets of time for reading a few pages here and there, the practice I find more difficult. I need these few minutes for my brain to stop braining momentarily. I have tried carrying a book with me, but when I did crack it open I typically read a paragraph, reread that paragraph, and then conceded that I don't recall what I just "read".

Likely it's a me problem, but I'm mentally so tired that I simply cannot maintain an uninterrupted stream of tasks even if the interstitial spaces are filled with something I enjoy like reading.

New comment by Lyngbakr in "After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell"

Lyngbakr — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:31:03 +0000

Jane Street uses OCaml in a domain where performance matters.*

*https://signalsandthreads.com/performance-engineering-on-har...

Poly/ML – A Standard ML Implementation

Lyngbakr — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:28:06 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/polyml/polyml

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48811317

Points: 75

# Comments: 25

New comment by Lyngbakr in "Xonaly – Canada's Independent Search Engine"

Lyngbakr — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 23:15:54 +0000

Something I couldn't find info about is how this is funded, given that it is ad free and doesn't sell user data. Is it supported by a nonprofit organisation or just paid for out of the developer's pocket?

Oracle shed about 20k roles globally in the last year

Lyngbakr — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:54:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gy0x0j5deo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48643620

Points: 109

# Comments: 130

New comment by Lyngbakr in "(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)) (2010)"

Lyngbakr — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:12:00 +0000

It depends why you're doing it. Are you doing it for the product or the process? (Of course, they're not mutually exclusive.) I do it for the fun of building, in which case AI is irrelevant.

New comment by Lyngbakr in "Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages"

Lyngbakr — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:07:07 +0000

But the community repo in Alpine is vetted and reviewed unlike AUR, which is a wild west.

New comment by Lyngbakr in "US healthcare still stupidly expensive, with pathetic outcomes, study finds"

Lyngbakr — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:56:52 +0000

To be fair, the French riot in the streets when one of their teams win the Champions League[0]. I'm not sure it's a good metric.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0r2ejg1w9xo

New comment by Lyngbakr in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

Lyngbakr — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:17:21 +0000

    > You already know why, more or less. ChatGPT has over 900 million monthly active users. GitHub Copilot has 4.7 million paying subscribers as of January 2026, up roughly 75% in a year. You can’t imagine writing software without Claude Code anymore.

I read programming books and use LLMs for different purposes. With books, it's usually not to find a solution to the very specific problem I'm working on. That's what I use LLMs for because they give very focused answers. Books, on the other hand, provide much broader context that help me learn a language. Whereas with LLMs I get a solution yet tend to retain nothing. YMMV.

Most people seeking green cards must now apply from outside US

Lyngbakr — Sat, 23 May 2026 10:30:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgrpz4l1klgo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48246495

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by Lyngbakr in "The More Young People Use AI, the More They Hate It"

Lyngbakr — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:39:54 +0000

    > They are being told, on the one hand, that these tools are going to eliminate millions of jobs, and on the other that they have to use them if they don’t want to fall behind.

I'm currently reading a fascinating book called Blood In The Machine° about the Luddites who opposed certain technologies in 19th century England and the parallels with the current state of affairs. It's important to remember that while history doesn't repeat itself, it often rhymes.

° https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59801798-blood-in-the-ma...

New comment by Lyngbakr in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

Lyngbakr — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:51:17 +0000

Wow — I'm user 404!

From Data Unicorns to Data Giraffes

Lyngbakr — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:47:03 +0000

Article URL: https://spacedata.substack.com/p/from-data-unicorns-to-data-giraffes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841354

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Ne, the Nice Editor

Lyngbakr — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:16:38 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/vigna/ne

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47800755

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Cave under castle with prehistoric hippo bones 'once in a lifetime' find

Lyngbakr — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:00:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8ejjw7377jo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47800619

Points: 33

# Comments: 0

New comment by Lyngbakr in "Music for Programming"

Lyngbakr — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:45:37 +0000

I recently discovered Lorn and have been mainlining his back catalogue ever since whilst working. Thoroughly interesting and immersive yet not distracting.