Hacker News: Malp

Where Is the JVM Tax?

Malp — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:05:01 +0000

Article URL: https://semyonsinchenko.github.io/ssinchenko/post/jvm-tax/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267734

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by Malp in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

Malp — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:57:29 +0000

This looks great, will beta test over the coming weeks.

Your Agent is a Distributed System (and fails like one)

Malp — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:20:53 +0000

Article URL: https://maheshba.bitbucket.io/blog/2026/04/24/agentfailures.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47910117

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Malp in "Zipf's Law and Sharding"

Malp — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:35:14 +0000

Thanks!

Zipf's Law and Sharding

Malp — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:09:28 +0000

Article URL: https://nvartolomei.com/zipf-s-law-and-sharding/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478325

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by Malp in "Show HN: Coi – A language that compiles to WASM, beats React/Vue"

Malp — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 13:52:05 +0000

Very interesting! Have you considered posting this to HN (again - looks like it was when it first came out & 2 years ago)?

The Debug Adapter Protocol is a REPL protocol in disguise

Malp — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:51:38 +0000

Article URL: https://zignar.net/2025/06/23/debug-adapter-protocol-is-a-repl-protocol/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46165555

Points: 36

# Comments: 5

New comment by Malp in "Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter"

Malp — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 13:52:23 +0000

This is some solid work and a great blog post to go hand-in-hand with. Wow.

New comment by Malp in "Lightstorm: Minimalistic Ruby Compiler"

Malp — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 13:59:22 +0000

Awesome to see the progress made by Alex, highly recommend watching the linked talk for people interested in any of Ruby, (AoT) compilers, and MLIR (which I haven't seen used too much outside of the ML space, personally)

New comment by Malp in "Ruby 3.4.0"

Malp — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 15:07:58 +0000

Just-in-time compilation of Ruby allowing you to elide a lot of the overhead of dynamic language features + executing optimized machine code instead of running in the VM / bytecode interpreter.

For example, doing some loop unrolling for a piece of code with a known & small-enough fixed-size iteration. As another example, doing away with some dynamic dispatch / method lookup for a call site, or inlining methods - especially handy given Ruby's first class support for dynamic code generation, execution, redefinition (monkey patching).

From https://railsatscale.com/2023-12-04-ruby-3-3-s-yjit-faster-w...,

> In particular, YJIT is now able to better handle calls with splats as well as optional parameters, it’s able to compile exception handlers, and it can handle megamorphic call sites and instance variable accesses without falling back to the interpreter.

> We’ve also implemented specialized inlined primitives for certain core method calls such as Integer#!=, String#!=, Kernel#block_given?, Kernel#is_a?, Kernel#instance_of?, Module#===, and more. It also inlines trivial Ruby methods that only return a constant value such as #blank? and specialized #present? from Rails. These can now be used without needing to perform expensive method calls in most cases.

Debugging a Go runtime crash: the one-instruction window

Malp — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 14:59:09 +0000

Article URL: https://nsrip.com/posts/oneinstruction.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42172875

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

How to investigate memory usage of your rust program (2022)

Malp — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 21:37:24 +0000

Article URL: https://quickwit.io/blog/memory-inspector-gadget

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42130272

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Using QEMU-user emulation to reverse engineer binaries (2021)

Malp — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 13:35:13 +0000

Article URL: https://ariadne.space/2021/05/05/using-qemu-user-emulation-to-reverse-engineer-binaries/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42115347

Points: 9

# Comments: 2

New comment by Malp in "Google loses antitrust suit over search deals on phones"

Malp — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 22:26:07 +0000

I recommend trying out Quiche Browser on iOS, or Orion from Kagi- both will support Kagi as a search option. Spotlight search still goes to Google, but I find that acceptable.

JumpBackHash: Say Goodbye to the Modulo Operation to Distribute Keys Uniformly

Malp — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 13:52:30 +0000

Article URL: https://engineering.dynatrace.com/blog/jumpbackhash-say-goodbye-to-the-modulo-operation-to-distribute-keys-uniformly-to-buckets/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40002156

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by Malp in "FunSearch: Making new discoveries in mathematical sciences using LLMs"

Malp — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 18:03:15 +0000

Ditto, this seems to have some parallels to the neurosymbolic ideas being explored by Lab V2 at ASU

The Internal State of an LLM Knows When It's Lying

Malp — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 17:56:03 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13734

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38435614

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Charctic Interactive Sea Ice Graph

Malp — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 12:49:20 +0000

Article URL: https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37899124

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Malp in "Kagi finally let me lay Google Search to rest"

Malp — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 18:26:51 +0000

Both are written in Crystal, interestingly enough

New comment by Malp in "Kagi finally let me lay Google Search to rest"

Malp — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 18:23:14 +0000

I had similar thoughts about a year ago. My experience is that the results are that good, though sometimes there are changes under the hood which lead to poor or limited results- it is a beta project, after all. I used the free trial, following which I stayed on the monthly sub before paying a lump sum of $100 for the next 10 months. I've enjoyed my correspondence with the CEO as well. YMMV