Hacker News: Mond_

New comment by Mond_ in "AI 2027 (2025)"

Mond_ — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:47:04 +0000

> Hacker News Guidelines

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

New comment by Mond_ in "Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft"

Mond_ — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:35:12 +0000

Where did you hear that it got pushed back out? It's going strong as far as I can tell.

New comment by Mond_ in "Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI"

Mond_ — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:45:00 +0000

Tao is so incredibly ahead of the curve in this regard that you trying to accuse him of not "going with the program" is a bit silly.

He's not an AI Luddite by any means.

What makes $BigTechCompany's products bad, anyway?

Mond_ — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:42:00 +0000

Article URL: https://herecomesthemoon.net/2026/09/why-is-big-tech-bad/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49635634

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by Mond_ in "Google Antigravity introduces Boost deep reasoning (/boost)"

Mond_ — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:10:21 +0000

absolutely crazy to make this a "paid tier user" feature.

the primary difference between the free and the paid versions should be the amount of inference quota you have access to

New comment by Mond_ in "C++26: Standard Library Hardening Experiments"

Mond_ — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:51:44 +0000

This does sound a lot like there's a real risk of C++ imploding, in some form or another. (Arguably, it has been in that state for a while now.)

I personally agree that contracts probably shouldn't be in the standard, but this whole situation looks like a mess.

New comment by Mond_ in "Mojo is now open source"

Mond_ — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:56:52 +0000

I don't think this goal was ever realistic, it was just a marketing pitch to get a foot in the door.

New comment by Mond_ in "Linux 7.2"

Mond_ — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:54:48 +0000

I run Linux as my primary operating system and I have never even heard of eBPF! I'd be surprised if most end users have.

New comment by Mond_ in "Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion"

Mond_ — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:55:16 +0000

> I don't know why this comment's getting down voted.

Because just calling something bad does not add a lot to the conversation. It's not thoughtful, interesting, or good.

Remaking Party House

Mond_ — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:27:04 +0000

Article URL: https://herecomesthemoon.net/2026/08/remaking-party-house/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49249234

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Mond_ in "Thoroughly Understanding C++ ABI (2024)"

Mond_ — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:57:35 +0000

Afaik Herb Sutter largely stopped working on Cppfront a few months ago, and was never quite supposed to be a real thing, just a personal playground (or so Sutter claims at this point, anyway).

Afaik Carbon is at this point the only attempt at a successor language that's still going?

New comment by Mond_ in "Rust project goals: Immobile types and guaranteed destructors"

Mond_ — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:08:24 +0000

Stupid question, can't this trivially be solved by having a movable constructor / builder type that then gets turned into a non-movable type when built?

New comment by Mond_ in "LuaJIT 3.0 proposed syntax extensions"

Mond_ — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:28:56 +0000

It's not about having to remember them, it's that you shouldn't waste these short single symbols on operations that are only rarely used.

This stuff (especially the ternary) are a step backwards. There is just no reason to waste | on a bitwise or that gets used at 1% of the frequency of the standard or. In the future you might have a better use for it (pipeline syntax, sum or union types come to mind in other languages).

I dislike basically everything about these syntax extensions.

New comment by Mond_ in "Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation"

Mond_ — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:48:10 +0000

> Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy less unhappiness

> Money can very much buy happiness. Most of the things that make you unhappy can be remedied with money

Was it too hard to read beyond the first comma?

New comment by Mond_ in "I hate compilers"

Mond_ — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:50:42 +0000

It's their own blog and they can do whatever they feel like to break up the flow. I think it's quite charming tbh

New comment by Mond_ in "C++: The Documentary"

Mond_ — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:11:47 +0000

Sort specifically is kind of a weird example, but C++ is full of awful naming.

std::map (which is not a hash map, which is what most people would expect), std::move (which doesn't move), std::vector (which is not a vector), and std::vector (which is not even a std::vector).

New comment by Mond_ in "C++: The Documentary"

Mond_ — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:06:38 +0000

Yes, with the trade-off of essentially requiring exceptions, which are also banned in some codebases.

New comment by Mond_ in "C++: The Documentary"

Mond_ — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:03:37 +0000

Is it really, though, or is it just in comparison to C++?

Tbh I never expected that experiment to go anywhere. I guess that leaves Carbon (and large scale efforts to rewrite C++ in Rust).

New comment by Mond_ in "Bitburner, programming-based incremental game"

Mond_ — Fri, 29 May 2026 06:02:22 +0000

May I ask how far you got? It's not a good representation of industrial engineering, for sure, but I do like the actual logistics management and "how do I deal with my technical debt" later in the game. I think most of this only really gets interesting once you use trains everywhere and build everything with bots.

New comment by Mond_ in "Google's Antigravity bait and switch"

Mond_ — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:13:37 +0000

It isn't anymore, though, that's kind of the whole point of the article.