Hacker News: ReactiveJelly

New comment by ReactiveJelly in "The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025)"

ReactiveJelly — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 05:04:40 +0000

> Carve something into plastic, on the other hand, and it can survive decades. Substitute plastic for metal, and you just turned decades into centuries.

"I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted."

New comment by ReactiveJelly in "The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025)"

ReactiveJelly — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 04:54:04 +0000

It is definitely a "Macbook Pro on a wooden table at a coffee shop, owner with tattoos and stylish facial hair" kind of website

New comment by ReactiveJelly in "Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering"

ReactiveJelly — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 03:20:51 +0000

It looks like Go is memory safe for single threads and channels, but not for shared memory between threads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language)#Lack...

> Go's internal data structures like interface values, slice headers, hash tables, and string headers are not immune to data races, so type and memory safety can be violated in multithreaded programs that modify shared instances of those types without synchronization.[113][114]

New comment by ReactiveJelly in "To recruit teachers, school districts are building homes"

ReactiveJelly — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:09:25 +0000

A land value tax would fix this

New comment by ReactiveJelly in "I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them"

ReactiveJelly — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 04:52:59 +0000

The computer / phone should auto-detect and tell you on-screen

New comment by ReactiveJelly in "I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them"

ReactiveJelly — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 04:52:19 +0000

Today my phone said "Charging slowly" and it wasn't charging at all.

I miss MiniUSB. MiniUSB was always good to me.

New comment by ReactiveJelly in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

ReactiveJelly — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 04:41:31 +0000

Hm. I wonder how many relays I'd need to make a physical MNIST classifier. That'd be dope

New comment by ReactiveJelly in "Quake – 30th Anniversary Update"

ReactiveJelly — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 04:15:31 +0000

It's a subscription service! When the vinyl wears out, buy another!

New comment by ReactiveJelly in "An SLM trained on $8 ESP32-S3"

ReactiveJelly — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:07:03 +0000

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those

New comment by ReactiveJelly in "Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI"

ReactiveJelly — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:06:02 +0000

An actual utopia would require never-before-seen democratic mandate from people who are currently on the brink of hot civil war

New comment by ReactiveJelly in "The sale of Electronic Arts has been finalized"

ReactiveJelly — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:04:34 +0000

They make all the sports games. Have you noticed all the sports and Mr. Beast type slop that's like "Wow and here we are inn Dubai / Saudi Arabia whatever and it's beautiful and luxurious and we're driving in Lambos waooowww"

If product placement didn't work it wouldn't be an industry

New comment by ReactiveJelly in "Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones"

ReactiveJelly — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:15:08 +0000

I loved that book! Was it that book or its sister that had an image of the pole and said "Spin the Earth the correct direction"? That and "How Things Work" kicked so much ass

New comment by ReactiveJelly in "Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm"

ReactiveJelly — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:32:53 +0000

I don't even use Wikipedia anymore, I use the free online P2P encyclopedia. It's called

New comment by ReactiveJelly in "Rust All Hands 2026 Retrospective"

ReactiveJelly — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:30:15 +0000

Just run Rust compiles in the cloud.

Really, if you're using a SaaSS LLM like Claude or Copilot or ChatGPT, which already sends all your code to someone else's computer to run on a beefy GPU, they should just send the Rust code to the same datacenter and send you back a binary.

Little shocked that Anthropic isn't offering this.

Rust compile speeds will matter less and less as hardware gets faster.

New comment by ReactiveJelly in "How the words we teach English language learners changed"

ReactiveJelly — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:06:07 +0000

Kinda like how there's no average-sized airplane pilot

New comment by ReactiveJelly in "AI Firms Are Buying Up Old Books, Then Scanning and Destroying Them"

ReactiveJelly — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:44:57 +0000

Remember to use LOCKSS, everyon

New comment by ReactiveJelly in "AI Firms Are Buying Up Old Books, Then Scanning and Destroying Them"

ReactiveJelly — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:44:21 +0000

Glad the news broke. Now the market price for old books will shoot up

New comment by ReactiveJelly in "AI's top startups are barely publishing their research"

ReactiveJelly — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 02:11:20 +0000

That's why we should enforce copyleft

New comment by ReactiveJelly in "LLM Honeypot"

ReactiveJelly — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 02:10:40 +0000

How it really feels to change gender

New comment by ReactiveJelly in "Hooray for the Sockets Interface"

ReactiveJelly — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 05:38:19 +0000

Wouldn't this add a ton of complexity for anything that extends DNS, like DoH, DoT, VPNs, firewalls, etc., and you'd still need to connect by IP for LAN connections or P2P?

Cause what you're asking is not just to do the regular DNS lookup inside `connect`, but to have the OS manage roaming and continuously updating DNS while the connection stays up?

I don't know about that. I don't know. That's a lot of complexity deep in the kernel and ossified.

I'm happy with the QUIC solution that allows you to migrate IPs and it's all userspace. It would be very hard to evolve a network protocol that had to be crammed into 3+ different kernels.