Hacker News: SJMG

New comment by SJMG in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

SJMG — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:49:16 +0000

They pay at cost though, not the public API pricing.

New comment by SJMG in "Mathematics in the age of AI"

SJMG — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 01:05:53 +0000

Like not-not live in Montecito?

Not everyone can be rich by your definition.

New comment by SJMG in "Mathematics in the age of AI"

SJMG — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:04:45 +0000

So who gets to live in Montecito?

New comment by SJMG in "The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source"

SJMG — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:21:13 +0000

Jane Street's use of OCamel gives them a comparative advantage in hiring. Many devs put a premium on the tools they use. Same story with Anduril/Mercury using Haskell. You can run a successful prop trading firm/weapons design shop/startup-banking(?) platform without these things. They differentiate you from your competitors by being cool, not by being the best technical solution. If anything they were otherwise unprove at scale and out of pure engineering consideration a gamble. Developers are consumers.

New comment by SJMG in "GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter"

SJMG — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:19:14 +0000

A billion a day? How many agents are you running?

New comment by SJMG in "Mojo 1.0"

SJMG — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 02:57:51 +0000

> Literally 30 seconds

And knowing the magic keyword search `adix` to arrive at a prerelease library that you yourself wrote. That not's exactly an endorsement for discoverability. Unless I'm missing something, Nimble is essentially stateless. You have no sense of how many times or how recently a library has been downloaded. These are important proxies.

> There has never been much prog.lang. benefit from being "in the stdlib/core" in Nim (unlike Python or Go, say) … more batteries core distribution is valuable - just less than you might guess

You've been around the community a lot longer than I have. Don't you find this strange? What top 10 language has as weak of a std lib as Nim? [Status all but says](https://status-im.github.io/nim-style-guide/libraries.std.ht...) don't use it.

> practically that needs delegation.

Yeah, I don't think this is the community's strong suit. It strikes me that Araq is tired of explaining himself (but doesn't care to consolidate discussion into ADRs), so when a well-meaning, would be contributor like the parent-poster comes along they get shot down and we lose them.

New comment by SJMG in "Mojo 1.0"

SJMG — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:52:38 +0000

Andreas is simultaneously brilliant and myopic to needs outside of his own (compiler dev).

It's amazing how many fights he gets into with Status-IM engineers who are the biggest financial supporters of the project and the only noteworthy company that heavily uses Nim.

Has OrderedTable been ported to Nimony? Does it still have this bug?

New comment by SJMG in "YC startups are abandoning .com"

SJMG — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:47:46 +0000

They have abc.xyz

New comment by SJMG in "Mojo 1.0"

SJMG — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:59:46 +0000

For sure, those things would go a distance towards making it a more competitive language.

Why haven't they happened yet though...? Nim is not a young language. Leadership [Andreas] doesn't think they are more important than spending time adding another memory management option.

New comment by SJMG in "Mojo 1.0"

SJMG — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 03:11:58 +0000

Julia as well.

New comment by SJMG in "Mojo 1.0"

SJMG — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 03:11:29 +0000

Language-feature-wise it seems like Nim will be competitive. Ecosystem-wise… yeah it's kind of a nonstarter over in Nim land. There are not many go-to libraries and its culture is not very collaborative. People seem more enamored at what they can hack together than what they can contribute to.

New comment by SJMG in "Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open"

SJMG — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:11:15 +0000

I just wouldn't bet against Mitchell. He doesn't need the money. He does it for the love of it.

New comment by SJMG in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"

SJMG — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:26:59 +0000

Oh? What are the American model censorship tells?

New comment by SJMG in "Safari Technology Preview 248 Released"

SJMG — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 01:37:01 +0000

Well this preview includes many changes made to WebKit which Kagi, a so called independent browser, depends on. It's good news for you.

New comment by SJMG in "Every Byte Matters"

SJMG — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:29:42 +0000

This looks to be the end of the conversation now. Just wanted to drop in and thank you for your time commenting, pron.

The common discourse is that "XYZ language is close to the metal and therefore Blazing Fast (tm)" people become tribalistic and forgot that this there are engineering considerations and trade-offs all the way down. I appreciate you making the argument for the JVM delivering performant code when a budget matters.

New comment by SJMG in "Which sparkling water is the best?"

SJMG — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:52:44 +0000

Spindrift is amazing. So much better that champions of other brands will disqualify it on the basis of it actually having a trace amount of sugar.

New comment by SJMG in "We replaced Zendesk"

SJMG — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:28:46 +0000

The problem — it's not that they don't write anymore; it's that they don't think anymore.

Ornadyne: We're building robot birds for surveillance

SJMG — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:13:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ornadyne

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48280152

Points: 2

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New comment by SJMG in "Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality"

SJMG — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:20:05 +0000

You must not own property in Texas

New comment by SJMG in "SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket"

SJMG — Sat, 23 May 2026 01:53:57 +0000

I'm concerned about the cracking clearly visible on the heat shield tiles. It doesn't bode well for rapid reusability.