Hacker News: SergeAx

New comment by SergeAx in "Rewriting Bun in Rust"

SergeAx — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:39:47 +0000

I still think that generating a Zig-Rust transpiler would be a better approach, given all the LLM quirks, including the ability to just /goal the model with binary-identical LLVM bytecode.

However, an open-sourced tool like that would've greatly harmed the Zig ecosystem and community.

New comment by SergeAx in "People Would Rather Have Nuclear Power Plants in Their Area Than AI Data Centers"

SergeAx — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:34:37 +0000

https://archive.is/aLPop

New comment by SergeAx in "Zig → Rust porting guide"

SergeAx — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:58:39 +0000

This topic starter. I saw a post on Twitter in "for you" feed, verified it, found an interesting bit (rewriting prompt) and started a topic on HN. Like I said, I never expected it to hit #1.

New comment by SergeAx in "Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust"

SergeAx — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:37:19 +0000

Bun may become unusable after Antropic meddling with it. In that case the expertise would be wasted. It's not a great deal for most of users, but still.

New comment by SergeAx in "Zig → Rust porting guide"

SergeAx — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:35:19 +0000

I couldn't use that title because I didn't know if it an experiment at the moment. Even now the correct title would be "Bun author says that he is entertaining the idea of porting it from Zig to Rust, creates an experimental branch".

New comment by SergeAx in "Zig → Rust porting guide"

SergeAx — Tue, 05 May 2026 08:49:36 +0000

I am a topic starter, and I had no emotional response, was just being curious. Never expected it will land at HN #1. I specifically posted the link to the first commit and not to the whole branch, because currently the prompt is the most interesting part.

New comment by SergeAx in "Zig → Rust porting guide"

SergeAx — Tue, 05 May 2026 08:45:09 +0000

Thank you for the clarification!

While you are here, can you elaborate on the method chosen? For example, why not write a conversion script for phase A? I mean, same Anthropic model will produce it in no time, prompting it is at the same cognitive load level, but you would have a deterministic result.

New comment by SergeAx in "Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust"

SergeAx — Tue, 05 May 2026 01:40:53 +0000

Lots of people, me included, heavily invested their time and expertise into Bun, using it as a daily driver, to bundle production code or even using it in production as a JS/TS runtime. Of course, we are interested in Bun to stay a useful tool. The Anthropic acquisition was worrying enough on its own.

Zig → Rust porting guide

SergeAx — Tue, 05 May 2026 01:08:17 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/commit/46d3bc29f270fa881dd5730ef1549e88407701a5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016880

Points: 723

# Comments: 555

New comment by SergeAx in "Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding"

SergeAx — Sat, 02 May 2026 12:26:53 +0000

I can see some logic in that China has a very relaxed attitude toward copyright and IP.

New comment by SergeAx in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

SergeAx — Sat, 02 May 2026 03:17:32 +0000

On the contrary. If you really do this street-corner experiment, 80% of answers would be "I want my phone to last longer on one charge." Other 20% will be "I want my phone to charge faster". No one will say, "Oh, I want it to be foldable," or "Oh, I want an AI inside my phone." Zero. Zilch. Nada.

Mobile phones are totally okay the way they are now. No one needs new ones, and almost no one wants new ones. My previous phone lasted for 5 years. I changed the battery halfway, of course - it took a repair guy in a local shop about an hour.

New comment by SergeAx in "Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war"

SergeAx — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:11:45 +0000

"Prediction markets" are just scams where insiders trade against suckers. So those who are not insiders should understand that their money will be alleviated by insiders, end of story.

The Story of Mel (1983)

SergeAx — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:20:34 +0000

Article URL: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47814700

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by SergeAx in "Cloudflare Email Service"

SergeAx — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 05:05:20 +0000

I wonder if they deliberately withheld SMTP sending to get better vendor lock. However, without SMTP support, the email sending service is mostly unusable.

New comment by SergeAx in "YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscription"

SergeAx — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:09:47 +0000

For about 10 years, I have had a habit of creating a new, separate Google account for every new project I start, and then adding my personal account as a team member/collaborator. This way, the potential blast radius is (hopefully) limited.

New comment by SergeAx in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

SergeAx — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:32:51 +0000

A system like the one in "my phone's operating system". Do you assume that "Alphabet boys" have access to all parts of all Android file systems of all the phones ever produced?

New comment by SergeAx in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

SergeAx — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:05:30 +0000

The app decrypts the message and displays it via the system notification.

New comment by SergeAx in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

SergeAx — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:34:20 +0000

Right. So I send a push notification with the "silent" flag and encrypted content; the app receives it, decrypts the text, and displays the notification locally. Google/Apple has only ciphertext in their FBI/CIA/NSA-accessible databases.

New comment by SergeAx in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

SergeAx — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:27:50 +0000

Probably stupid question: why won't they e2e-encrypt push notifications too? The vector is obvious and has been open since forever.

New comment by SergeAx in "Veracrypt project update"

SergeAx — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:30:02 +0000

Is there a WireGuard version for Windows above 0.5.3 released in 2021?!