Hacker News: Zoadian

New comment by Zoadian in "Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency"

Zoadian — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:20:20 +0000

price/token isnt the only thing relevant. if you have to ask the AI again, it'll cost you more than when it gets things right in the first place.

so better models may still be cheaper even if the price per token is higher.

New comment by Zoadian in "US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives"

Zoadian — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:47:18 +0000

time to ban US tech companies

New comment by Zoadian in "VST3 audio plugin format is now MIT"

Zoadian — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 08:39:20 +0000

i have my own vst3 host. it's not really that difficult. the real problem is that theres a lot of plugins that do some random thing that wont work becasue it's not standard.

New comment by Zoadian in "VST3 audio plugin format is now MIT"

Zoadian — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 08:37:40 +0000

they are com classes. the vtable layout for them is specified.

New comment by Zoadian in "Germany's Water Consumption Down 17% Following Nuclear Reactor Shutdowns"

Zoadian — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 11:55:52 +0000

nonsense. the economy didn't even notice the shutdown. and those plants were more costly to operate than renewables are, so we're enjoying cheaper electricity now. it also wasn't an ecological disaster, in fact it didn't change anything in that regard.

New comment by Zoadian in "EU to mobilize 200B Euros to invest in AI"

Zoadian — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:46:00 +0000

no, we don't. regulations and restrictions are useful.

New comment by Zoadian in "Monster gravitational waves spotted for first time"

Zoadian — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 22:08:19 +0000

I asked the reverse. If the filaments are caused by gravitational waves.

New comment by Zoadian in "Monster gravitational waves spotted for first time"

Zoadian — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 15:30:57 +0000

are g-waves causing the Galactic filaments?

New comment by Zoadian in "Extremely Linear Git History"

Zoadian — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 11:52:41 +0000

which just means: lets waste many hours coordinating, for the benefit of having a 'nice looking' history.

New comment by Zoadian in "ASX drops plan to replace CHESS with blockchain, writes off AUD $250M"

Zoadian — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 10:31:55 +0000

you don't need a blockchain to decentralise anything. blockchain only makes sense in a case where there is no central authority.

New comment by Zoadian in "Next C compiler is a D compiler: Introducing DMD's ImportC"

Zoadian — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 10:38:41 +0000

Hey walter, have you thought about adding first class types to the language? that would enable us to use CTFE for type based algorithms instead of templates like std.meta. If you did, what are the reasons against them?

New comment by Zoadian in "Moderation is different from censorship"

Zoadian — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 10:28:48 +0000

just give me a switch to turn off all moderation. i want to see all messages, except spam/scams.

New comment by Zoadian in "Intel and the $1.5T chip industry meltdown"

Zoadian — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 14:47:20 +0000

it's not racism. sure chinese could develope all these things on their own. but you need to realize, they'd have to produces the machines that produces the machines that produce the machines... first. all this 'high tech' stuff is _really_ hrd to make. it would take a ton of money invested to even get to current tech levels. and tech advances pretty fast.

New comment by Zoadian in "Korean nuclear fusion reactor achieves 100M°C for 30 seconds"

Zoadian — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 10:27:57 +0000

compare it to the space program. that didn't really have any directly useable goal. but the technology produced in the process is used everywhere. DT fusion may or may not work. maybe the problems may get solved some day, maybe not. we'll never know if we don't try. and the technology we get in the process is valueable regardless.

New comment by Zoadian in "Help pick a syntax for CSS nesting"

Zoadian — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 10:28:11 +0000

can we just get native styl support into the browser please

New comment by Zoadian in "Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe's largest"

Zoadian — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 15:09:20 +0000

it's not the nukes itself that would kill. it's the nuklear winter. with highly reduced sunlight this planet will become a freezing hell. no plants -> no food

New comment by Zoadian in "Write shitty code"

Zoadian — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 13:32:51 +0000

the best way to write code is: write code that you can delete without any effects on the rest of the program. and keep all related code as close as possible together in the source code. Also keep mutations as far up the call stack as possible. use pure functions whereever possible.

New comment by Zoadian in "Self-isolation is feeding my Warhammer addiction"

Zoadian — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:00:36 +0000

expensive hobby compared to what? for a hobby it really isn't that expensive at all.

New comment by Zoadian in "Hero – A handy, fast and powerful Go template engine"

Zoadian — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 09:43:00 +0000

There is a web framework (vibed.org) written in the D programming language that does compile templates to native code.