Hacker News: __loam

New comment by __loam in "Can we have the day off?"

__loam — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:56:57 +0000

Also start a union at your company and sue them if they retaliate.

New comment by __loam in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

__loam — Sat, 23 May 2026 01:37:34 +0000

Engineers not caring is what leads to people working for scumbags who build socially poisonous technology.

New comment by __loam in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

__loam — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:33:00 +0000

You might not like it but you actually live in a world with other people and building technology often affects their lives and they have opinions on it. For AI a lot of that impact has been negative.

New comment by __loam in "Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely"

__loam — Mon, 18 May 2026 04:46:51 +0000

It has absolutely been a thing in Europe and there have been numerous accidents involving Russian and European aircraft at events like the Paris Airshow.

New comment by __loam in "Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely"

__loam — Mon, 18 May 2026 04:41:51 +0000

US military airshows make a point to use combat ready aircraft. F-22s flew over SF during fleet week.

New comment by __loam in "Claude for Legal"

__loam — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:22:54 +0000

Every company with Fedramp certification.

New comment by __loam in "Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15"

__loam — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:17:06 +0000

No, python is specifically a mess.

New comment by __loam in "Claude for Legal"

__loam — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:12:22 +0000

Harvey was always an upstart in the legal tech industry. There's other companies that have a much better understanding of the market and compliance issues but you don't hear about them because nobody wants to talk about legal tech.

New comment by __loam in "Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15"

__loam — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:07:05 +0000

I mentioned those explicitly. People are still using it as a backend language for projects like huge SaaS deployments though, with the hypothesis being that dev time is expensive. With modern languages like kotlin and go, I think that gap is much too narrow to justify using a slow and badly designed language with good syntax.

New comment by __loam in "Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15"

__loam — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:04:00 +0000

No we should write one of the many modern programming languages that handle certain projects way better, including kotlin, go, or Java. The only things python is best in class at are scripting and as a harness for high performance c++ or fortran.

New comment by __loam in "Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15"

__loam — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:17:57 +0000

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New comment by __loam in "Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15"

__loam — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:11:22 +0000

Python is such a mess.

New comment by __loam in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

__loam — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:37:42 +0000

Zig does in fact do some stuff to address memory management like making allocations more explicit using allocators and shipping with arenas.

New comment by __loam in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

__loam — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:31:22 +0000

Maybe they should put more consideration towards quality if they have a ton of memory issues.

New comment by __loam in "California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply"

__loam — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:31:42 +0000

He started the war!

New comment by __loam in "California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply"

__loam — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:31:12 +0000

People will blame climate policy on this but this is evidence that we've failed to move off our fossil fuel dependency.

New comment by __loam in "California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply"

__loam — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:29:57 +0000

This is a good reason to move our infrastructure further off of being dependent on a highly volatile region actually.

New comment by __loam in "Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement"

__loam — Wed, 06 May 2026 03:19:20 +0000

It's not settled law so I'm not sure how that's clear to you.

New comment by __loam in "When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing"

__loam — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:04:11 +0000

Every line of code is a liability

New comment by __loam in "I built a Game Boy emulator in F#"

__loam — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:19:44 +0000

Got it