Hacker News: aabhay

New comment by aabhay in "Nine Ways to Do Inheritance in Rust, a Language Without Inheritance"

aabhay — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 08:21:17 +0000

If you want to get inspired by good component DX, try looking at Bevy, the game engine.

But essentially it comes down to traits, newtypes/enum variants, and macros.

New comment by aabhay in "Training our own AI models"

aabhay — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:45:05 +0000

This should be a lesson in bad communication. Not being clear about whats being trained on is a huge mistake. And this announcement really puts into focus the drawbacks to PostHog’s cringe forward brand ethos

New comment by aabhay in "From Rust to Ruby"

aabhay — Wed, 27 May 2026 04:38:49 +0000

dbg! Is your friend

New comment by aabhay in "Notes on Pope Leo XIV's Encyclical on AI"

aabhay — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:59:57 +0000

When you took notes in class was it required of you to add original thought for it to be notes?

New comment by aabhay in "Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files"

aabhay — Mon, 25 May 2026 22:40:00 +0000

Its actually even worse — its advertising for their product

New comment by aabhay in "Saying goodbye to asm.js"

aabhay — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:01:10 +0000

Wasm can also call web apis directly. The overhead you hear about is in translating complex types like nested dicts etc between formats. But wasm runs inside the js runtime

New comment by aabhay in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

aabhay — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:28:18 +0000

How serious was Eureka labs anyway? It seemed like essentially a banner for him messing around with content creation

New comment by aabhay in "Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us"

aabhay — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:01:28 +0000

As much as I’d like to share in the skepticism, the very beginning of the article states it very plainly — this is a step function.

Lots of people feel that Mythos is a psyops campaign, but I don’t really understand the skepticism. Most of it seems to stem from the general distrust of things that aren’t publicly available.

A few Anthropic employees have described Mythos as a general purpose model improvement, but that claim has yet to be widely backed up so that’s the only place I’m remaining skeptical.

For the domain of security research, I’m willing to buy the narrative.

New comment by aabhay in "LLM Policy for Rust Compiler"

aabhay — Fri, 15 May 2026 09:17:21 +0000

Kudos to the team for this. I think it’s brave of them to stand up for their own experiences and push back against the hype train.

Before you knee jerk hate on the team for being luddites, consider:

1. For a language like rust there’s too few eyes and too many mouths. Reviewing is a job, and is extremely taxing. 2. The code base needs to be highly hermetic because it’s load bearing across the global economy 3. Most changes are only relevant if they’ve followed extensive process, including community feedback.

New comment by aabhay in "LLM Policy for Rust Compiler"

aabhay — Fri, 15 May 2026 09:08:49 +0000

No they’ll just drop() you

New comment by aabhay in "The limits of Rust, or why you should probably not follow Amazon and Cloudflare"

aabhay — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:20:11 +0000

Ring is a de facto standard for better or worse. In our codebase we basically have no choice but to use it

New comment by aabhay in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

aabhay — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:41:02 +0000

This is a weird take. If its not opt in or you’re shoe horning it into a browser, then that sucks. Nobody is getting enraged that an app for running local LLMs downloads data to do so.

New comment by aabhay in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

aabhay — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:38:24 +0000

Disagree with this. When cost becomes an important factor or the free but worse option becomes compelling and accessible (i.e. on device agent via apple style UX), there has been significant user behavior towards local. Think about stuff like removing backgrounds from photos, OCR on PDFs, who uses paid services for casual usage of these things?

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

aabhay — Sun, 10 May 2026 00:08:28 +0000

At 100 agents in parallel that’s 4loc/min, and 100 agents is a lower bound on what they had access to.

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

aabhay — Sat, 09 May 2026 19:44:57 +0000

Zig is much more type aligned to bun than typescript. And there’s a common interface of C ffi so you could imagine porting it modularly and keeping the test suite in zig

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

aabhay — Tue, 05 May 2026 02:15:27 +0000

Claude doesn’t write Rust like a champ. It’s still miles ahead at js and python than it is at rust. It can do macros and single file optimizations but its gotten really stuck in type hell and tried to dyn everything on multiple occasions for me.

New comment by aabhay in "Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?"

aabhay — Sat, 02 May 2026 07:37:44 +0000

Because nobody wants a brown one?

New comment by aabhay in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

aabhay — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:41:19 +0000

Apple being Apple

New comment by aabhay in "OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance”"

aabhay — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:43:02 +0000

I think they said the ad vendors wouldn't but the matching algorithm would still be aware of it. Which IMO is the bare requirement to have ads be anything but magazine style ads.

New comment by aabhay in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

aabhay — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:21:39 +0000

Its a backronym (or whatever you call it) that cones from the actual name, “jj”, which itself comes from the ease of typing jj on a keyboard