Hacker News: aldanor

New comment by aldanor in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

aldanor — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:26:15 +0000

What type of software will you not be able to run? Your browser will work just the same, and your dev env and devtools will be just the same, and it's a posix environment. If that's what I need most and it runs just about the same on macos/linux then why not prioritize the hardware?

New comment by aldanor in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"

aldanor — Thu, 28 May 2026 11:58:06 +0000

And that lad is of course an information security engineer

New comment by aldanor in "I keep bouncing off the Scheme language"

aldanor — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:08:50 +0000

Both have `class` keyword

New comment by aldanor in "Your Most Improbable Life"

aldanor — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:18:40 +0000

Foundation series vibes anyone?

New comment by aldanor in "Everything in C is undefined behavior"

aldanor — Wed, 20 May 2026 10:14:40 +0000

If there's no UBs then what will we programmers do, there won't be enough to debug and fix?

New comment by aldanor in "A desire for a loud car correlates with higher scores on psychopathy and sadism"

aldanor — Thu, 14 May 2026 02:18:48 +0000

Correlation doesn't imply causation

New comment by aldanor in "K3k: Kubernetes in Kubernetes"

aldanor — Sat, 02 May 2026 08:25:16 +0000

openkink

New comment by aldanor in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

aldanor — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:38:53 +0000

Exactly, if choosing blue would allow you to wear a blue badge which would raise your happiness level or otherwise affect your utility function, then it might make sense. Otherwise it just doesn't.

New comment by aldanor in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

aldanor — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 12:40:21 +0000

Not the factory floor. The receiving end.

It wasn’t one bottleneck. It was all of them.

Not the nuclear material. The pattern.

Money was never the constraint. Knowledge was.

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New comment by aldanor in "Ask HN: What skills are future proof in an AI driven job market?"

aldanor — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:33:59 +0000

Efficiently communicating with other human beings

New comment by aldanor in "The beginning of scarcity in AI"

aldanor — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:20:08 +0000

Yep.

As a recent example in AI space itself. China had scarce GPU resources, quite obvious why => DeepSeek training team had to invent some wheels and jump through some hoops => some of those methods have since become 'industry standard' and adopted by western labs who are now jumping through the same hoops despite enjoying massive computeresources, for the sake of added efficiency.

New comment by aldanor in "Sc-im: Spreadsheets in your terminal"

aldanor — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:22:37 +0000

Rust's ratatui is pretty good on the lower-level side of things

New comment by aldanor in "C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report"

aldanor — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:17:35 +0000

Incorrect.

New comment by aldanor in "Neovim 0.12.0"

aldanor — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:11:40 +0000

Most of the active development in the ecosystem is done for neovim these days. If you're using barebones vim then yea you probably won't see much difference, otherwise you have no choice

New comment by aldanor in "Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)"

aldanor — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:38:23 +0000

Big thanks to him indeed (and for other projects in Rust space as well).

// really hoping openai wouldn't now force him to work on some crappy codex stuff if he stays there / in astral.

New comment by aldanor in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

aldanor — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:03:05 +0000

One of the popular products on the planet acquires the most popular python packaging org

New comment by aldanor in "Rust is just a tool"

aldanor — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:57:26 +0000

Yes. To me personally, Rust and both its restrictions and features (ie no OOP and prevalence of sum types and hence other goodies) makes approaching the implementation of big problems differently; eventually the experience with Rust also changes (to some extent) the way you write and structure the code in other languages. One might argue that Rust is not unique here and this would also apply to languages like ocaml etc - sure, perhaps; but I can't write in any of those languages at work on daily basis since they don't fit performance-wise or for many other reasons.

New comment by aldanor in "Vim 9.2"

aldanor — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:25:06 +0000

Honestly curious, what are the tradeoffs with vim9 / vimscript?

New comment by aldanor in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

aldanor — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 04:00:59 +0000

Unless you, well, state in AGENTS.md that prompts may offer suboptimal options in which case it's the machine's duty to question them, treat the prompter like a coworker and not a boss.

New comment by aldanor in "Play Aardwolf MUD"

aldanor — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:50:24 +0000

Anyone from Solace MUD here?