Hacker News: amarant

New comment by amarant in "H2JVM – A Haskell Library for Writing JVM Bytecode"

amarant — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:20:04 +0000

This... Confuses me profoundly. My entire career I've worked with Java, and it's mostly a pretty decent language, imo. I think my biggest gripe with Java is the JVM. It's limiting, doesn't really provide any value(the proposed value is portability, but we always run apps in docker containers anyway, so what is it really doing for us?)

I (kinda) get why someone might want to write Haskell rather than Java, but I'm just not sure why you would want to run Haskell on the JVM?

New comment by amarant in "Show HN: I Derived a Pancake"

amarant — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:04:16 +0000

I was thought the 112 emergency pancake recipe as a kid: 1 egg, 1dl flour, 2dl milk.

I have made the almost blasphemous modification of adding a pinch of cardamom to the batter, it's delicious!

Looking forward to trying your derived American pancakes this weekend! This calculator is awesome, thanks for doing this!

New comment by amarant in "1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background"

amarant — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:40:56 +0000

Nope! They were sent off along with other useful professionals such as telephone cleaners on a big space ship!

New comment by amarant in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

amarant — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 08:28:12 +0000

I'm not at my computer atm, but I'll publish my code when I am and let you know!

New comment by amarant in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

amarant — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:10:48 +0000

I had Claude build a private podcast station for me. It integrated with Gemini to create a script for the show, based on a topic of my choosing, each talking segment ends with a presentation of the next song, which is played via Spotify, and is selected to have some sort of tie-in with the previous discussion. A tts model generates audio files based on the script, and a playlist is generated to play local file audio segment, then Spotify track, then the next segment etc.

An AI made a program integrating with 2 other AI, it's AI all the way down! and the result is great! I'm learning so much by having my own private radio host speaking about topics that interest me.

New comment by amarant in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

amarant — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:24:08 +0000

How good are their spam filters? That's what keeps me coming back to Gmail every time I try something different.

New comment by amarant in "Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC"

amarant — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:18:43 +0000

I've seen this sentiment a few times on HN recently I wonder where it comes from?

The only thing I can think of is that if the protected files are on a unencrypted drive, then you could boot from a live-usb(or similar) where you have root and read anything. But that's completely irrelevant as we're talking about a piece of software running on a system without root. In this scenario Unix user permissions are safe, barring user error (such as accidentally granting root, like in this instance)

Of course security holes happens, such as copy-fail, but it's pretty rare in the grand scheme of things, and tend to get patched quickly(like copy-fail was)

New comment by amarant in "It's Not Just X. It's Y"

amarant — Sun, 31 May 2026 23:32:52 +0000

Clearly humans always type "it's not merely X, but also Y"

New comment by amarant in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

amarant — Sat, 30 May 2026 17:23:59 +0000

Thanks! Looks like they have a rather reasonable take. I agree that spaceX has some very impressive capabilities and there is no doubt that their engineering talent is the best in the world in their field, but 1.8T is indeed a ridiculously high number!

I interpret their management risk analysis as being more about the buss factor of 1 than it being about not liking musk, which I also think is a reasonable take.

New comment by amarant in "Navier-Stokes fluid simulation explained with Godot game engine"

amarant — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:46:09 +0000

This is great! When I have some leftover time I want to try copying this implementation for 3D. I reckon I could get away with minimal modifications to support the third axis...I think...

That'll perform even worse though, hopefully my CPU can handle it or I'm gonna need a lot of leftover time to make a shader

New comment by amarant in "What Is a Dickover?"

amarant — Sat, 30 May 2026 03:48:18 +0000

>modal

I think you mean dickover,sir.

New comment by amarant in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

amarant — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:16:01 +0000

Any chance of bypassing the paywall? Does someone have a archive link perhaps?

New comment by amarant in "Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue"

amarant — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:15:25 +0000

What would a better system look like?

New comment by amarant in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

amarant — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:27:16 +0000

I mean, did anyone expect them to not have margins? Why keep it secret?

New comment by amarant in "Stop Advertising in Your Commits"

amarant — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:26:25 +0000

The iPhone analogy is very apt and accurate: it's ~95% advertising and ~5% useful signal.

Which for my repositories means I want ~95% less of it in my commit history. I'm prepared to round up for simplicity. But to each their own.

New comment by amarant in "Use boring languages with LLMs"

amarant — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:49:31 +0000

I think you touch on a language feature I think is very important: compile time errors over runtime ones.

I'm biased, I preferred it this way before AI. But even so I think there is real merit. Firm guardrails and clear feedback seem to benefit AI.

Anecdotally, the worst AI performance I've seen was with gdscript, which is basically python minus the huge corpus of training data. Best results I'm getting with rust, which is in the opposite end of the strictness spectrum.

New comment by amarant in "Ferrari Luce"

amarant — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:49:19 +0000

Just pointing out that, technically, if you're gonna drive slow, the Ferrari is the appropriate choice over the Tesla.

New comment by amarant in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

amarant — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:43:22 +0000

Not how I imagined year of Linux on the desktop to happen, but I'll take it!

New comment by amarant in "Ferrari Luce"

amarant — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:11:43 +0000

I've done Stockholm-Oslo without stopping to charge in December in my model y long range. Didn't really do anything special either, just obeyed the speed limits pretty much. Most of the drive was on autopilot(not fsd) because highways are boring. Had a pretty healthy margin too, I charged on the outskirts of town on the way home 2 days later.

New comment by amarant in "Ferrari Luce"

amarant — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:56:13 +0000

Tesla model S accelerates faster and has a higher top speed, and also more range on a smaller battery....

For a absolutely tiny fraction of the price!

It also looks better than this Nissan leaf knock-off!

I'm not the target market, this thing costs more than my house! But I do think the specs are... Disappointing...