Hacker News: aphexairlines

New comment by aphexairlines in "Meta Invests $14.3B in Scale AI to Kick-Start Superintelligence Lab"

aphexairlines — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 15:49:54 +0000

Also standalone: https://www.meta.ai/ and https://about.fb.com/news/2025/04/introducing-meta-ai-app-ne...

New comment by aphexairlines in "NumPy 2.0"

aphexairlines — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 07:02:57 +0000

If your requirements.in referenced numpy before this release, then doesn't your requirements.txt already reference a specific 1.x version?

New comment by aphexairlines in "Intel Unveils Lunar Lake Architecture"

aphexairlines — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 09:47:10 +0000

Not a Thinkpad and not Intel, but that already seems attainable with the asus G14 (AMD 8945HS + NVIDIA 4070) or the upcoming asus zenbook S16 (AMD HX 370).

New comment by aphexairlines in "From engineer to manager: what I love, what I hate"

aphexairlines — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 14:29:24 +0000

I've never seen a large company with more L7+ engineers than L7+ managers. Usually it's a ratio of drastically more managers hired/promoted into those levels than engineers, and some orgs don't have any engineers in those levels at all.

New comment by aphexairlines in "Xonsh: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell"

aphexairlines — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 12:52:09 +0000

Take a look at https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues before deciding to abandon the devil you know.

I prefer sticking with bash where necessary (where a script is the only thing that will reasonably work), and elsewhere using a programming language with testing, type checking, modularity, and compilation into something with zero or minimal runtime dependencies.

New comment by aphexairlines in "TypeScript 5.2's new keyword: 'Using'"

aphexairlines — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 09:41:50 +0000

This is a JavaScript keyword and there's nothing TypeScript-specific in the blog post.

New comment by aphexairlines in "We can't all use AI. Someone has to generate the training data"

aphexairlines — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 02:42:14 +0000

Is this similar to people moving away from giving their code as open source when companies take it, repackage, and sell it while the authors get nothing?

New comment by aphexairlines in "[dead]"

aphexairlines — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:27:44 +0000

Looks like fake reviews here too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34968995

New comment by aphexairlines in "Bun v0.5"

aphexairlines — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 22:11:37 +0000

They don't have to hire people who already know Zig -- just people capable of learning it.

New comment by aphexairlines in "Using jlink to cross-compile minimal JREs"

aphexairlines — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 14:06:37 +0000

You don't need to run jlink yourself to avoid shipping the entire JDK. Here's a java19 runtime docker image at 62MB: https://hub.docker.com/_/eclipse-temurin/tags?page=1&name=19...

Not customizing the runtime per build or per app also potentially helps reuse of docker image layers across your container registries and clusters.

New comment by aphexairlines in "Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem, one library at a time"

aphexairlines — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 02:44:23 +0000

You still need postcss or something like it to use css modules. The alternative of CSS-in-JS requires a build step to extract either a CSS file or inline critical styles for server rendering. The browser-native alternative of CSS Module Scripts doesn't work in Safari.

You still need babel, tsc, or swc to transform typescript to JS.

And then there are imports of files that aren't JS (images, fonts, stylesheets, etc).

Russian software disguised as American finds its way into US Army, CDC apps

aphexairlines — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 12:39:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-russian-software-disguised-american-finds-its-way-into-us-army-cdc-2022-11-14/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33593111

Points: 15

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New comment by aphexairlines in "The Evolution of Scalable CSS"

aphexairlines — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 13:07:39 +0000

There's still no good way of publishing an npm package with multiple components, stylesheets per component, and transitive consumers using only the stylesheets for the components they reference while rendering fully server side. CSS is still not scalable.

New comment by aphexairlines in "Protobuf-ES: Protocol Buffers TypeScript/JavaScript runtime"

aphexairlines — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 11:04:14 +0000

Very good to have a smaller runtime. Some of the stated benefits of the new generator are silly and the comparison with ts-proto doesn't point out the actual improvement (generating d.ts files means your CI doesn't spend time type-checking and compiling ts sources), but nice to see this new alternative.

New comment by aphexairlines in "TLDR explains what a piece of code does"

aphexairlines — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 22:27:09 +0000

Comments explain why the code is there. That's different from translating code into English.

New comment by aphexairlines in "Disneyland with Death Penalty"

aphexairlines — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 21:07:15 +0000

Or just walk down Peterborough street: https://elpelon.com

New comment by aphexairlines in "Deepkit – High-Performance TypeScript Framework"

aphexairlines — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 10:34:58 +0000

There's a super interesting article from the just-js author explaining how he got a JS implementation into that top 20: https://just.billywhizz.io/blog/on-javascript-performance-01...

New comment by aphexairlines in "Deepkit – High-Performance TypeScript Framework"

aphexairlines — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 07:32:02 +0000

- High performance

- Scripting language

Pick one.

New comment by aphexairlines in "Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming"

aphexairlines — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 23:40:04 +0000

I think that's ocaml. Higher level, with GC, nice type system, no traits but signatures and higher order modules might be enough for you, and a compiler that produces fast native binaries.

New comment by aphexairlines in "The ACLU Has Lost Its Way"

aphexairlines — Tue, 10 May 2022 19:15:29 +0000

Yes. Even this week, we have the news that his supreme court nominees are voting to strike down abortion protections, and I have female friends and family in states with trigger laws.