Hacker News: artagnon

Conflating Ego with Intelligence

artagnon — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:59:21 +0000

Article URL: https://artagnon.com/art/ego

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834467

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The Miserable Introvert

artagnon — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:11:39 +0000

Article URL: https://artagnon.com/art/introvert

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654466

Points: 17

# Comments: 1

Fallacious Vocabulary Around Merit

artagnon — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:05:56 +0000

Article URL: https://artagnon.com/art/merit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47502007

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

AI and the War-Time Economy

artagnon — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 14:08:33 +0000

Article URL: https://artagnon.com/art/ai-war

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46336310

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The Vectorization-Planner (VPlan) in LLVM

artagnon — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 08:57:59 +0000

Article URL: https://artagnon.com/computing/compilers/vplan

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45311639

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The pedestrian technology underneath the hype

artagnon — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 15:52:30 +0000

Article URL: https://artagnon.com/art/pedestrian

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44445251

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The Capitalist Wet Dream

artagnon — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 19:20:58 +0000

Article URL: https://artagnon.com/art/wet-dream

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42596971

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

Deficiencies in LLVM's LoopVectorize

artagnon — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 21:39:55 +0000

Article URL: https://artagnon.com/computing/compilers/lv

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40781136

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by artagnon in "Ask HN: Projects You Thought Were Cool but Failed Miserably – What Happened?"

artagnon — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 16:04:14 +0000

Ruby.

I still love the language, and maintain my SSG that was written in Ruby over a decade ago. Shame that it's nearly dead now.

Snake Defense Fanfic

artagnon — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 09:57:13 +0000

Article URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/28299630

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39313258

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by artagnon in "The things nobody wants to pay for"

artagnon — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 14:51:31 +0000

LLVM deprioritizes helper scripts such as update_analyze_test_checks.py, and the build infrastructure is far from perfect. Scripts like the ones categorizing PRs are very much unpaid work.

LLVM also deprioritizes general cleanup work, such as getting rid off passes that don’t work, and are rotting in the tree: of the top of my head, I can think of GVNSink, LoopFusion.

There are additional problems unique to LLVM, as it doesn’t have a dictator: there are multiple different dependence analysis in tree, for instance.

New comment by artagnon in "The things nobody wants to pay for"

artagnon — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 12:40:55 +0000

This echoes the problems we see in LLVM. Tooling is de-prioritized in several large corporation-funded open-source projects.

New comment by artagnon in "I don't always use LaTeX, but when I do, I compile to HTML (2013)"

artagnon — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 12:07:24 +0000

LatexML has come a long way. Even arXiv uses LatexML internally to offer HTML5 versions as of late 2023. It does have limitations in not supporting all packages, or producing a high-quality translation in all cases.

If you don't need to convert entire LaTeX documents, MathJaX and KaTeX are really good at rendering a subset of LaTeX as MathML/SVG. I run MathJaX + an xypic extension for commutative diagrams with server-side rendering on my website, and it works great in practice.

New comment by artagnon in "I don't always use LaTeX, but when I do, I compile to HTML (2013)"

artagnon — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 11:58:44 +0000

It's standard MathJaX that's rendered client-side. I managed to get MathJaX + XyPic rendered server-side on my website, which is a lot nicer.

An Opinionated Comparison of Cities

artagnon — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 00:43:23 +0000

Article URL: https://artagnon.com/art/cities

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39112130

Points: 12

# Comments: 6

Introduce Rust into the Git Project

artagnon — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:51:24 +0000

Article URL: https://lore.kernel.org/git/CALNs47s3tUQoOD4ejdoTn6y12ywjL0j5hWU-fUnBLe_o3vV5SQ@mail.gmail.com/T/#mba78e10a37cfd29fc0cd58440d53d343f8108887

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38999781

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Converting the Kernel to C++

artagnon — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 14:58:11 +0000

Article URL: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/3465e0c6-f5b2-4c42-95eb-29361481f805@zytor.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38939570

Points: 79

# Comments: 55

Low-hanging fruit

artagnon — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 14:01:10 +0000

Article URL: https://artagnon.com/art/fruit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38901230

Points: 24

# Comments: 21

New comment by artagnon in "Show HN: Ambiphone, no-nonsense ambient music and white noise"

artagnon — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 19:29:33 +0000

Oh no! I think we’re out of luck if my reading of [1] is right. Sonos API only supports streaming from a single URL.

[1]: https://docs.sonos.com/docs/streaming-basics

New comment by artagnon in "Show HN: Ambiphone, no-nonsense ambient music and white noise"

artagnon — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 19:08:01 +0000

Very slick interface with a nice selection of sounds! I would definitely use this if only it could connect to my Sonos.