<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: arthurbrown</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=arthurbrown</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:13:36 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=arthurbrown" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arthurbrown in "Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks for the good faith reply. I can see that this would require regular maintenance.<p>It is interesting that we see our infrastructure as 'valid' or correct, but the work these engineers (beavers) put in as a nuisance. In an ideal world, the benefits to local biodiversity and ecosystem health should be balanced with the cost of relocating roads when necessary.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:15:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49558871</link><dc:creator>arthurbrown</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49558871</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49558871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arthurbrown in "Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What are the problems actually? That they have improved water retention and soil hydration?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 22:17:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49557891</link><dc:creator>arthurbrown</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49557891</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49557891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arthurbrown in "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The author asks "How can people take this seriously?"<p>I would reply the same regarding this article. Nearly all of these refutations are unconvincing.<p>The claim: "I believe we're reaching the upper limits about what generative AI can do and how accurate its outputs can be."<p>The rebuttal: "Zitron's argument at the time was that hallucinations were as good as they were going to get, which meant that AI performance is capped at 2024 levels. Both the overall prediction and the mechanism were wrong. This one seemed wrong at the time, in that I noted here in 2024 that you can make AI code halfway decently by just putting it in a loop and having it run until the code compiles and tests pass"<p>Putting an LLM in a loop, burning tokens, and thrashing against a compiler and test suite is a ridiculous way to say that hallucinations have been "solved". Please. This is absurd.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 05:08:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49531979</link><dc:creator>arthurbrown</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49531979</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49531979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arthurbrown in "Karpathy’s Pelican"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Google Inbox was amazing and I still mourn it regularly. The features they backported into gmail do not capture its essence.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inbox_by_Gmail" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inbox_by_Gmail</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 23:37:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149503</link><dc:creator>arthurbrown</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149503</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arthurbrown in "Incremental – A library for incremental computations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Another related but semantically distinct package with great developer ergonomics is the FRP library React -- <a href="https://erratique.ch/software/react/doc/React/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://erratique.ch/software/react/doc/React/index.html</a><p>Very satisfying to use when you manage to find a problem that is suited to this type of approach.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:17:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48989521</link><dc:creator>arthurbrown</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48989521</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48989521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arthurbrown in "How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I appreciate the insight, and on closer reading the post clearly states that realistically only Zig and Rust were ever considered anyway.<p>Since you're here, could you comment on the approach Rust took in their rewrite? Was it more of a straight translation like Go did when they self hosted -- similar to the recent Bun transliteration? Or were there architectural changes made along the way like this article describes with Roc?</p>
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<p>Interesting that OCaml was flexible and expressive enough to be used as a prototype testbed but not chosen as the implementation language, especially given the maturity of both. I would be surprised if Zigs incremental builds could be meaningfully faster than dune's.<p>Cross compilation is great, but not mentioned in the "why Zig" section. Is memory control that crucial for a compiler?<p>Rust itself was originally written in OCaml, same with WASM. I'm curious about what milestone gets reached where the maintainers collectively decide to transition away.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:26:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935856</link><dc:creator>arthurbrown</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935856</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arthurbrown in "Road to Elm 1.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One form of JavaScript interop. Instead of being able to write bindings directly to native code, you had to pass messages through "ports" instead.<p><a href="https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/native-code-in-0-19/826" rel="nofollow">https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/native-code-in-0-19/826</a><p>Personally, I was sad to see signals and FRP go in 0.17<p><a href="https://elm-lang.org/news/farewell-to-frp" rel="nofollow">https://elm-lang.org/news/farewell-to-frp</a></p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://janeblundellart.blogspot.com/2017/04/daniel-smith-watercolour-full-range.html">https://janeblundellart.blogspot.com/2017/04/daniel-smith-watercolour-full-range.html</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708431">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708431</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://alistapart.com/article/axiomatic-css-and-lobotomized-owls/">https://alistapart.com/article/axiomatic-css-and-lobotomized-owls/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48655025">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48655025</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:15:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://alistapart.com/article/axiomatic-css-and-lobotomized-owls/</link><dc:creator>arthurbrown</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48655025</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48655025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arthurbrown in "Apple boss Tim Cook says prices to rise due to memory chip costs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That chart stops in 2023.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:13:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48581442</link><dc:creator>arthurbrown</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48581442</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48581442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arthurbrown in "The UK's Teen Social Media Ban Is Political Theater, Not Child Safety Policy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The article doesn't really discuss education outcomes at all, that is something you brought up. It sounds like we agree that there is an issue here. I'm suggesting that there are other reasons that explain the performance drop.<p>My reading of the article is that it criticizes the implementation of this policy and the methodology behind it, which I agree with.<p>Living in a country that moved quickly from a "social media ban" to an "adult content ban" in the space of 3 months, I feel that these policies are overreach due to how they must be implemented. As in, they require all users to provide verification, not just the targeted cohort.<p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy92qpv424o" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy92qpv424o</a></p>
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<p>Nationalized social media bans and restricted device usage while in a classroom are different things. Why would TikTok ever belong in the classroom?<p>Of course if even educational use of laptops is restricted then personal mobile devices would also be. They are already banned in my country.</p>
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<p>There is growing acknowledgement that this is related to laptop usage in classroom. Countries are recognizing this and rolling back policies, citing PISA rankings.<p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly0vk77vdko" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly0vk77vdko</a>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/15/education-victoria-laptop-screen-use-schools-two-hours-a-day" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/15/educa...</a></p>
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<p>I'm not a farmer, but you are welcome to ask a no-till farmer for their experience, or do some reading. Heck, you could read the article that we're commenting on where scientists have dedicated their career to understanding this stuff.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 04:51:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47526737</link><dc:creator>arthurbrown</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47526737</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47526737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arthurbrown in "Earthquake scientists reveal how overplowing weakens soil at experimental farm"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What's the point of this? You are saying that you will not accept any new information that goes against your belief system.<p>The evidence is there. Read something. Watch a video. The resources are readily available and abundant.<p>Make a garden patch and experiment for yourself if you refuse to accept any outside information.<p>This video is 15 years old. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1aR5OLgcc0" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1aR5OLgcc0</a></p>
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<p>What an odd response. We have centuries of evidence for minimal disturbance agriculture supporting civilizations.<p>What evidently does NOT work is the quite new practice of industrial tilling and fertilizer, which is causing rapid breakdown of our natural environment and future potential for food production.</p>
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<p>As someone who's been observing how the media treats cycling in this city closely since the dark days of Ducan Gay, this is absolutely what is happening.<p>Thank you for posting this and for taking the time to document it in detail.</p>
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<p>Bought any RAM lately? Phone? GPU in the last decade?</p>
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<p>My understanding is that the high calcium content in their water supply formed a lining on the inside of the pipes which largely prevented any exposure.</p>
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