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New comment by assbuttbuttass in "Helix: A post-modern text editor"

assbuttbuttass — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:30:32 +0000

I really want to like Helix, but I wish the developers paid more attention to performance, or were more receptive to outside contributions. Helix can really chug, even on small files, and the perception in the community seems to be "it's written in Rust so therefore it's blazingly fast :rocket-ship-emoji:"

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "Why Go Can't Try"

assbuttbuttass — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:51:38 +0000

Which aspects of Rust syntax are adapted from ML? Semantics sure, but to me the syntax seems a lot more similar to C++ (e.g. semicolons, type parameters using <>, etc.)

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "Pentagon Adopts Incel-Speak"

assbuttbuttass — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:48:59 +0000

The incels have grown up and now work at the Pentagon

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "LLMs as the new high level language"

assbuttbuttass — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:10:31 +0000

This still doesn't help when you update your compiler to use a newer model

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User"

assbuttbuttass — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 13:28:28 +0000

Just a personal anecdote, but the errors from Guix are terrible. I had to reinstall because I couldn't figure out the scheme errors for my system config

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User"

assbuttbuttass — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 13:25:11 +0000

> the thing I hate by far the most in NixOS is .. nix

nix has a pretty steep learning curve, sure

> scheme? Aka Lisp? Seriously???

No nix, no scheme, got it. I wonder which language you would use?

> YAML files exist for a reason.

LMAO

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "Claude Code's GitHub page auto closes issues after 60 days"

assbuttbuttass — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 15:11:01 +0000

Yeah, it only checks whether the last bot comment is older than 30 days, completely ignoring any human comment

    if (botCommentDate < oneMonthAgo) {
        // Close the issue - it's been stale for 60+ days

Hard to imagine how this got past code review...

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/5e3e9408feea9...

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "Finding and Fixing a 50k Goroutine Leak That Nearly Killed Production"

assbuttbuttass — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 14:02:21 +0000

> Writers kept sending to sub.messages. The channel grew. Memory grew.

Channels are buffered in Go, they will not grow unbounded.

> Tickers Are Not Garbage Collected

It used to be necessary in older versions to call ticker.Stop(), but in recent versions it's no longer necessary.

    // Start goroutines
    go s.pumpMessages(ctx, sub)
    go s.heartbeat(ctx, sub)
    
    // Monitor the connection
    go s.monitorConnection(ctx, sub)

The "fixed" code is still using the fire-and-forget pattern for goroutines which encourages this kind of leak. Go makes it easy to add concurrency on the caller side, so it's usually better to write blocking functions that clean up all their goroutines before returning.

In general this article screams AI with most of the conclusions being hallucinated. Goroutine leaks are real, but it's hard to trust any of the article's conclusions

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "Investigating and fixing a nasty clone bug"

assbuttbuttass — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 10:31:19 +0000

I fixed an almost identical bug at work a few months ago: an internal service was calling some network device, and would only fail for IPv6-only devices. Turns out it was trying IPv4 first, and then when it failed, it would retry the request with IPv6, but the request body was already consumed so the retry failed with a cryptic error

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "Can I start using Wayland in 2026?"

assbuttbuttass — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 16:26:50 +0000

Screen sharing works in Zoom now, you'll have to find a new cherry-picked example

ProjectM – Cross-Platform Music Visualization Library

assbuttbuttass — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 16:20:32 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46337235

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres"

assbuttbuttass — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:13:12 +0000

At least for the Spanner DB, it's good to have a randomly-distributed primary key since it allows better sharding of the data and avoids "hot shards" when doing a lot of inserts. UUIDv4 is the typical solution, although a bit-reversed incrementing integer would work too

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/announcing-...

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’"

assbuttbuttass — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:42:21 +0000

> To "force" someone to develop on a Chromebook is like giving someone a bicycle to become a race car driver.

Lol, I use a Chromebook for development at work

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "An Implementation of J (1992)"

assbuttbuttass — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 16:05:27 +0000

One cool thing about J (or any APL language) is that LLMs absolutely cannot write J code, so the whole thing feels like a breath of fresh air from the usual LLM slop

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "A Look at Rust from 2012"

assbuttbuttass — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:17:11 +0000

Very interesting to see the ML influences like ~ for unary minus, unscoped enums, mut on specific struct fields...

It seems like over time, a lot of that was replaced with C++-style syntax and semantics. Presumably to make the language appeal more to C++ devs

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected"

assbuttbuttass — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 14:07:00 +0000

Is serde maintained by the Rust team? I thought it was basically a one-man show owned by dtolnay

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon"

assbuttbuttass — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 16:57:53 +0000

I share the same sentiment about the HN community, but there are still a lot of interesting articles posted here that are fun to read

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem"

assbuttbuttass — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:11:55 +0000

My website was down too, because a tree fell on my power line

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem"

assbuttbuttass — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 05:55:29 +0000

In TFA they mentioned they preallocate all the memory up front

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "Open-source Zig book"

assbuttbuttass — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 05:48:25 +0000

Yes, that fragment in particular screams LLM to me. It's the exact kind of meaningless yet overly dramatic slop that LLMs love