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New comment by azkalam in "A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones"

azkalam — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:26:56 +0000

Google has so much influence over the hardware manufacturers. They should do more.

Does anyone in the industry know why so much firmware is proprietary?

New comment by azkalam in "Debian must ship reproducible packages"

azkalam — Sun, 10 May 2026 10:36:11 +0000

Reproducible builds reduce the need for trusted parties.

Have many organizations produce the binaries independently and post the arifacts.

Once n of m parties agree on the arifact hash, take that as the trusted build.

If every party reaches a different hash then we cannot build consensus.

New comment by azkalam in "Debian must ship reproducible packages"

azkalam — Sun, 10 May 2026 10:31:51 +0000

Probably easiest way is to use Bazel to leverage the effort that has gone in there

Ask HN: Best file format for AI reports output?

azkalam — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 10:31:42 +0000

I want to use LLMs to construct reports. These reports will be of varying quality so I need to do a few rounds of QA (LLMs and human reviewers). So I need a format that is good for both feeding into a model and rendering as HTML.

Markdown makes sense but if I add rich media like images it won't be a self contained file.

Markdown is versatile enough to contain tables, images, headings etc. It also has low token overhead.

How can Markdown handle page breaks?

PDF is self contained but I want a tighter format that is quick to pull text and images from.

HTML is interesting, but again I want a restricted feature set - no JavaScript etc.

I am currently thinking about using zips containing Markdown files and image assets.

What are people reaching for in this space?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47099402

Points: 1

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New comment by azkalam in "Exercise can be nearly as effective as therapy for depression"

azkalam — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:48:21 +0000

Over-eating is not strictly a choice. Corporations spend billions on manipulating the public because it works. Regulation is needed, not willpower.

New comment by azkalam in "AI will make formal verification go mainstream"

azkalam — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:27:06 +0000

Python has a reputation for being good for beginners so it's taught to beginners so it has a reputation for being good for beginners.

New comment by azkalam in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

azkalam — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 15:47:30 +0000

Success rate in that era was very low. There are thousands of movies from that time that no one cares about today.

New comment by azkalam in "Advent of Code 2025"

azkalam — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 18:38:42 +0000

Do you know of anything like AoC but that feels less contrived? I often spend the most time understanding the problem requirements because they are so arbitrary - like the worst kind of boardgame! Maybe I should go pick up some OSS tickets...

New comment by azkalam in "Advent of Code 2025"

azkalam — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 16:47:55 +0000

Terse languages with great collection functions in the standard libraries and tail call optimization. Haskell, OCaml, F# ...

New comment by azkalam in "Event Sourcing in Go: From Zero to Production"

azkalam — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 18:29:32 +0000

But only one server can access each SQLite at a time?

New comment by azkalam in "Event Sourcing in Go: From Zero to Production"

azkalam — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 12:55:40 +0000

- Write side is a Postgres INSERT

- Read side is a SELECT on a Postgres view

New comment by azkalam in "Event Sourcing in Go: From Zero to Production"

azkalam — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 12:24:25 +0000

> Go is one of the best languages to go for Event Sourcing toda

Can you explain this? Go has a very limited type system.

New comment by azkalam in "Event Sourcing in Go: From Zero to Production"

azkalam — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 10:55:15 +0000

How does event sourcing handle aggregates that may be larger than memory?

Fantasy Consoles

azkalam — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 20:38:18 +0000

Article URL: https://fantasyconsoles.org/wiki/Main_Page

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45920209

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by azkalam in "Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it?"

azkalam — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:19:10 +0000

This assumes the boundary between Python and the native code is clean and rarely crossed.

New comment by azkalam in "Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it?"

azkalam — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:18:17 +0000

I've never understood this. Python cannot be optimized like C, C++ or Rust. It cannot do advanced functional things like OCaml, Haskell or Scala. It cannot run in browsers like TypeScript. It cannot do games programming like C# and it can't do crazy macro stuff like Clojure. I don't think it's even second best at those things.

New comment by azkalam in "What .NET 10 GC changes mean for developers"

azkalam — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 16:03:19 +0000

Sure, Python has types as part of the syntax, but Python doesn't have types like Java, C#, etc. have types. They are not pervasive and the semantics are not locked down.

New comment by azkalam in "What .NET 10 GC changes mean for developers"

azkalam — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 16:00:54 +0000

This surprises me.

If you want the .NET ecosystem and GC conveniences, there is already F#. If you want no GC and RAII-style control, then you would already pick Rust.