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New comment by bcardarella in "Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years"

bcardarella — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:21:55 +0000

Every single social event is a financial consideration now. Want to go out with the wife for the evening? It's going to cost $150+ for a baby sitter at $25/hour. The dinner + tip is going to cost $200. Parking is going to cost $50 - $100 if you go into a city. You could take public transportation but then you're loooking at that cost shifting back to the babysitter. Before you know it you're in for $300 - $500 just for a night off.

New comment by bcardarella in "China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D in 2024"

bcardarella — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 03:54:10 +0000

There are two things that I feel impacted the US here:

1. the R&D tax credit was gone from 2022 - 2025 thanks to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed in 2017.

2. private equity does not invest in R&D

Agentic Code Must Be Human Auditable

bcardarella — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:25:45 +0000

Article URL: https://dockyard.com/blog/2026/06/10/it-has-to-be-human-auditable

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48478714

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by bcardarella in "Zig ELF Linker Improvements Devlog"

bcardarella — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:22:25 +0000

I'm very glad to see the work, thank you for all of the efforts.

New comment by bcardarella in "Zig ELF Linker Improvements Devlog"

bcardarella — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:11:14 +0000

I wonder how much this work being pushed forward right now is a response to the Bun drama.

New comment by bcardarella in "Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews"

bcardarella — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:17:09 +0000

Phantasy Star remains to this day my favorite RPG. I was the kid in the neighborhood who's parents bought a SEGA Master System instead of a NES. I would play Final Fantasy a bit over their houses but it always paled in comparison to Phantasy Star. I recently replayed it on Nintendo Switch. Still a very challenging RPG and stil feels great.

W3C Web Neural Net API Draft

bcardarella — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 13:27:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/webnn/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46134234

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by bcardarella in "Netherlands – Capital Growth Tax and Capital Gains Tax for Box 3"

bcardarella — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 03:17:55 +0000

I agree that borrowing against unrealized gains is crap, it's lead to major economic divide. However, just make borrowing against unrealized gains illegal. Taxing unrealized gains is the wrong solution for a real problem.

New comment by bcardarella in "Fast Lua runtime written in Rust"

bcardarella — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 14:54:58 +0000

"written in Rust"

New comment by bcardarella in "Brimstone: ES2025 JavaScript engine written in Rust"

bcardarella — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 16:35:38 +0000

I only ran both with `cargo build --release`

New comment by bcardarella in "Brimstone: ES2025 JavaScript engine written in Rust"

bcardarella — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 14:54:26 +0000

Just a small comparison, compiled for release:

Boa: 23M Brimstone: 6.3M

I don't know if closing the gap on features with Boa and hardening for production use will also bloat the compilation size. Regardless, for passing 97% of the spec at this size is pretty impressive.

New comment by bcardarella in "Zig's New Async I/O"

bcardarella — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 20:43:24 +0000

One that was tossed in 0.15 was `usingnamespace` which was a bit rough to refactor away from.

New comment by bcardarella in "MLB approves robot umpires for 2026 as part of challenge system"

bcardarella — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 04:57:18 +0000

You may be correct, but the rate of change in baseball is glacially slow compared to the other sports. One of baseball's intrinsic values is it's legacy, tradition, and history. Some may scoff at that, and I think there are good arguments against legacy/tradition as a reason to withhold change, but there are a lot of people out there that believe this. The MLB Commissioner's have largely been tasked with protecting that tradition and history.

New comment by bcardarella in "Pico CSS – Minimal CSS Framework for Semantic HTML"

bcardarella — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:28:31 +0000

This is how CSS should be written. I will never understand why class names need to repeat the semantic purpose for a given element.

New comment by bcardarella in "Show HN: Game demo made with my homemade game engine"

bcardarella — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 20:22:21 +0000

How far should I be able to progress? I can out of the first room and open the cabinet in the second room, but cannot progress further.

New comment by bcardarella in "The AI vibe shift is upon us"

bcardarella — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 10:53:26 +0000

Epic paintball venues

New comment by bcardarella in "I let LLMs write an Elixir NIF in C; it mostly worked"

bcardarella — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 19:07:31 +0000

The issue in this case was Opus was pretty crap at C. It kept introducing segfaults.

New comment by bcardarella in "I let LLMs write an Elixir NIF in C; it mostly worked"

bcardarella — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:37:44 +0000

I tried to do this a few weeks ago, I tried to build a NIF around an existing C lib. I was using Claude Opus and burned over $300 (I didn't have Pro) on tokens with no usable results.

New comment by bcardarella in "Elixir Pack: Embed a complete Elixir OTP runtime directly in your iOS app"

bcardarella — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 12:11:42 +0000

This is another extraction from the project that I discussed in this HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44651539#44652356

tldr; we're building a headless browser in Elixir that will embed on device, communicate to the native 1st class rendering engine (i.e. SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose, WinUI3, etc...) via disterl, and allow for web-like ergonomics to build truly native SSR applications.

The README for Elixir Pack is a bit focused on the LiveView Native project but that documentation will soon be updated to remove mention of it.

Elixir Pack: Embed a complete Elixir OTP runtime directly in your iOS app

bcardarella — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 12:08:23 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/otp-interop/elixir_pack

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44784730

Points: 33

# Comments: 3