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New comment by blashyrk in "Restricting code touch to engineers turns AI into a bottleneck amplifier"

blashyrk — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 11:26:02 +0000

"The fix is not to lock the code away. The fix is to separate participation from final control. Give the entire team access to the code so people (with or without agents) can work on it. Keep merges limited to engineers."

Oh great. The engineers now have to review 100x more code AND still be the ones responsible when something goes wrong. How convenient!

New comment by blashyrk in "DialUp95 – A 90s inspired nostalgia hit"

blashyrk — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 19:40:03 +0000

Great

Just needs a pulse dialing option ;)

New comment by blashyrk in "Steam Frame"

blashyrk — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 10:44:14 +0000

Why? You can use rechargeable AA batteries and if you want you can swap them out and basically never have downtime for charging. Also all embedded batteries degrade over time which is a non issue here

New comment by blashyrk in "China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990"

blashyrk — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 09:49:26 +0000

Okay and how many years is George Bush Jr and his entire administration serving currently?

What good is mentioning past mistakes if there's strictly zero consequences

New comment by blashyrk in "The Programmer Identity Crisis"

blashyrk — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:09:29 +0000

> coding is the means to an end

...

> doesn't add value

What about intrinsic value? So many programmers on HN seem to just want to be MBAs in their heart of hearts

New comment by blashyrk in "x86-64 Playground – An online assembly editor and GDB-like debugger"

blashyrk — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 07:19:41 +0000

Wouldn't that basically be very similar to, for example, LLVM IR?

New comment by blashyrk in "Speeding up Unreal Editor launch by not spawning unused tooltips"

blashyrk — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 10:42:26 +0000

I felt the exact same way until I tried Hazelight's AngelScript UE fork. It is amazing, it brings the developer experience and iteration speed to Unity levels. They even made a VSCode plugin for it. Cannot recommend enough

New comment by blashyrk in "Why Nim?"

blashyrk — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 18:13:47 +0000

Yes, I tried it recently for easy cross-compilation. You can use basically any C/C++ compiler, even TinyCC works (in most scenarios) if you want an extremely fast edit/compile/test cycle.

New comment by blashyrk in "Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA"

blashyrk — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:28:03 +0000

Macos window/desktop management is also stuck in 2001 with "magic gestures" tacked on. For someone who hates using these gestures especially when connected to an actually good kb/m, the base desktop experience is horrible. The dock is completely useless, the various cmd+tab or cmd+` shortcuts are unwieldy, Spotlight is growing increasingly worse year after year.

Rectangle/tiling window managers on top is the only way to make it workable.

Apart from wm, the existence of application notarization is a downright insult (though Windows is also guilty of this with smartscreen but to a much lesser extent).

Apple's "pay us 100 bucks a year or we'll tell your users that your program is malware" is just another step in the inevitable game of locking down macos and turning it into a mobile-like hellscape

New comment by blashyrk in "A Rust shaped hole"

blashyrk — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 12:40:19 +0000

Someone really needs to show Nim to the author :). It checks all of their boxes and then some

New comment by blashyrk in "Let's Learn x86-64 Assembly (2020)"

blashyrk — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 08:26:01 +0000

I second the Shenzhen I/O recommendation, because apart from only assembly programming, the game also has other constraints in the form of having to spacially arange various chips on a limited "enclosure" for the product you're building and connect them. It also rewards optimization both in terms of assembly and chip usage efficiency. Is a wonderful game, really.

New comment by blashyrk in "Is Rust a good fit for business apps?"

blashyrk — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 14:00:20 +0000

I think Nim might be a good candidate.

https://nim-lang.org

New comment by blashyrk in "Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using?"

blashyrk — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 19:27:43 +0000

I absolutely adore Nim.

That said, the edges are still (very) rough when it comes to tooling (generics and macros absolutely murder Nimsuggest/lsp) and also "invisible" things impacting performance such as defect handling (--panics:on) and the way the different memory management schemes introduce different types of overhead even when working with purely stack allocated data.

But even with all that it's still an extremely pleasant and performant language to work with (when writing single threaded programs at least)

New comment by blashyrk in "EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games"

blashyrk — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 19:48:30 +0000

Even more importantly, running at 60+fps while not breaking gameplay, physics, shaders, cutscenes...

New comment by blashyrk in "Half of Russia's A320/A321neo Fleet Grounded Amid Engine Issues and Sanctions"

blashyrk — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 22:54:05 +0000

But that would imply Russia becoming a neo-colony of the US, like the two mentioned countries. Which I don't think would ever happen, I think Russia would chose MAD over that if forced to make that choice. Russia under Yeytsin was already drifting towards becoming something like that, and has been firmly going in the other direction ever since

New comment by blashyrk in "First Ever Recorded Use of ICBM in War"

blashyrk — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 18:53:12 +0000

Destroyed how? Are you saying it was shot down? Did you see the speed of reentry here? What kind of AA has the capability to destroy a projectile this fast? This looks like MIRV, not remains of a destroyed missile.

New comment by blashyrk in "Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted"

blashyrk — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 00:42:59 +0000

It's literally on the NATO website for crying out loud.

New comment by blashyrk in "Biden Allows Ukraine to Strike Russia with Long-Range U.S. Missiles"

blashyrk — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 23:40:37 +0000

> It's for security: It's less risky now to fight Russia then later, after they've conquered more people and territory, and have political momentum.

This is a fair and logical point.

> It's for security again: If Russia wins, it greatly damages the international order which has prevented wide-scale war for generations. Remember the world before 1945.

That very international order hinges on the US being the sole dominator of the entire world. Sooner or later that sort of international order has to crack.

> The lives, freedom, rights, and prosperity of tens of millions of people are at stake.

Pax Americana is paid for (in blood, natural resources, political sovereignty and the fate of every single future generation) by hundreds of millions of people, though outside of the "western, civilized" world. You still consider it some righteous cause? Sounds kind of selfish.

New comment by blashyrk in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

blashyrk — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 13:13:53 +0000

> The EU was holding world peace.

I can't fathom where you got that from.

> Iraq, war on oil. Isreal funded by US arms

All true, and the EU complicit in all of those. Maybe not by choice (see remark about sovereignty at the end), but complicit nonetheless. You also forgot Syria, Yemen, Yugoslavia and probably a few others as well.

> Russia owns Trump and Russia wants the EU dead.

Sorry, but this is not Reddit.

> By no means should the EU get cosy with the US.

The EU has no choice other than be "cosy" with the US. It's called Pax Americana.

In simple terms, the deal is this and always has been this since WW2 ended: the EU has traded political sovereignty for security, to and from the US.

New comment by blashyrk in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

blashyrk — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 11:51:12 +0000

But not Reddit, Bluesky or the MSM? Huh.