Hacker News: blubber

New comment by blubber in "Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7"

blubber — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:04:59 +0000

Variable AWS is unbound.

New comment by blubber in "Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7"

blubber — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:00:48 +0000

Common lisp isn't functional in that sense.

New comment by blubber in "YC CEO says he ships 37K LoC AI code per day. A developer looked under the hood"

blubber — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:08:41 +0000

"found numerous examples of bloat and inefficiencies in Tan’s site code, and used a single (Anthropic) Claude session to review the files he downloaded from the website to confirm his observations"

1. I hope they never get hold of the code of MS Office or almost any other piece of real-world business software.

2. So anyone with claude access could arrive at the same conclusions ... and ask claude to fix it?

New comment by blubber in "What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis"

blubber — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 05:59:35 +0000

In mice

Edit: the title should have such a tag

New comment by blubber in "Countries are competing to see which can carry out mass surveillance the best"

blubber — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 04:07:07 +0000

I suppose you meant "good enough"?

New comment by blubber in "The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK"

blubber — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:25:25 +0000

"Where Are the Accuracy Benchmarks?"

I wish the author would have provided one.

New comment by blubber in "The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK"

blubber — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:20:29 +0000

There is a conflict of interest, though.

New comment by blubber in "A CGo-free port of SQLite/SQLite3"

blubber — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:05:07 +0000

Because it's cgo-free maybe?

New comment by blubber in "Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording""

blubber — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:21:50 +0000

Some additional sound bites from last year: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheLevant/comments/1nv9521/larry_el...

New comment by blubber in "DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier"

blubber — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:24:35 +0000

That's why there won't be any local models in 10-20 years. The latest Chinese models are already hosted on proprietary clouds.

New comment by blubber in "Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness"

blubber — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:46:42 +0000

Obligatory post: open source != free software.

There is OSS you are not allowed to modify etc.

New comment by blubber in "AI is killing B2B SaaS"

blubber — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 07:40:02 +0000

And since you became management, you have refered to software only by the stock symbols of the owning companies?

New comment by blubber in "France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US"

blubber — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:32:05 +0000

While I like the move, I think it could have come a few decades earlier and I'm stunned by the fact that this is Franc-only. When will Europe ever wake up?

New comment by blubber in "Fil-Qt: A Qt Base build with Fil-C experience"

blubber — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 11:31:03 +0000

Isn't Zig's repetitive ceremonial code around allocators+ allocation + defer *.deinit() a sign of a serious shortcoming like golang's error handling? If zig is so good at metaprogramming, why isn't there a metaprogramming solution to this repetitive code?

New comment by blubber in "GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source"

blubber — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 07:21:37 +0000

Or Microsoft could simply fund open source software since they provide a Linux subsystem to allow people to do proper work despite of them having to use windows

New comment by blubber in "Claude in Chrome"

blubber — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 19:29:15 +0000

Two AI agents fighting couldn't end up in an infinite loop?

New comment by blubber in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

blubber — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 06:51:59 +0000

Yes, but there is no song with the line: party like it's 1996. Simply doesn't work.

New comment by blubber in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

blubber — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:50:44 +0000

"When I use a text-only browser then no "adblock" is necessary"

So you browser as if it were 1999? Yup, no ads back then.

New comment by blubber in "Python is not a great language for data science"

blubber — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:25:58 +0000

This isn't about compilation vs interpretation. R is simply badly designed as a programming language. This doesn't change just because its inventor wrote a book.

New comment by blubber in "Hacking on the ReMarkable 2"

blubber — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:23:06 +0000

An RSS client without a web browser, which the team is fervently opposed to?