Hacker News: bmitc

New comment by bmitc in "Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now"

bmitc — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 15:19:34 +0000

The outrage was more how the rewrite was communicated and defended, which was objectively poor.

New comment by bmitc in "Elixir-lang.org has a new design"

bmitc — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 06:28:32 +0000

Elixir, the language, is still basically Erlang with some niceties. The main Ruby influences are the syntax, which I don't love but can't say I hate, macros, which Erlang doesn't have, and large web-frameworks like Phoenix.

Elixir is a wonderful language and one of my favorite languages.

> Elixir was made by people who don't really understand Erlang

And this is definitely not true.

New comment by bmitc in "Gleam Is Now on Tangled"

bmitc — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 06:22:17 +0000

I just happen to know of Gleam, the programming language.

> > on some new version control host

> Is that what Tangled is?

I don't really know. It's just a guess from the looks of it. I also don't know why this is important that Gleam is on Tangled now. Shrug. What really confused me is the commenter's link, both the link itself and its relevance.

New comment by bmitc in "Anthropic's newest ad is creeping people out"

bmitc — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 06:08:46 +0000

The scary part wasn't that problems exist. It's that they pose themselves as the people, company, and tools to solve them.

New comment by bmitc in "Gleam Is Now on Tangled"

bmitc — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:36:35 +0000

I have zero idea what your link has to do with the original post, which seems to just be the Gleam language on some new version control host?

New comment by bmitc in "The US grocery slowdown is real"

bmitc — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 07:25:05 +0000

> Where I am in the US, you can get a dozen eggs for ~$2 at Walmart.

Some people prefer to shop at less conglomerate and evil stores.

New comment by bmitc in "The US grocery slowdown is real"

bmitc — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 07:23:50 +0000

Wages is one thing. Our sitting president inacting vast amounts of tariffs and other asinine decisions is another thing and is the reason why no one has even less money these days. Ever since he took office, my available funds have dwindled drastically despite reductions in spending and increases in salary.

New comment by bmitc in "FAA lets Boeing sign off on 737 MAX, 787 airworthiness certificates again"

bmitc — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 07:21:57 +0000

I have avoided flying on a 737 MAX and have even asked about it at gates when a plane was switched.

Part of the problem though is that many, many, many routes were straight up removed during and after COVID and still haven't returned. There is often no choice, particularly with certain companies like Southwest. However, I haven't flown Southwest since I learned that they were basically complicit, if not directly involved, in Boeing's 737 MAX issues.

New comment by bmitc in "Frank Lloyd Wright’s first home"

bmitc — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 04:56:52 +0000

That's a bit of a silly comparison, in my opinion. FLW was an incredibly deep and original thinker. You can't say the same for today's "genius" entrepreneurs. FLW also experimented and created many new ways of designing and building. He couldn't possibly have been stealing that many unique ideas over basically his 70 year career.

New comment by bmitc in "Frank Lloyd Wright’s first home"

bmitc — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 04:41:53 +0000

His architecture was generally very, very progressive for the time and pushed the bounds of construction and structural engineering.

As someone else mentioned, he was designing houses that look newer than they actually are.

New comment by bmitc in "Kaiser nurses say AI, workplace surveillance are making their jobs, care worse"

bmitc — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 04:24:19 +0000

Why wouldn't I be serious? And everyone lives in and cares about California.

Plus, a quick Wikipedia glance shows they have a fair share of controversies, including major fines due to poor COVID protocol adherence.

New comment by bmitc in "Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse"

bmitc — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:01:51 +0000

> Kaiser has some of the best healthcare outcomes in the country/world due to their protocols and how good they are in ensuring adherence to them.

Where and how is that determined? I.e., any references to back that up?

And you can't in one breath say they have the best healthcare but then say their employees' reports of their experience are unreliable.

New comment by bmitc in "I also filed the corners off my MacBook"

bmitc — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:38:39 +0000

I've never understood why Apple had and leaves these things in their computers.

New comment by bmitc in "Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail"

bmitc — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:03:25 +0000

There used to be a really good video on YouTube that covered the code that was displayed on the screen. Unfortunately, it seems to have been removed from YouTube.

New comment by bmitc in "Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig"

bmitc — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:36:17 +0000

Do you have any examples as to how Zig is more simple than Rust?

For the most part, I find Rust to be somewhat boring once you get past the initial learning curve of the borrow checker. It's almost uneventful code and reminds me a lot of writing code in F#.

The only area that Rust feels very friction-y can be with async programming, but basically no language except Erland and Elixir make that frictionless.

New comment by bmitc in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

bmitc — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:10:09 +0000

Getting where, exactly?

New comment by bmitc in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

bmitc — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:09:26 +0000

I feel the exact same way after I saw a Starlink line flying over. It made me feel like any sci-fi movie where your entire environment has been purchased and is controlled by corporations. It was a sad feeling knowing even the sky has been claimed by someone now with zero repercussions.

New comment by bmitc in "Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made"

bmitc — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 08:58:42 +0000

Steam has a 75% share of the PC gaming market. The mere existence of alternatives doesn't negate a monopoly. Whether it's a monopoly or not depends on whether Valve uses its market power in a pathological way.

New comment by bmitc in "Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig"

bmitc — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:40:28 +0000

> and the only reason it exists is because the author(s) found a way they liked to express that software.

In a discussion about comparing two languages, there's an implication there that they found a way they liked to express their idea in a particular language that couldn't be done in the other just as well if not better.

Doing things well in C requires a large amount of things that just don't happen if you're writing the same program in Rust. And Rust greatly enables domain-driven design that basically doesn't exist in any C program.

New comment by bmitc in "Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig"

bmitc — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:38:22 +0000

> moving toward being a niche language and away from being something that I could make a case for in a business context

That indeed seems hard. Also, at this point in time, what would be the benefit of using Zig over Rust?