Hacker News: bobajeff

New comment by bobajeff in "I'm becoming AI-blind"

bobajeff — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:13:17 +0000

On the other hand I'm still trying to forget the weird thing happening with this one guys eyes in a WickedAI video I was only able to watch half of.

New comment by bobajeff in "The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source"

bobajeff — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 10:58:33 +0000

I'm glad that it's open source now and they are supporting a lot more hardware. There are some interesting features that I hope the language design community pays attention to.

It's built on top of MLIR so you can make compiler optimizations in a library instead of the compiler. I believe Reactant.jl has been using MLIR for optimizing higher level abstractions in Julia. Imagine a Lisp with that capability.

New comment by bobajeff in "IBM Simon (1994): the original smartphone, explained in its own ad [video]"

bobajeff — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:45:31 +0000

How much did this bad boy cost?

New comment by bobajeff in "Gloomberb"

bobajeff — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:23:53 +0000

I know where you're coming from. I've been worried about all the supply chain attacks on npm too. And I'm far from a security expert. However, if you're okay with installing binary packages via `curl somesite.com | sh` I don't think you are in a better position with regards to security.

New comment by bobajeff in "Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation"

bobajeff — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:35:32 +0000

As sometime who's never used Wolfram Languages before this project has gotten me interested.

For sometime now I've been looking into a good CAS for my app. I've tried a few algebra problems with Sympy, Sage, Xcas, Maxima and Woxi. Of these only Sage, Maxima and Woxi were capable of giving the expected answers.

After trying it out I became fascinated by Wolfram language and other term rewriting languages they are pretty interesting even though most have little to do with CAS like WL.

Anyway I've been looking at this project and plan to seriously use it in the future. So, I've noticed a few things when attempting to run wljs (I had to wrap it with a shell script to get wljs to see it as wolframscript executable). First the version number system variable gives a string instead of the expected real number type (As a temporary hack I modified Woxi to give what wljs expects). There also is a variable that tells to the absolute path of the of the current file and it is wrong when it's used in an imported script. After working around that with hard coded paths things became more difficult.

Edit: just checked my pc and the variables are called $VersionNumber and $InputFileName which is incorrect if the file is evaluated via Get["filepath"].

Anyways, I'm interested in helping out don't know if I can.

New comment by bobajeff in "Mojo 1.0"

bobajeff — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:20:59 +0000

I wish Modular/Qualcomm good luck with this. We would be well served with a good alternative to Cuda. I will be looking at Modcon to see how serious they are with Mojo's ecosystem. (Hopefully it won't be yet another SYCL).

New comment by bobajeff in "Suzanne: AI tool for designing and manufacturing physical products"

bobajeff — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:12:35 +0000

I've been thinking lately that all the talk about a AGI, Super intelligence, AI singularity today is practically not worth considering until they are capable of generating innovations to our current processes and materials significant enough to change the economics of running a plant. It should be obvious that a world with a system capable of improving itself rapidly would first need to be capable of improving it's own hardware but before that I think we should at least see some changes in the economics of creating and running manufacturing plants.

New comment by bobajeff in "Because It's Not Fun Enough: why languages fail"

bobajeff — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:41:47 +0000

Yeah, this is a more honest assessment than the others I've read here.

Of course them being ISO(like) standards with competing implementations/tools was also important for C, C++ and Java as the cost to use and learn them was higher in the days before free open source languages, free tutorials and help forums became so wide spread.

But yeah official platform support and big company backing are a big part of why these languages have stuck around compared to others.

New comment by bobajeff in "AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol"

bobajeff — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:11:16 +0000

Thanks, That worked.

New comment by bobajeff in "AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol"

bobajeff — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:40:04 +0000

>Access to this site was denied for security reasons. Please contact your network or system administrator

Is what I see. Which makes sense I guess. Maybe just tell me how you got to the page?

New comment by bobajeff in "Elena, a library for building Progressive Web Components"

bobajeff — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 13:41:44 +0000

I've found out about this and datastar * in the last 2 days. I'm getting confused about what these light frameworks/libraries are doing that I need over vanilla js. Also how do these compare to the last round of light frameworks like solid and svelte?

I'm on board with reducing the need to port to and from different frameworks. I also agree that we should try to avoid depending on npm for everything.

* https://github.com/starfederation/datastar

Dependency Cultures [video]

bobajeff — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 06:05:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E82ly38YEEQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49131527

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bobajeff in "June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more"

bobajeff — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 01:17:04 +0000

Yeah, it's a Linux system. I can't remember if it was spidermonkey that it failed on or not. Though it sounds like maybe they should consider using another JavaScript engine if it's causing problems.

New comment by bobajeff in "June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more"

bobajeff — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:42:47 +0000

The last few times I've tried to build Servo it's failed for me. (It's also one the very few rust projects that have ever failed to build for me).

New comment by bobajeff in "June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more"

bobajeff — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:34:53 +0000

I think you mean that the Ladybird project doesn't accept outside contributions anymore but it's still open source (just checked it's under BSD 2-Clause License). Pretty important distinction I think.

New comment by bobajeff in "GC and Exceptions in Wasmtime"

bobajeff — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:48:16 +0000

I'm not sure why people are claiming wasm isn't ready. It's just a compiler target like asm.js was. And that's been in use pretty much from the start when they got Unreal Engine, Unity, ffmpeg ported to it. Personally I've run Python + Sympy, Xcas/Giac and Maxima in the browser through this amazing tech.

New comment by bobajeff in "Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL"

bobajeff — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 04:45:49 +0000

Actually, at least on Chromium it's possible to use Dwarf debugging symbols in debugging your wasm files. It's a little tricky because the documentation isn't that clear but I've ran programs through that and it works. Also there a vscode extension (which I prefer over using vs the browser devtools). If you have that it's basically like using any other debugger in vscode (including CodeLLDB) only you launch the browser when you're debugging it.

New comment by bobajeff in "Linux kernel will support $ORIGIN, sort of"

bobajeff — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:53:26 +0000

Many people here seem to think this change will allow for people to package their Linux apps to be portable across distros/distro releases. If this is true then this a great!

On Debian-based distros it kind of sucks when the version of a package is only available in a newer release so the only way to get it is either compile it yourself or upgrade your system.

I remember trying to hack around this once by downloading dependencies from a newer release and helping the program locate them but I think I ran into a issue with the linker version being hardcoded or something and gave up.

New comment by bobajeff in "Neverclick: Desktop application for performing mouse actions with your keyboard"

bobajeff — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:35:44 +0000

Yeah after I read this I looked at the "code". It's a lot of placeholder.cpp with int main(){return};

This is so very sketchy.

New comment by bobajeff in "Show HN: Wyrm – Solve algebra by touch, built on an open-source soundness engine"

bobajeff — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 01:55:25 +0000

I tried the demo. One thing I've noticed is it's sometimes hard to know what operation clicking or dragging something will do (or has done sometimes). I'm not sure what would help other than showing like a pie menu before carrying out the operation.

On the library. It's sounds really cool. I'm going to look at it pretty soon.