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New comment by brodo in "A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air"

brodo — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:59:30 +0000

Yea, usually the next step is starting a Kickstarter campaign and then rug-pulling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVsqIjAeeXw

New comment by brodo in "Zig by Example"

brodo — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:31:38 +0000

Wrapping this [1] in a skill will help a lot: Also add this [2] and `zig fmt` to your buid.zig.

[1]: https://github.com/rockorager/zigdoc [2]: https://github.com/rockorager/ziglint

New comment by brodo in "Zig by Example"

brodo — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:25:37 +0000

In Zig, function arguments are not wrapped in `.{}`. `.{}` is the syntax for creating a struct or a tuple. This is used as a pattern for allowing optional arguments (options struct) and variadic functions (tuple).

Explicitly discarding return values is a thing many modern programming languages force you to do.

New comment by brodo in "Do women’s mate preferences change across the ovulatory cycle? (2014) [pdf]"

brodo — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:17:38 +0000

The whole field of evolutionary psychology is in a replication crisis, and there are several newer studies that did not find any evidence for any changes in 'mate preference' across the ovulatory cycle.

General sexual desire, but not desire for uncommitted sexual relationships, tracks changes in women's hormonal status https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29287282/

Meta-Analysis of Menstrual Cycle Effects on Women’s Mate Preferences https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/175407391452307...

New comment by brodo in "Zig: Build System Reworked"

brodo — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:13:03 +0000

nitpick: The language is pretty stable, what changes is the standard library.

New comment by brodo in "Zig → Rust porting guide"

brodo — Tue, 05 May 2026 10:07:14 +0000

The big loss for the Zig community would be if they stopped donating to ZSF. They have estranged themselves from it for a while.

New comment by brodo in "Soft launch of open-source code platform for government"

brodo — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:33:22 +0000

NLnet is also a great Dutch initiative. It's great to see that smaller, more nimble countries are leading the way in Open Source and digital independence.

New comment by brodo in "I put my whole life into a single database"

brodo — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:20:00 +0000

> it's just gaining more control

Yes it is! And if you control everything, you won‘t make mistakes.

New comment by brodo in "I put my whole life into a single database"

brodo — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:22:21 +0000

The takeaways at the very bottom of the page are valuable:

> Overall, having spent a significant amount of time building this project, scaling it up to the size it’s at now, as well as analysing the data, the main conclusion is that it is not worth building your own solution, and investing this much time. When I first started building this project 3 years ago, I expected to learn way more surprising and interesting facts. There were some, and it’s super interesting to look through those graphs, however retrospectively, it did not justify the hundreds of hours I invested in this project.

The whole "quantified self" movement might be more about OCD and perfectionism than anything else.

/edit: quantified, not qualified

New comment by brodo in "Best performance of a C++ singleton"

brodo — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:21:35 +0000

Singletons are global variables in a suit. Don‘t use them.

New comment by brodo in "Warn about PyPy being unmaintained"

brodo — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:17:48 +0000

Also, why isn‘t there a native client for all platforms? Could they not just let the AI auto-translate the code?

New comment by brodo in "Scott Adams has died"

brodo — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:57:24 +0000

Behind the Bastards did a two-part Podcast on him: https://youtu.be/8nyEkHqP65c?si=oorC_viWbnZLH-wb

New comment by brodo in "Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access"

brodo — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:07:38 +0000

They block agressively. Not only based on IP adresses. If you visit the site with a privacy-focussed browser or in private mode they will also tell you your IP is blocked.

New comment by brodo in "GitHub postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions"

brodo — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:07:19 +0000

https://archive.ph/3nsGi

New comment by brodo in "Tiger Style: Coding philosophy (2024)"

brodo — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 08:35:02 +0000

Containing the giant switch statement in a byte code interpreter or a tokeniser.

New comment by brodo in "Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg"

brodo — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 10:28:48 +0000

And this kind of behaviour is a red flag for people who actually go digging through the GitHub profile. Like techical people in the last stages of a hiring process.

New comment by brodo in "Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg"

brodo — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 08:25:55 +0000

Check out this dude: https://github.com/GhostKellz?tab=repositories

He's got like 50 repos with vibe-coded, non-working Zig and Rust projects. And he clearly manages to confuse people with it:

https://github.com/GhostKellz/zquic/issues/2

New comment by brodo in "Germany: States Pass Porn Filters for Operating Systems"

brodo — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:28:48 +0000

Yes. This is a bad law, but somehow still a better one than the UK got...

Tell HN: People putting AI-generated fake projects on GitHub

brodo — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 08:27:55 +0000

I was recently looking for a QUIC library for Zig and found zquic¹. The readme tells me it's perfect, 'PRODUCTION READY! ' and ' Ultra-high performance'. It all reeks of AI, so I looked deeper into it. It depends on two libraries by the same author, one for crypto, one async runtime. So I checked out his other repos². This guy 'implemented' everything: a database, an RPC framework, a scripting language, an event loop (which is different from his async library), a compression library, I could go on. If you delve ;-) into the code, you'll see it's all non-working AI slob.

Is this only CV hacking or something more malicious I can't think of? Do we need a 'report this repo as fake' button on GitHub?

1: https://github.com/GhostKellz/zquic 2: https://github.com/GhostKellz?tab=repositories

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45808692

Points: 1

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New comment by brodo in "Top Programming Languages 2025"

brodo — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 07:55:32 +0000

If HTML is a programming language, why not SVG? If SVG is a programming language, why not PNG? Is your image viewer just an interpreter executing PNG code? Maybe being a programming language is a spectrum...