Hacker News: capr

New comment by capr in "Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua"

capr — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 17:02:45 +0000

and JS folks too?

New comment by capr in "Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua"

capr — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 16:43:28 +0000

As someone who wrote entire stacks and apps on top in LuaJIT that I got paid for and are running without any problems after many years, this is getting a little tiresome to hear.

New comment by capr in "Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time"

capr — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 11:17:12 +0000

regulate one to the ground and heavily subsidize another, and then, by magic...

New comment by capr in "Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy"

capr — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:45:15 +0000

"degrowth" ... aand this is how you spot the real agenda of most environmentalists. ofc they'll call that a "philosophy".

New comment by capr in "Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'"

capr — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:43:02 +0000

Most likely increase, despite your intuition. This argument has been debunked so many times both intellectually and empirically. For one, read "Against Intellectual Property" by Stephan Kinsella.

New comment by capr in "Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'"

capr — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:18:55 +0000

Because people want to discover if a law is principled, and "certain scale" is not a principle, is just an arbitrary utilitarian distinction.

New comment by capr in "Fuck it, make it anyway"

capr — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 11:02:00 +0000

> Should I imagine that all architects have done nothing their entire life?

Well this is awkard...

New comment by capr in "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

capr — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:18:32 +0000

libertarian socialism is an oxymoron

New comment by capr in "The Amazon tax"

capr — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 10:09:57 +0000

> It’s not technically a tax. Taxes produce valuable public benefits, like medical research and parks. This is simply legal theft.

An economist would not read past this first sentence.

New comment by capr in "I Remain a Skeptic"

capr — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 08:57:57 +0000

...allocated on not fixing the bugs, sure. and AI does not decide what you spend your time on.

New comment by capr in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

capr — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:41:21 +0000

performance specialist, really?

New comment by capr in "More German than many Germans"

capr — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:01:51 +0000

Strawman - it wasn't arbitrary at all.

New comment by capr in "More German than many Germans"

capr — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:59:46 +0000

I think "Good thing that is not your problem." includes inability to do such a thing.

New comment by capr in "More German than many Germans"

capr — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:51:52 +0000

Likewise for you following them blindly.

New comment by capr in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

capr — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:29:11 +0000

It doesn't require that at all, on the contrary. Why don't you educate yourself on these basic assumptions?

New comment by capr in "Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke"

capr — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:28:13 +0000

That analogy works for app code, it doesn't work for technologies, library, frameworks, algorithms. Why build a compiler for this app? YAGNI! makes no sense.

New comment by capr in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

capr — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:16:25 +0000

Yup, because perfect competition is fundamentally the same as the salary cap, except for companies instead of employees. Specialization leads to natural monopolies at company level just as it does at personal level. Besides, the term monopoly only makes sense when it's state-enforced. In a free market it loses meaning since every company has a monopoly on their exact product.

New comment by capr in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

capr — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:59:02 +0000

but that's not what they're doing. that's just you believing the rhetoric

New comment by capr in "I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI"

capr — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 23:09:14 +0000

so the doctors acted just like the LLM

New comment by capr in "Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28"

capr — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:51:05 +0000

That smells a lot like Facebook making a php compiler