Hacker News: childintime

New comment by childintime in "Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public"

childintime — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:37:48 +0000

The end of GitHub as we know it is near?

Why do open source collaboration? Why not a single product developer getting crowd paid to add features, solve bugs, using AI. So many businesses will see their moat wiped out.

On the macro level capitalism is winner-takes-all and Musk is the only one seriously playing the game. End game: own everything, including payments, and governments come begging and will protect him from citizen revolt. Supervillain/overlord territory.

"RISC-V Is Now" – RISC-V Summit Europe 2026 (YouTube) [video]

childintime — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:45:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJIiAnS8N7E

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48463570

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by childintime in "EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices"

childintime — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:26:05 +0000

Then where does the real stuff go? The arabs, indians?? Tea bags are the mass market in Europe for example. Hardly anyone uses tea leaves (are they different?).

I know an Iranian in the Netherlands who says the tea there is mostly coloring.

New comment by childintime in "Only 17% of all 64-bit Integers are products of two 32-bit integers"

childintime — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:49:17 +0000

where is the graph and the theorem for integers of n bits, with n going to infinity?

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

childintime — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:48:07 +0000

C# is close to achieving that goal.

New comment by childintime in "Can we have the day off?"

childintime — Fri, 29 May 2026 10:06:55 +0000

Billionaires? We're basically talking about the first 10 trillionaire, Elon Musk, and the inauguration of the supervillain category. He'll hold a majority stake in his soon to be Skynet empire SpaceXAI+Tesla. Which means he'll put lasers in space to control access, as he needs to prevent the Kessler syndrom, as that's the only way to take him down. So he'll want repressive governments. He'll give them the mark of the beast to solve their problem, those pesky humans need to behave better, and it'll be dandy like an iPhone was, progress! The other billionaires? He can darth vader them at will. We're seeing the coup first hand and we're blind to it. No government can wipe him out, as his empire stretches into the universe.

New comment by childintime in "Bytecode VMs in surprising places (2024)"

childintime — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:50:26 +0000

I guess all (or most) of these could be replaced by a RISC-V VM, with the necessary domain extensions. A RISC-V VM already competes with WASM for many applications.

New comment by childintime in "Don't Roll Your Own"

childintime — Mon, 25 May 2026 06:36:06 +0000

Just let me type the date in the user's local format and put in the dashes/slashes with a regex (and remove them again before applying insert/Backspace/Delete). Almost always this is so messed up and broken. And slow.

Sigh. You anonymous code authors are always working to bring the user down, even when there is a 1000000:1 ratio between them and you.

New comment by childintime in "Show HN: TC, A minimalistic systems language with 10 keywords (plus types)"

childintime — Mon, 25 May 2026 06:27:07 +0000

I think your syntax choices are refreshing. You're clearly not afraid to step away from the beaten track, and made some nice, potentially fruitful, choices that bring some sanity to C.

New comment by childintime in "Converting an Integer to a Decimal String in Under Two Nanoseconds"

childintime — Sun, 24 May 2026 11:05:42 +0000

What will be the lifetime of AVX512? There have been many similar extensions before it. So it's a great result, but heavily marked by the target platform. I have the hope that RISC-V vector extensions will prove to be the more durable substrate to develop on, and a result there would be much more relevant for the future.

New comment by childintime in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

childintime — Mon, 18 May 2026 08:13:52 +0000

Stephen Wolfram is fascinated with his discovery of computation at the heart of the universe. Life itself may be like that, emerging then noticing itself and that it is alive - has the property of life. Then when it's governed by a "soul", or perhaps better said, constrained by it, then our awareness is of what we can't otherwise see, the laws that govern us, inevitably from a 5th dimension, as we stand in the shadow of Plato's cave. When we discover "we are" we are realized and grateful, and our life ends up being worship. Then we witness the greater life around us follow a bedding of creation, a call to become one from the experience we are one. When we become we'll see Jesus' loving eyes that first saw, and called for by showing himself, what we'll then see.

New comment by childintime in "Show HN: Nibble"

childintime — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:18:36 +0000

Love this. But no explanations about the language. `defer` for example I didn't see in the 2 `main.n` I checked, and memory management remained a mystery. Would love to see a little more context.

Also, this is actually around 1000 lines.

New comment by childintime in "Fc, a lossless compressor for floating-point streams"

childintime — Wed, 13 May 2026 11:33:08 +0000

A lossy compressor might also be useful for common floating point apps. The simplest compressor ever would just chop off a number of bits from the mantissa.

New comment by childintime in "Starship V3"

childintime — Wed, 13 May 2026 11:21:27 +0000

They'll all have a sun synchronous polar orbit.. I don't think they'll be very low orbit, unless they are like trains, at every 1km a satellite.

New comment by childintime in "Starship V3"

childintime — Wed, 13 May 2026 08:22:57 +0000

These datacenters in space will become space junk. Doesn't seem to be sustainable. With a million of these it's hard to imagine why this would be a good idea, and it starts looking like insanity.

New comment by childintime in "Googlebook"

childintime — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:34:10 +0000

So this is a notebook with good enough TPU capabilities to run Gemini partially (like in a MoE), a small model that knows when to delegate to the main model?

New comment by childintime in "Eight More '8-Bit Era' Microprocessors"

childintime — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:11:49 +0000

Gemini assures me one can make a 32b CPU in around 9000 transistors or 300 LUTs, it'll run at 30 cycle accurate MIPS from quad SPI memory.

Same size as a 6809, low-end 486 performance. Who cares ;)

New comment by childintime in "Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard"

childintime — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:27:51 +0000

So how can a QR code not supply the necessary data? Example:

   payment://iban=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&amount=12.34EUR

Any bank app should be able to read this. What is so complicated? Right, nothing. Credit card companies are a hidden tax, worse, they are a tax on turnover, not profits.

Slug: Modern resolution-independent text/vector rendering on the GPU

childintime — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:11:48 +0000

Article URL: https://sluglibrary.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48021385

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by childintime in "Agentic Coding Is a Trap"

childintime — Mon, 04 May 2026 05:59:52 +0000

> "I'll need to study the docs and code to answer these questions properly" is a perfectly fine (and very diplomatic) response to treatment like that.

By the time you said that, the AI could have given the 80% answer. So, no, this is no longer an adequate response. The right response would have been to take your tools and give an informed opinion on the AI answer, right there.