Hacker News: chrisaycock

The $100M Market of Popcorn Buckets

chrisaycock — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:57:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/business/media/movie-theaters-popcorn-buckets.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49030080

Points: 5

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Milky Way planetary system leaves scientists puzzled

chrisaycock — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:15:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/science/strange-milky-way-planetary-system-leaves-scientists-puzzled-2026-07-22/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49015251

Points: 4

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The DOGE Bros Want Another Shot

chrisaycock — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:53:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/06/doge-special-figure-health/687493/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48474946

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

There's Never Been a Better Time to Study Computer Science

chrisaycock — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:21:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/computer-science-major-coding-ai/687279/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247044

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by chrisaycock in "Making your own programming language is easier than you think (but also harder)"

chrisaycock — Sun, 10 May 2026 01:35:07 +0000

Yes, it's true that someone can put together a simple language like in a university course. The difficulties, as mentioned at the bottom of the post, are things like metaprogramming features or optimizing compilers.

The tail ends of a language implementation (parsing and code generation) are a fixed cost; the "middle end" can grow unbounded as more production-quality items are added.

My language: https://www.empirical-soft.com

French weather service alerts police after suspicious Polymarket bets

chrisaycock — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:58:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/89be7df3-b7b8-4b4a-8b88-e24e877b439d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874704

Points: 6

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SantaCon Leader Ran His Own $1M Con, U.S. Says

chrisaycock — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:50:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/nyregion/santacon-wire-fraud-stefan-pildes.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47786357

Points: 2

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Glasses Got Worse on Purpose

chrisaycock — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:01:25 +0000

Article URL: https://worse-on-purpose.beehiiv.com/p/your-glasses-got-worse-on-purpose

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47708179

Points: 63

# Comments: 23

The Age-Old Urge to Destroy Technology

chrisaycock — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:25:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-age-old-urge-to-destroy-technology

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688135

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

He designed C++ to solve your code problems

chrisaycock — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:49:19 +0000

Article URL: https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/04/07/he-designed-c-to-solve-your-code-problems/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47683824

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Economists Once Dismissed the A.I. Job Threat, but Not Anymore

chrisaycock — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:41:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/business/economists-once-dismissed-the-ai-job-threat-but-not-anymore.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47625537

Points: 20

# Comments: 9

New comment by chrisaycock in "Young People Are Falling Behind, but Not Because of AI"

chrisaycock — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:57:09 +0000

The conclusion from the article is that broader economic uncertainty from tariffs and the Iran war have a bigger effect than just AI.

New comment by chrisaycock in "C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report"

chrisaycock — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:35:21 +0000

std::execution is very interesting, but will be difficult to get started with, as cautioned by Sutter. This HPC Wire article demonstrates how to use standard C++ to benefit from asynchronously parallel computation on both CUDA and MPI:

https://www.hpcwire.com/2022/12/05/new-c-sender-library-enab...

Overlapping communication and computation has been a common technique for decades in high-performance computing to "hide latency", which leads to better scaling. Now standard C++ can be used to express parallel algorithms without tying to a specific scheduler.

Apple Plans AI Reboot with Siri App

chrisaycock — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 01:02:37 +0000

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/apple-plans-ai-reboot-siri-184859342.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47511836

Points: 5

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New comment by chrisaycock in "U.S. Government's Ban on Anthropic Looks Like Punishment Attempt, Judge Says"

chrisaycock — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:43:22 +0000

The government is free to cancel its own contracts. The judge is saying that the government cannot prohibit other entities (like private contractors) from doing business with Anthropic.

Tech Workers Max Out Their A.I. Use

chrisaycock — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:13:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/technology/tokenmaxxing-ai-agents.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47458453

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by chrisaycock in "Parallel Perl – Autoparallelizing interpreter with JIT"

chrisaycock — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:51:46 +0000

The project relies on Rayon [1] for scheduling parallel tasks and Cranelift [2] to JIT the hot loops.

There are plenty of other interesting features like auto-FFI, bytecode caching (similar to Python's .pyc files), and "daemonize" mode (similar to mod_perl or FastCGI).

[1] https://docs.rs/rayon/latest/rayon/

[2] https://cranelift.dev

COBOL Is the Asbestos of Programming Languages

chrisaycock — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:55:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/cobol-is-the-asbestos-of-programming-languages/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47403165

Points: 7

# Comments: 3

New comment by chrisaycock in "A Survival Guide to a PhD (2016)"

chrisaycock — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 06:26:55 +0000

The one piece of advice I give new PhD students is to maintain a list of your references for a bibliography ahead of time. For every paper you read, copy the citation in BibTeX format and write a couple of sentences to remind yourself what the paper was about. Do this for every source, even if it doesn't seem important at the time.

The Dirty, Dystopian World of AI Data Centers

chrisaycock — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 01:54:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/04/ai-data-centers-energy-demands/686064/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47372504

Points: 4

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