Hacker News: chrsig

New comment by chrsig in "Apple M5 chip"

chrsig — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 02:34:15 +0000

the narrow window view is appreciated given the increased indent level of your comment

New comment by chrsig in "Vibing a non-trivial Ghostty feature"

chrsig — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 17:51:59 +0000

> You can see in chats 11 to 14 that we're entering the slop zone. The code the agent created has a critical bug, and it's absolutely failing to fix it. And I have no idea how to fix it, either.

This definitely relaxes my ai-hype anxiety

New comment by chrsig in "Show HN: I built a web framework in C"

chrsig — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:49:42 +0000

to be useful to whom, exactly?

New comment by chrsig in "Go has added Valgrind support"

chrsig — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 20:11:05 +0000

w.r.t. your edit: Is there anything the community at large can do to aid your efforts?

New comment by chrsig in "Always Invite Anna"

chrsig — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 19:05:38 +0000

You're sort of answering your own question. It was a matter of proximity. The thousand others were a greater distance in the initial conditions.

New comment by chrsig in "Go has added Valgrind support"

chrsig — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 18:06:18 +0000

valgrind finds sooooo many more problems than just memory leaks

uninitialized memory, illegal writes, etc... There's a lot of good stuff that could be discovered.

New comment by chrsig in "Go has added Valgrind support"

chrsig — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 16:08:21 +0000

I'm glad to see rsc still actively involved. And commenting on commit messages.

The older I get the more I value commit messages. It's too easy to just leave a message like "adding valgrind support", which isn't very useful to future readers doing archaeology.

New comment by chrsig in "Go has added Valgrind support"

chrsig — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:50:00 +0000

Useful for people -- believe it or not not all of us internalize the language we use as part of our identity (and species).

New comment by chrsig in "M4.6 Earthquake – 2 km ESE of Berkeley, CA"

chrsig — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:19:53 +0000

From someone that grew up in New England, but experienced a 4.x in california: I assure you it does not feel small.

The revelation that the ground does not stay where I left it was quite disturbing.

New comment by chrsig in "[dead]"

chrsig — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 16:49:25 +0000

I'm coming to expect that most things you see on the internet are written by an LLM. I can't wait for all the de-LLM denoiser products that're sure to come out combating llm spam.

New comment by chrsig in "Ask HN: Getting over Burnout with Imposter Syndrome"

chrsig — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 17:58:54 +0000

Thanks for bringing up therapy. I've been in therapy for some time, which lead to leaving my former position. I agree with you that my brain is certainly more buggy than my side projects :)

New comment by chrsig in "WASM 3.0 Completed"

chrsig — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:40:16 +0000

Think of it like emacs. Browsers are perfectly good operating systems just needing a better way to view the web.

Ask HN: Getting over Burnout with Imposter Syndrome

chrsig — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 03:55:34 +0000

Some background on me: I've reached a point where I quit my job of 11 years without notice due to sheer burnout. Shortly after I was hospitalized for a bit.

I'm trying to recover, getting back into healthy routines.

I'm also suffering quite a bit of imposter syndrome due to not having a 4 year degree.

I'm suffering from a lot of analysis paralysis trying to select a side project for a portfolio. Once I decide, I get another layer on how I'm going to implement it. And eventually it winds up feeling like I'm better off not doing any of them.

In my last job I was responsible for a mission critical service in the form of an apache module. Which I can attest is a rather hostile environment. So I'm pretty battle tested in the c/c++ arena.

In my spare time I've reveled in physically based rendering. So I've got enough trig & calc in my head to be dangerous.

My asks of HN:

- What are interviews like these days? How important is it to have a visable portfolio of working projects?

- How much of the AI hype is HN nerds nerding out about AI versus actually implementing AI, versus gluing AI apis together?

- How do you keep yourselves engaged with pet projects? My github is a field of projects 1/4 of the way completed before I lost steam on them.

I need some hope that future employment is possible.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45229169

Points: 21

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New comment by chrsig in "The Defer Technical Specification: It Is Time"

chrsig — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:45:31 +0000

I've definitely done that as well. I generally don't have a problem with it, but it makes for an extra conversation the first time someone sees the pattern.

Given how some of the other ergonomic changes in go have gone (closures capturing loop variables, for instance), I'd support a change to lexical scoped defers if it were on the table.

New comment by chrsig in "The Defer Technical Specification: It Is Time"

chrsig — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 23:00:39 +0000

yeah, I've always just extracted the loop body into a new function as a result

New comment by chrsig in "Bispecific antibodies potently neutralize SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern"

chrsig — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 11:15:52 +0000

>Those who listened correctly predicted a whole bunch of things and were called paranoid by enablers.

was being called paranoid not also predictable?

New comment by chrsig in "Why Go's Error Handling Is Awesome"

chrsig — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:02:29 +0000

i don't like unexpected things happening. they cause me to panic. i can expect errors.

New comment by chrsig in "Stanford researchers develop dual-antibody treatment for ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants"

chrsig — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 12:40:30 +0000

maybe spend the time talking to his voters?

New comment by chrsig in "Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon"

chrsig — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 01:06:40 +0000

This is a great perspective on pedantry

New comment by chrsig in "Apache iceberg the Hadoop of the modern-data-stack?"

chrsig — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:12:15 +0000

how nested is the data in the parquet files?