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New comment by clktmr in "I am building a cloud"

clktmr — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 06:55:57 +0000

> Agents, by making it easiest to write code, means there will be a lot more software. Economists would call this an instance of Jevons paradox. Each of us will write more programs, for fun and for work.

There is already so much software out there, which isn't used by anyone. Just take a look at any appstore. I don't understand why we are so obsessed with cranking out even more, whereas the obvious usecase for LLMs should be to write better software. Let's hope the focus shifts from code generation to something else. There are many ways LLMs can assist in writing better code.

New comment by clktmr in "Go on Embedded Systems and WebAssembly"

clktmr — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:34:04 +0000

I've written a fair amount of code for EmbeddedGo. Garbage Collector is not an issue if you avoid heap allocations in your main loop. But if you're CPU bound a goroutine might block others from running for quite some time. If your platform supports async preemption, you might be able to patch the goroutine scheduler with realtime capabilities.

New comment by clktmr in "The future of version control"

clktmr — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:22:23 +0000

The thing is, you'll typically switch to master to merge your own branch. This makes your own branch 'theirs', which is where the confusion comes from.

New comment by clktmr in "Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)"

clktmr — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:41:41 +0000

> - he's labeled GenAI as nuclear waste (https://www.webpronews.com/rob-pike-labels-generative-ai-nuc...)

The whole article is an AI hallucination. It refers to the same "Christmas 2025 incident". The internet is dead for real.

New comment by clktmr in "State of Show HN: 2025"

clktmr — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 09:18:53 +0000

The advent of coding agents killed Hacker News to some degree for me. Before I could always come here to get a pause from the hype, scandal and bait. Top comments were usually insightful; I really had this feeling to learn while browsing the feed. Today every brainfart about AI makes it to the frontpage. I know this sounds very dismissive, but most pieces really have no substance at all.

The good content is still there buts it drowns in noise and I'm not very good at filtering it out. I even suspect Hacker News is one of the prime advertisement targets of coding agent companies.

I would love to see if this is just my perception or if it can be found in the data.

New comment by clktmr in "Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it"

clktmr — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:40:06 +0000

It's probably in their interest to have as many vibed codebases out there as possible, that no human would ever want to look at. Incentivising never-look-at-the-code is effectively a workflow lockin.

New comment by clktmr in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

clktmr — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:10:25 +0000

At least try a different question with similar logic, to ensure this isn't patched into the context since it's going viral.

New comment by clktmr in "Understanding the Go Compiler: The Linker"

clktmr — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 09:55:42 +0000

It's pretty good at dead code elimination. The size of Go binaries is in large part because of the runtime implementation. Remove a bunch of the runtime's features (profiling, stacktraces, sysmon, optimizations that avoid allocations, maybe even multithreading...) and you'll end up with much smaller binaries. I would love if there was a build tag like "runtime_tiny", that provides such an implementation.

New comment by clktmr in "Why "just prompt better" doesn't work"

clktmr — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 05:25:58 +0000

You don't know what you want. That's why asking questions doesn't work. You think you know it, but only after you've spent some time iterating in the space of solutions, you'll see the path forward.

New comment by clktmr in "Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?"

clktmr — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 18:19:26 +0000

This is so ironic. Why would you add all these "features" to Go, if you're not interested in using the language at all?

New comment by clktmr in "Go away Python"

clktmr — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 18:00:19 +0000

There is also yaegi, a Go interpreter, which might be a better choice for small scripts than 'go run'.

https://github.com/traefik/yaegi

New comment by clktmr in "Libgodc: Write Go Programs for Sega Dreamcast"

clktmr — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 14:57:27 +0000

Hey panos! I only had a short look at this for now, and it looks impressive! I'll have to dust off my Dreamcast and get this running.

I looked at gccgo when porting the runtime to n64, but at the time it wasn't updated since go1.18. Can we use Go Generics on the Dreamcast? I see that gccgo is obviously needed to support SH4.

New comment by clktmr in "Go-boot: bare metal Go UEFI boot manager"

clktmr — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 23:19:28 +0000

This would also benefit the Embedded Go project, which uses similar modifications to the runtime.

https://embeddedgo.github.io/

Go on the Nintendo 64

clktmr — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:04:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.timurcelik.de/posts/n64go-1-getting-started/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46106390

Points: 3

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New comment by clktmr in "We shrunk our Javascript monorepo git size"

clktmr — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 18:02:55 +0000

Can you imagine their fork extending git with a feature which is incompatible to mainline git and then forcing user's to switch to their fork via github? I can, and it will give them the power to extinguish mainline git and force everything they want on their users (telemetry, licence agreements, online registration...). That might be the reason they're embracing git right now. The fork being open source doesn't help at all.

I'm not saying this shouldn't be merged, but I think people should be aware and see the early signs.

New comment by clktmr in "Accountability sinks"

clktmr — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 08:48:08 +0000

I can provide another POV to that story. We checked in as a family of four, and we're assigned seats in four different rows, with a two and a four year old. Only when entering the plane we had the possibility address this to a human and we were assigned new seats.

So this might be the reason you had to change seats.

New comment by clktmr in "Some of us like "interdiff" code review"

clktmr — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 16:38:18 +0000

I agree in general, but running git bisect on individual PR commits is just doing it wrong. There will always be commits that break stuff temporarily. Run git bisect only on the merge commits instead, which are typically already tested by CI.

New comment by clktmr in "Notris: A Tetris clone for the PlayStation 1"

clktmr — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 20:04:54 +0000

You might want to take a look at the Analogue Pocket.

New comment by clktmr in "How much faster are the Gnome 46 terminals?"

clktmr — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 10:10:22 +0000

Very interesting! I would propose to add 'foot' to the list, which is also very performance oriented.

New comment by clktmr in "I'm Too Old"

clktmr — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 10:49:44 +0000

I feel this becomes more and more relevant again:

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/E...

Edit: To add on this, I think there is a lot of software that is written in a throwaway fashion (CRUD apps, shell scripts), where using LLMs might beneficial. But anything where correctness actually matters, why would I describe it in natural language only to then check the implementation?

The much more sensible use of LLMs to me is the other way round: creating ad hoc documentation for code that you can even ask questions. But that's probably not fundable by VCs on the same level.