Hacker News: cma256

New comment by cma256 in "Rayforce"

cma256 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:53:49 +0000

> Rayforce is a library you link, not a server you deploy. The C API is small enough to wrap from any language with an FFI.

I'm familiar with large-scale, commercial, client-server use cases for columnar analytics and graph traversal but what is the use case for an embedded server like this?

New comment by cma256 in "MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second"

cma256 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:11:37 +0000

You can test this. All of them identify slavery as the root cause. Gemini says:

> The U.S. Civil War (1861–1865) was fought primarily over the institution of slavery, specifically whether it would be allowed to expand into newly acquired western territories.

> While you might hear people point to "states' rights" or economic differences as the causes, these issues were inextricably linked to slavery. The southern states wanted the "right" to maintain and expand slavery, while the northern states increasingly opposed its expansion.

New comment by cma256 in "The 15-minute city is a dead end"

cma256 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:35:10 +0000

> The rise of autonomous vehicles and technologies like hyperloop may make a major difference to the way we travel around cities.

Harvard University Professor of Economics everyone. When discussing new modes of transport the _hyperloop_ is the exemplar. A technology that does not work, can not work, and will never work.

And, of course, no mention of e-bikes which are cheap, proven, and have seen large adoption in my neighborhood at the least. But of course that might have undermined his point.

New comment by cma256 in "About LLMs at Zig Days"

cma256 — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:30:11 +0000

This should be read sarcastically. Its an idiom in the US. You state something you view as obviously true while qualifying it with "maybe - just maybe". Its commonly said in a comedic tone.

New comment by cma256 in "The Ask"

cma256 — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:38:25 +0000

I assume based on the content of these comics you'd like to punish him. You don't have to carry this weight. Let it go. It's been 25 years.

New comment by cma256 in "Richard Dawkins and the Claude Delusion"

cma256 — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:05:00 +0000

These sorts of articles have no value. The author is a "media entrepreneur". Being forced to read his opinion intermixed with out of context pull-quotes is not a good use of anyone's time. If Dawkins gave his opinion at length it might be worth reading but only if your goal is to understand something about Dawkins not about AI.

I would be interested to see a scientific discussion on what consciousness is biologically and if AI can fit that definition. But it would require someone with more credentials than a _media entrepreneur_ to pull off.

New comment by cma256 in "What async promised and what it delivered"

cma256 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 03:27:40 +0000

That is an unfair characterization of Zig. The OP correctly points out:

> Function signatures don’t change based on how they’re scheduled, and async/await become library functions rather than language keywords.

The functions have the same calling conventions regardless of IO implementation. Functions return data and not promises, callbacks, or futures. Dependency injection is not function coloring.

New comment by cma256 in "Show HN: Sycamore – next gen Rust web UI library using fine-grained reactivity"

cma256 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:14:09 +0000

I agree. For my blog I don't apply CSS and prefer to let the browser's reader mode perform the styling for me.

But there are categories of application where that is not acceptable. The presentation is a tightly controlled aspect of the application's functionality. If you're designing an application with leptos or sycamore my suspicion is you would fall into the latter category rather than the former.

New comment by cma256 in "Show HN: Sycamore – next gen Rust web UI library using fine-grained reactivity"

cma256 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:51:25 +0000

If your only target is web then there is no benefit other than a reduction in complexity.

For example, a "row" is not just a "

" tag. Its a div which horizontally fills its container. Centering contents with a "center" style attribute abstracts flex-box, browser compatibility, version compatibility, and the cascading behavior of CSS.

You move the incidental complexity of the web platform into the compiler which will always do the right thing. And in exchange you get the option to compile to a native or mobile app for "free".

New comment by cma256 in "Show HN: Sycamore – next gen Rust web UI library using fine-grained reactivity"

cma256 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:34:45 +0000

Are there native frameworks which use XHTML? Regardless, a document language being used to construct complex, interactive GUIs is incidental complexity. XHTML can be a compilation target but it does not need to be a development target.

New comment by cma256 in "Show HN: Sycamore – next gen Rust web UI library using fine-grained reactivity"

cma256 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:12:17 +0000

I really like these projects but missing from them is genericity. If you're taking the time to build a WASM app in Rust it would be nice if that app could compile to something other than WASM. For example, looking at the sycamore website's source I see p, h1, div, etc. What I'd rather see is "row", "column", "text". In their source I see tailwind what I'd rather see is "center", "align right", etc.

In other words, elm-ui but for these WASM Rust apps. Building a mobile app, a desktop app, and a web app, in my mind, should be accomplish-able given the right primitives (without requiring a JavaScript runtime be bundled). Rust's multi-crate workspaces make it a really great candidate for solving these cross-platform problems. IMO of course.

New comment by cma256 in "WA income tax clears House after 24-hour debate"

cma256 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:52:45 +0000

I'm talking specifically about this phenomena[1]. I wasn't agreeing with the GP that these policies are "oppressive". I'm only informing you that these states are not experiencing "explosive growth" and the downstream effects of that fact.

1. https://thearp.org/blog/apportionment/2030-apportionment-for...

New comment by cma256 in "WA income tax clears House after 24-hour debate"

cma256 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:35:24 +0000

Both California and New York have shrinking populations according to Wikipedia. And even if the estimates are wrong and they do have growing populations you still need to consider the fact that the Southern states are growing much faster.

Federal power is shifting south. If you like the politics of New York and California that's a long-term problem that needs to be resolved.

New comment by cma256 in "Agentic Engineering Patterns"

cma256 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:39:59 +0000

> There may be an argument for leaning less on code review. When code is expensive to produce and is likely to stay in production for many years it's obviously important to review it very carefully. If code is cheap and can be inexpensively replaced maybe we can lower our review standards?

Agree with everything else you said except this. In my opinion, this assumes code becomes more like a consumable as code-production costs reduce. But I don't think that's the case. Incorrect, but not visibly incorrect, code will sit in place for years.

New comment by cma256 in "Toyotas and Terrorists: "Why are ISIS's trucks better than ours?" (2023)"

cma256 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:07:54 +0000

Fair enough!

New comment by cma256 in "Toyotas and Terrorists: "Why are ISIS's trucks better than ours?" (2023)"

cma256 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:42:12 +0000

I can tell you precisely why foreign Toyotas (especially certain models) are more reliable that whats typically sold in the US. No electronics and parts which operate based on physics (pressure, gravity, etc). Both of these decisions lend themselves to a simple engine compartment and repairability.

In the US, you can buy a five-speed 4runner which is about the simplest engine available on the market. Has all the benefits enumerated above and its trivially repairable by DIYers. However, even the 4runner has annoying garbage which can fail.

Compare the newest 70 series Land Crusier in Japan to the US Land Cruiser (Prado). Difference is a v8 with no electronics and a 4 cylinder hybrid filled with electronics and a rats nest of tubes running across the top of the engine. Try working on that... Of course its get +20mpg compared to the Japanese version. I'm pretty sure the 70 series is 4 wheel drive always whereas the prado runs in 2 wheel drive but has a 4 wheel switch (more complexity -- better gas mileage).

Anyway, intangibles such as availability of parts and lower pricing makes scavenging more economical and increases life span.

Also, stability of the platform means there's lots of expertise that has developed over the past +30 years. Same design, same repairs, same parts. Makes things easy.

New comment by cma256 in "Zig Libc"

cma256 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 10:54:12 +0000

He doesn't have to, he _gets_ to! Its knowledge exchange. Take it as a gift and not self-promotion. There's no money in this game so don't treat it like guerilla marketing. Treat it like excited people pushing the limits of technology.

New comment by cma256 in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

cma256 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 22:13:46 +0000

Thanks. I understand now.

New comment by cma256 in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

cma256 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 22:03:40 +0000

I thought GP was arguing they were trying to find non-citizens on the voter rolls to intimidate them (which may be a misreading).

New comment by cma256 in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

cma256 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:37:32 +0000

If citizenship is required to vote then how would accessing voter rolls suppress liberal voters? Honest question; I'm not concern trolling. I had to Google who's allowed to vote.

I found this article[1] by the Brennan Center. It alleges this is an attempted federal takeover of elections but it doesn't suggest or allude to voter suppression. I'm not convinced by the article that having access to voter rolls can be considered a federal takeover of election administration (but I'm not in the know and would need things explained more verbosely).

If you have more information about the attempted centralization of election administration and its impacts on voter suppression I would be interested to know more.

1. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/trum...