<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: cornstalks</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cornstalks</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:47:12 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=cornstalks" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cornstalks in "Bets on US-Iran ceasefire show signs of insider knowledge, say experts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Given the pause in hostilities announced today it certainly looks like insider knowledge: <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116278232362967212" rel="nofollow">https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1162782323629...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:44:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496154</link><dc:creator>cornstalks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496154</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cornstalks in "Many SWE-bench-Passing PRs would not be merged"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anecdote time! I had Codex GPT 5.4 xhigh generate a Rust proc macro. It's pretty straightforward: use sqlparser to parse a SQL statement and extract the column names of any row-producing queries.<p>It generated an implementation that worked well, but I hated the ~480 lines of code. The structure and flow was just... weird. It was hard to follow and I was seriously bugged by it.<p>So I asked it to reimplement it with some simplifications I gave it. It dutifully executed, producing a result >600 lines long. The flow was simpler and easier to follow, but still seemed excessive for the task at hand.<p>So I rolled up my sleeves and started deleting code and making changes manually. A little bit later, I had it down to <230 lines with a flow that was extremely easy to read and understand.<p>So yeah, I can totally see many SWE-bench-passing PRs being functionally correct but still terrible code that I would not accept.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 03:39:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47346160</link><dc:creator>cornstalks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47346160</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47346160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cornstalks in "Bun v1.3.9"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think your average person knows what sequential means but might not remember what series means. Personally I always remember the meaning of series in “parallel vs series” because it must be the opposite of parallel. I’m not proud of the fact that I always forget and have to re-intuit the meaning every time, but the only time I ever see “series” is when people are talking about a TV show or electronics.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 18:24:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46937003</link><dc:creator>cornstalks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46937003</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46937003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cornstalks in "1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> <i>Metric prefixes are always lower case, so GB isn't valid metric.</i><p>Ummm, what? <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 05:50:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46881950</link><dc:creator>cornstalks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46881950</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46881950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cornstalks in "1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> <i>That doesn't conform to SI. It should be written as kB mB gB</i><p>Little m is milli, big M is mega. Little g doesn’t exist, only big G.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 05:48:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46881940</link><dc:creator>cornstalks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46881940</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46881940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cornstalks in "Building Your Own Efficient uint128 in C++"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I implemented a rational number library for media timestamps (think CMTime, AVRational, etc.) that uses 64-bit numerators and denominators. It uses 128-bit integers for intermediate operations when adding, subtracting, multiplying, etc. It even uses 128-bit floats (represented as 2 doubles and using double-double arithmetic[1]) for some approximation operations and even 192-bit integers in one spot (IIRC it's multiplying a 128-bit and 64-bit ints and I just want the high bits so it shifts back down to 128 bits immediately after the multiplication).<p>I keep meaning to see if work will let me open source it.<p>[1]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadruple-precision_floating-point_format#Double-double_arithmetic" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadruple-precision_floating-p...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 05:48:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46852848</link><dc:creator>cornstalks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46852848</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46852848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cornstalks in "Skip is now free and open source"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> <i>Would you pay for source-available products? GPL and paid license?</i><p>I'm not GP but I would at least consider it. I say that as someone who refuses to build on closed-source tooling or libraries. I'd even consider closed-source if there was an irrevocable guarantee that the source would be released in its entirety (with a favorable open source license) if the license/pricing terms ever changed or the company ceased to exist or stopped supporting that product.<p>> <i>Along with a guarantee that you get to keep access to older versions (Jetbrains and Sublime Text models)?</i><p>I like that for personal tools but I wouldn't build my products or business on top of those. I've had too much trouble getting old binaries to work on new OS versions to consider these binaries to be usable in the long term.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:32:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46713202</link><dc:creator>cornstalks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46713202</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46713202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cornstalks in "CO2 batteries that store grid energy take off globally"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>GP only has two panels that generate 960 W (I’m going to generously assume NMOT and not STC). That’s hardly anything, and certainly not what I would use to try and charge 10 kWh of battery like they’re suggesting.<p>But sure, I agree it would help if battery prices came down.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 07:24:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46352042</link><dc:creator>cornstalks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46352042</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46352042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cornstalks in "CO2 batteries that store grid energy take off globally"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are way cheaper options than the Anker Solix 3800. Here are some options, in no particular order:<p>- $3,300: 10 kWh with 2x EG4 WallMount Indoor 100Ah.<p>- $3,110: 14 kWh with 1x WallMount Indoor 280Ah.<p>- $2,690: 10 kWh with 1x Deye RW F10.2 B<p>- Will Prowse's YouTube channel has reviewed several battery builds that are >10 kWh and near $2,000, but they're DIY assembly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 03:36:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46351044</link><dc:creator>cornstalks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46351044</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46351044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cornstalks in "Zenroom – No-code cryptographic virtual machine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> <i>Zenroom is programmable in the no-code English-like language Zencode.</i><p>Isn't that just code? Where do people draw the line between no-code and code?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 02:06:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46129478</link><dc:creator>cornstalks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46129478</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46129478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cornstalks in "Google unkills JPEG XL?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>100M+ lines of code isn't a hyperbole for some codebases, though. google3 is estimated at about 2 billion lines of code, for example.<p>Maybe it was hyperbole. But if it was it wasn't obvious to me, unfortunately.</p>
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<p>libjxl is is <112,888 lines of code, about 3 orders of magnitude less than you're 100M+ claim.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:51:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46110508</link><dc:creator>cornstalks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46110508</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46110508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cornstalks in "Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s a reasonable question but I doubt it. We weren’t affluent at all and I worked my butt off for everything. And that’s good, because I agree that if things are too easy it turns into a curse.</p>
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<p>> <i>Whose definition are you using?</i><p>To be honest, I've never really thought about it... I suppose I mean in both a sociological and self fulfillment way.<p>> <i>Would you say you were satisfied in life? Despite having a good upbringing, were you (prior to medication) content or happy?</i><p>I would say "yes" overall. Aside from the depression (typically manifesting as a week or two of me emotionally spiraling down to deep dark places every month or so), I was very happy and satisfied. That's what makes the depression so annoying for me. It makes no sense compared to my other aspects of life.<p>> <i>In fact, I am in the midst of another bout now. One that's lasted about 3 or so years.</i><p>*fist bump*<p>> <i>To me, I have always considered emotions/states like depression and anxiety to be signals. A warning that something in one's current environment is wrong -- even if consciously not known or difficult to observe. And if anyone is curious, I have analyzed this for myself, and I believe the etiology of my issues are directly linked to my circumstances/environment.</i><p>I think that's a great hypothesis so long as it's not a blanket applied to <i>everyone</i> (which I don't think you're doing, to be clear; I mention this only because it is what motivated my original response to the other commenter).<p>I don't want to go into private details of family members without their permission, but I will say that given the pervasive depression in my family and mental health issues like schizophrenia and bipolar disorders (neither of which I have, thank goodness), I feel like there's something biologically... wrong (for lack of a better word?)... with us, particularly since you can easily trace this through my mother's side.<p>> <i>The smart-ass in me can't help but suggest that maybe medication was your cow?</i><p>Ha fair. I interpreted the story to be about depression being a symptom of your situation (job, health, etc.) and if you just fixed that then there's no need for medication. That definitely makes sense in some (many? most?) situations. But not all, unfortunately.</p>
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<p>That story doesn’t work for people with depression who otherwise have very good lives.<p>I grew up in a stable household with a loving family and both parents present and supportive. I’ve never had financial hardship, either as a kid depending on my parents to provide or as an adult providing for myself and family. I did very well in school, had plenty of friends, never had enemies, never got bullied or even talked bad about in social circles (so far as I know…). I have no traumatic memories.<p>I could go on and on, but despite having a virtually perfect life on paper, I have <i>always</i> struggled with depression and suicidal ideation. It wasn’t until my wife sat down and forced me to talk to a psychiatrist and start medication that those problems actually largely went away.<p>In other words, I don’t think there’s a metaphorical “cow” that could have helped me. It’s annoying we don’t understand what causes depression or how antidepressants help, and their side effects suck. But for some of us, it’s literally life saving in a way nothing else has ever been.</p>
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<p>Reading the FAQ it doesn't seem to bad. The Indie license allows you to run it simultaneously on 2 machines and the Studio license increases that to 4. You can transfer installations to new computers (or the same computer if doing a reinstall) up to 10 times per year, so you're not locked in to those 2 specific computers for eternity.<p>Restrictions are always annoying but I think they're striking a reasonable balance.</p>
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<p>People are working on this. std.zon is generally considered to be a good example of how to handle errors and diagnostics, though it's an area of active exploration. The plan is to eventually collect all the good patterns people have come up with and (1) publish them in a collection, and (2) update std to actually use them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2025 03:53:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45853991</link><dc:creator>cornstalks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45853991</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45853991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cornstalks in "Cargo plane crashes at Kentucky airport"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Even if no one died in this incident, its novelty is what makes it so interesting.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 03:07:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45818514</link><dc:creator>cornstalks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45818514</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45818514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cornstalks in "Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>GP said "depending on your personal preferences" and clearly didn't imply all "modern games" are competitive shooters.</p>
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<p>They release on a fixed schedule of once per quarter: <a href="https://forgejo.org/docs/v13.0/admin/release-schedule/" rel="nofollow">https://forgejo.org/docs/v13.0/admin/release-schedule/</a><p>These aren't semantic version numbers.</p>
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