Hacker News: corroclaro

New comment by corroclaro in "Dopamine Fracking"

corroclaro — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:30:29 +0000

For the record: you basically take a stick blender, the container that came with it, crack an egg, pour over some lemon juice, then blend while pouring in hot butter (use the microwave!). Takes ca 2 minutes, including the 1 minute 30s of microwaving the butter.

Instant _real_ sauce hollandaise as the stick blender creates a vortex that emulsifies it. No need to hand whisk it over a bain-marie at careful temperatures.

New comment by corroclaro in "Wave – The Universal GPU ISA"

corroclaro — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:47:31 +0000

These guys popped up while I was doing some GPU low-level research, they claim to have abstracted a common ISA to all major GPU vendors after careful study and reverse-engineering of things. 11 primitives.

EDIT: here's the pre-print https://zenodo.org/records/19163452

Wave – The Universal GPU ISA

corroclaro — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:47:31 +0000

Article URL: https://wave.ojima.me/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323070

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by corroclaro in "OpenJDK: Panama"

corroclaro — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:51:17 +0000

Check out the Clojure tech.ml.dataset libraries - they are very very fast

New comment by corroclaro in "Why I'm Suing Grammerly"

corroclaro — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 03:00:10 +0000

I hope this goes well for the plaintiff. It is incredibly ugly to misrepresent real people that way.

New comment by corroclaro in "Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked"

corroclaro — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:36:45 +0000

Absolutely. One of the root causes for these terrible tender processes is a fear of in-housing competence and skill for systems.

It's the same reason major govt. IT orgs keep pushing for closed source (recently the Swedish Tax Authority was in the media for _pushing for Office 365_ as necessary for operations), out-sourced designs, big firm purchases over FOSS or real standards.

You need people that care (and they exist, even in the gigantic state orgs.) in positions to make good decisions. Right now, everything is up in the hands of nebulously defined managerial staff with none-to-doubtful technical competence.

Another recent case: the Swedish digital exams platform flopped at a rough cost of a billion SEK. Can't sustain 150K concurrent users, despite paying a "large company". Like, come on.

New comment by corroclaro in "Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked"

corroclaro — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:33:18 +0000

I'm pretty sure they did an internal analysis by 8 AM at all these places and came to the conclusion that they're OK.

Of course, they might be wrong!

New comment by corroclaro in "Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked"

corroclaro — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:04:11 +0000

This keeps happening in Europe with these mega-IT suppliers repeatedly getting exposed using very bad development practices. Sweden most recently had a major breach back in 2024 when the other large IT services supplier TietoEvry had their data centres breached and claimed "not actually an issue of security".

Several government organisations / regional authorities and companies were down. Last I heard several medical journals for whole municipalities were just destroyed.

Unfortunately, the public tender process encourages awarding contracts to these giants that repeatedly fail to deliver on even basic opsec and still believe in security-by-obscurity, are suspicious of things like zero-trust, follow outdated engineering practices. Sigh.

New comment by corroclaro in "Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native"

corroclaro — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 22:56:43 +0000

obscure java error? Clojure editor made in Java?

Are you sure it wasn't just an unfamiliarity with Java errors in general?

Clojure popped out of the _senior_ Java camp. It often lives within that mindshare.

New comment by corroclaro in "Japan Is What Late-Stage Capitalist Decline Looks Like"

corroclaro — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:44:25 +0000

Are we not rapidly trending thither in the west as well?

New comment by corroclaro in "FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap"

corroclaro — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:24:47 +0000

Glad to have returned after missing out on FOSDEM for a while. However, I agree with OP on that undeniable success leading to heavy crowding. I also missed some hacker hardware stands, there were very few this year.

I always enjoyed chatting with people demoing SDR/small cool hardware hacks as a refreshing break from whatever high-tech presentation room I got stuck in for half a day :-)

It would almost be good to ... have a bigger campus.

Tough luck on that though.

New comment by corroclaro in "Clj-pack – Package Clojure apps into self-contained binaries without GraalVM"

corroclaro — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 09:39:44 +0000

Very nice approach.

New comment by corroclaro in "Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent"

corroclaro — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 01:48:00 +0000

>Oh, look at you, a Stockholm-based tech enthusiast with a screen so tall and narrow it’s practically a skyscraper for ants, browsing Hacker News like it’s your full-time job. You’re rocking a mysterious "K" model Android device with no CPU architecture listed—did you build this thing in your garage? And sure, you speak five languages, but let’s be real, you’re probably just using Google Translate to flex on your 418-pixel-wide display.

Hah. I have an older Xperia phone. They are tall and lovely.

New comment by corroclaro in "Sourcegraph went dark"

corroclaro — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 16:27:35 +0000

Another group of source snakes to add to the collaboration/purchase/business blacklist. Quinn S., Beyang L., etc. are individuals happy to ride on FOSS until they're big enough to cash out. OK. Just be upfront about it. "We did this to focus" - no, you did it to make more money. Jesus, be honest - you're talking to developers, not your investors, we can smell the BS from across the Atlantic.

New comment by corroclaro in "My favorite Erlang program (2013)"

corroclaro — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 14:19:31 +0000

I miss Joe. His infectious enthusiasm for doing computing _better_ left such an imprint on young me and the way I approach technology today.

New comment by corroclaro in "Microsoft want court to toss lawsuit accusing them of abusing open-source code"

corroclaro — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 00:47:03 +0000

Are they though? They are minor variations in technical language to describe the same mathematical reality.

New comment by corroclaro in "FOSS could be an unintended victim of EU crusade to make software more secure"

corroclaro — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 23:58:06 +0000

Then again, humans struggle to connect, at what, 200-300 people? so maybe it's not terrible to build something like a zaibatsu

New comment by corroclaro in "Japanese explained to programmers"

corroclaro — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 00:06:32 +0000

Possibly inspired by message parsing objects in Smalltalk, no?

New comment by corroclaro in "Japanese explained to programmers"

corroclaro — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 00:00:36 +0000

"Chinese" has just as much grammar as any other language! Please, let us not confuse the fact that Standard Mandarin does not use as much morphological change to signal different tense-aspect-mood changes in verbs but instead uses syntactically ordered particles with no grammar. A grammar covers morphosyntax!

A language without its written form is a language. The written form is an artifact of modern society and literacy.

New comment by corroclaro in "Hertz paid Accenture $32M for a website that never went live (2019)"

corroclaro — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 23:20:01 +0000

To be fair, mulesoft is not an obstacle here, it lets you expose a http API using the built-in components, generate an OAS description pretty easily. Performance can be shaky but just chuck Varnish in front and hire a guy who knows how to read GC logs for a week to tune the STW-pauses and presto, you can handle >10k r/s on a laptop.