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New comment by danborn26 in "C array types are weird"

danborn26 — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:08:54 +0000

The way C handles array decay to pointers always trips up beginners, but it's exactly what makes passing data around so lightweight. Good writeup on a classic quirk.

New comment by danborn26 in "C array types are weird"

danborn26 — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:25:46 +0000

C's array decay into pointers still catches me off guard sometimes. It is definitely one of those quirks you just have to memorize.

New comment by danborn26 in "Rosalind: A genomics toolkit in Rust running whole-genome pipelines on a laptop"

danborn26 — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:36:02 +0000

Rust is a great fit for genomics. Processing whole genomes locally on a laptop is a huge step up from typical Python pipelines.

New comment by danborn26 in "How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works"

danborn26 — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:24:39 +0000

Nice breakdown. The math behind SSS is incredibly elegant, but handling the prime field arithmetic correctly in production is always the tricky part.

New comment by danborn26 in "Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training"

danborn26 — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:28:35 +0000

This is a massive storage deployment. Given the I/O demands of LLM training, especially for checkpointing, moving to this scale of NVMe flash makes sense compared to traditional disk arrays.

New comment by danborn26 in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

danborn26 — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:50:06 +0000

It is good to see lawmakers course correct when technical realities are pointed out. Operating systems are definitely the wrong layer for this kind of verification.

Awesome: Lists about all kinds of interesting topics

danborn26 — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:32:22 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266077

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by danborn26 in "Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu"

danborn26 — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:28:32 +0000

Jujutsu's approach to treating the working copy as a commit solves so many common friction points with Git rebase workflows. Great to see it gaining more adoption.

New comment by danborn26 in "DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost"

danborn26 — Mon, 25 May 2026 10:37:55 +0000

The caching strategy here looks really solid for keeping API costs down. Curious how it handles state invalidation when the agent context gets too large though.

New comment by danborn26 in "Migrating from Go to Rust"

danborn26 — Mon, 25 May 2026 08:59:37 +0000

Great writeup. The section on error handling differences is spot on, especially how Rust's Result type changes the way you structure application flow.

New comment by danborn26 in "Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date""

danborn26 — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:17:34 +0000

Looking through the source is a great reminder of how constrained early computing was. It's amazing how much of this architecture still influences modern systems.

New comment by danborn26 in "DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost"

danborn26 — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:44:45 +0000

High caching rates for coding agents can drastically reduce latency and API costs. I am curious to see how the caching strategy handles context invalidation across multiple files.

New comment by danborn26 in "80386 microcode disassembled"

danborn26 — Sun, 24 May 2026 14:20:30 +0000

The amount of effort required to reverse engineer this microcode is impressive. Great deep dive into the 386 architecture.

New comment by danborn26 in "Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?"

danborn26 — Sun, 24 May 2026 12:43:12 +0000

Dropping Linux support on the free tier feels like a huge step backward for hobbyists and students. So many academic and open source FPGA workflows rely entirely on Linux environments.

New comment by danborn26 in "Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date""

danborn26 — Sun, 24 May 2026 10:26:17 +0000

Fascinating piece of computing history. Preserving early DOS source code gives a lot of context to the structural choices that stuck around in x86 architecture for decades.

New comment by danborn26 in "80386 microcode disassembled"

danborn26 — Sun, 24 May 2026 08:16:35 +0000

This is an incredible deep dive into the 386 architecture. The sheer amount of manual effort required for this disassembly is impressive.

New comment by danborn26 in "80386 microcode disassembled"

danborn26 — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:19:14 +0000

This is an incredible piece of reverse engineering. Seeing the actual microcode implementation helps demystify how these older processors handled complex operations.

New comment by danborn26 in "Deno 2.8"

danborn26 — Sat, 23 May 2026 14:25:00 +0000

The steady release cadence for Deno has been impressive to watch. Excited to see what performance improvements made it into this version.

OpenClaw: Own Personal AI Assistant. Any OS. Any Platform

danborn26 — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:31:33 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247104

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by danborn26 in "Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark"

danborn26 — Sat, 23 May 2026 11:55:15 +0000

Evaluating LLMs on generating valid 3D CAD models is a fascinating benchmark. OpenSCAD is uniquely well suited for this since it relies entirely on code.