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New comment by deterministic in "The Ü Programming Language"

deterministic — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:43:40 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45769161

New comment by deterministic in "CQL: Categorical Databases"

deterministic — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:30:47 +0000

> that has revolutionized several areas of computer science

That is quite a claim. I will argue that Categorical Databases most definitely haven't. Any areas where it is true?

New comment by deterministic in "Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language"

deterministic — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:35:37 +0000

Typescript is brilliant and should be carefully studied by anybody introducing a type system to a single typed ("untyped") language.

New comment by deterministic in "The Ü Programming Language"

deterministic — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:31:31 +0000

All good points. I have sent a link to this page to the author of the language (Panzerschrek).

New comment by deterministic in "Blorp Language"

deterministic — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:29:46 +0000

I added your language link to HN and there is a lot of interest:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48391838

The Ü Programming Language

deterministic — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:04 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Panzerschrek/U-00DC-Sprache/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48391838

Points: 60

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New comment by deterministic in "The Kaiser and a "Mediocre Man" Theory of History"

deterministic — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:56:46 +0000

IMHO science, technology, and economics has a much greater impact on history over the long term than any one individual.

An obvious example is the invention of the steam engine.

New comment by deterministic in "The Frame Problem (2004)"

deterministic — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:25:49 +0000

If I understand it correctly, more advanced logics (based around state transitions) doesn't have this problem (TLA+ etc.)

New comment by deterministic in "Roughly a quarter of American professionals hit a wall in their careers"

deterministic — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:35:25 +0000

"The whipping will continue until morale improves"

New comment by deterministic in "Blorp Language"

deterministic — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:25:11 +0000

It would be nice to see a "new" language that actually does something truly new and valuable.

Almost all "new" languages presented on HN are basically slightly different flavours of languages that have been around for a very long time. But without the libraries/documentation/tools etc. needed to make it useful.

New comment by deterministic in "The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI"

deterministic — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:32:26 +0000

The same thing happens because of tools like the Unity/Unreal engine. Lots of low quality barely-more-than-a-demo "games" uploaded to steam. However those games rightly fail to make any decent $ so probably not a problem long term.

New comment by deterministic in "Where does next-token prediction leave us?"

deterministic — Fri, 29 May 2026 04:19:37 +0000

> Non-technical middle managers who have not written a line of code in their lives, now feel that the biggest obstacle between them and greatness has lifted.

Or it will turn out we no longer need middle managers because of AI.

Side note: I am pretty sure most companies could fire 50% of middle management and see a dramatic productivity improvement. With or without AI.

New comment by deterministic in "The Best Engineers Write Less Code"

deterministic — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:18:58 +0000

Not my experience at all (30+ years of getting paid to deliver software).

Thinking hard (and discussing with experienced colleagues) before writing any code can dramatically speed up your overall delivery time and completely remove whole classes of potential errors.

If you skip the "thinking hard" bit to "go fast" you will probably end up being 10x slower overall.

New comment by deterministic in "Ferrari Luce"

deterministic — Tue, 26 May 2026 04:02:01 +0000

It doesn't even look like a Ferrari. I am 99.999% sure it will fail.

New comment by deterministic in "Testing distributed systems with AI agents"

deterministic — Mon, 25 May 2026 03:33:42 +0000

OK fair enough. That wasn't my intention at all but I can see how it might be interpreted that way.

My comment was more a meta comment on the trap a lot of open source developers fall into thinking that the world will fairly reward them for their work.

New comment by deterministic in "Testing distributed systems with AI agents"

deterministic — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:01:36 +0000

Why is it shocking? It is a well documented fact that people very rarely donate $ to open source project they use daily. And if they do it is typically a very low amount.

What is shocking to me is that people give away their work for free and then get upset when they have financial problems. It should be kinda obvious that one leads to the other. Except in unusual cases (Linus for example).

Yes I agree it would be nice if that was not the case. If people were always generous and always did the right thing. However that is not how people operate in general. Pretending otherwise is crazy.

New comment by deterministic in "Testing distributed systems with AI agents"

deterministic — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:59:06 +0000

If down voting please leave an argument why.

New comment by deterministic in "Testing distributed systems with AI agents"

deterministic — Thu, 21 May 2026 04:06:43 +0000

OK so let me get this:

1. You chose to give your work away for free.

2. You are complaining that you haven't made money from your work.

Is that a fair interpretation of your argument?

New comment by deterministic in "Bolt CEO says he let go of HR team for creating problems that didn't exist"

deterministic — Thu, 21 May 2026 03:55:53 +0000

If you are being interview by somebody from "HR" and not your potential future boss then it is a massive red flag.

New comment by deterministic in "Gemini 3.5 deleted 28,745 lines, broke production, and wrote a fake post-mortem"

deterministic — Thu, 21 May 2026 03:17:16 +0000

I can't believe that anybody would give an LLM access to production.

Always always always assume that your LLM will destroy your production if given the possibility.

In other words, always assume the gun is loaded.