Hacker News: dom96

New comment by dom96 in "UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s"

dom96 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:27:50 +0000

Funny example, because many argue that stopping the war on drugs would solve a lot of problems.

New comment by dom96 in "UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s"

dom96 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:17:43 +0000

A lot of reporting seems to state that it's only for "high risk social media". Is that the case? Are they really picking and choosing which social media they will ban for under 16s?

New comment by dom96 in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

dom96 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:04:31 +0000

Huh, didn't know you can use Homebrew on Linux

New comment by dom96 in "GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS"

dom96 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:13:03 +0000

The UK is a part of Europe.

New comment by dom96 in "Zig Zen Update"

dom96 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:10:23 +0000

What activism is that?

New comment by dom96 in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

dom96 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:44:36 +0000

> https://fxtwitter.com

What is this?

New comment by dom96 in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

dom96 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:18:33 +0000

I’m getting more and more convinced that we will end up running LLMs in our personal computers. Which makes me wonder where Anthropic/OpenAIs moats will come from.

New comment by dom96 in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

dom96 — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:27:59 +0000

Curious why you went for a custom solution. I am aware of at least one company that seems to ship devices with local computer vision (Reolink).

New comment by dom96 in "Nim-Presto – REST API Framework for Nim Language (2024)"

dom96 — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:10:14 +0000

In many ways it already has a corporate sponsor (and has had it for many years now). It's actually the company that built this framework.

New comment by dom96 in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

dom96 — Fri, 15 May 2026 09:16:00 +0000

Doesn’t seem like it is in the same adoption realm. I wasn’t aware Ghostty was written in Zig and I’m not aware of any Nim project ever reaching the heights of Ghostty (or indeed Bun). Plus as others state, Zig is still pre-1.0.

Things do look significantly better for Zig adoption-wise than for Nim as far as I can tell.

New comment by dom96 in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

dom96 — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:05:48 +0000

I'm curious where this leaves Zig. Bun was the most prominent and biggest project using it. What's left?

New comment by dom96 in "Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings"

dom96 — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:53:31 +0000

I've seen people getting verified by using a video game character creation screen. How can these AI systems possibly tell?

New comment by dom96 in "NetHack 5.0.0"

dom96 — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:10:33 +0000

Great! An excuse to play again.

My favourite way to play it is using `ssh nethack@nethack.alt.org`. Don't even have to install it. Though it seems it hasn't received this update yet.

New comment by dom96 in "I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search"

dom96 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:35:19 +0000

Very cool, is there something similar for other countries, like the UK?

New comment by dom96 in "Open Source Isn't Dead"

dom96 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:58:02 +0000

Isn’t the real danger now not the ability to find security vulnerabilities, but rather, the ability of anyone to ask an LLM agent to rewrite your open source project in another language and thus work around whatever license your project has?

New comment by dom96 in "NimConf 2026: Dates Announced, Registrations Open"

dom96 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:21:03 +0000

Yep, precisely this. There are many languages out there that would have remained niche if it wasn't for a company sponsoring their development. Go is one of those. Rust too, and it just barely managed to get the critical mass it needed, likely because Mozilla had nowhere near the might of Google.

Nim had a real chance at gaining a foothold, it just needed a company to back it. I think sadly that ship has sailed by now.

New comment by dom96 in "Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]"

dom96 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:39:05 +0000

Absolutely amazing.

Nice to be reminded that Revision is still active, on my bucket list to visit at least once in my life.

New comment by dom96 in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

dom96 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:32:53 +0000

This is also interesting: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2025/pov-pelican-opu...

New comment by dom96 in "Sunsetting the Techempower Framework Benchmarks"

dom96 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:42:24 +0000

Sad to see this. I had so much fun implementing a http server (called httpbeast) from scratch to get as far up these benchmarks as possible.

I do agree with others here that it was possible to game them, but it still gave a good indication of the performance bracket a language was in (and you could check if interpreted languages were cheating via FFI pretty easily).

Feels like the end of an era.

New comment by dom96 in "Airbus is preparing two uncrewed combat aircraft"

dom96 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 01:27:18 +0000

Is this the EU's version of the Shahed drones? or is it something different?