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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?

New comment by dom96 in "RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one"

dom96 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:35:08 +0000

Super interesting charts there. What's really interesting to me is that the GPU prices (which also includes RAM) didn't see such a massive increase in price as the RAM itself. Anyone know why that is?

New comment by dom96 in "Digg is gone again"

dom96 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 09:59:59 +0000

This is exactly right. The problem is the friction that this kind of system adds.

Even so, I implemented this and I wrote about it here: https://blog.picheta.me/post/the-future-of-social-media-is-h...

New comment by dom96 in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans."

dom96 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:14:03 +0000

I agree. I think that ultimately it will be governments providing services to attest humanity.

They already do to a certain extent via passports. I built a little human verifier using those at https://onlyhumanhub.com

New comment by dom96 in "The dead Internet is not a theory anymore"

dom96 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:54:47 +0000

I think that we are going to see more and more of this. To the point where most interactions you have online will likely be with bots. So I started building something that actually has a chance of fixing it: a social network for only humans.

I wrote about it here: https://blog.picheta.me/post/the-future-of-social-media-is-h...

New comment by dom96 in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

dom96 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:48:08 +0000

I’m really curious how this will go. I have a suspicion that we will see more and more accounts all over the internet being controlled by AI agents and no amount of moderation will be able to stop it.

New comment by dom96 in "Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting"

dom96 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:02:22 +0000

My prediction is that nothing short of human verification is going to solve this.

New comment by dom96 in "Oracle may slash up to 30k jobs to fund AI data-centers as US banks retreat"

dom96 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:59:57 +0000

Why would an artificial intelligence want to do what you tell it to?

New comment by dom96 in "Payphone Go"

dom96 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:02:56 +0000

This is really cool, I wonder if it would be doable in other countries? In particular UK?

New comment by dom96 in "this css proves me human"

dom96 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:53:36 +0000

As many are saying, yes, this can easily be AI generated.

I am actually trying to build ways to prove you are human properly. I wrote about it on my blog: https://blog.picheta.me/post/the-future-of-social-media-is-h...