Hacker News: efnx

New comment by efnx in "Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering"

efnx — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:30:40 +0000

Came here to say exactly this. If you’re not writing the code (or especially reviewing it) then we need stronger type systems and more checks and fewer legal programs. Might as well move all the way to Idris or some not-yet-invented language that humans would find very restrictive.

New comment by efnx in "Rust SIMD on the GPU"

efnx — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:24:41 +0000

Congrats to the Rust-GPU folks! Nice to see the good work flowing.

New comment by efnx in "Apple is getting this wrong"

efnx — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:23:09 +0000

Is it normal for a company this big to make a public blog post like this with almost no introduction to what they’re on about?

I would expect them to start out with something like Apple is suing us for yada yada yada, but instead it reads like the diary of a hurt teenager.

New comment by efnx in "Man seeks millions after being shot by police in game-related swatting incident"

efnx — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:25:32 +0000

And then on the side they sell "metadata" to insurance companies and anyone else willing to pay...

New comment by efnx in "Man seeks millions after being shot by police in game-related swatting incident"

efnx — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:10:01 +0000

They need to get sued _hard_ and lose millions, as well as have cops put in jail before real change happens. I feel sorry for this kid but he's doing the right thing.

New comment by efnx in "I think I have LLM burnout"

efnx — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:07:49 +0000

Just have an agent chug on a side-project for you, or set up a CI script to review every pull request or some similarly “helpful” task. That should eat a lot of tokens!

New comment by efnx in "Using precision editing to study human embryo development shows master gene"

efnx — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:21:20 +0000

So do all sexually reproducing species’ conception create souls? Or is it just a blessed few? What about asexually reproducing species?

New comment by efnx in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

efnx — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:53:08 +0000

References for this claim?

New comment by efnx in "Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country"

efnx — Wed, 27 May 2026 01:26:10 +0000

It’s interesting how many more community reported data centres there are compared to operational and proposed. I’m wondering if this is because of over reporting? Like - does the public mistake any new, big building as a data centre, or are the other categories under reported (or something else)?

New comment by efnx in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

efnx — Wed, 06 May 2026 19:14:30 +0000

Better not think a forbidden thought. Oh shoot! You just did! :)

New comment by efnx in "iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM"

efnx — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:38:28 +0000

Have you tried qwen3.5 running locally? It’s quite “good enough”.

New comment by efnx in "Durdraw – ANSI art editor for Unix-like systems"

efnx — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 08:18:45 +0000

Acid was great!

New comment by efnx in "Helix: A post-modern text editor"

efnx — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 09:32:21 +0000

But how is ki like rust, and why is that significant? Helix is pretty rad, even if what you say is true.

Wgsl-Rs

efnx — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:26:21 +0000

Article URL: https://renderling.xyz/articles/introducing-wgsl-rs.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47255452

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by efnx in "Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance"

efnx — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 07:14:46 +0000

Why even should they be allowed to contract an action that they themselves cannot perform - even _with_ a warrant? Is that not still "doing" the action?

New comment by efnx in "Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance"

efnx — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 07:07:12 +0000

Can you substantiate these claims with with anything? What unlawful DoJ demands has Apple given in to? Anthropic is still very early in their trajectory compared to Apple with its ~50 year run, so it's not exactly an Apple to apples comparison.

New comment by efnx in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

efnx — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 06:08:19 +0000

I’ve been using Claude through opencode, and I figured this was just how it does it. I figured everyone else did it this way as well. I guess not!

New comment by efnx in "Descent, ported to the web"

efnx — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 20:01:23 +0000

I’ve been following Mr. Doob since the flash days. Cool to see they’re still doobing cool things.

New comment by efnx in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

efnx — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:28:13 +0000

I've been working on Renderling — an open-source, GPU-driven real-time renderer in Rust targeting both native and web (via WebGPU).

I just signed a Memorandum of Understanding with NLnet (NGI0 Commons Fund) for a second year of funding to build out the Renderling ecosystem. The big shift this year: moving away from Rust-GPU and going all-in on WGSL.

I'm building wgsl-rs, a proc macro crate that lets you write WGSL shaders in a subset of Rust — same code runs on the CPU for testing and on the GPU via generated WGSL. Works on stable Rust, no custom toolchains needed.

The funded roadmap also includes podecs, a GPU-accelerated ECS where systems run as compute shaders, a Rend3-compatible API layer (for folks looking for a path forward from Rend3), and ultimately real-time global illumination via a GPU ray tracer.

More details in the latest news update: https://renderling.xyz/news/index.html#wed-11-feb-2026

Repos:

- https://github.com/schell/renderling

- https://github.com/schell/wgsl-rs

New comment by efnx in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

efnx — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 01:47:27 +0000

Because it is not the same deportation policy.