Hacker News: efnx

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

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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.

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

efnx — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:38:41 +0000

The Republicans this term have gotten plenty done, it's just nothing that helps average people. Their wins can't be widely celebrated and so they aren't, as much.

https://www.project2025.observer/

New comment by efnx in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

efnx — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:28:04 +0000

Republicans are overwhelmingly Christian, and even though Calvinism, or its branches, may not be the religion a majority of Republicans “exercise”, predetermination is a convenient explanation of why the world is what it is, and why no action should be taken - so it gets used a lot by right wing media, etc.

New comment by efnx in "Monero retakes privacy crown as Zcash turmoil rattles rally"

efnx — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 05:09:30 +0000

In zcash the wallet is what’s responsible for what is “default”. Zashi is private by default, but the optional transparency of zcash is a feature that makes zcash tenable from a regulatory standpoint.

The trusted ceremony is solved now, btw.

Also, Monero is not all that anonymous - the anonymity set is only about 11 transactions, compare that to zcash’s anonymity set of every shielded transaction ever.

New comment by efnx in "Dead Internet Theory"

efnx — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:55:18 +0000

One can hope!

New comment by efnx in "The U.S. Government Just Followed Through on Its Ban of DJI Drones"

efnx — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 05:52:50 +0000

Without a plea bargain, he would have to worry about incarceration as soon as he stepped down, is my point.

New comment by efnx in "The U.S. Government Just Followed Through on Its Ban of DJI Drones"

efnx — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:04:04 +0000

I don’t know if we should be so sure that he will be gone in three years. There is no incentive for him to relinquish control peacefully. We’ll have to give him a plea bargain, or a pardon of sorts, to incentivise him stepping down. Without one his back will be against a wall (or iron bars in this case), and he will gladly escalate to stay in power to avoid incarceration.

New comment by efnx in "Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time"

efnx — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 17:57:38 +0000

Hot take - Along these lines video games score incredibly well.

Arguably not a “toy”, but it’s interesting to think about.

New comment by efnx in "Disney Imagineering Debuts Next-Generation Robotic Character, Olaf"

efnx — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 03:52:19 +0000

That bot is cute, but every kid is going to kick it over. Its not realistic to have in a park.

New comment by efnx in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

efnx — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:19:15 +0000

Sending funds overseas is much easier with crypto than with traditional banking.

For the most part all I need is an address. That’s it. Then it takes a couple minutes to transfer - done!