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New comment by eliemichel in "I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++"

eliemichel — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:05:33 +0000

CMakes piles up various generations of idioms so there are multiple ways of doing it, but personally I’ve learned to steer away from find_package() and other magical functions. Get all your dependencies as subdirectories (whichever way you prefer) and use add_subdirectory(). Use find_package() only in so-called "config" mode where you explicitly instruct cmake where to find the config for large precompiled dependencies only

New comment by eliemichel in "Claude Tried to Hack 30 Companies. Nobody Asked It To"

eliemichel — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:52:44 +0000

I had the same reaction at first, then noticed that they discuss this: the reason why they told that is because it is standard system prompt injected by most coding agent harnesses like Cursor and all, so it seems like a fair test setup.

New comment by eliemichel in "Ad-tech is fascist tech"

eliemichel — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:41:20 +0000

It saddens me to see this flagged, I did not have any predefined opinion about the author or the medium, but I did enjoy reading a text with a bit of character - which is becoming rare in these times of LLM omnipresence. And whether we like the form or not, this is an opinionated piece like many others we see on HN, with a thesis that I find pretty relevant. Beyond saddened, I am actually worried to see the HN community dismiss this type of post rather than discussing it like others.

New comment by eliemichel in "Triangle splatting: radiance fields represented by triangles"

eliemichel — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 06:40:35 +0000

This figure is sort of an overclaim imho. If you look inside the paper, the reported figure is 97 FPS actually (vs 135 FPS for 3DGS on their device). This 2400FPS they advertise is for a degraded version that completely ignores the transparency... but the transprency is both what makes these representation support interesting volumetric effects and what makes rendering challenging (because it requires sorting things). Drawing 1M triangles at 2400FPS on their hardware is probably just quite normal.