Hacker News: euiq

New comment by euiq in "Uv is fantastic, but its package management UX is a mess"

euiq — Fri, 22 May 2026 10:36:41 +0000

`uv.lock` pins exact versions (and hashes) of your dependencies.

New comment by euiq in "Bourbaki – A Secret Society of Mathematicians"

euiq — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 19:50:28 +0000

General Topology is valuable, especially for the filter perspective; so are some of the Algebra volumes.

New comment by euiq in "Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts"

euiq — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 19:15:03 +0000

I know that `git rebase` changes the committer date while keeping the author date the same, so I'm assuming something similar happened here. For example, many of the early commits have this committer date with varying author dates:

    $ git show --format=fuller 3dafc8f5de6ffe46fb223a75a46a6bd848b6daf8
    commit 3dafc8f5de6ffe46fb223a75a46a6bd848b6daf8
    Author:     Kenton Varda 
    AuthorDate: Thu Feb 27 17:15:37 2025 -0600
    Commit:     Kenton Varda 
    CommitDate: Tue Mar 4 14:48:59 2025 -0600
    
        Add storage schema by Claude.

GitHub uses the committer date for its history, which is annoying if you rebase frequently; I like to run a non-interactive `git rebase` with `--commmiter-date-is-author-date` in such cases.

New comment by euiq in "Grothendieck’s use of equality"

euiq — Mon, 20 May 2024 20:12:23 +0000

let me guess: you haven't read the article, have you?

New comment by euiq in "Meta Llama 3"

euiq — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 12:45:54 +0000

He’s built up an impressive amount of clout over a short period of time, mostly by interviewing interesting guests on his podcast while not boring listeners to death (unlike a certain other interviewer with high-caliber guests that shall remain nameless).

New comment by euiq in "Fedora 41 will unify bin and sbin"

euiq — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 15:07:34 +0000

I agree that “/usr/sbin directory becomes a symlink to bin” can be confusing for new users, but I don’t think it’s wrong: I interpret this statement as saying that /usr/sbin is going to be a relative symlink with target bin, which would indeed make it resolve to /usr/bin.

New comment by euiq in "Tacit programming"

euiq — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 10:51:18 +0000

Recent versions of F# can stop on individual function applications in an expression like

    x
    |> f a
    |> g b
    …

(search for "pipeline debugging" on < https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/whats-new-in-fsharp-6/>).

In my experience, these are more common than strict point-free style anyway.

New comment by euiq in "Tacit programming"

euiq — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 10:45:16 +0000

It's a joke.

New comment by euiq in "Tacit programming"

euiq — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 10:44:54 +0000

I assume they're talking about code like

    x
    |> f a
    |> g b
    …

… where everything after the first |> is essentially in point-free style.

New comment by euiq in "ChatGPT for Teams"

euiq — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 18:48:54 +0000

Your posts are my favorite thing about Hacker News, both because of the things you're saying and the way you're saying them; please don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

New comment by euiq in "For processing strings, streams in C++ can be slow"

euiq — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 12:27:48 +0000

This feels like a conversation where it would have been useful for the participants to be very explicit about the points they were trying to convey: the reviewer could have said "Isn't this a quadratic algorithm, because each call to `+=` reallocates `escaped_file_path`?" (or whatever their specific concern was; I may have misunderstood), and the author's initial response could have been "No, because the capacity of the string is doubled when necessary."

New comment by euiq in "Progress on No-GIL CPython"

euiq — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 21:13:01 +0000

I think you're missing that your needs are different from those of the people quoted in PEP 703: <https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/#motivation>

New comment by euiq in "Populating the page: how browsers work (2020)"

euiq — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 17:48:06 +0000

I don't think that "flickers between tasks very rapidly to simulate concurrency" is a good mental model for event loops. It's more like "runs one task at a time until it hits a suspension point," where a suspension point is something like an I/O operation. If you had an event loop that switched tasks between suspension points, then you'd still need locks for shared data.

New comment by euiq in "Conversation with Zuckerberg, this time we talked as photorealistic avatars"

euiq — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 20:06:44 +0000

Is this a situation that you find yourself in frequently (with serious work sparked by chance conversations)? It sounds awfully cliché.

New comment by euiq in "The Tao of Programming (1987)"

euiq — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 20:57:17 +0000

Intellectual property rights should be abolished.

New comment by euiq in "Why Kakoune"

euiq — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 17:57:34 +0000

I am intensively envious of people who type this fast; I get up to 100 words per minute on a good day. Time to get a new pair of hands?

New comment by euiq in "Gokrazy is cool"

euiq — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 22:42:26 +0000

> It seems the developer works for Tailscale in an evangelist / developer relations role. I feel that ought to have been disclosed in this article.

Note that the author of gokrazy is Michael Stapelberg (perhaps better known for writing i3), who doesn't seem to be directly affiliated with Tailscale.

New comment by euiq in "I hacked macOS"

euiq — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 12:20:46 +0000

the whole vtuber thing is not really for me, but i appreciate the effort that went into this presentation—did you make it all the way to <https://asahilina.net/agx-exploit/#/demoslide>?

New comment by euiq in "It's My Monitor"

euiq — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 10:26:52 +0000

Now this I can understand—why would you do that?!

New comment by euiq in "What happened in this GPT-3 conversation?"

euiq — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 20:15:08 +0000

Where's my beef tallow LLM?