Hacker News: garbagepatch

New comment by garbagepatch in "Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig"

garbagepatch — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:59:49 +0000

When was this? I've only seen this "anti-rust" vibe in the past few weeks, guess triggered by the Bun rewrite. Zig people usually will tell you to use the right tool for the job over shilling the language or that you don't need to use it yet (if you want a stable language/documentation) the language will be there if you want to check it in a few years.

New comment by garbagepatch in "When do you guys think Zig will release 1.0?"

garbagepatch — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:21:59 +0000

5 years.

The language itself will probably stabilize in maybe 3 years. The last things they'll do is work on the std lib, documentation, spec. That will take time but the language will be ready before then.

New comment by garbagepatch in "Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12"

garbagepatch — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:15:56 +0000

Most users don't need it. Having it on by default is a feature for malware writers not users.

But to your point, Node has had permission flags for a while[0] but allows everything by default. Npm could use them to increase security even more. I just hope it doesn't take them another 10 years to change the default.

[0] https://nodejs.org/api/permissions.html

New comment by garbagepatch in "Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust"

garbagepatch — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:15:25 +0000

I like the terminal aesthetics but please, for accessibility's sake, make input boxes look more like input boxes and buttons look like buttons.

New comment by garbagepatch in "Show HN: Gitdot – a better GitHub. Open-source, anti-AI, and written in Rust"

garbagepatch — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:00:14 +0000

Removes a barrier of entry if you can look at it from a browser instead of installing a CLI/TUI.

Don't try to make me install a random program if I can view it in my sandboxed browser safely.

Also, browsers have greasemonkey to help me personalize websites easily. TUIs don't.

New comment by garbagepatch in "Deno 2.8"

garbagepatch — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:34:39 +0000

I guess Bun had the better marketing then. I liked how every new feature came with a benchmark against the previous version and node. See this for example: https://xcancel.com/bunjavascript/status/2048228152397459590

I'd love to see a site comparing the 3 of them in a similar way.

New comment by garbagepatch in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

garbagepatch — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:23:09 +0000

To me it feels more like the old "this site only supports IE6". Instead of checking which JS engine the user has, check for specific api support and fail gracefully.

New comment by garbagepatch in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

garbagepatch — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:08:50 +0000

According to the bun team, it was already vibecoded for months before the Anthropic acquisition.

New comment by garbagepatch in "Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware"

garbagepatch — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 01:59:25 +0000

Does it use your tokens when it does this check for malware? or is that part covered by anthropic?

New comment by garbagepatch in "Show HN: A 24/7 live stream where AI writes a new song about the current time"

garbagepatch — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:43:16 +0000

I misread that as "current times" and thought it would sing the news.

It does need more streams for other timezones.

New comment by garbagepatch in "Show HN: I built a site that shows every world event you lived through"

garbagepatch — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:24:54 +0000

Drop the AI written story, take me straight to the "Explore Your Record" view. That's more interesting.

New comment by garbagepatch in "New 'Lord of the Rings' Movie from Stephen Colbert and His Son in Development"

garbagepatch — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 05:00:36 +0000

If they managed to make 3 full movies out of The Hobbit, they'll surely be able to make a movie or 2 out of 6 chapters of LotR.

New comment by garbagepatch in "Regular army and reserve components enlistment program: Summary of change"

garbagepatch — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:50:45 +0000

I'm sure plenty Americans are also laughing at this. No hypocrisy here.

New comment by garbagepatch in "Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein Had a Yearslong Relationship"

garbagepatch — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:49:06 +0000

There's a bunch of steps before prison that do not work.

New comment by garbagepatch in "The Xkcd thing, now interactive"

garbagepatch — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:31:36 +0000

And it's all a meta commentary on 915.

A faithful, native Windows Notepad clone built in Zig using raw Win32 APIs

garbagepatch — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:05:51 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/leebase/lfznotepad

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47162103

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by garbagepatch in "Unredact the Epstein Files"

garbagepatch — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 05:11:20 +0000

All they left was the stopwords.

New comment by garbagepatch in "Why is Zig so cool?"

garbagepatch — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 02:14:43 +0000

Regarding runtime overhead, I'd assume you would still need an io implementation, it is just showing it to you explicitly instead of it being hidden behind the std lib.

For simple projects where you don't want to pass it around in function parameters, you can create a global object with one implementation and use it from everywhere.

New comment by garbagepatch in "React-Native-Godot"

garbagepatch — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 04:12:20 +0000

React Native is Javascript on top of the native toolkit of the platform. No HTML or CSS here.

New comment by garbagepatch in "Show HN: Zedis – A Redis clone I'm writing in Zig"

garbagepatch — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 05:14:16 +0000

What's the problem with the mascot? PostgreSQL has an elephant and MySQL a dolphin. Is the bug too detailed for database software?