Hacker News: geon

New comment by geon in "Does anybody like React?"

geon — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:58:40 +0000

Is Vue still magic, or can you actually write normal typescript?

New comment by geon in "Ferrari Luce"

geon — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:53:10 +0000

What a garbage website. It feels like it was made for ferrari, not the visitor.

New comment by geon in "z386: An Open-Source 80386 Built Around Original Microcode"

geon — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:26:06 +0000

I think there are industrial pcs with a 486-compatible soc.

A ton of industrial equipment are still using win 3.1.

New comment by geon in "Google changes its search box"

geon — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:36:39 +0000

I’d expect the sentiment analysis to be better, yes.

If the bots take everything they read at face value, how useful are they really?

New comment by geon in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

geon — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:16:28 +0000

Him being a nazi, or at least enough of a sympathizer to make a salute is not related to him being an idiot.

He is both, but it’s irrelevant in this context.

New comment by geon in "Google changes its search box"

geon — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:08:04 +0000

And half the time, the sources turn out to be sarcastic jokes on reddit.

New comment by geon in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

geon — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:28:31 +0000

More likely it would force software advancements. Current models are horribly inefficient.

New comment by geon in "Show HN: Rust but Lisp"

geon — Sun, 10 May 2026 07:22:25 +0000

I’ve seen this done with C as well.

https://www.eriksvedang.com/carp

https://github.com/tomhrr/dale

New comment by geon in "Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux"

geon — Sat, 09 May 2026 08:47:46 +0000

> A blockchain is a distributed ledger with growing lists of records (blocks) that are securely linked together via cryptographic hashes.[1][2][3][4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain

That’s exactly what git is.

New comment by geon in "Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision..."

geon — Sat, 09 May 2026 08:09:13 +0000

Wouldn’t thermal noise in a resistor make more practical sense?

New comment by geon in "Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux"

geon — Sat, 09 May 2026 07:57:48 +0000

Git?

New comment by geon in "Agents need control flow, not more prompts"

geon — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:30:39 +0000

How is this not obvious to everyone? It's like people forgot how to engineer.

New comment by geon in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"

geon — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:06:44 +0000

Doesn’t this mean the expert solved the problem while trying to devine the tea leaves provided by chatgpt?

New comment by geon in "DeepSeek v4"

geon — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:47:33 +0000

Who has been saved? The US has been doing much more harm than good.

New comment by geon in "Zig 0.16.0 Release Notes"

geon — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:12:00 +0000

Breaking changes don't require a rewrite.

New comment by geon in "Introduction to spherical harmonics for graphics programmers"

geon — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:33:39 +0000

Would it be practical to use high resolution spherical harmonics as a replacement for cube maps?

New comment by geon in "Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs"

geon — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:28:15 +0000

Every hardware key will be broken if there is enough incentive to do so. Their claims read like pure hubris.

New comment by geon in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

geon — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:36:56 +0000

Isn't that windows only?

New comment by geon in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

geon — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:23:28 +0000

buttbuttination

New comment by geon in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

geon — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:19:08 +0000

Where did he say he's not worried about other billionaires?