Hacker News: glutamate

New comment by glutamate in "The European Social Stack"

glutamate — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:21:15 +0000

Correct

New comment by glutamate in "The European Social Stack"

glutamate — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:51:24 +0000

> Europe is a union of 27 sovereign nations

I guess the Swiss, British, Norwegians, Albanians etc etc are not welcome to participate in this project.

EDIT: In any case this whole thing is stupid. Open source and privacy matters, not country of origin.

New comment by glutamate in "Doo: A Simple, Fast Programming Language Built on Rust and LLVM"

glutamate — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 14:38:49 +0000

Algebraic data types please. When you programme in Haskell, you use them all time, and yet support is missing in so many languages. It's one of the things that makes Swift look attractive to me.

Staff disquiet as Alan Turing Institute faces identity crisis

glutamate — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 06:18:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/18/shut-it-down-and-start-again-staff-disquiet-as-alan-turing-institute-faces-identity-crisis

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44937893

Points: 62

# Comments: 87

How AI Vibe Coding Is Erasing Developers' Skills

glutamate — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 06:26:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.finalroundai.com/blog/vibe-coding-erasing-software-developers-skills

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44885219

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by glutamate in "The 5 stages of SaaS Death"

glutamate — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 14:23:02 +0000

So if I sell project management software for the construction industry, I should pivot to... selling houses?

New comment by glutamate in "Florida’s attorney general targets a restaurant over an LGBTQ Pride event"

glutamate — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 07:07:45 +0000

I guess you don't want kids to go to the beach either, where the standard attire is even more "revealing" ?

New comment by glutamate in "JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)"

glutamate — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 10:35:49 +0000

the main reasons for my preference are that: gmail/fastmail are simple, I can use from multiple computers easily, have good defaults and most importantly, they almost always work. Outlook users seem to constantly have something broken.

I do realise that i am reaping the benefits of a centralised system, and in the case of gmail, monetised by advertising, surveillance and user lock-in. Probably the ideal for me would would be a self-hosted web client, e.g. Mailcow

New comment by glutamate in "JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)"

glutamate — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 09:16:55 +0000

> Spoiler alert: we didn’t get app-like performance. We didn’t get better user experiences.

Not sure about that, I'll take Gmail and fastmail any day over outlook and evolution

New comment by glutamate in "Builder.ai Collapses: $1.5B 'AI' Startup Exposed as 'Indians'"

glutamate — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 19:00:55 +0000

They launched in 2016

New comment by glutamate in "Nova: A JavaScript and WebAssembly engine written in Rust"

glutamate — Thu, 29 May 2025 16:22:27 +0000

This may be too early to ask, but are you targeting a near-v8 level of performance? Or more like quickjs or duktape?

New comment by glutamate in "Launch HN: Nomi (YC X25) – Copilot for Sales"

glutamate — Mon, 26 May 2025 16:50:31 +0000

> Nomi joins your video calls

How will you obtain consent for this from everyone participating in the call?

New comment by glutamate in "Jepsen: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17.4"

glutamate — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 21:22:27 +0000

In the beginning, when you read papers like this, it can be hard work. You can either give up or put some effort in to try to understand it. Maybe look at some of the other Jepsen reports, some may be easier. Or perhaps an introductory CS textbook. With practice and patience it will become easier to read and eventually write like this.

You may not be part of that world now, but you can be some day.

EDIT: forgot to say, i had to read 6 or 7 books on Bayesian statistics before i understood the most basic concepts. A few years later i wrote a compiler for a statistical programming language.

New comment by glutamate in "Pope Francis has died"

glutamate — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 14:52:16 +0000

The Gettier examples disagree!

New comment by glutamate in "Show HN: Robyn – "Batman Inspired" Python Web Framework Built with Rust"

glutamate — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 09:50:04 +0000

The CoffeeScript rails clone? Seems an unlikely inspiration for this

New comment by glutamate in "Show HN: Robyn – “Batman Inspired” Python Web Framework Built with Rust"

glutamate — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 09:43:48 +0000

What is Batman? My Google skills are failing

New comment by glutamate in "A cross-platform multi-target dotfiles manager written in Rust"

glutamate — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 09:37:00 +0000

Serious question: why Rust? Sounds like this is not exactly systems level programming or any user would suffer from or even notice garbage collection latency.

Is Rust building up a decent ecosystem now for application programming? When I tried developing in Rust I came to the conclusion that you pay a heavy price for not having a garbage collector. Was I doing it wrong?

New comment by glutamate in "DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data"

glutamate — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:57:58 +0000

Didn't know Max Weber was lurking on HN.

New comment by glutamate in "Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent"

glutamate — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 22:23:04 +0000

> your Danish language setting in Croydon screams "I VPN to Copenhagen for overpriced pastries."

First time an LLM made me laugh

New comment by glutamate in "After Authenticity (2018)"

glutamate — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 20:23:21 +0000

There's a great YouTube channel that has a lot to say about this: carefree wanderings (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnEuIogVV2Mv6Q1a3nHIRsQ).

The idea is that after first sincerity, and then authenticity, we are moving into a new identity generating technology (in the philosophical sense of the word technology) called "profilicity" which is focussed on curating a profile across a variety of media channels. This profile is more multifaceted than an authenticity and is created or evolved with deliberate intent.