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New comment by goodthink in "Anthropic forms $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation"

goodthink — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:43:24 +0000

Net Operating Losses (NOLs) in one year can offset taxes owed in future years. It works for personal taxes too if it's a "casualty" loss.

New comment by goodthink in "The Boring Part of Bell Labs (2025)"

goodthink — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:54:20 +0000

US Government contractors have a requirement for average hours worked, by salaried workers, to be no more than ~40 hours / week (might be < 50). And they get audited for this (and other requirements) annually. Twenty years working for one such entity has made me grateful for it. Interesting enough work, low stress; lots of bureaucratic type stuff to deal with.

But I go home at 5pm every day.

New comment by goodthink in "Ask HN: What are you working on (non-AI)?"

goodthink — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:05:20 +0000

I bought $5 worth of Claude API tokens the other day because Newspeak [0] is implementing an API interface in the IDE.

I work with Newspeak every night building all kinds of crazy stuff, from the raycasting tutorial to an IndexedDB interface. Currently, I have the IDE running as an Isolated Web App for access to TCPSockets [1][2][3].

I'm implementing ancient TCP protocols bringing them to the web.

[0] https://newspeaklanguage.org

[1] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/iwa

[2] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/iwa/direct-sockets

[3] https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/telnet-client (example IWA)

New comment by goodthink in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

goodthink — Sun, 10 May 2026 23:21:37 +0000

Isolated Web Apps - Resurrecting ancient TCP protocols using TCPSockets in the web browser (Chrome) with Newspeak.

New comment by goodthink in "Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps"

goodthink — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 03:49:28 +0000

With all of the big deal being made about viewing the far side of the moon, you would think they would have performed the mission when the moon is _new_ so the far side would be illuminated...

Ask HN: How much did you spend on AI last month?

goodthink — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 06:19:09 +0000

Show us your receipts! I think it would be enlightening to know what it costs to use these toys - er - tools. Whatever you are building. If you are using AI, tell us what it cost you.

I have spent $0 on AI.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46956019

Points: 1

# Comments: 4

New comment by goodthink in "Ask HN: Weekend Social: Top two programming languages and what they can borrow?"

goodthink — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 16:14:24 +0000

1. Newspeak, Smalltalk 2. Smalltalk's code browser can be tedious, Newspeak's IDE is more coherent. TCPSockets, tools 3. Smalltalk's Seaside framework for server side web, Newspeak for clients.

New comment by goodthink in "Ask HN: What is your favourite GitHub Repo?"

goodthink — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:15:53 +0000

https://github.com/newspeaklanguage/newspeak https://github.com/croquet/croquet

New comment by goodthink in "Crafting Interpreters"

goodthink — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:01:14 +0000

Reading this book brought me a better understanding of "the expression problem" and the use of the visitor pattern as its solution. This led me to (finally) grok the use of Class _Heirarchy_ Inheritance[0] as a solution not requiring visitors. In Newspeak[1], classes can contain nested classes, so when you subclass a class, you inherit the nested classes as well. This blog post discusses the same feature affording Free Object Algebras [2].

[0] https://blog.bracha.org/primordialsoup.html?snapshot=Amplefo... [1]https://newspeaklanguage.org [2]https://blog.bracha.org/primordialsoup.html?snapshot=Amplefo...

New comment by goodthink in "Many hells of WebDAV"

goodthink — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 03:21:51 +0000

> Subversion works ok over webdav, it has done it for decades.

Thank you!!!!

New comment by goodthink in "My Self"

goodthink — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 04:21:10 +0000

Not Self the language? https://selflanguage.org

New comment by goodthink in "We Lost Something: 1970s REPLs Were Better Than Modern Development Environments"

goodthink — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 22:28:55 +0000

I call bullsh*t. None of those IDE's had any such feature.

New comment by goodthink in "Ideavo – Tinder-style validation for startup ideas"

goodthink — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 08:22:52 +0000

I upvoted but, there is no link to your product.

New comment by goodthink in "What is “literate programming”? (2024)"

goodthink — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:16:54 +0000

LIVE literate programming, now that is something else: https://youtu.be/i8zkG5OBYSQ?si=2Mz0QCO8za5knlgq

New comment by goodthink in "Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?"

goodthink — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 16:29:18 +0000

Basic Auth My blog: https://chalculator.com/blog Use Credentials: User: croquet Pass: yadayadayada Pain in the butt, links won't work without the creds, but they only need to be entered once.

Also, my blog comes complete with an IDE in the browser!

New comment by goodthink in "Reactorcore's Revshare System"

goodthink — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 01:56:05 +0000

I get a 404

New comment by goodthink in "Ruby and Its Neighbors: Smalltalk"

goodthink — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 17:11:03 +0000

If you love the keyword syntax of Smalltalk, the reflectivity, the incremental compilation, live debugging in the environment, check out https://newspeaklanguage.org for theSmalltalk experience in the web browser.

This is my favorite video by Newspeak's creator Gilad Bracha: https://youtu.be/BDwlEJGP3Mk?si=Z0ud1yRqIjVvT4oO

New comment by goodthink in "Ask HN: Not treated respectfully by colleague – advice?"

goodthink — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 02:34:42 +0000

Ask the QA people on the team if they have problems with him. Get a different manager involved...

New comment by goodthink in "Feed the bots"

goodthink — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 17:05:19 +0000

Three score and seven years old. How old are you? Good insane or bad? lol I can't infer it from the comment. Here are links to my 3D, multiuser, "coin-toss as a service" apps: https://chalculator.com/gaas/?world=cutcards https://chalculator.com/gaas/?world=diceroll User: croquet Pas: yadayadayada

Let the bot scraping begin.

(These were the impetus for the BA strategy. Some of the assets are large. And they were getting downloaded A LOT. Not anymore.)

New comment by goodthink in "Feed the bots"

goodthink — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 12:34:20 +0000

I have yet to see any bots figure out how to get past the Basic Auth protecting all links on my (zero traffic) website. Of course, any user following a link will be stopped by the same login dialog (I display the credentials on the home page). The solution is to make the secrets public. ALL websites could implement the same User/Pass credentials: User: nobots Pass: nobots Can bot writers overcome this if they know the credentials?