Hacker News: grahar64

New comment by grahar64 in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

grahar64 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:00:47 +0000

I think people have read so much corporate PR posts they think that is a rule of how to post online.

This post is his personal blog, he is a human writing what he thinks.

If this was a tweet people would be fine with it, but it is a blog so he should make it corporate-y

New comment by grahar64 in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

grahar64 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:58:19 +0000

Like Linus?

New comment by grahar64 in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

grahar64 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:53:37 +0000

I don't think you are using that right. Saying someone is bringing a bad vibe to your project, as the point he has a bad vibe is just stating the conclusion.

Like if someone calls you a bad programmer and doesn't hire you as a programmer, isn't ad hominem

New comment by grahar64 in "Steam Machine launches today"

grahar64 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:17:59 +0000

"This item is not available in your region" :(

New comment by grahar64 in "Brexit Ten Years On: The Economy"

grahar64 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:25:06 +0000

"The question was never whether this would involve costs"

Brexit was sold as being positive for the economy. The proponents drove a bus around saying they would get 350 million back. It was largely advertised as a net positive for the economy

New comment by grahar64 in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

grahar64 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:47:53 +0000

Would it be fair to say that because the US Navy is not running it as a for-profit power generation that would help. Like every accident seems to be a list of cost saving shortcuts being responsible

New comment by grahar64 in "Humpback whales are forming super-groups"

grahar64 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:08:08 +0000

There must have been so much unseen behavior when there were millions more whales in the ocean. Here's hoping that we can see more

New comment by grahar64 in "Laws of Software Engineering"

grahar64 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:30:41 +0000

Some of these laws are like Gravity, inevitable things you can fight but will always exist e.g. increasing complexity. Some of them are laws that if you break people will yell at you or at least respect you less, e.g. leave it cleaner than when you found it.

I Tried to Write a HTTP Service in Zig and Failed

grahar64 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 23:56:17 +0000

Article URL: https://maori.geek.nz/i-tried-to-write-a-http-service-in-zig-and-failed-72c4ce581e1d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47317458

Points: 4

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New comment by grahar64 in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

grahar64 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:35:31 +0000

HOMM3 on an iPad mini was peak iPad

New comment by grahar64 in "If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?"

grahar64 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 07:00:16 +0000

If AI could reliably write good code then you shouldn't need to even commit the code as the general rule is you shouldn't commit generated code. Commit the session when you don't need to commit the code

New comment by grahar64 in "27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates"

grahar64 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:27:12 +0000

I had an old MacMini I hadn't plugged in since 2014-ish and I tried to boot it this year and it refused to boot, and refused to update.

It now runs Ubuntu. Good little machine

New comment by grahar64 in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

grahar64 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 06:09:51 +0000

Autocorrect is balls. I have a friend in my contacts, and when I type her name it sometimes autocorrects to "leaving".

New comment by grahar64 in "We mourn our craft"

grahar64 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 19:21:35 +0000

"Wait 6 months" has been the call for 3-4 years now. You can't eulogize a profession that hasn't been killed, that's just mean.

New comment by grahar64 in "AI will make formal verification go mainstream"

grahar64 — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 10:35:25 +0000

Won't people just use AI to define specification? Like if they are getting most of it done with AI, won't they won't read/test the code to verify won't they also not read the spec

New comment by grahar64 in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

grahar64 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 07:26:32 +0000

Social media is cigarettes. There are lots of studies showing the negative impacts to say that limiting their reach is probably good for society and individuals.

Just about all arguments against this are the same arguments that would stop governments limiting booze or tabaco

New comment by grahar64 in "Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?"

grahar64 — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 03:19:48 +0000

My main advice for engineers is to write a blog. It isn't for anyone else it is to organize your thoughts. But should be presented in a way others can learn from. For a year I published every Tuesday morning, and that schedule made me learn so much so fast.

New comment by grahar64 in "When did people favor composition over inheritance?"

grahar64 — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 08:10:32 +0000

I once worked with a library that had such a deep inheritance tree, only for ontological purposes, that I was always confused as to where anything was actually implemented. I decided to squash the layers and found almost every method was overrode two or three times.

That was the project that I turned against inheritance, it was 2009, project was written in Java 1.4

New comment by grahar64 in "Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race"

grahar64 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 06:53:49 +0000

Yes, everyone on insurance should be young and healthy. Fuck those sick people /s

New comment by grahar64 in "The longest baseball game took 33 innings to win"

grahar64 — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 19:39:49 +0000

The longest test cricket match lasted 11days and was called off because one team had to catch a boat home