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New comment by greenlimetea in "How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust going?"

greenlimetea — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:51:51 +0000

Rust devs are so obsessed with writing things in Rust that Rust was re-written in Rust.

New comment by greenlimetea in "Magnolias Are So Old That They're Pollinated by Beetles, Not Bees"

greenlimetea — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:49:54 +0000

"Drop the tle, it's cleaner."

New comment by greenlimetea in "AI companies are shredding rare books"

greenlimetea — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:45:41 +0000

It's amazing what reading a word in that book like sousveillance can do.

I looked it up.

surveillance, sousveillance - sure, why not? Seems harmless.

But it's as if the more people know the word sousveillance, the word and even the act of surveillance actually loses a little bit of power (its embedding changes, if you will!)

All our fears about the end state of surveillance can now be countered by an end state of sousveillance.

Before I had sousveillance to think of, I could only think of surveillance (when thinking of veillances) - and it was more of a threat then than it is now.

The world is made of language, or as Terence McKenna said made out of words which sounds obviously false at first. But go looking for the inside of an atom and tell me what you find, and think about where the medium of reality actually implements itself.

New comment by greenlimetea in "AI companies are shredding rare books"

greenlimetea — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:10:14 +0000

This is potentially very bad.

Like, Library of Alexandria or Council of Nicaea bad.

We may never be able to recover the information if, say, one of these AI companies copied or translated it wrong then destroyed the source material.

Maybe it's from bad OCR, or maybe from a bad actor - but there are a lot of ways history and information could change in this game-of-telephone like transfer of knowledge.

What is the point of destroying the source material? I don't buy the copyright thing.

Ask HN: Do types make a language more expressive, or less?

greenlimetea — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 10:58:54 +0000

In say, JS vs TS, have I made the language more expressive by adding a type system, or less?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49046502

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by greenlimetea in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

greenlimetea — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 02:36:50 +0000

As crazy as it sounds, code quality != software quality.

It turns out that the lower the barrier to creating "high quality" code is, the worse the software is on average.

Who remembers the Photoshop lens flare?

It's not that the effect sucked - it did lens flare perfectly. But who used it sucked.

Instagram and the Nashville filter - "we're all photographers now"

Code quality not equaling software quality gets at the fun part of the modern AI-labor debate. Where does talent and efficacy really reside in terms of software? Surely not in the (apparently unworthy?) mind of a human? Surely it can be extracted, distilled, automated – liberated! - unto a reactive web interface for some middle manager to invoke (at some expense to some account this folk loses zero sleep over), because it is after all this flimsy, transferrable - not worthless! Not worthless! I have a stock portfolio to maintain for God's sake. But mine. Nonetheless.

Code quality doesn't equal software quality.

New comment by greenlimetea in "AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt"

greenlimetea — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:54:14 +0000

> $200 billion $100 billion

That's a fun way to say is not profitable and loses billions a year

New comment by greenlimetea in "Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model"

greenlimetea — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:35:50 +0000

"Our model has TRILLIONS of parameters!"

"But it's worse than Mistral 7b"

cape