Hacker News: hackingonempty

New comment by hackingonempty in "Developing Taste"

hackingonempty — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 03:37:37 +0000

How do you know Apple has not interviewed a broad and representative sample of real users and found that their #1 desire in a laptop is thinner and lighter than what is currently available?

I would bet that is what real users have been asking for, for decades now. They aren't asking for swappable batteries or headphone jacks.

New comment by hackingonempty in "Personal software factories are a waste of time"

hackingonempty — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 02:01:49 +0000

Swift (2014) and Kotlin (2011) are huge because of iOS and Android, respectively. C# came out in July 2000, does that count? However there are post-2000 languages in real use that aren't developed or annointed by huge companies, some started as solo dev projects or academic projects.

There is a lot of news right now about AI writing proofs in Lean (2013.) Lots of people rely on Elixir (2012) and Gleam (2016) is up and coming. I wouldn't give up on Scala (2004) just yet, it's really one of the best languages out there with some great libraries and runs on the JVM. You could argue that Reason (2016) and ReScript (2020) are just dialects of OCaml but they are industrial strength tools that people rely on in production.

...and don't even try to take Clojure (2007) away from any hands that are not truly cold and dead.

New comment by hackingonempty in "JDK 28"

hackingonempty — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 06:11:59 +0000

The big deal with this release is value objects preview. https://openjdk.org/jeps/401

New comment by hackingonempty in "Super Intelligence"

hackingonempty — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 13:02:36 +0000

We still call it "machine learning"

New comment by hackingonempty in "Shit Flow Diagram"

hackingonempty — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:17:57 +0000

For a second I thought this would be about the style of org chart used at the last big company I worked for.

New comment by hackingonempty in "11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker"

hackingonempty — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:29:52 +0000

Part of Rust's schtick is also cost free abstractions.

New comment by hackingonempty in "Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?"

hackingonempty — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:52:37 +0000

The DOJ used to have independence but no longer. The AG is now Trump's personal lawyer and if Trump says no prosecutions of AI companies then there will be no prosecutions. If the AG doesn't play ball they get fired.

New comment by hackingonempty in "Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?"

hackingonempty — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:44:29 +0000

The article doesn't mention it but in the USA it may be because the Department of Justice has lost a lot of talent and the ones left are busy going after Trump's enemies and negotiating the other side in Trump's own lawsuit against the USA for Trump's family to be immune from IRS audits and arranging for multi-billion dollar compensation funds for Trump's henchmen.

New comment by hackingonempty in "ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux"

hackingonempty — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:28:33 +0000

For what application do you need 96kHz or 192kHz of bandwidth?

New comment by hackingonempty in "US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams"

hackingonempty — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:11:53 +0000

If he used bots to stream his own song 80 million times then folks at the streaming services would notice. Instead he spread the 80 million fraudulent streams over tens of thousands of machine generated songs.

New comment by hackingonempty in "Tell HN: Apple not letting removal of AI models on macOS 27 is outrageous"

hackingonempty — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:04:53 +0000

Apple may not want to support 7+ year old hardware but plenty of enthusiasts would and could if they just had good documentation of the hardware.

New comment by hackingonempty in "Apple Pass Designer"

hackingonempty — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 20:52:25 +0000

The code is rolling so you can't use a screenshot to enter the show. This is to stop ticket transfers outside the system.

The ticket stub is animated so you can't use a simple screenshot to move to a better location once inside the show.

New comment by hackingonempty in "Scientists invent underwater umbrellas to protect coral reefs"

hackingonempty — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:09:57 +0000

Unfortunately stony corals also face a grave threat from ocean acidification due to rising CO2 in the atmosphere. They need alkalinity to make their skeletons.

New comment by hackingonempty in "Netanyahu calls Israel's war in Gaza 'opposite of genocide' in UN speech"

hackingonempty — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:53:48 +0000

> Invoking his late brother Yonatan Netanyahu, a commando killed in a 1976 raid to free Israeli hostages from a hijacked airliner in Entebbe, Uganda, he repeated the lines: “We are going to win. We have no other choice.”

Netanyahu doesn't just invoke his late brother, he invokes the bible saying 'Remember what Amalek did to you' (Deuteronomy 25:17) [0] 25:19, one sentence later, is 'When the Lord your God gives you rest from all the enemies around you in the land he is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you shall blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven.'

[0] https://www.gov.il/en/pages/statement-by-pm-netanyahu-28-oct...

New comment by hackingonempty in "NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead"

hackingonempty — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:24:42 +0000

This is the Administration of Poe's Law and Order.

New comment by hackingonempty in "NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead"

hackingonempty — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:11:45 +0000

The USA can't afford to waste money shipping a bunch of rocks halfway across the Solar system just so some woke geeks can speculate if Mars in the past could have supported transgender athletes.

It would jeopardize important national security projects like the White House Ballroom, the Triumphal Arch, the Garden of Heroes and National Golf Course, and of course the Donald J. Trump Center for The Performing Arts (formerly The Memorial To That Loser That Got Assassinated.)

New comment by hackingonempty in "How much oil-market buffer is left?"

hackingonempty — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 04:41:50 +0000

This years RAAM (Race Across America) winner finished in 8 days 19 hours, that's almost 350 miles per day.

Normal people no, but top ultra endurance cyclists can do 300 miles a day for two weeks straight. Especially if they are not self-supported and/or the course is not too hilly.

New comment by hackingonempty in "Dystopian Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality"

hackingonempty — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:53:09 +0000

Just like running your own mail server doesn't help when nearly everyone you talk to uses GMail, simply not using these devices yourself is likely not to make much difference.

New comment by hackingonempty in "Pulse: Proof-Oriented Programming in Concurrent Separation Logic (Output C/Rust)"

hackingonempty — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:39:02 +0000

"Pulse is a new programming language embedded in F*, inheriting many of its features (notably, it is higher order and has dependent types), but with built-in support for programming with mutable state and concurrency, with specifications and proofs in Concurrent Separation Logic."

https://github.com/FStarLang/FStar/tree/master/pulse

Pulse: Proof-Oriented Programming in Concurrent Separation Logic (Output C/Rust)