Hacker News: ivanjermakov

New comment by ivanjermakov in "FTL: A new operating system for clouds"

ivanjermakov — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 21:25:39 +0000

It's 2026 and we've mostly ran out of good product names...

New comment by ivanjermakov in "We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare"

ivanjermakov — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 21:23:54 +0000

> We want you to build

Strangest tech announcement ever.

New comment by ivanjermakov in "We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare"

ivanjermakov — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 21:22:48 +0000

Cloudflare wants all dependence on Cloudflare they can get.

New comment by ivanjermakov in "An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows"

ivanjermakov — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:53:40 +0000

I used it on iOS for ad blocking until uBlock's release https://apps.apple.com/pl/app/ublock-origin-lite/id674534269...

New comment by ivanjermakov in "Zig v0.17.0"

ivanjermakov — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:17:50 +0000

> competes with C

Outcompetes C even? I'm especially exited for SpirV. Would be great to use Zig for both CPU and GPU programming.

Especially in WebGPU, where WGSL tooling is very early.

New comment by ivanjermakov in "Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake"

ivanjermakov — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:16:48 +0000

Git might be the technology with the lowest understanding per user score. Which makes it not surprising how major release of git flies under the radar of tech media coverage.

New comment by ivanjermakov in "Don't be fooled–LLMs don't reason"

ivanjermakov — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:21:22 +0000

Makes me think how human thinking is mostly recall from past learning/experience versus reasoning.

New comment by ivanjermakov in "CSS Bed: Classless CSS themes to use as starting points in web development"

ivanjermakov — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 22:45:16 +0000

Correct terminology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reset_style_sheet

New comment by ivanjermakov in "Dear Software Makers"

ivanjermakov — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:04:28 +0000

Original youtube is there, it's called subscriptions tab. A curated list of high-quality content creators accumulated for over a decade.

Youtube certainly took a lot of unpopular decisions lately, but being able to stream any hi-res video ever posted in an instant and for "free" is a miracle. I will be happy with youtube for as long as content creators I care about are happy and I can get their fresh content via browser, yt-dlp, or other means.

New comment by ivanjermakov in "Show HN: Dental Scope – Interactive 3D dental anatomy"

ivanjermakov — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:01:35 +0000

According to commit history, built in 3 days.

New comment by ivanjermakov in "Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights"

ivanjermakov — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 23:42:21 +0000

> googled

Could've been a trip to a local library!

Skate 3 Rust Rewrite

ivanjermakov — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 13:49:06 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/SK8-ENGINE/skate-3-rust-engine

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49856536

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ivanjermakov in "Plan mode is dead"

ivanjermakov — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 08:40:33 +0000

Yes, plan mode is still a reasonable way to guide agents _before_ any code is written. They're so eager toshamelessly change the files even after a simple quesiton.

But nothing is stopping us from prompting agent to only write to plan.md this session.

State of Zig Game Development

ivanjermakov — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 22:57:13 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.ivnj.org/post/state-of-zig-gamedev

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49851097

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by ivanjermakov in "Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton"

ivanjermakov — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:41:11 +0000

So they ran out of information on the internet...

New comment by ivanjermakov in "GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car"

ivanjermakov — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:32:08 +0000

> otherwise you can't react

I'm far from neuroscience, but humans don't need to operate at 20Hz to drive a car. And human reaction latency (event to measurable action) is often over 1s (under 1Hz).

New comment by ivanjermakov in "English: A vs. An"

ivanjermakov — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 18:55:14 +0000

In Russian it's quite common too. Car can be feminine (машина), masculine (авто/автомобиль), and neuter (транспортное средство).

And different car brands usually have their own gender too: for example Mercedes is usually masculine even though named after founder's daughter, and Honda is isually feminine.

New comment by ivanjermakov in "English: A vs. An"

ivanjermakov — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:01:34 +0000

> nobody ever makes grammar errors related to gender

For most words, yes. Some loanwords are tricky to gender because of their declension. For example gender of "coffee" in russian is highly disputed: https://www.reddit.com/r/russian/comments/h08q29/the_insiste...

New comment by ivanjermakov in "What Zig felt like, coming from Rust"

ivanjermakov — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 17:08:13 +0000

"Having a blog is cool these days"

New comment by ivanjermakov in "Why building a Rust LSP is hard"

ivanjermakov — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 07:36:03 +0000

LSP is not that bad. They tried to decouple IDE features from language features.

Resolving file paths is not trivial because it's language specific.

Syncing source changes on the LSP server side is necessary to keep packet side small and patching is trivial (span, new text).

(I made an LSP-powered text editor and implemented LSP client from scratch)