Hacker News: kgabis

New comment by kgabis in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"

kgabis — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:28:03 +0000

You should look up how much NATO members in Europe were spending on defense during the Cold War.

New comment by kgabis in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"

kgabis — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:58:04 +0000

I wonder what makes EU so wealthy to just buy stuff everywhere - maybe it's the export of high-end technologies inaccessible to US and China?

New comment by kgabis in "Israel could be bringing back the death penalty – but only for Palestinians"

kgabis — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 10:09:50 +0000

"are we the baddies?"

New comment by kgabis in "Poison, Poison Everywhere"

kgabis — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 08:30:03 +0000

New comment by kgabis in "Europe Can No Longer Ignore That It's Under Russian Attack"

kgabis — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 18:45:46 +0000

Europe is not a single entity, it's mainly the German politicians that ignored the problem.

New comment by kgabis in "EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy"

kgabis — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 21:27:13 +0000

By some weird accident they stop being that expensive and long to build when you cross the border into China.

New comment by kgabis in "Garmin beats Apple to market with satellite-connected smartwatch"

kgabis — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 22:32:26 +0000

Varia can supplement bike mirrors with an early warning that a vehicle is approaching. Some people don't like bike mirrors (they look dorky), but personally I feel half-blind when cycling without a mirror.

New comment by kgabis in "Pixel 10 Phones"

kgabis — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 21:42:43 +0000

Stable 60Hz is still preferable to stuttery 120Hz.

New comment by kgabis in "Mistakes Microsoft made in the Xbox security system (2005)"

kgabis — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 07:38:24 +0000

That Xbox One exploit is quite funny, it relies on delisted Game Script app that uses Ape programming language made by me and submitted here on HN a few years back.

New comment by kgabis in "I built a native Windows Todo app in pure C (278 KB, no frameworks)"

kgabis — Sun, 11 May 2025 19:21:34 +0000

6502? Luxury! In my times you were lucky to have a processor.

New comment by kgabis in "Ask HN: Writing an Interpreter in Go or Crafting Interpreters?"

kgabis — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 18:34:02 +0000

I went over "Writing an Interpreter in Go" and "Writing a Compiler in Go" but instead of doing it in Go, I did it in C. In hindsight it was a very good decision, because it forced me to write the code myself, instead of mindlessly copying it. After finishing the books I've spent some time extending the compiler I've written and I've published it on github (https://github.com/kgabis/ape). I've read Bob Nystrom's previous book, so I'm sure Crafting Interpreters is great as well, but I really recommend Writing an Interpreter/Compiler in Go.

New comment by kgabis in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)"

kgabis — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 08:59:42 +0000

An iphone todo app that's tailored for my needs and motivates me to commit to completing some amount of small tasks every day (even if it's just a single "rest and relax" task). Currently I'm building a prototype with SwiftUI and SwiftData and I'm struggling to comprehend why Apple is ditching Objective-C. Compared to my previous experience writing and publishing an iphone app, everything now feels much worse with Swift's ridiculous compile times and non-descriptive compile errors.

New comment by kgabis in "[dead]"

kgabis — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 16:22:01 +0000

This article is based on false premise: he was not arrested, only escorted by police to a parliamentary commission hearing.

New comment by kgabis in "Ask HN: Is wind power financially viable without subsidies?"

kgabis — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 21:24:09 +0000

LCOE doesn't make much sense when you think about it. It doesn't include storage necessary for intermittent energy sources, nor grid costs. It also doesn't account for how much variation there is in renewable potential geographically - 1 solar panel produces far less electricity in Poland than it would produce in Spain.

New comment by kgabis in "Laptop Ports: Is USB-C only fine, or should I get HDMI,USB,Audio if I need them?"

kgabis — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 07:59:29 +0000

It's only 75Hz. Why can't they make a decent pro monitor with a reasonable refresh rate?

New comment by kgabis in "AI is exhausting the power grid"

kgabis — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 12:22:59 +0000

Apparently not much.

New comment by kgabis in "The exponential growth of solar power will change the world"

kgabis — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 09:07:16 +0000

Considering it's lifespan and low external costs (like grid extension and energy storage for renewables) - it is cheap. What makes it expensive is politics.

New comment by kgabis in "The exponential growth of solar power will change the world"

kgabis — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 08:40:40 +0000

Definitely, cheap and predictable energy would be fatal for Australian economy.

New comment by kgabis in "Germany is No 1 in Europe for EV production, No 2 in the world"

kgabis — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 12:05:46 +0000

Population of European Russia is ~110 million people so a bit more than Germany.

New comment by kgabis in "Low-latency scripting for game engines"

kgabis — Mon, 27 May 2024 10:02:20 +0000

Shameless plug, but some time ago I've created a language where the main design goal was for it to be easy to use and embed: https://github.com/kgabis/ape.