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New comment by kunley in "Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers (2008)"

kunley — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:27:23 +0000

Also:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-functiona...

New comment by kunley in "Understanding Clojure's Persistent Vectors, pt. 1 (2013)"

kunley — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:53:33 +0000

Would be cool to have recent findings on persistent data structures via the lenses of cache locality

New comment by kunley in "Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?"

kunley — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:05:18 +0000

I started with this one:

https://medium.com/@icelain/a-guide-to-building-a-realtime-h...

And then, modified a lot. At some moment I will open it back. (Author's MIT license allowed closing it; I did it actually because I embedded a number of idiosyncrasies related to the radio service that shouldn't be disclosed; but with some amount of work it can be divided into an open and closed part).

The broadcasting skeleton from that original blog/github project is good, though! It might work for your case.

Please keep in mind it's better to stream AAC than MP3. Basically any format you'd probably want to use can be converted to AAC with ffmpeg.

AAC has a simple frame format and it's easy to decipher it; I use it to always send full frames, even when one would want to skip to the next song - by doing that the client behaves more smoothly.

New comment by kunley in "Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?"

kunley — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:55:20 +0000

Working on an audio streaming platform powering an indy internet radio. Looks like Icecast & friends show its age and a similar product can be easily built with the functionality cast down to simply robust streaming & handling "timed playlists". I enjoy every bit of knowing exactly what happens in the code. It's not open source atm, but will be. It's in Go, is a pleasure to write and the deployment takes minimal amount of resources.

Other project is to continue a bit stalled progress of a configuration language BCL - add functions, more structures and fix some hidden scoping issues. Making languages is an endless fun. https://github.com/wkhere/bcl

New comment by kunley in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

kunley — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:18:56 +0000

Misleading.

Sounds like "computer driving Artemis spacecraft" while is is realy "some computer onboard Artemis spacecraft".

Very big difference.

New comment by kunley in "Proton Meet Isn't What They Told You It Was"

kunley — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:00:07 +0000

Thank you for bringing back the Signal's statement, btw.

New comment by kunley in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

kunley — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:36:29 +0000

"..aims to be compatible with WordPress functionality"

What does it mean, to be "compatible with functionality"?

At a first glance this statement promises a lot, but does it really mean anything technically?

New comment by kunley in "Live: Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

kunley — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:28:03 +0000

Somebody needs to say that:

What was the AI usage in this endeavour?

Zero, huh?

No Semicolons Needed – how 11 languages deal with eliminating semicolons

kunley — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:56:40 +0000

Article URL: https://terts.dev/blog/no-semicolons-needed/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47457334

Points: 9

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New comment by kunley in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

kunley — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:28:26 +0000

Well in my European country therapists hourly rates are very flat and practically the same as hourly rates for physiotherapists, massage practitioners and basic doctors, plus an LLM can really quickly tell that, so it is much faster to get to know if one can afford it than to look for a general solution of the whole problem.

New comment by kunley in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

kunley — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:28:01 +0000

Your sarcasm sounds like we'd be living in some extreme 1984-like dystopia, while the reality is: there is more bullshit one can read online than a bullshit one can get from a poor doctor/therapist.

From my experience, the best one can do is to get a good and affordable therapist by a word of mouth.. and sometimes one can get lucky as such person is doing also service for a state, for free. Main point is to actively start searching

New comment by kunley in "The Two Worlds of Programming"

kunley — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:45:14 +0000

Perhaps this submit deserves expanding a bit the title here on HN, as the current one doesn't tell much about quite interesting points the author is making

New comment by kunley in "MM120, a pharmaceutical form of LSD, shown to reduce anxiety symptoms (2025)"

kunley — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:10:24 +0000

LSD experience causes a serious lack of sleep. Is the quoted relative quietness after the experience simply an effect of a sleep deprivation? Why to take drugs to have it, then?

New comment by kunley in "MM120, a pharmaceutical form of LSD, shown to reduce anxiety symptoms (2025)"

kunley — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:01:15 +0000

It is tragically funny to consider linking quietness of mind with LSD. It is everything but quiet

New comment by kunley in "Greg Kroah-Hartman Stretches Support Periods for Key Linux LTS Kernels"

kunley — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:53:57 +0000

Actually, as the article falls into that "ad begging" category and requires time-consuming disabling of tracking, I can understand why someone posts a summary.

New comment by kunley in "Sam Altman (OpenAI) and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) Refuse to Hold Hands"

kunley — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:43:00 +0000

Does not compute.

You seem to think I will be unhappy because I don't have unhealthy obsession about tech celebs - and yes they are ephemeral, because in said 10 years these personas will be substituted in terms of celebrities by other personas, all of them with pretty much zero impact on my real life.

So, the reality is precisely the opposite: I will be more happy by not having described obsession, thus, I don't see how I should have hard time. The repetition of your false claims in more languages doesn't make them more true.

New comment by kunley in "AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton"

kunley — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:57:41 +0000

Author compares X to Y and then goes:

- Y has been successful in the past

- Y brought this and this number of metrics, completely unrelated to X field

- overall, Y was cool,

therefore, X is good for us!

.. I'd say, please bring more arguments why X is equivalent to Y in the first place.

New comment by kunley in "Sam Altman (OpenAI) and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) Refuse to Hold Hands"

kunley — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:55:37 +0000

que?

New comment by kunley in "Sam Altman (OpenAI) and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) Refuse to Hold Hands"

kunley — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:43:54 +0000

I for one refuse to be thrilled by the shallow affairs of ephemeral celebs

New comment by kunley in "Gentoo on Codeberg"

kunley — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 13:28:23 +0000

Many companies were using commercially licensed Gitlab in 2017 already, so it must have been established before that time. Definitely not in 2019