Hacker News: leftyspook

New comment by leftyspook in "Rethinking Database Programming"

leftyspook — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:14:52 +0000

> So even if “open core” is a strictly better model, we lack the intuition and experience to feel confident starting there. By thinking of Elm as the “open core” at first, we give ourselves time to learn and flexibility to expand the core later.

https://acadia.engineering/license/faq

The way I read this, Acadia is an attempt to finance working on both it and Elm.

New comment by leftyspook in "Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds"

leftyspook — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:51:31 +0000

The sensible regulation would be aiming at socially harmful features of tech, not forcing people to provide proof of identity to a third party in order to continue harming themselves with the same exact features.

Imagine if such an approach was taken to, for example, food safety? Instead of closing down a restaurant that has poor hygiene, you'd be instead horce the restaurant to hire a private security contractor to check people's IDs to verify that they are old enough to consent to getting a foodborne illness. That's an absurd approach.

New comment by leftyspook in "Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised"

leftyspook — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:24:47 +0000

All software runs on somebody's hardware. Ultimately even an utterly benign program like `cowsay` could be backdoored to upload your ssh keys somewhere.

New comment by leftyspook in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

leftyspook — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:21:19 +0000

The meat brain is the only one that can be held accountable.

New comment by leftyspook in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

leftyspook — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 23:53:21 +0000

Do you think the attention and engagement is because people think this is some sort of an "ai misalignment" thing? No. AI misalignment is total hogwash either way. The thing we worry about is that people who are misaligned with the civilised society have unfettered access to decent text and image generators to automate their harassment campaigns, social media farming, political discourse astroturfing, etc.

New comment by leftyspook in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"

leftyspook — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:05:41 +0000

I think when Fish shell announced the Rust rewrite, they especially highlit that, in the form of "being more attractive to contributors" as one of the reasons.

New comment by leftyspook in "I see a future in jj"

leftyspook — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 12:00:15 +0000

> I'm not 100% clear on what you mean here

The core of their complaint is that if you use `jj edit` it's not obvious how to get a diff of what you did. The answer, of course, is that you can use `jj evolog -p`.

New comment by leftyspook in "Git: Introduce Rust and announce it will become mandatory in the build system"

leftyspook — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 22:05:27 +0000

Ah, I see Tom the Genius has moved on from using Subversion for his enterprise JSON DSL

New comment by leftyspook in "Just Use HTML"

leftyspook — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:33:50 +0000

I think a part of the point is to question the need for things like that. Do your users actually need all of these bells and whistles?

New comment by leftyspook in "Exploring the tragedy of the Counter-Strike 2 server browser"

leftyspook — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 00:15:02 +0000

Nothing changed, you need to know that host:port first, and that's where the problems with the official serverlist being flooded with fake entries become apparent.

New comment by leftyspook in "Exploring the tragedy of the Counter-Strike 2 server browser"

leftyspook — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 23:59:37 +0000

That really is not a solution.

Third party servers used to host plenty of non-standard gamemodes that Valve does not provide. Retakes, mentioned in the blogpost, is one of those modes.

New comment by leftyspook in "Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++"

leftyspook — Thu, 08 May 2025 12:16:21 +0000

Could it be that it gets no credit for things it got right because it got barely anything right?

New comment by leftyspook in "Why I'm writing a Scheme implementation in 2025: Async Rust"

leftyspook — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 06:27:27 +0000

I think you make a pretty bad case for how embedding a Scheme interpreter is going to help with the pain points of async. Listing "stack traces full of tokio code" and then seemingly proposing to solve that by adding more glue to pollute the stack traces is especially weird.

New comment by leftyspook in "Rust Memory Management Explained"

leftyspook — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 17:32:42 +0000

I'm not saying they are related, just saying that the committee committeing is going to take half a decade at least for both.

New comment by leftyspook in "Rust Memory Management Explained"

leftyspook — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 16:53:06 +0000

Coming right after profiles are done, probably?

New comment by leftyspook in "Rust Memory Management Explained"

leftyspook — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 16:50:50 +0000

Yes.

New comment by leftyspook in "Rust Memory Management Explained"

leftyspook — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 16:49:06 +0000

That essentially comes for free with stack unwind, and will not be possible with `panic=abort`

New comment by leftyspook in "Pat Gelsinger was wrong for Intel"

leftyspook — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 05:07:34 +0000

As if the stock owners have any more engineering knowledge. They are sewn from the same exact MBA cloth.

New comment by leftyspook in "Rust for tokenising and parsing"

leftyspook — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 12:52:54 +0000

I'd imagine not seeking employment at Google is a big part.

New comment by leftyspook in "Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison"

leftyspook — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 13:49:02 +0000

Set of concepts derived from "whatever the hell Ken Thompson had in his environment circa 1972".