Hacker News: legobmw99

New comment by legobmw99 in "O(x)Caml in Space"

legobmw99 — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:22:19 +0000

I think that’s not true; vanilla OCaml is already a competitor to Go, etc. OxCaml is explicitly an effort to compete more with Rust (the “Ox” in the name is to evoke “oxidizing” = rusting)

New comment by legobmw99 in "2026 is the year you stop reading code"

legobmw99 — Mon, 11 May 2026 02:39:50 +0000

2026 is the year I stop reading blogs with headers like “The big unlock:”

It is rude to share AI written text for others to read. You are violating a social norm that has existed implicitly forever, that you invested at least as much effort in producing some text as you are asking me to put in to reading it

New comment by legobmw99 in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

legobmw99 — Sat, 02 May 2026 19:52:20 +0000

I could imagine something like the mastodon protocol but for git forges, where even though they are separate websites there would be no true boundary to discoverability/interaction

New comment by legobmw99 in "NYC to open municipal grocery store in 2027"

legobmw99 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:33:15 +0000

You’re not putting a municipal grocery store on the same block as an existing big box and saying “wow, savings!”

Food deserts exist in NYC, and many New Yorkers buy staples at corner stores that charge significantly more than a standard grocery store. Your second paragraph implies that this policy is due to some dislike of existing grocery stores, but that assumes these communities are actually being currently served by grocers at all

New comment by legobmw99 in "Emacs internals: Tagged pointers vs. C++ std:variant and LLVM (Part 3)"

legobmw99 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:19:50 +0000

Seems like its p3125r0

New comment by legobmw99 in "Nvidia Reportedly Ends GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Production, RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB Next"

legobmw99 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:24:10 +0000

I am a recent 5070ti purchaser so I'm also feeling lucky, though if they exit the gaming market entirely I suspect the drivers will all go to crap soon thereafter

New comment by legobmw99 in "Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales"

legobmw99 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:50:30 +0000

The poor resale market for EVs just means that people who actually have some understanding of the battery lifespans can get very good deals on 1-2 year old cars

New comment by legobmw99 in "Golang's big miss on memory arenas"

legobmw99 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:40:43 +0000

There are some interesting experiments going on in the OCaml world that involve what they call 'modes', essentially a second type system for how a value is used separate from what it is. One goal of modes is to solve this problem. It ends up looking a bit like opting-in to a Rust-style borrow-checker for the relevant functions

https://oxcaml.org/documentation/modes/intro/

New comment by legobmw99 in "Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig"

legobmw99 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:19:18 +0000

Yeah, I think people find C appealing because it feels like you can fit the whole language in your head. I’ve yet to meet someone who has actually accomplished this in practice

New comment by legobmw99 in "RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung"

legobmw99 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 17:33:50 +0000

Isn’t that due to different reasons (like the end of production for older standards)? I recall the same happening shortly after manufacturing for DDR3 ceased, before eventually demand essentially went to 0

New comment by legobmw99 in "RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung"

legobmw99 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:14:09 +0000

If they’re DDR4 (or even DDR3), it has no value to e.g. OpenAI so it shouldn’t really matter

New comment by legobmw99 in "Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg"

legobmw99 — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 14:02:56 +0000

Similar things on the OCaml forums. He has a post titled “Dune: concurrent builds are here!” but really it’s a +967 -100 slop PR that had to be closed

New comment by legobmw99 in "Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition"

legobmw99 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 13:40:55 +0000

(Neo)Forge primarily use either mojmaps or Parchment, which are the Mojang mappings with some extra goodies like docstrings and parameter names

New comment by legobmw99 in "Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle"

legobmw99 — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 16:09:58 +0000

We should call it UnTypedScript

New comment by legobmw99 in "Will Bardenwerper on Baseball's Betrayal of Its Minor League Roots"

legobmw99 — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 11:02:23 +0000

Besides the logistical problems (shared ownership of MLB and minor league teams, the fact that almost all [good] players in the minors are really ultimately contracted with a major league team, etc), I truly believe that even the worst major league team would absolutely destroy AAA, and the best AAA team would probably set the single season loss record with ease in the bigs

New comment by legobmw99 in "A simple way to generate random points on a sphere"

legobmw99 — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 12:45:57 +0000

Does this generalize to higher dimensions? I’m realizing my mathematics education never really addressed alternative coordinate systems outside of 2/3 dimensions

New comment by legobmw99 in "WebR – R in the Browser"

legobmw99 — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 21:30:24 +0000

Since you mentioned Stan, feels relevant to mention https://stan-playground.flatironinstitute.org/, which lets you run Stan in WASM and analyze the results using WebR

New comment by legobmw99 in "OCaml as my primary language"

legobmw99 — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 13:46:02 +0000

Yes, the opam repository has recently been working on an archival policy to reduce the size of the checkout and hopefully ease pressure on the dependency resolver by pruning 'obviously' wrong choices. However, the heuristic they chose seems to have mainly assumed that the things in the repository are libraries, and used dependencies for tracking usages. For executables like dune, this is obviously the wrong idea, and I think they're still deciding how to proceed while adding back most versions

New comment by legobmw99 in "OCaml as my primary language"

legobmw99 — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 12:20:15 +0000

Either a lot of clones or a lot of reference counted pointers. Especially if your point of comparison is a GC language, this is much less of a crime than some people think

New comment by legobmw99 in "GitHub was having issues"

legobmw99 — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 14:50:21 +0000

Day one of the new management structure off to a rocky start