<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: legobmw99</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=legobmw99</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 08:04:38 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=legobmw99" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legobmw99 in "We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How pessimistic you are on this subject depends on how much you believe in domain transfer for these tools. No programming language sprung out of a vacuum, and it seems reasonable to think that a LLM sufficiently trained on all the C++, Haskell, and OCaml in the world could probably do a decent job at writing Rust, even if it had never seen it before, given the rust compiler as a tool and rust documentation as input<p>It certainly does worry me, though. As does the increasing amount of materials and manuals that seem to be written assuming the LLMs will be the (only? primary?) audience</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:50:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48738299</link><dc:creator>legobmw99</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48738299</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48738299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legobmw99 in "We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's hard to articulate why, but 35 layers of deterministic abstraction feels very different from 1 layer of nondeterministic one.<p>In particular, I think every developer has experienced the need to jump "down the stack" to debug or understand something (even if not all the way down). Certainly, I think any senior developer should be at least conversant in the first few levels below wherever they "live". But this seemingly ends up looking fundamentally different in the interaction mode of an LLM, because you'd just ask <i>it</i> to jump down the stack for you</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:26:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48738005</link><dc:creator>legobmw99</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48738005</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48738005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legobmw99 in "The annotated PyTorch training loop"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I attended one of the better (read: top ~200) public high schools in the US, and you could graduate without even taking trigonometry</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:02:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48687478</link><dc:creator>legobmw99</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48687478</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48687478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legobmw99 in "OCaml Onboarding: Introduction to the Dune build system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>what’s wrong with make is largely that people are bad at writing makefiles. A tool like dune is able to enable cross compilation of a massive number of libraries out of the box, but make based projects that weren’t designed with it in mind almost always require someone to go through and separate out the mess of what needs to run on the host vs be built for the target, etc, etc</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:57:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470360</link><dc:creator>legobmw99</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470360</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legobmw99 in "O(x)Caml in Space"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think that’s not true; vanilla OCaml is already a competitor to Go, etc. OxCaml is <i>explicitly</i> an effort to compete more with Rust (the “Ox” in the name is to evoke “oxidizing” = rusting)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 15:22:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48149855</link><dc:creator>legobmw99</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48149855</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48149855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legobmw99 in "2026 is the year you stop reading code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>2026 is the year I stop reading blogs with headers like “The big unlock:”<p>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</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 02:39:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090500</link><dc:creator>legobmw99</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090500</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legobmw99 in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 19:52:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989848</link><dc:creator>legobmw99</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989848</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legobmw99 in "NYC to open municipal grocery store in 2027"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You’re not putting a municipal grocery store on the same block as an existing big box and saying “wow, savings!”<p>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</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:33:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47769437</link><dc:creator>legobmw99</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47769437</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47769437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legobmw99 in "Emacs internals: Tagged pointers vs. C++ std:variant and LLVM (Part 3)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seems like its p3125r0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:19:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47353164</link><dc:creator>legobmw99</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47353164</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47353164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legobmw99 in "Nvidia Reportedly Ends GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Production, RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB Next"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:24:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633788</link><dc:creator>legobmw99</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633788</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legobmw99 in "Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:50:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624138</link><dc:creator>legobmw99</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624138</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legobmw99 in "Golang's big miss on memory arenas"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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 <i>used</i> separate from what it <i>is</i>. 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<p><a href="https://oxcaml.org/documentation/modes/intro/" rel="nofollow">https://oxcaml.org/documentation/modes/intro/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:40:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220774</link><dc:creator>legobmw99</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220774</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legobmw99 in "Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, I think people find C appealing because it <i>feels</i> like you can fit the whole language in your head. I’ve yet to meet someone who has actually accomplished this in practice</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:19:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46169175</link><dc:creator>legobmw99</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46169175</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46169175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legobmw99 in "RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 17:33:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46150301</link><dc:creator>legobmw99</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46150301</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46150301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legobmw99 in "RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If they’re DDR4 (or even DDR3), it has no value to e.g. OpenAI so it shouldn’t really matter</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:14:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46149219</link><dc:creator>legobmw99</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46149219</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46149219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legobmw99 in "Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 14:02:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46069341</link><dc:creator>legobmw99</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46069341</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46069341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legobmw99 in "Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>(Neo)Forge primarily use either mojmaps or Parchment, which are the Mojang mappings with some extra goodies like docstrings and parameter names</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 13:40:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45759939</link><dc:creator>legobmw99</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45759939</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45759939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legobmw99 in "Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We should call it UnTypedScript</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 16:09:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45303293</link><dc:creator>legobmw99</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45303293</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45303293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legobmw99 in "Will Bardenwerper on Baseball's Betrayal of Its Minor League Roots"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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</p>
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<p>Does this generalize to higher dimensions? I’m realizing my mathematics education never really addressed alternative coordinate systems outside of 2/3 dimensions</p>
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