Hacker News: lemming

New comment by lemming in "Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke"

lemming — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:31:53 +0000

...Unity made a blog post saying they were happy about you moving to Unreal, publishing they think it'd be a win-win, then outlining why they think so

I mean, that makes it all sound very polite and dispassionate, but Andrew's piece was anything but. I have no dog in this fight, I don't use Zig, Rust, Bun or Claude, and initially I thought the bun rewrite sounded like a terrible idea. I changed my mind after reading the piece about the migration - it was very interesting and the process was obviously quite thoughtful. Andrew's piece made me want to take a shower afterwards.

New comment by lemming in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

lemming — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 23:45:50 +0000

This is amazing! Very refreshing in the age of AI to see so much manual building going on. Sadly I don’t have much time myself but I have several friends who would love this, I’ll pass it on to them.

New comment by lemming in "How do wombats poop cubes? (2021)"

lemming — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 02:49:45 +0000

The always excellent Oatmeal:

We need to have a conversation about wombats

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/wombats

Possibly NSFW, depending on your W.

Tau – Learn how coding agents are built

lemming — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:50:51 +0000

Article URL: https://twotimespi.dev

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48727278

Points: 7

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New comment by lemming in "The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy"

lemming — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:44:41 +0000

...parents are also responsible to lock their alcohol, drugs or guns...

No they're not - all those things are illegal for children nearly everywhere.

New comment by lemming in "Show HN: Ember, a native iOS Hacker News reader I built around accessibility"

lemming — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 21:02:27 +0000

One thing that would be useful in the readme is instructions on how to install the built app on a phone, for those of us who don’t do iOS development.

New comment by lemming in "Show HN: Inkwash, a watercolor sketching app and explanation"

lemming — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:32:15 +0000

I agree, some of the examples look very nice, but some have small-scale vortices that really don't look realistic.

That said though, lovely site and project!

New comment by lemming in "AI coding at home without going broke"

lemming — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:02:45 +0000

Or if the code is really important, sometimes even “please make no mistakes” is necessary.

New comment by lemming in "Shall we play a game? My AI nuclear simulation"

lemming — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:22:44 +0000

Perhaps not in that one, but in plenty more: https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

New comment by lemming in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

lemming — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 11:18:16 +0000

Because just firing up Claude and let it rip

Based on Tridge’s post, this seems an unfair characterisation of how he used Claude.

Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?

TFA answered this, the answer is “no”.

New comment by lemming in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

lemming — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 11:10:28 +0000

Tridge in his blog post describes people as "foaming at the mouth"?!

Did you see the picture in the article where the user posted a picture of them strangling the maintainer? I think “foaming at the mouth” is probably gentler than how I would characterise that.

Tilling the Garden: Use AI differently to make interesting and useful apps

lemming — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:44:51 +0000

Article URL: https://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/tilling-the-garden-a-different-way

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48406191

Points: 5

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New comment by lemming in "Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'"

lemming — Fri, 29 May 2026 01:44:25 +0000

I always remember when, as a young geek writing games for my C64, I was thrilled when I saw the Terminator and a lot of the code scrolling past in its HUD was 6502 assembly code!

New comment by lemming in "Jank now has its own custom IR"

lemming — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:27:44 +0000

That is really interesting, and very clever - thanks for the details! What you describe is indeed what I meant by whole world, I'm not sure if there's a better term of art for it.

New comment by lemming in "Jank now has its own custom IR"

lemming — Tue, 19 May 2026 00:53:53 +0000

I can't speak for the core team, but from memory invokedynamic took a long time to become performant. So if you still want to support older JVM versions, the performance will be pretty terrible on those older systems if invokedynamic is used for something as integral as var lookups.

New comment by lemming in "Jank now has its own custom IR"

lemming — Mon, 18 May 2026 10:58:10 +0000

That is very cool indeed. Are there limitations that this imposes? Is Julia a whole world compiler or does it support partial compilation?

New comment by lemming in "Jank now has its own custom IR"

lemming — Mon, 18 May 2026 10:55:23 +0000

Clojure (AFAIK) does not use invokedynamic, except perhaps in the latest version for some of the new interop stuff. It still officially supports JVM 1.8 bytecode. It’s a language which greatly values stability and backwards compatibility, so it’s been very slow to adopt newer JVM features.

New comment by lemming in "Jank now has its own custom IR"

lemming — Mon, 18 May 2026 03:30:34 +0000

No, it doesn't. In JVM Clojure's case, the vars are usually compiled to the moral equivalent of a global variable holding a pointer to a function. This allows you to update the function if the developer redefines it in the REPL, but it comes at a performance cost (the JVM can't inline it or otherwise optimise it). Clojure also allows you to compile with "direct linking", e.g. for production deployments, where you know you're unlikely to be wanting to dynamically update the code. In those cases defns are compiled down to static methods which call each other - much faster since the JVM can perform its magic with them, but you can't update them at the REPL.

I'm unsure exactly how jank works WRT this tradeoff, but the article makes it sound like it's closer to the direct linking version, but with the inlining etc being done by jank rather than the JVM. I don't know if this is only for AOT or also in JIT cases.

New comment by lemming in "Jank now has its own custom IR"

lemming — Mon, 18 May 2026 00:20:08 +0000

Great article, as always.

There is one thing that I think is important to bear in mind when discussing inlining, especially in the context of Clojure. This is that once a function has been inlined, you can no longer update the definition of that function in the REPL and have that update the behaviour of functions which use it, unless you recompile those as well. This is not a criticism of course, it’s just part of the natural tension between dynamism and performance.

From One AI to Any AI: JetBrains rethinks the approach to AI tooling [video]

lemming — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:02:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8fHU4WFd_c

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942940

Points: 3

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