Hacker News: librasteve

New comment by librasteve in "Let's all meet up in the Y2K"

librasteve — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:11:14 +0000

yeah, then NatSemi integrated Ethernet onto a single chip and game over TR

New comment by librasteve in "Let's all meet up in the Y2K"

librasteve — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:12:43 +0000

yeah, Madge was a (UK based) 2nd source of IBM Token Ring kit … MAUs, CAUs and so on iirc

much better determinism than Ethernet CSMA/CD

New comment by librasteve in "The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing"

librasteve — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:13:15 +0000

Tolkien, Pratchett … like Bach and Toploader?

New comment by librasteve in "MPs demand answers on Fujitsu's inclusion in lucrative frameworks"

librasteve — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:25:59 +0000

what fraction of the (slow roll) payout is Fujitsu committed to pay by virtue of their collusion in the Post Office scandal?

New comment by librasteve in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

librasteve — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 11:14:47 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

New comment by librasteve in "Starling: The first real desktop written by AI"

librasteve — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:59:09 +0000

I think this is quite interesting…

  - another proof point that AI upends project economics 
  - AI will soon be able to make custom desktops and apps (msoffice clone anyone) that will undermine historic monopolies
  - if you are not doing to them they are doing it to you
  - makes language & framework a “don’t care”

New comment by librasteve in "Show HN: I made email signatures less boring"

librasteve — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 02:05:51 +0000

uncanny valley

New comment by librasteve in "Show HN: I Built an Accent Changer App"

librasteve — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:17:43 +0000

can it do brummie?

New comment by librasteve in "Photos of items from families in different countries with different incomes"

librasteve — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:08:25 +0000

The median income in Southern England is comparable, but house prices are 2-3x higher. Not surprising that we moan about tax subsidies getting paid to folk with a better lifestyle.

New comment by librasteve in "Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity"

librasteve — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:44:29 +0000

also they need the tax to pay for the Irish Navy to prevent Putin from cutting the fiber

New comment by librasteve in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

librasteve — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:09:09 +0000

raku -pe 'tr/a..z/b..za/' <<< etbjxntqrdke

New comment by librasteve in "Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents"

librasteve — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:32:30 +0000

sadly, I think we are stuck with JSON as the most reliable way to get data / code in and out of an LLM (could be worse, could be YAML) … I’m interested in custom DSLs that improve LLM predictability and it is quite nice to see that even the Microsoft dinosaur “gets it” … see the Contacts example at https://slangify.org/examples which does VCARD to JCARD round tripping as a way to easily roll your own DSL

New comment by librasteve in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

librasteve — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:57:03 +0000

  raku -e 'say "etbjxntqrdke".comb.map({chr .ord + 1}).join'

New comment by librasteve in "Show HN: Docx-CLI: agents read/edit Word docs using 1/2 the time and tokens"

librasteve — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:47:31 +0000

this is awesome - I wonder how this would combine with DSL tools like https://slangify.org

New comment by librasteve in "Learning to code is still worthwhile"

librasteve — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:11:06 +0000

must be a Raku coder -Ofun

New comment by librasteve in "My AI-built PHP engine in Rust passes 17% of PHP-src tests, renders WordPress"

librasteve — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 07:32:39 +0000

what, no HTMX?

New comment by librasteve in "TRF Lives"

librasteve — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:24:30 +0000

This post from perl and raku thought leader Damian Conway explains the newly formed The Raku Foundation came about.

TRF Lives

librasteve — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:20:14 +0000

Article URL: https://blogs.perl.org/users/damian_conway/2026/07/trf-lives.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48775407

Points: 6

# Comments: 3

New comment by librasteve in "Working With AI: A concrete example"

librasteve — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 06:47:29 +0000

i suppose you have to at least try tailwind if you advocate for LOB … in https://harcstack.org, I have started with https://picocss.com which keeps the HTML squeaky clean. it is open to other Themes down the line and I have not rules tailwind out, but I suspect that it will make me feel dirty when I come to it. in general hArc is able to leverage Raku roles for code decomposition and the optimum design is settling on pinning CSS styles to elements (grid, table, form, etc) and encapsulating them so that changes to one thing do not cascade to another

New comment by librasteve in "Working With AI: A concrete example"

librasteve — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 06:40:47 +0000

yeuch … should’ve used https://harcstack.org, like the new https://raku.foundation site