Hacker News: lioeters

New comment by lioeters in "Zig: Build System Reworked"

lioeters — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:57:08 +0000

It's true that Zig is very readable. I haven't yet seriouly studied or written much of it, but browsing through codebases of popular Zig projects, a lot of it just makes sense intuitively. In that way it has a Python-like friendliness of syntax.

I enjoy the community and culture around Zig too. The other day I found a forum thread where people were sharing what they're currently building, and there were so many fun projects from small hobbyist things to large ambitious ones. For the latter, the main concern is the stability of the language, but the good thing is that everything is out in the open, everyone knows Zig hasn't reached version 1 status - but I can see concrete steps are being made to find a good solid interface, including this I/O stuff in 0.16. As someone casually learning the language, I find it refreshing to have insight into the development process.

New comment by lioeters in "Social Animus"

lioeters — Sat, 30 May 2026 04:19:11 +0000

Just wanted to write a positive encouraging word, even if you might not see it. I for one know that you're a good, kind, and brilliant person - maybe misguided politically, or manic and difficult at times, but you're doing great stuff with your talent and the world needs more people like you.

It sounds like you're having a rough time, I hope you'll get through it and find the other shore. You're well-known and respected, more than the infamy and controversy. I think you need to meet someone, or company, who can appreciate your genius (and a bit of madness) and provide a safe, comfortable space to be yourself and express your brilliance how you want. Hang in there, we're looking forward to seeing more wonderful works from your art and magic.

New comment by lioeters in "The Internet Has Become Too American to Trust"

lioeters — Sat, 30 May 2026 01:29:47 +0000

> grammer

Say less fam.

New comment by lioeters in "It Will Never Be the Year of the Linux Desktop"

lioeters — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:53:45 +0000

It's been at least a solid decade of the Linux desktop, it's just not evenly distributed yet.

New comment by lioeters in "Zig 2026: No-AI Policy, $670K Foundation, Left GitHub and Why Zig Isn't 1.0 [video]"

lioeters — Thu, 28 May 2026 07:54:55 +0000

Thoroughly enjoyed this interview. Zig is blessed with a project lead who is a real one, a person with principles. Respect.

New comment by lioeters in "What it takes to transpose a matrix"

lioeters — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:36:07 +0000

What an article, richly illustrated with diagrams, going deep into technical details to squeeze 4x performance improvement. The knowledge and experience that took to write this is worth gold.

It might benefit the world if there was philanthropic funding for people like this to do more public research and writing. Imagine there's so much information and wisdom in some people's brains, that deserve the chance to be written down and released in the public domain.

New comment by lioeters in "What Do Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems Mean?"

lioeters — Sat, 23 May 2026 16:26:43 +0000

"..How about infinity plus one! Or infinite infinities!" -- Every child who learns about infinity for the first time, but also serious mathematicians in philosophical struggle with the truth. And Cantor, may the angels soothe his troubled soul.

New comment by lioeters in "Electrobun 2.0 will be decoupled from Bun due to the Rust rewrite"

lioeters — Sat, 23 May 2026 15:11:25 +0000

It's alarming how people are willing to overlook the obvious in-your-face sloppiness of the Bun rewrite. A million lines of code in 9 days, pushed to main branch, forced on the existing userbase irresponsibly.

Nobody understands the code, nor will they be able to maintain it without AI service as an external dependency. Give me a break, I'm not running that monstrosity on my machine. Everyone running production software should move away from Bun purely as a technical decision.

New comment by lioeters in "Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored"

lioeters — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:11:58 +0000

What I find so strange about the awe and horror of the atom bomb, its utter power and violence, is how it was the result of decades - well, centuries - of abstract thinking in mathematics and theoretical physics. And how it required particularly new paradigms about the nature of the material world.

Imagine a cosmic being looking at the Earth through a microscope, and seeing this bubble pop on the surface in mid-20th century. Then another, and another pop. Some of them evaporated hundreds of thousands of human beings, melting and dying in gruesome ways you can't imagine in the worst nightmares of hell. Later these organisms learn to harness this destructive force for more useful and productive purposes, powering their cities and data centers for machine intelligence. And this massive amount of energy is released by breaking up the tiniest particles of matter, the nucleus of an atom, how clever and strange is that. Well, no more strange than the phenomenon of life itself, I suppose.

New comment by lioeters in "Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations"

lioeters — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:48:47 +0000

Pretty sure there's an implicit dynamic where the more someone uses AI, the more you require AI to understand and work with what it produced. If everyone around you is using AI, you are pressured to use AI to keep up with their level of "productivity". Like a cultural virus it multiplies in the space between people, I guess meme-like but far more virulent. Sure it empowers us, but at what cost.

New comment by lioeters in "Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal)"

lioeters — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:56:11 +0000

After getting burned so many times on libraries, frameworks, services and platforms, even entire languages - one learns to be wary of critical dependencies. Every new project offers convenience in exchange for you giving up control of part of the software stack, and the power dynamic is often exploited sooner or later as revenue source. You can't trust anything that becomes irreplaceable, or that you can't write it (or at least understand it) yourself.

Node.js TypeScript: The future of –experimental-transform-types

lioeters — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:46:25 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/nodejs/typescript/issues/51

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215346

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by lioeters in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

lioeters — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:44:17 +0000

"The European philosophical tradition consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."

New comment by lioeters in "GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories"

lioeters — Wed, 20 May 2026 08:01:46 +0000

A variation of that joke is used in Zen Buddhism as a teaching story. A famous monk, who lived in voluntary poverty in a mountain hut, wakes up in the middle of the night because a robber had broken in - except the robber couldn't find anything of value. So the monk listened to the rummaging sound for a while, and feeling bad for the robber's family, offers his blanket. The robber is so surprised by the kindness of the monk that he gives up his stealing ways and decides to become a good guy.

New comment by lioeters in "What Do Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems Mean?"

lioeters — Tue, 19 May 2026 10:20:46 +0000

That part you quoted was interesting to me too. I remember once re-reading the incompleteness theorems - where it talks about a "finite set of axioms", it seemed there may be a loophole if we can imagine a theoretically infinite set of axioms, as a way to approach completeness.

Overall I really enjoyed this article, short interviews with mathematicians and philosophers on a topic I've often thought about.

New comment by lioeters in "Leaving the Sea of Nodes in the V8 JIT"

lioeters — Tue, 19 May 2026 10:04:44 +0000

Fascinating, in-depth technical details about a major architectural change in compiler internals.

New comment by lioeters in "An asteroid discovered days ago will narrowly miss Earth – RNZ News"

lioeters — Tue, 19 May 2026 01:01:29 +0000

Pretty sure that's a typo, I think they meant "not unusual". Otherwise it sounds like a strange sentence construction.

New comment by lioeters in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

lioeters — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:18:14 +0000

> origin of the universe?

Creatio ex nihilo.

> consciousness?

Ditto. It's actually the same question.

New comment by lioeters in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

lioeters — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:20:19 +0000

That's brilliant. Can't beat the convenience of a single-file executable!

New comment by lioeters in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

lioeters — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:58:42 +0000

Slow-clap with one hand.