Hacker News: manvillej

New comment by manvillej in "Python's experimental JIT to be removed"

manvillej — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 16:36:37 +0000

This seems to be all about drift from the main implementation of Cpython.

If JIT is different enough in maintenance, security best practices, and consumer use, we don’t have two compilers, we have two different languages.

And that’s the crux of it.

New comment by manvillej in "GitHub Gists Flooded with Spam"

manvillej — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 13:58:09 +0000

GitHub has had an insanely busy year trying to keep up with the flood of AI development. When traffic grows 100-1000x. Things get missed

New comment by manvillej in "Astronomers discover the first ever green star"

manvillej — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 01:32:46 +0000

Green Lanterns HQ, clearly

New comment by manvillej in "Efficacy of Ibuprofen versus Acetaminophen for Acute Fever in Febrile Children"

manvillej — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:33:18 +0000

As someone who has been around a sick child, I’ll take the statistically significant temperature reduction at 4h of ibuprofen.

New comment by manvillej in ""The proposed filings are clearly not the work of an organic mind" [pdf]"

manvillej — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 16:22:52 +0000

“It is obvious that the entity that drafted them has an artificial intellect that is unconcerned with, for instance, getting to the point.”

Lol

New comment by manvillej in "US proposes $100k charge for international students to do post-graduate work"

manvillej — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:50:53 +0000

Most Dutch will only speak English to non-Dutch. Which is really annoying if you’re there trying to learn Dutch

New comment by manvillej in "High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days"

manvillej — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 11:29:46 +0000

Stuff like this makes me laugh when someone says cyclists should pay their fair share for road maintenance.

New comment by manvillej in "High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days"

manvillej — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 11:28:02 +0000

That is one where you need to do the math. the source of the power for these trucks is an unknown proportion of fossil fuels and there is transmission loss for electric power.

Also, assuming a 10% increase of tire wear rate seems unreasonable: I’d assume it’s proportional to the weight of the vehicle.

New comment by manvillej in "High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days"

manvillej — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 11:21:52 +0000

Rails cannot replace ALL trucks. But it could replace a lot of them.

Edge cases shouldn’t determine our infrastructure and hybrid models have always been the norm.

New comment by manvillej in "How Singapore's government-run dating service works"

manvillej — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:01:03 +0000

Congrats! Dating apps are now actively lobbying to make birth control illegal. /s

New comment by manvillej in "How Singapore's government-run dating service works"

manvillej — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:58:08 +0000

Meeting people in public really is the answer, but I think shifting the focus from romantic to being genuine, friendly, and focusing on community in places where it’s not just guys is way more successful (for hetero men)

I met my girlfriend at a coffeeshop. I was a regular and just actively friendly to everyone. Our first date felt more like a second because we already had multiple conversations.

Men have a much greater emphasis on physical attraction than women which is why women need a much higher level of physical attraction when only using that. But building community lets us show off our other qualities which women put a much greater emphasis on.

New comment by manvillej in "On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted"

manvillej — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:44:04 +0000

And if a pedophile ever sponsors a product you own, maybe take 10 seconds out of your day to write that.

New comment by manvillej in "Calling the AI bluff: Adding "Do not guess" cut made-up claims from 71% to 20%"

manvillej — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:42:47 +0000

Why does this feel like negotiating with the monkey’s paw?

New comment by manvillej in "On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted"

manvillej — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:33:14 +0000

Your suggestion that it is malware is misleading. Malware is “any software intentionally designed to harm, disrupt, or steal data from computers”. I sincerely doubt that was the author’s intention.

Everyone in open source is trying to write good software and the definition of good is subjective depending on overall design, features, ease of use, quality, and performance.

If an open source project is missing a feature, go build it. If the project maintainers don’t want it, fork the project. Be the change you want to see in the world. That’s the beauty of open source.

New comment by manvillej in "On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted"

manvillej — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:18:15 +0000

To be fair, it’s not hard to say “white supremacy is bad and I’m not cool with it”

It took me only 10 seconds to write.

New comment by manvillej in "On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted"

manvillej — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:28:11 +0000

If you don’t like how it works, go build your own.

New comment by manvillej in "Sex differences in attention are present at birth"

manvillej — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 10:55:25 +0000

Articles like these make me miss pre-AI hacker news. A genuine and engaging study instead of the vast majority of articles now about another forgettable AI use case or mistake or advancement.

New comment by manvillej in "How we manage and engage with our horses shapes their personality"

manvillej — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:10:27 +0000

“ Photo: Star, the author's horse, scored very high in human sociability.” Very cute

New comment by manvillej in "LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features"

manvillej — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:51:11 +0000

I feel this every time the stock market hits a new “all time high”

New comment by manvillej in "Canada's counter-tariffs take effect on various US goods"

manvillej — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:25:49 +0000

“ US officials also made unacceptable "threats" to the French language and "Quebec culture", he added, referencing the French-speaking province in eastern Canada.”

The hell.