Hacker News: mapcars

New comment by mapcars in "Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary"

mapcars — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:57:02 +0000

Interesting, I wonder what does no-runtime option mean, no event loop and no async code then?

New comment by mapcars in "G# – A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics"

mapcars — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:02:53 +0000

Interesting, I have been skeptical about .net as a platform, is it really open and doesn't lock you with microsoft in any way?

New comment by mapcars in "G# – A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics"

mapcars — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:35:40 +0000

Go, C# and .Net? And here I am wishing for typescript-like language for backend systems.

New comment by mapcars in "Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)"

mapcars — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 23:22:44 +0000

I can't prove it in scientific ways, the thing is at some point scientists defined an atom as something indivisible, today we know they study sub atomic particles, and even finer things, waves or strings or whatever. In the same way 100 years from now our science will look primitive, physics will be few levels deeper, but there always be the next thing. Its like a pattern of nature.

I'm saying this from a perspective of practicing powerful spiritual practices and having certain experiences. They actually make one experience infinitive nature of consciousness, and somehow realize this is the way everything is made.

New comment by mapcars in "Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)"

mapcars — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 23:10:45 +0000

Even human perception is able to peek into the infinite nature of things, not the intellect though, the intellect can only work with limited and defined "things".

New comment by mapcars in "Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)"

mapcars — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 23:09:13 +0000

It's unknowable through current means of science. There are ways to experience that, I did some of them so I'm talking from my experience. And no, I can not prove it, if it was provable like that it would be already done.

New comment by mapcars in "Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)"

mapcars — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 22:52:23 +0000

Reality does not have amount of details, it is infinite in all directions. Its only that we perceived certain amount of details, some more some less. One can spend their whole life mastering a single aspect and there always will be room to improve.

New comment by mapcars in "Markdy: Like Mermaid Diagrams, but for Motion"

mapcars — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:09:32 +0000

I'm not defending it, I'm saying "cringy sexist bullshit" is just a modern liberal western take. It could have been something like "people might see it problematic", and I agree with that.

New comment by mapcars in "Markdy: Like Mermaid Diagrams, but for Motion"

mapcars — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:00:09 +0000

>I don't think I have that, really

Thinking and doing is not the same.

>people who objectify groups of other people

What is the objectification here exactly?

>you do not seem particularly open to criticism either.

Right, and how would you know that? Just make sure you make your opponent look bad and you win the argument - this worked in school, not sure why try to do it here.

New comment by mapcars in "Markdy: Like Mermaid Diagrams, but for Motion"

mapcars — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:52:25 +0000

Its the plague of western people thinking they have the moral high ground over other cultures and nations. In the place where I grew up this kind of scene would be considered normal. But you must be the one who dictates what is right and what is wrong, don't you?

New comment by mapcars in "45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero"

mapcars — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:37:53 +0000

Comments on the internet are also optional, yet you do it

New comment by mapcars in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

mapcars — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 11:07:03 +0000

Nice one, what I noticed is that out of 4 options 1 wrong is just something looking similar in letters, and 2 options are opposite meaning of each other - so actually the choice is 1 out of 2, not 4.

Also many highest difficulty words are actually combinations of multiple smaller words which makes it easier to guess, I got more right in expert/grandmaster than in advanced.

New comment by mapcars in "Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust"

mapcars — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:56:54 +0000

>when everyone and their dog are either vibe-coding with Rust or constantly shouting about it's superiority, I've lost any interest in the language

None of this makes Rust worse as a language

New comment by mapcars in "Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust"

mapcars — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:34:33 +0000

You assume that its used to show advantage, but we are on a technical forum and for me, as an engineer, its always interesting what language or tech was used to create a project.

New comment by mapcars in "Debug Project"

mapcars — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:11:19 +0000

I don't understand non-breedable part, mosquitoes are a part of a food chain as everything else, surely you don't think eliminating them will have no consequences?

New comment by mapcars in "Blorp Language"

mapcars — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:11:52 +0000

In my experience there are many problems with significant whitespaces, things like copying pieces of code require much more work, when indentation actually changes the logic you can not ask your tool to do it automatically - because there is no single right way to do it. Tabs vs spaces can also be a problem.

New comment by mapcars in "Blorp Language"

mapcars — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:53:19 +0000

Readable syntax with mandatory indentation is a very questionable idea. For me its easier to understand that something ends with a specific designation, not with a lack of it. Indentation should be solved by formatter and not the language.

And I don't quite understand the memory model, is it something similar to Rust?

New comment by mapcars in "Cate v1.0 is out: The Infinite canvas workspace for developers"

mapcars — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:21:13 +0000

Now with AI I find myself in need for a space that can combine multiple repos into a single "project". For example for debugging an issue across the system, or asking it to verify if FE/BE communication schema has any mismatch, or describing the complete feature flow from one end to another.

Is Cate's canvas per git-repo or can I add multiple?

New comment by mapcars in "Ferrari Luce"

mapcars — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:39:05 +0000

Define ugly

New comment by mapcars in "I bypassed AWS API Gateway auth with a trailing slash. Got $12K bounty"

mapcars — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:30:59 +0000

Interesting story showing how complex todays tech is, and your whole security plan can be compromised by regexp matching rules.