<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: mapcars</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mapcars</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:07:18 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mapcars" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mapcars in "Show HN: Sycamore – next gen Rust web UI library using fine-grained reactivity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>With Tauri you also get the freedom of choosing frontend frameworks and can reuse existing frontend code/skills. Yes React has issues, for example Svelte handles reactivity in a much better way. I don't see real benefits of re-implementing the whole thing in Rust.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:29:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47600587</link><dc:creator>mapcars</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47600587</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47600587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mapcars in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are there any interesting/uniq features present in it that are not in the alternatives? My understanding is that its just a client for the powerful llm</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:09:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584622</link><dc:creator>mapcars</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584622</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mapcars in "Coding agents could make free software matter again"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Pre-LLM world one would at least have had to search for this information, find the site, understand the license and acknowledge who the author is. Post LLM the tool will just blatantly plagiarize someone else work which you can then sign off on as your own<p>These don't contradict each other though, you could "blatantly plagiarize someone else work" before as well. LLMs just add another layer in between.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:30:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47572240</link><dc:creator>mapcars</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47572240</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47572240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mapcars in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> We could decide, for example, that the government shouldn't be allowed to centralize certain data and remove some of what we expect them to do instead.<p>How exactly government manages our data is a valid concern and in the modern world this needs to be reevaluated.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:52:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428950</link><dc:creator>mapcars</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428950</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mapcars in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> That requires a high level of trust in your current government and whomever is in charge in the future.<p>Some entity has to be trusted with our data anyway, at least government supposed to have some accountability before the citizens, corporations have much higher incentives for profit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:23:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47413996</link><dc:creator>mapcars</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47413996</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47413996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mapcars in "SBCL: A Sanely-Bootstrappable Common Lisp (2008) [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Proof of correctness would be fantastic, but I have yet to see it in action. LLMs maybe could do it for simple program, but I'm pretty sure it will fail in large codebases (due to context limits), and types help a lot in that case.<p>> for "explorative computing", proof-of-concepts, RAD or similar that tends to get in the way<p>I would even argue that its better to have typed system even for POCs, because things change fast and it very often leads to type errors that need to be discovered. At least when I did that I often would do manual tests after changes just to check if things work, with typing in place this time can also be minimised.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:35:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362627</link><dc:creator>mapcars</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362627</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mapcars in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Heh, why don't you do the opposite - recreate proprietary software with open source license</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:28:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47353329</link><dc:creator>mapcars</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47353329</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47353329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mapcars in "SBCL: A Sanely-Bootstrappable Common Lisp (2008) [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> You don't get the program crashing from mistyping as one would in C.<p>Sorry but I don't compare to C anymore, I want the same safety as in Rust or Typescript: exhaustive checks, control-flow type narrowing, mapped types and so on. Some detection at compile time is not enough, since there is a way to eliminate all type errors I want to eliminate them all, not some.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:34:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47350337</link><dc:creator>mapcars</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47350337</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47350337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mapcars in "SBCL: A Sanely-Bootstrappable Common Lisp (2008) [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I used a few different lisps for pet projects and honestly today for me the biggest problem of lisps is the typing. ADTs (and similar systems) are just super helpful when it comes to long term development, multiple people working on code, big projects or projects with multiple pieces (like frontend+backend) and it helps AI tools as well.<p>And this in not something lisps explored much (is there anything at all apart from Racket/typed dialect?), probably due to their dynamic nature. And this is why I dropped lisps in favour of Rust and Typescript.</p>
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<p>> Or if the code is a mess. Or if it doesn't follow conventions.<p>In my experience these things are very easily fixable by ai, I just ask it to follow the patterns found and conventions used in the code and it does that pretty well.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:53:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47321099</link><dc:creator>mapcars</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47321099</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47321099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mapcars in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think so. Solipsism is not being sure about what exists outside of mind.<p>I'm saying that others can't understand you fully, not just the mind but whole combination of memory, emotions, experiences, etc. Therefore being alone is not different from being surrounded by other people, I'm not saying they don't exist or anything like that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:50:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47310654</link><dc:creator>mapcars</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47310654</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47310654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mapcars in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not talking about "liking" it, if you like being around people - there are many ways to do it, unless you live in a mountain cave or something. In any city there are dozens of volunteering groups that would be very happy if you came over and helped them and you will be around people as well.<p>But in our internal state of being, in our thoughts, in our emotions and the very experience of life we are always alone. Yes we can try to express them to others some extent, but it can never be complete. In that sense we are fundamentally alone, and realising that makes the problem disappear.<p>Because if I'm always alone internally and nature made it so, why worry about that? The need for desperate attempts to fix it disappears and you are just fine both ways, when there are people around or when there is no one around.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:00:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307940</link><dc:creator>mapcars</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307940</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mapcars in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You are born out of another human but even they can never understand you fully, they can never experience you fully, they can never know you fully. The problems of parents and kids are all coming from that and are old as time. If even parents can't do that there is no chance with other people.<p>This is the trick of the universe, or a trade-off if you will: being completely alone also means being completely free in terms of internal experience. If you realise that - that is the greatest gift, if you are unaware it can feel like a curse.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:44:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307776</link><dc:creator>mapcars</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307776</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mapcars in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The problem is that people think socialisation is some mandatary thing, like food or air, but the truth is - it is not.<p>We are born alone and we will die alone, there is nothing bad about it, it is just how life is. You can have people around you but in your thoughts in your emotions, in your experiences you are always alone. There been lots and lots of people who would live just fine, very productive and profound lives and were socially alone.<p>Once you realize it - the problem is gone, or rather you see that there was no problem, just a certain conditioning by society which you grew up in. What can help here are not psychological nonsence, but some meditations definitely push you towards this (and other types of) realisation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:31:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47306704</link><dc:creator>mapcars</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47306704</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47306704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mapcars in "/e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> There are zero OSes that are 1/ open source 2/ appropriate for phones 3/ with good hardware support. There's absolutely nothing<p>Sailfish?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:58:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47216889</link><dc:creator>mapcars</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47216889</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47216889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mapcars in "Loon: A functional lang with invisible types, safe ownership, and alg. effects"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Loon looks very cool, I didn't expect something like that to appear at all. Last time I was so excited was about Red a few years ago, but it doesn't seem to go anywhere.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:40:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47116545</link><dc:creator>mapcars</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47116545</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47116545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mapcars in "Loon: A functional lang with invisible types, safe ownership, and alg. effects"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>REBOL/Red is very different though, no types and blocks are not executed by default.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:36:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47116513</link><dc:creator>mapcars</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47116513</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47116513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mapcars in "Loon: A functional lang with invisible types, safe ownership, and alg. effects"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wow, we actually did think about the same thing<p>> You get the benefit of seeing types everywhere without the cost of maintaining them yourself.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:26:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47116438</link><dc:creator>mapcars</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47116438</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47116438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mapcars in "Loon: A functional lang with invisible types, safe ownership, and alg. effects"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Lisp and similar are just "hey it's really easy to write a parser if we just make all programmers write the AST directly!".<p>Its not just that, it makes syntax more uniform and it allows adding all sorts of features using the same parens syntax where other languages have to invent all sorts of special symbols to distinguish between things.<p>It makes it easier to parse for both machines and humans. This is why I asked if you ever wrote in lisps, because it takes some time to adjust but once you do it all makes sense.<p>Many languages tried to make programming look like a human-readable text, they all failed in one way or another. Because writing program instructions requires specific structure and s-expressions do that extremely well.</p>
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<p>You never used lisp-like languages did you?</p>
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