Hacker News: maplant

New comment by maplant in "More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke"

maplant — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:32:02 +0000

I mean they were evil from the beginning; my point is that she has has had plenty of time working at a non-evil company to not be dragged down for it. One could serve less time in prison for armed bank robbery

New comment by maplant in "More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke"

maplant — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:23:52 +0000

The author hasn't worked at Meta for eight years

New comment by maplant in "Southern Olive Oil"

maplant — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:57:16 +0000

I learned this recently while doing an olive oil tasting in Greece: the bite in the back of your throat is caused by polyphenols - antioxidants. The bite is indicative that the olive oil is providing something healthy

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

maplant — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 03:44:15 +0000

honestly that seems like a great way to spend public funds

New comment by maplant in "Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust"

maplant — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:56:33 +0000

One of the main designers of this has a lot of flutter projects and no JSX projects on their github so I have no idea what you're on about. They also have a YouTube channel dedicated to their C++ voxel game engine https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDye5hFy14hdQGohhqpY6LQ

New comment by maplant in "Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust"

maplant — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:54:38 +0000

This is pretty easy to understand if you have a cursory understanding of Rust and HTML.

I won't get into the HTML part (I think it's obvious), but the

  $(|_e| count.increment())

part is a rust closure. |_e| is the argument to the closure, which has a leading underscore because it's unused. I imagine it's some context about the event (thus the e). The rest is the body of the closure. It increments the count.

pretty simply

New comment by maplant in "PlayStation cancels Kojima's PHYSINT, Xbox steps in"

maplant — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:54:52 +0000

People don’t talk about quite much, when they talk about MGSV they talk about how insanely good of a stealth action game it is.

New comment by maplant in "Replacing a Rust Enum with a 64-Bit Word Made My Interpreter 17% Faster"

maplant — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:37:22 +0000

It can't do these things because it's not wanted. Say you have the following:

  enum Value {
      Float(f64),
      Ptr(*const T),
  }

Do you want the compiler to disallow certain bit patterns in the Float variant simply so that it can implement NanBoxing?

New comment by maplant in "GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2"

maplant — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:44:01 +0000

What I'm saying is that Hurd is just a kernel in the same way that Linux is also just a kernel

New comment by maplant in "GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2"

maplant — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:32:30 +0000

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as GNU/Linux, is in fact, just Linux.

New comment by maplant in "Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine"

maplant — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:20:56 +0000

Don't get your hopes up, it'll be used in deadlock's volleyball game mode

New comment by maplant in "HP re-releases classic computer science calculator: The HP-16C"

maplant — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:46:55 +0000

I wish they would re-release the HP50-g, I had one somewhere but it got lost and I _loved_ that thing!

New comment by maplant in "My new obsession: A horse-racing board game of pure luck"

maplant — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:21:42 +0000

Not to distract from what is undeniably a pretty cool thing, it's hard to even call these "games" as there's absolutely no decision making going on. I absolutely loathe games like these because you're not actually doing anything.

New comment by maplant in "Flipper One Tech Specs"

maplant — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:25:55 +0000

I plan on using it to create a backup password/2FA device... eventually

New comment by maplant in "Hanoi’s humble beer glass and the memory of a nation"

maplant — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:18:41 +0000

These glasses look absolutely stunning

New comment by maplant in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

maplant — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:53:59 +0000

I can't speak for the parent but I have a 5090 and it works perfectly fine

New comment by maplant in "Cartoon Network Flash Games"

maplant — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:50:01 +0000

There’s on called “sonic boom: link and smash?”

New comment by maplant in "Kalshi CEO expects US DOJ to prosecute insider trading cases"

maplant — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:59:12 +0000

I'm not really sure what position you're taking but taking a rake can certainly change the legality of an activity; in California, playing poker in private is considered a social game and is legal, _except_ if party is taking a rake.

New comment by maplant in "Hong Kong Police Can Now Demand Phone Passwords Under New Security Rules"

maplant — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:30:04 +0000

The cops from the John Woo HK action flicks I've seen would love this

New comment by maplant in "Throwing away 18 months of code and starting over"

maplant — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:31:12 +0000

I'm not really arguing with your point, I'm correcting your incorrect description of what I'm saying.

To argue with your actual point: I don't really care about the overall context, actively disallowing tests in a codebase is a _bad decision_. Look how it worked out for them.

> it's time for you and I to bug out conversationally

Fine with me