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New comment by meling in "Solod: Go can be a better C"

meling — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 06:23:39 +0000

There is Biscuit from OSDI 2018 https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/projects/biscuit.html

New comment by meling in "A Study of Microsoft's Early 2026 Rollout of Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI"

meling — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:38:34 +0000

The 24% more PRs was merged, not «landed». Presumably after human code review (but I didn’t check the paper…) Not sure about this particular study, but I «think» my own productivity (coding wise) has improved by more than 30%. In many ways I wouldn’t even have started on many of the things I’ve completed these last six months because I would have viewed their effort to be insurmountable within my time budget as a professor (with all my other duties).

New comment by meling in "Herdr: One terminal to rule them all"

meling — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 07:12:58 +0000

Does anyone know how this compares to Supacode (https://supacode.sh)? I just started using Supacode a few days ago and have been enjoying it so far; it is based on libghostty.

New comment by meling in "Gribouille 0.3.0: A Grammar of Graphics for Typst"

meling — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:15:04 +0000

I’m in academia and I try to convert everyone I know… I only recently started using it for a few things, and I used Claude to do some pretty advanced stuff that I wouldn’t have ventured to even try with latex. That is, I think a lot of the relevant CTAN packages can be developed using LLMs more quickly than you might expect.

For next year, I plan to prepare a thesis template for our university and encourage students to try it instead of latex (most of our students use latex now).

New comment by meling in "Typst 0.15.0"

meling — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:01:27 +0000

I’ve been using Typst lately and it has been great. I’ve made an exam template for my university and made an export feature so that I could generate the exam in the json format that our online exam system (WISEflow) expects, with support for multiple choice and essay style questions.

It is so snappy and with great error messages. I encourage people to try it out. The typst tutorial is very approachable. Thanks to the Typst devs for this great piece of software.

New comment by meling in "Tectonic: A modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine"

meling — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:00:27 +0000

It is so snappy and with great error messages. I encourage people to try it out. The typst tutorial is very approachable.

New comment by meling in "C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For"

meling — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:05:16 +0000

Sorry, I didn’t explicitly link to the issue for the portal layer.

Here is the issue discussing the portal simd package: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/78902

New comment by meling in "C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For"

meling — Sun, 17 May 2026 08:37:44 +0000

Curious if people here have looked at the upcoming SIMD support in Go: https://go.dev/doc/go1.26#simd

Currently experimental, but looks like the first Intel arch will arrive in the next release in about 3 months. They are also going to support a portable layer.

Wondering what people here think about the approach the Go team is taking; I think they would appreciate more eyeballs on their design. (I’m not competent in this space (yet))…

New comment by meling in "Do_not_track"

meling — Sun, 03 May 2026 09:15:15 +0000

For the record, Go’s telemetry is local by default (not uploaded): https://go.dev/doc/telemetry

Protesters shut down Berkeley Forum event hosting Jeff Dean

meling — Sat, 02 May 2026 11:08:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/protesters-shut-down-berkeley-forum-event-hosting-google-ai-scientist/article_9dd82646-3c37-48b5-8dd4-61a5050646ce.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47985335

Points: 5

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New comment by meling in "Securing Elliptic Curve Cryptocurrencies Against Quantum Vulnerabilities [pdf]"

meling — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:04:21 +0000

Call me when they have broken ECC with a real quantum computer.

New comment by meling in "Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating Access"

meling — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 23:26:54 +0000

What’s my remedy when Google’s product (Gemini 3.1 pro high) makes a “grave” mistake? This is unrelated to the bans that’s been happening recently, but wanted to share …

This morning I asked Gemini to “save” its output to a local file. However it did more than that … it committed the file (along with several unrelated staged changes that was not ready to be committed) and even pushed the changes to GitHub. I’ve never asked any model to commit, let alone push… I’m not impressed; actually a bit disappointed that it would do this without any warning up front. This happened in Antigravity.

New comment by meling in "A lithium-ion breakthrough that could boost range and lower costs"

meling — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:51:26 +0000

Jikes! How many ads can they squeeze in on news website… really distracting (I’m not using ad blocker).

New comment by meling in "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"

meling — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 06:17:09 +0000

What happens if the customer ask his credit card company to do a chargeback?

New comment by meling in "My Grandma Was a Fed – Lessons from Digitizing Hours of Childhood"

meling — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 06:23:44 +0000

Love this story too as many others have said. Thanks for sharing this. Maybe someday I will do the same. Luckily our archive of tapes isn’t so large.

New comment by meling in "VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code"

meling — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 19:39:43 +0000

Great to see this. I played around with jj about two months ago and really enjoyed using it on the command line, but I found it difficult to understand the interaction with git and GitHub and decided to put it off until I had more time. (I don’t recall the specific issues I had…) Maybe this extension can remove some of that friction.

Proposal to add generic methods for Go

meling — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:01:55 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/77273

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46726726

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by meling in "Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries"

meling — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:11:14 +0000

Who has 8 week vacations, let alone 12? No European country I’m aware of, but I didn’t check all…

New comment by meling in "6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available"

meling — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 01:18:31 +0000

Sorry, I wasn’t precise enough. I’m at a university and our IP addresses are publicly routable, I think.

New comment by meling in "6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available"

meling — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:47:36 +0000

If I can use my DHCP assigned IP, will this allow me to drop having to use self-signed certificates for localhost development?