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New comment by melon_tusk in "Claude.ai is unavailable"

melon_tusk — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:47:41 +0000

What are good alternatives?

New comment by melon_tusk in "Little Snitch comes to Linux, but the core logic is closed source"

melon_tusk — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:42:28 +0000

How anyone could trust OpenSnitch is beyond me.

New comment by melon_tusk in "Ask HN: European Tech Alternatives?"

melon_tusk — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:38:16 +0000

The EU are the ones freezing people's bank accounts and cancelling everyone they don't like, sanctioning people countries for not being woke enough, etc. I'd much rather use US based services or self-hosting.

New comment by melon_tusk in "Cory Doctorow: "centaurs" and "reverse-centaurs""

melon_tusk — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:20:41 +0000

I have a hard time taking extremists seriously, regardless what side they're on.

New comment by melon_tusk in "Show HN: The C3 programming language (C alternative language)"

melon_tusk — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 20:24:20 +0000

I can live with "this::that", but what drives me bonkers is "this :: that", which is what Odin does. Other than that, Odin is an incredible language.

New comment by melon_tusk in "Ask HN: A retrofitted C dialect?"

melon_tusk — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:49:35 +0000

This is a dream come true. Please do it, for the love of mankind.

New comment by melon_tusk in "Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal to end 15 months of war in Gaza"

melon_tusk — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 09:30:19 +0000

It's unbelievable that Trump has managed to facilitate this before he even steps into office. It is a brutal display of power, but that is sometimes needed, just like when a parent needs to intervene in a conflict between children.

New comment by melon_tusk in "Zig's comptime is bonkers good"

melon_tusk — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 16:27:23 +0000

Zig is alright, but Odin is amazing.

New comment by melon_tusk in "Understanding the Odin Programming Language"

melon_tusk — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 18:24:26 +0000

Just follow Andrew Kelley on whatever platform he hasn't ragequit from these days.

New comment by melon_tusk in "Understanding the Odin Programming Language"

melon_tusk — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 18:15:02 +0000

No, the "C community" and creators aren't making a political stance on things at all. Lua doesn't either. The Zig creator is very outspoken on political matters.

New comment by melon_tusk in "Understanding the Odin Programming Language"

melon_tusk — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 14:55:47 +0000

The Zig-community is annoyingly political, whereas the Odin community and -creator focuses on technology.

New comment by melon_tusk in "Rust in QEMU Roadmap"

melon_tusk — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:19:32 +0000

"as productive as Ruby or Python"

So you basically never have to worry about lifetimes or memory management or the borrow checker? Because that would be a prerequisite for it to be as productive as Python.

I'd love to see a seasoned Python developer and a seasoned Rust developer comparing the time they spend to solve e.g. Advent of Code. I bet the Python dev would solve it at least ten times faster (developer time, not execution time).

New comment by melon_tusk in "Who Is Jay Graber, the CEO of Bluesky?"

melon_tusk — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 17:28:00 +0000

Weird, I created an account for a family member last evening, and I didn't see anything racist at all. Without following anyone I only saw ads and some tweets by Elon Musk.

New comment by melon_tusk in "SDL-based Lua programming environment for kids similar to Codea"

melon_tusk — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 17:18:27 +0000

What is antirez doing these days? His github history suddenly dropped to zero it seems.

New comment by melon_tusk in "Show HN: I removed politics from Twitter with AI"

melon_tusk — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 08:50:32 +0000

I would love to have a feature like that.

New comment by melon_tusk in "Ask HN: Did you regret staying at a job for too long?"

melon_tusk — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 13:40:07 +0000

Absolutely. I wasted 6 years writing C++ and being miserable.

New comment by melon_tusk in "A simple MUD server in Python which can be run on a Raspberry Pi"

melon_tusk — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 08:16:29 +0000

My favorite MUD is definitely Midnight Sun II. It's one of the MUDs in the selection you get when you start Mudlet from mudlet.org, which is an excellent/modern client.