Hacker News: ndesaulniers

Rust Foundation Welcomes OpenAI as Platinum Member, Announces Donation to Rust

ndesaulniers — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:36:17 +0000

Article URL: https://rustfoundation.org/media/rust-foundation-welcomes-openai-as-platinum-member-announces-donation-to-rust-project/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577938

Points: 1

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The Reason Anthropic's Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge

ndesaulniers — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:00:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/16/apparently-the-real-reason-anthropics-models-are-offline-a-six-year-old-trump-grudge/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577527

Points: 12

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New comment by ndesaulniers in "The beauty and simplicity of the good old C-style void* in C++"

ndesaulniers — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:37:47 +0000

I find this point to be generally why C can typically beat C++ in terms of code size; generic functions operating on void* are much less type safe, but the tradeoff is code size. Those template instantiations add up.

New comment by ndesaulniers in "C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers"

ndesaulniers — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:08:14 +0000

> it took significant effort to e.g. get clang to compile the Linux kernel (needing patches in both projects).

Tell me about it. :-)

New comment by ndesaulniers in "sp.h: Fixing C by giving it a high quality, ultra portable standard library"

ndesaulniers — Sun, 24 May 2026 01:27:19 +0000

I spent a bit of time implementing parts of a C runtime for the brief tenure I had maintaining LLVM's libc. I quickly came the realization that a lot of the interfaces that made it all the way to standardization were trash. How the language is standardized is still comical to me. I agree with TFA that C style strings are trash.

New comment by ndesaulniers in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

ndesaulniers — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:43:43 +0000

Good then that Amazon sells it by the 55 gal drum then.

https://www.amazon.com/Passion-Lubes-Natural-Water-Based-Lub...

> This product is out of stock

Ah, shoot, there go my weekend plans. Bummer.

New comment by ndesaulniers in "Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit"

ndesaulniers — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:55:31 +0000

I find it ironic; George Orwell was English!

New comment by ndesaulniers in "No way to parse integers in C (2022)"

ndesaulniers — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:34:09 +0000

It's a shame we never got a package manager for C (or C++).

EDIT: perhaps I should have been clearer; by not having one early on, we now have multiple competing package managers, with no clear winner. Responses prove that point.

New comment by ndesaulniers in "Saying Goodbye to Asm.js"

ndesaulniers — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:02:31 +0000

A long time ago, I wrote a small chapter in a WebGL book on asm.js.

https://webglinsights.github.io/

It was fun to see the rise of asm.js, which was a precursor to Web Assembly. Some of the early demos were so cool to see; Unreal Engine running in the browser. :) Bitter sweet to see the sun set here, but it did lead to much better things.

Google, Blackstone plan AI cloud venture with $5B backing, WSJ reports

ndesaulniers — Tue, 19 May 2026 01:06:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/google-blackstone-create-new-ai-cloud-company-wsj-reports-2026-05-19/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188008

Points: 2

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New comment by ndesaulniers in "The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention"

ndesaulniers — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:48:33 +0000

Dig the posters in the background; I just saw Burning Ambition in theaters last week. Up the irons, Earth dog! Ghost opened for Iron Maiden a few years ago; I saw them all together in Oakland.

New comment by ndesaulniers in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

ndesaulniers — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:24:53 +0000

There was a recent class action suit against GM for this.

New comment by ndesaulniers in "Chevrolet Performance eCrate package (400v/200hp)"

ndesaulniers — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:09:05 +0000

Interesting. This past weekend, I got a chance to speak with Corvette's chief engineer Josh Holder at Chevrolet's Corvette Corral for the IMSA race at Laguna Seca.

I asked him if we'd see an all electric Corvette in the C8 timeframe, or would have to wait until the C9?

He confirmed (to the group) there would not be an all electric C8.

GM has long done "crate" engines, where people swap their cars OE engine for one of GM's small block v8s (an "LS or LT swap") frequently found in Corvettes, Escalades, and probably Silverado/large trucks/SUVs.

Seeing an electric crate engine from GM shows me that they plan to do the same with an electrified power train. Cool.

New comment by ndesaulniers in "WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii"

ndesaulniers — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:00:57 +0000

I run it in a docker container behind traefik in another container. Getting that wired up and working in podman was quite the challenge. Docker container mounts my media as read only.

New comment by ndesaulniers in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

ndesaulniers — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:17:43 +0000

Also, https://web.archive.org/web/20260407181432/https://www-cdn.a...

New comment by ndesaulniers in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"

ndesaulniers — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:39:22 +0000

It was a page turner. I recommend it.

New comment by ndesaulniers in "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"

ndesaulniers — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:21:28 +0000

When you buy movie tickets, you go see the movie.

When I purchase a game, I generally don't have time to play it.

We are not the same.

This may be why gaming is a few multiples larger an industry than film.

New comment by ndesaulniers in "Emacs internals: Tagged pointers vs. C++ std:variant and LLVM (Part 3)"

ndesaulniers — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:55:03 +0000

Consider amending those references to your post!

New comment by ndesaulniers in "Emacs internals: Tagged pointers vs. C++ std:variant and LLVM (Part 3)"

ndesaulniers — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:10:19 +0000

Happy to see discussion of LLVM's interesting implementation of Static Polymorphism using CRTP. Some recommended reads:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiously_recurring_template_p...

2. https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/devirtualization-and-sta...

3. https://llvm.org/docs/ProgrammersManual.html#the-isa-cast-an...

Boosting Android Performance: Introducing AutoFDO for the Kernel

ndesaulniers — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:55:36 +0000

Article URL: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/BoostingAndroid%20PerformanceIntroducingAutoFDO.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47344839

Points: 3

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