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New comment by ndr in "Go: Support for Generic Methods"

ndr — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:03:16 +0000

"Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."

-- Greenspun's tenth rule

He had some lack of conviction to scope it so narrowly.

New comment by ndr in "Don't Subscribe So Casually"

ndr — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:50:09 +0000

With what credit card provider?

I've done it multiple times when a vendor wasn't behaving fairly and it always went through.

I don't recommend doing it to a vendor you plan to have business with again in the future as they might ban you (eg food delivery apps)

New comment by ndr in "Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)"

ndr — Thu, 21 May 2026 08:28:54 +0000

50k LOC wouled be the rust code without tests.

But it's not apples to apples because they seem to have done much more performance work though, this is far from code golfing.

New comment by ndr in "560-610 minutes of exercise a week needed for substantial heart benefits"

ndr — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:20:30 +0000

Evolution didn't spend millions of years so we could sit 8 hours a day and slouch through the rest.

New comment by ndr in "Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)"

ndr — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:24:04 +0000

This is uncharitable, but makes a prediction. I imagine you'd bet the author won't be successfully using this, at MS/Uber or wherever they are, in a year time?

Rust makes no promise of being terser than C++, and RSL does less than this considering the optimization.

Also it's only 45/50k LOC so not so very from the 36k LOC.

New comment by ndr in "Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)"

ndr — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:34:58 +0000

Also that, I suspect that's correlated to how practical is to have multiple people (with their agents) iterating on it.

New comment by ndr in "Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)"

ndr — Wed, 20 May 2026 10:30:50 +0000

It just an anchor. If it were 50k would you say the same down to 25k? And if so how many more times would it apply?

The interesting thing is that it was manageable solo (in many ways it's _more_ manageable solo+AIs than with coworkers+(their)AIs), and in such a short amount of time.

New comment by ndr in "OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool"

ndr — Wed, 20 May 2026 10:01:52 +0000

It might not be intended for the public.

Similar to your printer fingerprinting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots

New comment by ndr in "Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude"

ndr — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:48:08 +0000

how can that possibly work while supporting offline backup & restore?

New comment by ndr in "Heritability of human life span is ~50% when heritability is redefined"

ndr — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:10:48 +0000

The standard biology formula for heritability is h = Var(genetic) / Var(phenotypic)

Which I bet is very useful for some kind of technical work, but it's amusingly confusing to lay people.

The author goes on to critique its misuses but the textbook example to make clear "heritability" is not as obvious as it sounds is that by this definition human bipedalism heritability is near zero because there's near zero variance.

New comment by ndr in "Grok 4.3"

ndr — Fri, 01 May 2026 09:45:48 +0000

You should try all of them, then update your opinion about your information sources accordingly.

New comment by ndr in "I am building a cloud"

ndr — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:22:00 +0000

exe.dev landing page is sublime. The call to action is "ssh exe.dev" and you can bet it works.

New comment by ndr in "Google's Internal Politics Leave It Playing Catch-Up on AI Coding"

ndr — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:35:13 +0000

https://archive.ph/EV3b3

Deleteduser.com –A $15 PII Magnet

ndr — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:23:04 +0000

Article URL: https://mike-sheward.medium.com/deleteduser-com-a-15-pii-magnet-c4396eb21061

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47850975

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by ndr in "Laws of Software Engineering"

ndr — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:02:32 +0000

Same vibe, different angle:

> 11. Abstractions don’t remove complexity. They move it to the day you’re on call.

Source: https://addyosmani.com/blog/21-lessons/

I Made the "Next-Level" Camera and I love it

ndr — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:19:24 +0000

Article URL: https://thelibre.news/i-made-the-next-level-camera-and-i-love-it/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47797382

Points: 258

# Comments: 73

New comment by ndr in "AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you"

ndr — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:07:01 +0000

As I said,I don't know how GDPR compliant they are.

I'd expect them to get rid of that data in a reasonable amount of time. Similar to what would happen if you actively deleted a single chat.

New comment by ndr in "AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you"

ndr — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:13:19 +0000

In theory you can have the same on incognito sessions (never stored, that's part of what Italian privacy regulator forced on OpenAI to do) and same for right to deletion as per GDPR.

How complaint they are I have no idea.

New comment by ndr in "AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you"

ndr — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:15:01 +0000

Consider AI prompts no different from Google searches: they can be subpoenaed.

And consider local LLM logs no different from your txt file or command history on your computer. Could still be requested for discovery.

New comment by ndr in "Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)"

ndr — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:29:03 +0000

window manager like what though?

Mac WM is horrible, I use aerospace to make it tolerable