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New comment by newobj in "Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files"

newobj — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:32:00 +0000

if you get into a config system that's complicated enough, and has modularization or inheritance, you'll know that the semantics of "remove this" "add that", override this, default to this, this stuff is hard to express in most config languages, or worse, you start enforcing application level semantics. when you have turing complete language you just ... do those things. we reduced the configuration data of a tool suite once by 90%+ by moving from json to python. there was a tremendous amount of duplication and overlap, with tons of TINY exceptions and variations. it was so hard to see those differences, brittle to maintain, things would get stale, ... moving to python you basically had the "base" thing expressed in one file, and a bunch of tiny delta files encoding the exact deviations. All those deviations were of the forms I described above. Adding a thing to a list. Removing a thign from a list. Overriding a whole list. Do a thing if not already done. And so on. It's also then easy to build all kinds of diagnostics, validators, etc, right into the same framework, without having to munge the data into some other form first.

New comment by newobj in "Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s"

newobj — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:25:55 +0000

God bless you

New comment by newobj in "Meta loses bid to dismiss US states' claims that FB, Instagram addict children"

newobj — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:16:53 +0000

Interesting variation on the "I cut you choose" game mechanic!

New comment by newobj in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

newobj — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:33:08 +0000

that may have been true in product orgs but the infra and dev infra orgs were pretty strong imho.

New comment by newobj in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

newobj — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:41:31 +0000

Google is historically terrible as a product company (and has succeeded in spite of that) As their technical innovations become less of a moat (we're already there) they won't be able to win on engineering alone (they are no longer winning on engineering alone)

New comment by newobj in "MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production"

newobj — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:23:47 +0000

Having "accidentally" purchased one, I can tell you that doing anything 8GB or RAM on a mac laptop is impossible. I have no idea what people are doing with this laptop. Macs are absolute dogs at 8GB.

New comment by newobj in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

newobj — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:07:39 +0000

It's also a useful signal for AI value. Looks like it's a max value add of $18,000 per engineer per year.

New comment by newobj in "Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40"

newobj — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:14:25 +0000

Sorcery TCG

New comment by newobj in "I don't think AI will make your processes go faster"

newobj — Sun, 17 May 2026 15:42:36 +0000

I literally can’t tell if this comment is a joke or not.

New comment by newobj in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

newobj — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:07:10 +0000

ok sure good luck. more like conbase anyway

New comment by newobj in ""People who don't use AI will be left behind""

newobj — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:20:08 +0000

all those words and not one concrete claim made. in other words, FUD. the whole point of the article.

New comment by newobj in "To my students"

newobj — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:55:45 +0000

The engineer who only does high level system design and never codes has existed for decades and is often the most useless and derided engineer in the org.

New comment by newobj in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

newobj — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:14:25 +0000

I stand corrected!

New comment by newobj in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

newobj — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:34:30 +0000

SDL3

New comment by newobj in "We broke 92% of SHA-256 – you should start to migrate from it"

newobj — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:41:59 +0000

Claude didn't "think" anything

New comment by newobj in "We broke 92% of SHA-256 – you should start to migrate from it"

newobj — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:16:52 +0000

S-tier schizoposting

New comment by newobj in "Ball Pit"

newobj — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:28:38 +0000

nevermind i see the ssgi/traa code. looks great!

New comment by newobj in "Ball Pit"

newobj — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:26:44 +0000

path tracer?

New comment by newobj in "A review of dice that came with the white castle"

newobj — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:56:44 +0000

how many mg of oil can accumulate on a die due to handling?

New comment by newobj in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

newobj — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:30:40 +0000

cries in west coaster