Hacker News: ngrilly

New comment by ngrilly in "Evolve: An incremental game about evolving a civilization"

ngrilly — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:54:22 +0000

Very cool.

New comment by ngrilly in "GC and Exceptions in Wasmtime"

ngrilly — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 08:30:17 +0000

Does it support interior pointers?

New comment by ngrilly in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"

ngrilly — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:32:04 +0000

I'm in the same situation. But I was shocked discovering it goes both ways: many new Gemini functionalities are only accessible using a consumer account instead of a Workspace account. Also, Gemini is now the only major AI assistant with no support for MCP connectors. Instead of adding this to the core product, like ChatGPT and Claude did, somebody at Google decided that it was smarter to add this fundamental feature to a new product instead: for enterprises this is Gemini Enterprise (which is a product completely different from the Gemini app); for consumers this the new Gemini Spark agent (meaning that you can use MCP within Spark but not within a "non-agentic" chat)... It's clear to me this a symptom of Google shipping their org chart, which is a disaster from a product perspective.

New comment by ngrilly in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"

ngrilly — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:17:37 +0000

Also a big proponent of Google and Gemini, but their stubbornness in artificially splitting their consumer and enterprise products is extremely annoying. It's pretty weird that I have access to more powerful tools when using my personal Google account compared to my corporate Google Workspace account.

New comment by ngrilly in "After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell"

ngrilly — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 08:29:25 +0000

uv is solving these problems for the kind of things Scarf is developing.

New comment by ngrilly in "Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation"

ngrilly — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:23:55 +0000

Same. Almost everything works out of the box, with great defaults.

New comment by ngrilly in "Zig: Build System Reworked"

ngrilly — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:53:39 +0000

But I don't think you can implement RAII in Zig?

New comment by ngrilly in "Migrating from Go to Rust"

ngrilly — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:43:38 +0000

Yes, I'm so happy it has been accepted. It will particularly useful to pass named parameters to functions.

New comment by ngrilly in "Migrating from Go to Rust"

ngrilly — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:42:27 +0000

> The only thing I'm jealous of with regards to python is how seamlessly you can do JSON schema enforcement on HTTP endpoints.

Yes, it is much easier in Python because type annotations are reflected at runtime.

New comment by ngrilly in "Deno 2.8"

ngrilly — Sat, 23 May 2026 10:31:46 +0000

Python type annotations are available at runtime, which can be used for serialization and validation (for example in FastAPI).

New comment by ngrilly in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

ngrilly — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:28:48 +0000

I was referring to the case where the founders and investors sell the startup to larger company. Of course, if they don't sell, and the company stays founder-led, the outcome is often better. I didn't know Zoho never took (serious) VC money.

New comment by ngrilly in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

ngrilly — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:54:55 +0000

I'm afraid this is a form of reversion to the mean. Successful startups are made of exceptional people: the founders, the initial investors, the first employees, the first clients. But when they get acquired by much larger companies, they are necessarily diluted in pool of people that are more "normal", less exceptional. This includes the customer base that is more "normal" as well. Slowly but surely, the extraordinary product/service the startup has been developing reverts to the mean. This is quite sad, because it feels inevitable. I'd like to know how to avoid it.

New comment by ngrilly in "What async promised and what it delivered"

ngrilly — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:35:46 +0000

Did you mean nanoseconds instead of microseconds?

New comment by ngrilly in "I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how managers run the boards"

ngrilly — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:15:10 +0000

Not an ad at all. I've been using Linear for the past 4 years. Been using Jira, Trello, GitHub Issues, and other issue trackers before. Linear is simply incredibly better compared to Jira. I had tons of colleagues in my current team and former teams who were skeptical at first, tried it, and 2 weeks later wre saying they would never come back to Jira. I've seen many similar comments here on HN over the past few years.

New comment by ngrilly in "I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how managers run the boards"

ngrilly — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:02:50 +0000

Jira's UX is crap. Try Linear.app, which is truly great software, equally appreciated by both software engineers and project/product managers using it.

New comment by ngrilly in "A simplified model of Fil-C"

ngrilly — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:49:03 +0000

Yes, but that requires eliminating aliasing and expressions with side effects?

New comment by ngrilly in "The End of Eleventy"

ngrilly — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:31:04 +0000

Sveltia CMS looks good!

New comment by ngrilly in "I've sold out"

ngrilly — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:58:41 +0000

I don't understand. Why the disappointment? Pi is still open source. Nothing is changing. Earendil's majority owners have a perfect track record when it comes to open source. Armin is a super star in the Python and Rust ecosystems.

New comment by ngrilly in "SSH certificates: the better SSH experience"

ngrilly — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:31:16 +0000

Fair enough :)

New comment by ngrilly in "SSH certificates: the better SSH experience"

ngrilly — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:39:30 +0000

I agree. I was just wondering if Userify had a solution for distribution the server signatures to the users.