Hacker News: npalli

New comment by npalli in "Moving our warehouse off DuckDB"

npalli — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 17:02:48 +0000

This idiotic churn used to be restricted to front end devs and backend folks were spared. Thanks for Agents now every part of the stack is going to be in constant churn thanks to resume builders. At no point in the article did you get a sense they have a handle on what their problem is and why a certain technology and architecture would be a better fit. Just try it out, churn out, try it out.

New comment by npalli in "New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6"

npalli — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 22:41:15 +0000

This is a strange release. The M6 tops out at 32GB RAM and then you fall back to M5/Pro. Kinda midway between an Air and a true Pro. Only 14" no 16" with M6.

New comment by npalli in "Rust Style Guide"

npalli — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 23:36:14 +0000

Strange position in 2026. If there is any writing in the wall it is this. Nobody is going to be writing Rust code from scratch given where LLMs are already now, much less in 5 years. A golden rule of software is fresh coding is a small part of the lifecycle most of it is maintenance. You may be able to get people to write Rust code (vibe code it), however a tiny minority of them will want to maintain LLM generated Rust code!! Rust will most likely be an intermediate representation - a security/formality check of sort - before converted into the appropriate heterogenous code across GPU/CPU/TPU/XPUs. Even there some other better representation will supplant it as Rust's ideas will be found too limiting. The idea that you as a programmer will sit and write Rust source code is just going to look very archaic. Thank god for LLMs for saving everyone just in time.

New comment by npalli in "Rust Style Guide"

npalli — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 20:26:22 +0000

Far from it. Until Rust can read C++ code seamlessly, there will be more code written in C++ than Rust for the foreseeable future. HPC, Finance, AI, Games, Databases, Hardware all continue to be written in C++.

New comment by npalli in "Advanced coding in low-resource programming languages"

npalli — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:20:22 +0000

Like all software, vibe coding is not the hard part. Maintaining it is. I'm sure there there 100 times the number of people wanting to vibe code this in Rust vs wanting to maintain someone else's vibe coded Rust. So, usually the natural state is keep running the show as-is until it is the next guy's problem.

New comment by npalli in "Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch back end for TPUs"

npalli — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:51:20 +0000

Interesting, Amazon doing the same for AWS Trainium.

https://github.com/aws-neuron/torch-neuronx

New comment by npalli in "WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 depending on the workload"

npalli — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 18:42:19 +0000

Agree, I feel you only hear from people who hate Windows and for every such loud opinion, there are probably 20 who are quite satisfied but never mention it.

New comment by npalli in "Gemini 4 Argon"

npalli — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:15:42 +0000

If no one is reading or writing Rust code at that point, it all being agent driven, Rust itself is going to be a very short step before it gets disinter-mediated away and it's English -> complex heterogenous machine code across GPU/TPU/CPU/xPUs. Not sure Rust fans or C++ haters have thought this through.

New comment by npalli in "C++23 Port of Mozilla Readability"

npalli — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:30:38 +0000

Congrats, what were some learnings in doing the C++23 port? Good and Bad.

New comment by npalli in "Muse: Meta's personal AI agent, features and capabilities"

npalli — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:13:48 +0000

You are right, sometimes the simplest answer is the right now. Don't trust Meta. Life is going to be much simpler. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me continuously for 20 years, shame on me.

New comment by npalli in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

npalli — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:47:57 +0000

Alas, it writes so much better than the average human that it's what everyone started using. Hence the utter familiarity and now contempt.

TPU and GPU Clusters: The Anatomy of Collective Communication

npalli — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 02:08:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aleksagordic.com/blog/collective-operations

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48915423

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by npalli in "So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021)"

npalli — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:18:35 +0000

How does one know whether they actually learnt physics this way. Seems a lot of reading and structure, that's great. Not convinced about whether there is a change in understanding. Typical university/college classes have assignments, quizzes, exams etc.. don't see the equivalent.

New comment by npalli in "Old and new apps, via modern coding agents"

npalli — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:37:57 +0000

I laughed at this "but the code complexity became too much for me, and I abandoned the project." even Terry Tao finds some code too complex to write.

Really bullish on LLMs expanding code development by a very large group of people who are really smart in some domain but could not get into 'coding'.

New comment by npalli in "crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to C"

npalli — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:55:48 +0000

Rewrite in C is the new Rewrite in Rust.

New comment by npalli in "MacBook Neo"

npalli — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:18:11 +0000

So, and iPad with an attached keyboard.

New comment by npalli in "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI"

npalli — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:03:03 +0000

If it is this easy, surely the trend is Rust output being an intermediate pass of the LLM super compiler. A security subset if you will (like other kinds of optimization), it will move from Rust specs to some deeper level of analysis and output the final executable. Some brave souls will read the intermediate Rust output (just like people used to read the assembler output from compilers) but the LLM super compiler will just translate a detailed English like spec into final executables.

Axiom: Hi-perf. C++ tensor lib. NumPy/PyTorch-like API, SIMD,BLAS,Metal support

npalli — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:12:49 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Frikallo/axiom

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46862551

Points: 11

# Comments: 0

New comment by npalli in "Show HN: PyVRP, an open-source vehicle routing problem solver"

npalli — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 22:18:25 +0000

Good. How does it compare to cuOPT which seems to be 10-5000x faster than existing solvers for Vehicle routing if you believe the marketing.

New comment by npalli in "Ask HN: In the era of AI, which language would you choose?"

npalli — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 22:17:14 +0000

Not Rust because you won't find anyone to maintain code. Rust is only for rewriting existing code in other language not maintaining it. C++ perhaps because of number of people who already know it, but only for performance sensitive areas. Also, lot of training data. Other than that, usual suspects, Java/C# for enterprise and node/Python for web/DS.