Hacker News: nvahalik

A generic tragedy: Why PHP's Generics vote failed

nvahalik — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:11:48 +0000

Article URL: https://tempestphp.com/blog/a-generic-tragedy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48569284

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Zephir: PHP Extension Language

nvahalik — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:32:52 +0000

Article URL: https://zephir-lang.com/en

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48407259

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

List of JJ Aliases

nvahalik — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:28:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lysator.liu.se/~axl/jj-aliases/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48135935

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Brandolini's Law

nvahalik — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:07:34 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48055039

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Apple MLX vs. llama.cpp: compared and benchmarked [video]

nvahalik — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:38:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwCbChJWXkQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050029

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Why everyone is quietly quitting OpenClaw [video]

nvahalik — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:09:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urAMvpPhtqo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47954704

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nvahalik in "He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice"

nvahalik — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:23:09 +0000

Man. I built an AI food system at my previous company and it was tough: we ended up just using it as a way to look up foods in a real DB and allowed guestimation but ultimately the win was "I don't have to search for everything on this place" we surface _what_ and then allowed the user to enter the real weights.

And this... really was and (will be) the only way for this to ever work.

A Git merge with 100k parents

nvahalik — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:12:22 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/cirosantilli/test-octopus-100k/commit/07fdcceb20ac3626a07c08166d0c410707b1cb9b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47943016

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by nvahalik in "Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit"

nvahalik — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:14:25 +0000

If you have a dependency tree like this:

       / A \
      -- B - Megamerge 
       \ C /

There is nothing stopping you from doing this:

       / A - D \
      -- B ----- - Megamerge 
       \ C - E /

(Edit, or even this:)

       / A - D \
      -- B ----- - Megamerge 
       \ C ----/
          \ E /

Where E stacks on C and D stacks atop A. In the case above, A-E are revsets of either 1 or more commits. JJ doesn't care if they are or not. You'd generally bookmark the revset on the final "commit" as the pointer.

           / features/add-widgets
          /  / features/add-widget-integration
       / A - D \
      -- B ----- - Megamerge 
       \ C - E /
          \   \ feature/add-new-page
           \ feature/rework-navigation

In the example above, let's say you rework the navigation. You could have it exist alongside the navigation rework, but changes are you don't want to do the work twice. You just say "hey, this depends on the nav rework" and so it's there inside of the repo.

The thing is there is another way to do this where you end up with 4 different parents in a megamerge and your nav rework touches the megamerge and your new page is yet another revset is just a fork off of it. But yeah... JJ gives you a lot of flexibility in this manner.

Clanker

nvahalik — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:31:52 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clanker

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47842536

Points: 10

# Comments: 4

New comment by nvahalik in "Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit"

nvahalik — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:33:39 +0000

The mega merge wouldn't handle that based on the way the article shows. You COULD have a revset that includes stacked changes, though. That does work and is what I currently do.