<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: nylonstrung</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nylonstrung</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 14:24:59 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=nylonstrung" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "Has early Scratch experience led to fulfilling careers?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm guessing that Roblox will be responsible for more people learning programming than essentially any other single entity</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:57:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49525428</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49525428</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49525428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "DoltLite: A SQLite fork with Git-style version control, built with 2k agent PRs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Everything touching this ecosystem (Gas Town, Dolt, Beads) seems like the absolute nadir of vibecoded slop<p>This specific community has been a Schelling point for some of the worst engineering practices I've ever seen and a desire to abstract away all details of code to LLM personas like the "Refinery" and "Deacon"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:41:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49519878</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49519878</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49519878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "GPU World"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The 18th century called, they want their Malthusianism back</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:08:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49519701</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49519701</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49519701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "GPU World"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> What will happen in the oft-ignored developing world?<p>Did you even read the prompt</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:07:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49519691</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49519691</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49519691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "LeanDB a strongly Typed SQL front end"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is cool, I have been working on something similar with Lean4 albiet focused on compiling to Substrait<p>This is pretty well done as well
<a href="https://github.com/palladin/lean-linq" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/palladin/lean-linq</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:10:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49515458</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49515458</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49515458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "Show HN: Floe – an open-source plugin for sample libraries – CLAP/VST3/AU"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This looks great, I'll be excited to see this progressively become pure Zig and drop C++<p>Would be great to have something like Kontakt without all the cruft</p>
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<p>The next 12 months will see OAI and Anthropic spiral into into increasingly hyperbolic PR stunts, manufactured benchmarks and underhanded attempts at regulatory captures<p>I'm sure they have nothing to rival this on a price/performance basis and have already given up on that</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:14:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49455207</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49455207</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49455207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "Malaysia, Indonesia to Synchronise Cloud Seeding as Monsoon and El Niño Converge"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Greg Egan's 1994 <i>Permutation City</i> actually depicts Malaysia using cloud compute to model cyclones and mitigate them with weather manipulation<p>Very prescient</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:48:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49426285</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49426285</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49426285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "Codefloe Is a Professionally Hosted Public Git Forge"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What do you think makes it a bad foundation to build on?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:36:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49426177</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49426177</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49426177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "Ox-Alpha Is GLM?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It would be stranger to me that Kimi switched to GLM's tokenizer than that GLM added multimodal like Kimi and Deepseek both did recently</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:38:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424835</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424835</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This project is cringe and I really hope we see less stuff like this</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 11:29:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49398628</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49398628</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49398628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "SpacetimeDB: a short technical review"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm almost confident the architecture is the result from some kind of pivot from blockchain gaming.<p>Previously they talked about "testnet" and you use "energy credits" to pay for services. They also described aspects as being similar to smart contracts.<p>Naming the game "Bitcraft" circa 2021 is a big tell as well</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 10:37:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49398348</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49398348</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49398348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "Berd"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's actively unhelpful even for the most "non-technical" of users to <i>further</i> anthropomorphize LLMs and "agentic" workflows that boil down to moving plaintext around<p>The design is cute but this is an abstraction that simply has no reason to exist, and is the opposite of what better UX looks</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:07:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49358514</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49358514</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49358514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have no idea how spinning up a MicroVM solves the problems this paper talks about and I doubt you actually have programmed GPU kernels ever</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:49:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344299</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344299</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well mojo handles it by introducing an additional step of lowering code to MLIR as an intermediate representation. Something that can be done with C++ as well</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:47:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344278</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344278</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't disagree but I don't think this one is a reason we should ever restrict or condemn a technology<p>> it is a mirror, and augmentation and reveals really inhuman takes and thought processes from people who are on the longer lever in society<p>When someone uses their keyboard to search for CSAM or write hate speech we can't blame the keyboard instead of the individual</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:41:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344221</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344221</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Gemini was a bad choice of example but how would open-weights model one can self-host on their local device be different than the electric motor in your line of thinking</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:33:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344154</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344154</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This doesn't sound like someone who is uninterested in understanding software though, everything they said talks about how they like being able to learn from it. They didn't say anything about making slop or replacing the need for knowledge</p>
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<p>Yeah most normies I know who dislike it just generally are not interested in it or think it is dumb and are annoyed by hearing about it so much<p>And the people who actively hate it almost always relate it to a broader pre-existing worldview about the downfall of society, the climate being destroyed, financial markets being a ponzi, oligarchy having too much power etc</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:26:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344104</link><dc:creator>nylonstrung</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344104</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nylonstrung in "My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Classifying dense matrix multiplication and autoregression as a munition is equally as dumb as when PGP was classified as one</p>
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