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New comment by osener in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

osener — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:39:12 +0000

how is enabling ever bigger and more expensive to produce forms of entertainment making modern society better? remove all that and we won't lose anything. we'll always find a way to entertain ourselves. likely, with more culturally beneficial and social forms of entertainment.

New comment by osener in "Incremental – A library for incremental computations"

osener — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:24:40 +0000

If you find this interesting, also check out their UI library called Bonsai that built on top of Incremental: https://github.com/janestreet/bonsai/

Libraries like React are pretty efficient with skipping work by using Virtual Dom, but constructing this vdom still takes time. Bonsai makes the vdom incremental and it is pretty fun to work with.

I built a desktop UI library with it by targeting (now unmaintained) Revery. It is using a much older version of Bonsai however: https://github.com/ozanvos/bonsai_revery

Uber to buy Germany's Delivery Hero in $14.8B global deal

osener — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:33:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/16/uber-buy-germany-delivery-hero-148bn-global-deal

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48933588

Points: 4

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New comment by osener in "I think I have LLM burnout"

osener — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:45:21 +0000

Smart people have been falling into this trap as long as LLMs have hit production. Supposedly early internal versions of GPT-4 had "sparks of AGI" but the public version was "dumbed down for safety"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbIk7-JPB2c

Deploy from Claude Design to Vercel

osener — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:59:25 +0000

Article URL: https://vercel.com/changelog/claude-design-and-vercel

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48644310

Points: 1

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Formal Methods and the Future of Programming

osener — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:16:05 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.janestreet.com/formal-methods-at-jane-street-index/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540808

Points: 3

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New comment by osener in "Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language"

osener — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:37:30 +0000

In my experience restricting programs that can be expressed is a good thing, even more so with agentic engineering. The more guardrails there are, strong typing/TDD/computer use/..., the solution space shrinks and chance of a robust solution increases. Sure maybe this burns more tokens going in circles but it feels less like a slot machine more like a robot searching for a solution for a well-defined problem.

Devs have very strong opinions about dynamically typed programming languages. But reasons such as "exploratory programming", "expressiveness", "taste" that makes them feel good to program in for humans does not matter for agents. Agents don't care that the language "limits them" and prevents them from expressing the code in a succint way because it would not type check.

New comment by osener in "ClojureScript Gets Async/Await"

osener — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:45:50 +0000

Surprised to see Clojure/ClojureScript come up on socials more often all of a sudden. I used it professionally for a few years around ~2012 and like many others moved off JVM and moved into typed [functional] languages.

Is the sudden buzz due to agentic coding? Does it rip through code faster with no type checking and fewer invalid syntax errors and reserved keywords to deal with? are we in for a sexp resurgence?

New comment by osener in "Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader"

osener — Thu, 07 May 2026 11:32:04 +0000

Ah I just switched to using https://github.com/uxjulia/crossink-reader

Not sure what KOReader is but the fonts included in this one and the overall reading experience is solid.

New comment by osener in "Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE"

osener — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:56:11 +0000

This is the official announcement: https://research.ibm.com/blog/granite-4-1-ai-foundation-mode...

It is not the researchers' fault that some slop got posted here instead.

New comment by osener in "Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish"

osener — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:25:41 +0000

It is common amongst French, Dutch etc speakers where saying "it said x" sounds unnatural.

New comment by osener in "Vite+ Alpha: Unified Toolchain for the Web (MIT License)"

osener — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:22:38 +0000

This announcement mentions Node.js a couple of times. Does it also support Bun as a package manager and a runtime?

New comment by osener in "No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user"

osener — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:28:19 +0000

> Cost remains an ever present challenge. Cursor’s larger rivals are willing to subsidize aggressively. According to a person familiar with the company’s internal analysis, Cursor estimated last year that a $200-per-month Claude Code subscription could use up to $2,000 in compute, suggesting significant subsidization by Anthropic. Today, that subsidization appears to be even more aggressive, with that $200 plan able to consume about $5,000 in compute, according to a different person who has seen analyses on the company’s compute spend patterns.

This is the relevant quote from the original article.

New comment by osener in "Sizing chaos"

osener — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:07:45 +0000

There are fast fashion attempts at this like adding elastic material to every fabric so they can get away with having fewer sizes and cuts thus less unsold inventory and availability issues. But everything has a tradeoff. In this case the elastic material degrades MUCH faster than cotton so you have to throw away your jeans quite a bit earlier compared to a quality 100% cotton denim which can last you a decade. This is very unfortunate as most of the fabric in that piece of clothing is perfectly fine and this is pure waste.

New comment by osener in "Show HN: I built a tool to un-dumb Claude Code's CLI output (Local Log Viewer)"

osener — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 09:20:24 +0000

This is some next level nitpicking. It's like criticizing XCode or Idea config of someone, instead of their product (or more popularly whether their website hijacks the back button). But at least in this case the dev config is checked in and reproducible.

New comment by osener in "Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu"

osener — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:49:45 +0000

Ok so it is not going closed source, they are just going to extend it as they need to drive Zed features. Totally understandable for an in-house UI framework, this is why you’d build one yourself anyway. I can imagine maintaining backwards compatibility, doing releases, writing documentation and growing a community around it is a considerable distraction from their product work.

New comment by osener in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

osener — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:47:27 +0000

For years I thought I had a faulty touchscreen and started relying on dictation more and more. Seeing this video saved me from going insane. They must have crunched the numbers and decided that these choices benefit more people than not. BUT HOW!

New comment by osener in "Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu"

osener — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:33:05 +0000

> We ignore for these purposes Zed's GPUI which the Zed team has transparently, and understandably abandoned as an open source endeavour

Do you have a source for this?

New comment by osener in "Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists"

osener — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 06:45:15 +0000

I understand your perspective. However, those trades, and most work in general, differ from art. Art is vital to our society, yet the current reward system optimizes for the worst art and the worst people.

We need more art that pushes boundaries and remains controversial. Instead, we favor the type of artist who attracts the most attention through their personality, whether because of their looks or a manufactured edgy image, while producing mundane, lowest-common-denominator work. We must support contemporary artists who move us forward rather than remaining stuck in popularity contests or constant nostalgia.

Under the current system, it is almost inevitable that influencers use their status to promote gambling ads and NFTs, ruining the lives of their fans. We need to break this cycle of rewarding increasingly poor behavior while making it harder for independent artists to earn a living.

New comment by osener in "Bunny Database"

osener — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:45:57 +0000

When I tried it last year, their edge compute infra was just not there yet. It could not do any meaningful server-side rendering because of code size, compute and JS standard constraints.

Has this situation changed?