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New comment by peesem in "Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly"

peesem — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:42:59 +0000

nobody (hyperbole, corrected: few) follows that promotion rule. and where are you getting 21 from? the github repo https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter says 391 contributors, subtract maybe a few for bots

also, talk about posting too much? look at your own submissions page

New comment by peesem in "LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders"

peesem — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:56:49 +0000

oh no!

New comment by peesem in "LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders"

peesem — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:56:04 +0000

it does still stand for Live Action Role Plating, but the meaning of the acronym on the internet has been expanded over the past few months to mean anything like "pretending" or "lying".

New comment by peesem in "Has_not_been_viewed_much"

peesem — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 01:23:17 +0000

if i turn off my vpn, it works, but the vpn is cloudflare's own WARP. strange

New comment by peesem in "Has_not_been_viewed_much"

peesem — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 01:22:47 +0000

it keeps saying "failed to load" for me. through the magic of the developer console, i can see that the api calls are working but the actual image requests are not. it seems that this is a case of an overzealous cloudflare turnstile setup since if i open the image links in a new tab and pass a challenge i can view them.

New comment by peesem in "Zig's new bitCast semantics and LLVM back end improvements"

peesem — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 01:58:48 +0000

no, but the documentation for packed structs gives the list of allowed field types. it's also not documented that packed union fields must be valid packed struct fields but people may be able to assume that

edit: also, this is a relevant issue: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/12547

New comment by peesem in "Zig's new bitCast semantics and LLVM back end improvements"

peesem — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:07:45 +0000

zig does not allow arrays in packed structs/unions specifically for endianness reasons (there may be other reasons as well but endianness is what i know of)

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

peesem — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:00:15 +0000

all fields are public. declarations are private to the file they're in by default and then public if you choose to make them public

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

peesem — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:59:06 +0000

the triple slash is only for doc comments, not normal code comments - those are still double slashes. also, why would you want to grep for escaped backslashes?

New comment by peesem in "Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore"

peesem — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:44:17 +0000

how would you suggest we compile literally anything?

New comment by peesem in "[dead]"

peesem — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:03:26 +0000

it's unclear to me whether they were actually told to lie or just told to survive / convince others. either way it is somewhat coerced but i think there is still a difference

New comment by peesem in "The Case for Free Online Books (2014)"

peesem — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:30:15 +0000

if everything really was free then the textbook writers wouldn't need compensation since everything would be free for them too

New comment by peesem in "Alpine Linux 3.24.0 Released"

peesem — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:52:25 +0000

the web says Microsoft's Azure Linux is Fedora-based? or are you talking about something else

New comment by peesem in "Zig Zen Update"

peesem — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:56:10 +0000

the maintainers seem happy, especially now that CI is actually working how it's supposed to. but a non-rare complaint in the Zig discord is how slow Codeberg can be, and other things like the lack of codesearch hurt as well.

New comment by peesem in "Zig ELF Linker Improvements Devlog"

peesem — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:25:47 +0000

and when people talk about zig, they don't usually mention that zig used to have goto, casting syntax like `T(val)`, a rule that said you couldn't pass containers by value, language-level async, some truly awful syntax for what is now `try` and other operators, etc. both languages took time and work to realize that these features were not for them. very strange to deny that.

also, nitpick: they said zig has been around for ten years. this is, strictly, correct. the zig project has existed for ten years, just like how rust has existed for about 20, now. a project still exists if it is pre-1.0. nobody was talking about versions before you.

New comment by peesem in "Zig ELF Linker Improvements Devlog"

peesem — Sun, 31 May 2026 01:57:48 +0000

"technically" usually means something like "strictly", not "by a completely different metric". work takes time. zig has had a decade of work put into it.

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

peesem — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:05:17 +0000

mainly because this build system change, along with upgrading to LLVM 22, are the only major changes for 0.17.0: https://ziglang.org/download/0.16.0/release-notes.html#Roadm...

New comment by peesem in "Poll: How often do you check "newest"?"

peesem — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:00:31 +0000

yes, the "new" anchor links to /newest

New comment by peesem in "Please Use AI"

peesem — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:47:33 +0000

even if this stuff is the "next Industrial Revolution", the Industrial Revolution was famously Not Good for many, many people

New comment by peesem in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

peesem — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:08:00 +0000

`-ai` isn't actually a special case that removes the ai overview, it just adds a search filter which removes all results with the word "ai". afaik the ai overview is simply less likely to show up with a filtered search