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nbio: A non-blocking I/O and event loop abstraction in Odin

philippta — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:53:48 +0000

Article URL: https://pkg.odin-lang.org/core/nbio/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666087

Points: 2

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Ask HN: Did you ever consciously create technical debt?

philippta — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:40:31 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47523657

Points: 2

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The Missing Piece of AI Discourse Is Trust

philippta — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:52:13 +0000

Article URL: https://philipptanlak.com/the-missing-piece-of-ai-discourse-is-trust/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47193006

Points: 1

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New comment by philippta in "What podcasts are you listening to?"

philippta — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:13:46 +0000

Wookash Podcast

New comment by philippta in "The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler"

philippta — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:46:48 +0000

That's completely relatable, and also a major point in my original argument. Using heavily abstracted frameworks will automatically cap you performance wise. The only way out is to not use a framework or one that's known to be lightweight. In backend or tooling like with the JS compiler from OP, one tends to not use heavy frameworks in the first place.

New comment by philippta in "The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler"

philippta — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:18:34 +0000

Nobody expects you to know that, but I'm curious to hear how do you know it for backend code but not frontend code. Have any examples?

New comment by philippta in "The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler"

philippta — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:43:02 +0000

It's not too diffcut in the browser either. Consider how often you're making copies of your data and try to reduce it. For example:

- for loops over map/filter

- maps over objects

- .sort() over .toSorted()

- mutable over immutable data

- inline over callbacks

- function over const = () => {}

Pretty much, as if you wrote in ES3 (instead of ES5/6)

New comment by philippta in "The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler"

philippta — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 09:43:20 +0000

It always comes as a surprise to me how the same group of people who go out of their way to shave off the last milliseconds or microseconds in their tooling care so little about the performance of the code they ship to browsers.

Not to discredit OP's work of course.

New comment by philippta in "[dead]"

philippta — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 08:29:49 +0000

> They use Claude to skip the typing, not the thinking. They're 10x faster than two years ago.

I'm not sure a 10x increase in typing speed makes you a 10x developer.

New comment by philippta in "Git analytics that works across GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket"

philippta — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 10:45:23 +0000

I've raised this exact point to many team leads throughout my career.

Yet, they unanimously said, they are interested or need to know the progress.

I can't say if thats what they have to report to their managers, but I assume it's something you won't be able to fix from bottom-up.

New comment by philippta in "The Dangers of SSL Certificates"

philippta — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 11:13:59 +0000

For the handful of regularly visited websites, I wouldn't mind.

New comment by philippta in "The Dangers of SSL Certificates"

philippta — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 08:35:19 +0000

When I connect my server over SSH, I don't have to rotate anything, yet my connection is always secure.

I manually approve the authenticity of the server on the first connection.

From then, the only time I'd be prompted again would be, if either the server changed or if there's a risk of MITM.

Why can't we have this for the web?

New comment by philippta in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

philippta — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 07:42:09 +0000

Perhaps our industry should adopt a different approach, that fills in the gap between those.

- You host open-source software on your own hardware.

- You pay a company for setup and maintenance by the hour.

New comment by philippta in "4 billion if statements (2023)"

philippta — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 11:56:36 +0000

> I saw from the SSD was around 800 MB/s (which doesn’t really make sense as that should give execution speeds at 40+ seconds, but computers are magical so who knows what is going on).

If anyone knows what’s actually going on, please do tell.

New comment by philippta in "Using LLMs at Oxide"

philippta — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 09:25:49 +0000

> LLM-generated code should not be reviewed by others if the responsible engineer has not themselves reviewed it.

To extend that: If the LLM is the author and the responsible engineer is the genuine first reviewer, do you need a second engineer at all?

Typically in my experience one review is enough.

New comment by philippta in "Ditch your mutex, you deserve better"

philippta — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:29:41 +0000

That would be shared ownership again.

New comment by philippta in "Ditch your mutex, you deserve better"

philippta — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 10:01:17 +0000

The fundamental problem here is shared memory / shared ownership.

If you assign exclusive ownership of all accounting data to a single thread and use CSP to communicate transfers, all of these made up problems go away.

New comment by philippta in "Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper"

philippta — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 07:59:11 +0000

Your reasoning seems counter intuitive as back in 2012 Facebook rewrote their HTML5 based app to native iOS code, optimized for performance, and knowingly took the feature parity hit.

https://engineering.fb.com/2014/10/31/ios/making-news-feed-n...

New comment by philippta in "Collaboration sucks"

philippta — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:49:11 +0000

Reminds me of Casey Muratori‘s talk on Conway‘s Law: „I always know what I am thinking…“

https://youtu.be/5IUj1EZwpJY?si=b7rG7_vemkiOL8Bp

New comment by philippta in "Why is Zig so cool?"

philippta — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 16:38:20 +0000

> The @breakpoint built-in

Inserting the literal one byte instruction (on x86) - INT 3 - is the least a compiler should be able to do.