Hacker News: portly

New comment by portly in "Asus Bike Booster"

portly — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 06:09:39 +0000

That made me question who this is for. Looks like it's only for racing bikes that have taken off the rear mudguard. And those bikes are typically used to exercise..

Which makes me wonder about the cleaning after it rained..

New comment by portly in "Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's"

portly — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:32:04 +0000

Very well said. A 62.5g Mars bar is a hefty boy and it's only righteous that its size was minused and divided.

New comment by portly in "Claude Opus 5"

portly — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 06:51:30 +0000

I'm tired boss

New comment by portly in "Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now"

portly — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 22:23:08 +0000

LLMs catch memory bugs quite easily in my experience.

All of this is just a (succesful) marketing stunt by Anthropic.

New comment by portly in "The vintage beauty of Soviet control rooms (2018)"

portly — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 11:58:44 +0000

We should reintroduce chef's hats back in the control rooms. Switching with real finesse!

New comment by portly in "Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig"

portly — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:11:49 +0000

> This is just so weird to me, because I would say the same about Zig.

I think you missed his point. He's arguing against homogeneity of (cyber) culture. For example, programming languages that promise to do everything. Rust fanatics indeed can be a bit like that. Every time I see a thread here about someone building something in Zig, they storm in and start arguing 'why not rust!?'.

The fact that you don't like the zig community is healthy and not weird. Don't worry about it. You don't have to like everything and you can disagree on taste.

New comment by portly in "Zig: All Package Management Functionality Moved from Compiler to Build System"

portly — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 14:21:57 +0000

Not being sarcastic but genuine because I do not know: are there any previous languages that have a build system like Zig?

I found really cool that you have a bunch of options to configure compilation of source code itself. Not just the compiler optimization but you can automate all kinds of things: https://ziglang.org/learn/build-system/#build-system

New comment by portly in "Zig: All Package Management Functionality Moved from Compiler to Build System"

portly — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 05:55:53 +0000

Sounds like you've never built something. Even with small products you have to keep correcting yourself as it's hard to foresee how each component interacts. Now try building a self-hosted C replacement lol

New comment by portly in "Ask HN: Which Zig version to use for my thesis?"

portly — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 05:02:44 +0000

If you are going to write your own allocators, I think it doesn't matter too much which Zig version you are on. Most drastic changes since 0.15 are done to the standard lib and the language itself stayed pretty much the same. That said, they did clear a lot of bugs which I would never run into, because I make relatively simple programs. But with writing things like allocators, you might reach those edgecases a bit sooner.

New comment by portly in "Fintech Engineering Handbook"

portly — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:26:15 +0000

Storing numbers as arrays of u8? That doesn't make sense

New comment by portly in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

portly — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:12:28 +0000

I did this half a year ago and it was fine for me. One of the benefits is of course privacy. For instance, I noticed that ads get completely out of touch which proved to me that I'm being tracked less.

Also never have that feeling anymore that my phone is spying on me.

New comment by portly in "What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes"

portly — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 05:05:33 +0000

Also cluster migrations are required pretty often in my company. Having state on a cluster means migrating that as well, which is a complex and time consuming operation. Having your state in S3 or external database makes migrations a breeze.

New comment by portly in "AI coding at home without going broke"

portly — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:37:41 +0000

Lol I already have this at €20 a month. And I feel like I am using it too much.

New comment by portly in "'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut"

portly — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:06:59 +0000

I also thought obsession was decent. Spooked me a bit like horrors used to do when I was little.

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

portly — Sat, 30 May 2026 11:16:53 +0000

I like that you have more freedom. You can play around with some idea but once you want to do something "serious" you can break into it directly. I start simple but sometimes blip into some performance obsession and I find Zig allows that.

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

portly — Sat, 30 May 2026 10:32:25 +0000

After having used Zig for a couple of months now I am convinced it is a fantastic tool language. You just pick it up to hack some idea together freely. Every time I hit a wall, I find the creators have thought of it already and offers comfort. But nothing gets in your face how to use the programming language "correctly".

For me it is now the go-to "tinker in my garage" language.

New comment by portly in "Greg Brockman interview [video]"

portly — Mon, 25 May 2026 06:47:14 +0000

Does everyone at OpenAI vocal fry like that?

New comment by portly in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

portly — Sun, 24 May 2026 06:59:11 +0000

Yes and one step further: it is attention, ultimately to extract wealth.

Trump is a distractor and can make a whole country forget about . Passing a judge is a minor detail here.

Of course it is stupid to talent-leak your country but he just needs you to forget about $LATEST_SCANDAL. That's the value for him. Trump doesn't care about the future of US.

And distracting does not take skill. It only takes a mind poisoned to the core. He will throw anything in his chaos machine to extract wealth. And US has an endless supply of those juicy valuables and values that you can sacrifice and shed.

Let's see what next week has in store!

New comment by portly in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

portly — Sun, 24 May 2026 06:58:35 +0000

Yes and one step further: it is attention, ultimately to extract wealth.

Trump is a distractor and can make a whole country forget about . Passing a judge is a minor detail here.

Of course it is stupid to talent-leak your country but he just needs you to forget about $LATEST_SCANDAL. That's the value for him. Trump doesn't care about the future of US.

Let's see what next week has in store!

New comment by portly in "US tech firms share Dutch regulator officials' names with Senate"

portly — Sat, 23 May 2026 17:17:26 +0000

My bad, I was not aware that expats read this. I had never heard of it before. But still, as far as I can tell, they just translate the news from platforms like nos.nl and perhaps newspapers rather than doing the journalism themselves.