Hacker News: portly

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.

New comment by portly in "The Art of Money Getting"

portly — Sat, 23 May 2026 16:14:59 +0000

More like an uncivil engineer

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

portly — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:20:55 +0000

Sorry, but "dutchnews.nl" is not a source I take seriously. Please link a publication on an established media outlet because this smells like misinfo.

New comment by portly in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

portly — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:16:50 +0000

Apparently it's the same as the Dutch payment system but in some languages that "iDEAL" had wrong associations.

New comment by portly in "C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For"

portly — Sun, 17 May 2026 07:19:43 +0000

Don't let the best be the enemy of the good. I got amazing performance for swapping for-loops with some simple SIMD patterns. Moreover. By doing this. I noticed that the codebase started to become better shaped for performance as well. By writing SIMD patterns, you get into the mindset of tight, hot loops.

New comment by portly in "Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)"

portly — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:34:38 +0000

I found the deep lacquer luster a bit lackluster

New comment by portly in "Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey"

portly — Fri, 01 May 2026 04:40:48 +0000

So the people who use LLm to write their blogs were thinking two moves ahead!

New comment by portly in "“Why not just use Lean?”"

portly — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:08:59 +0000

When I woke up this morning I could not have predicted someone calling a proof assistant a "Jack of all trades"

New comment by portly in "Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)"

portly — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:09:58 +0000

I don't understand the point of automating note taking. It never worked for me to copy paste text into my notes and now you can 100x that?

The whole point of taking notes for me is to read a source critically, fit it in my mental model, and then document that. Then sometimes I look it up for the details. But for me the shaping of the mental model is what counts

New comment by portly in "Claude Design"

portly — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 04:50:24 +0000

Except there is getting around that simple math. Did you consider Jevons paradox? If design becomes more efficient, it will be used in more cases, and in return there will be more demand!

New comment by portly in "Claude Opus 4.7"

portly — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:27:30 +0000

Good to remind this. But I also don't want to go back to pre-llm. Some dev activities are just too painful and boring, like correctly writing s3 policies. We must have discipline to decide what is worth our attention and what we should automate, because there is only so much mind energy we can spend each day.

New comment by portly in "Zig 0.16.0 Release Notes"

portly — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:17:50 +0000

That's clean.

New comment by portly in "Zig 0.16.0 Release Notes"

portly — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:44:48 +0000

Do I get it right that this is everything you need for a typical CLI tool?

New comment by portly in "Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem"

portly — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 05:58:39 +0000

> like painting, writing poems, coding, making music

Citation needed. Do you have an example of someone in the arts losing their job because of AI?