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New comment by publicdebates in "Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Social-Media Addiction Trial"

publicdebates — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:02:22 +0000

WSJ not tryna be found negligent in any social-media addiction trial.

New comment by publicdebates in "Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)"

publicdebates — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:37:51 +0000

"Rule 6: Don't waste time on syntax highlighting unless you're incompetent."

Experiment: Collaborative Art

publicdebates — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:16:20 +0000

Article URL: https://chicagosignguy.com/blog/collaborative-art.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47411129

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by publicdebates in "Rebasing in Magit"

publicdebates — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:33:12 +0000

https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/3961

New comment by publicdebates in "The Xkcd thing, now interactive"

publicdebates — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:33:20 +0000

You don't think AWS is internally built on massive amounts of open source?

New comment by publicdebates in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

publicdebates — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:25:34 +0000

Isn't this the same debate as airports post 9/11, whether you can have both privacy and security? Seems conclusive, no.

New comment by publicdebates in "Coding Tricks Used in the C64 Game Seawolves (2025)"

publicdebates — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:39:20 +0000

And a difference in price that amortizes about the same.

New comment by publicdebates in "Coding Tricks Used in the C64 Game Seawolves (2025)"

publicdebates — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:25:52 +0000

And starting fires or making coats used to be forms of art, now we just buy a Zippo and a London Fog and call it an afternoon. Jobs evolve to specialize. I call that progress.

Survey: Do you feel worthy of respect?

publicdebates — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:36:09 +0000

Article URL: https://chicagosignguy.com/blog/do-you-feel-worthy-of-respect.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47035518

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by publicdebates in "Lily Programming Language"

publicdebates — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:36:45 +0000

Also it looks like[1] Luau is the official Roblox Studio scripting language, and is baed on Lua 5.1 (possibly LuaJIT?) which means it's behind mainstream Lua.

Not sure which Lua versions the others are based on.

[1] https://create.roblox.com/docs/luau

New comment by publicdebates in "Lily Programming Language"

publicdebates — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:32:39 +0000

Many of us would love a TypeScript analogy for Lua.

There have been some attempts:

Luau (5.2k, last week, https://luau.org/, https://github.com/edubart/nelua-lang)

Nelua (2.3k, 8 months ago, https://nelua.io/, https://github.com/luau-lang/luau)

Terra (2.9k, 3 days ago, https://terralang.org/, https://github.com/terralang/terra)

Teal (2.7k, 2 days ago, https://teal-language.org/, https://github.com/teal-language/tl)

The Luau author is always on the official Lua mailing list, and it has twice as many stars, so it seems likely to win the long term popularity contest.

New comment by publicdebates in "Lily Programming Language"

publicdebates — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:18:37 +0000

It uses refcounting, and GC for cycles. Sounds good. Why don't more Lua-likes?

New comment by publicdebates in "90s.dev, a new platform for 90s-dev-themed guest articles"

publicdebates — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:06:34 +0000

The article says it's repurposed.

90s.dev, a new platform for 90s-dev-themed guest articles

publicdebates — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:42:08 +0000

Article URL: https://90s.dev/articles/2026-01-28-new-platform-for-90s-themed-guest-articles.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46879094

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by publicdebates in "1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?"

publicdebates — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:44:44 +0000

Human history is full of cases where silly mistakes became precedent. HTTP "referal" is just another example.

I wonder if there's a wikipedia article listing these...

New comment by publicdebates in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

publicdebates — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:23:09 +0000

They're definitely going to do it at some point in the near future, mark my words.

New comment by publicdebates in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)"

publicdebates — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:19:41 +0000

These are fine times. Just need a little extra cash for cigars, that's all. Had two yesterday, made the money by selling Premium Snowballs in Chicago for $2 each (made $50 that day). Life is fun.

New comment by publicdebates in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)"

publicdebates — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:52:26 +0000

Looking for remote side quests.

. . . . Ideally 5-20 hour projects with fixed prices.

. . . . . . . . Ideal range is ~ $50-500 USD

. . . . I can do any web stuff fairly quickly.

. . . . . . . . I won't do anything related to AI.

. . . . I'm on a fixed income from book royalties.

. . . . . . . . Just trying to make some cigar money.

. . . . I've got 20+ years experience with 20+ languages

. . . . . . . . Most of my resume is classified. Quiz me.

Hit me up, contact@lowkpro.com

    Keywords: Assembly C C++ Objective-C ObjC C# JavaScript TypeScript Rust Ruby Rails Python Django Lua Clojure Java Kotlin Visual Basic VB.net Go PHP Swift Lisp HTML HTML5 CSS CSS3 React.js Next.js Vue.js Astro Hugo &c. ad nauseam

New comment by publicdebates in "Show HN: Cicada – A scripting language that integrates with C"

publicdebates — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:55:24 +0000

That list (or any similar list) would be so helpful if it had a health column, something that takes into account number of contributors, time since last commit, number of forks, number of commits, etc. So many projects are effectively dead but it's not obvious at first sight, and it takes 2 or 3 whole minutes to figure out. That seems short but it adds up when evaluating a project, causing people to just go to a well known solution like Lua (and why not? Lua is just fine; in fact it's great).

New comment by publicdebates in "Show HN: Cicada – A scripting language that integrates with C"

publicdebates — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:51:08 +0000

The for loop is odd. Why is the word counter in there twice?

    counter :: int

    for counter in <1, 10-counter> (
       print(counter)
       print(" ")
    )

Using backfor to count backwards is an odd choice. Why not overload for?

    backfor counter in <1, 9> print(counter, " ")

This is confusing to me. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the design principles, but the syntax seems unintuitive.