Hacker News: pyrolistical

New comment by pyrolistical in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

pyrolistical — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:26:19 +0000

Umm I have an extra 35, do you have layer 6?

New comment by pyrolistical in "LLMs reward expertise"

pyrolistical — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:07:51 +0000

Then fix it using the llm

New comment by pyrolistical in "PSA about abuse of cat(1) command. Don't abuse cats"

pyrolistical — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 02:10:41 +0000

I like putting the stdin before the command

< file grep abc

New comment by pyrolistical in "Accretive Editing"

pyrolistical — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 03:34:58 +0000

Except Claude remembers in it memories. You need to clear that too

New comment by pyrolistical in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

pyrolistical — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:34:31 +0000

It’s open source. You take ownership of it for your deployment and stop relying on continued free work.

You can use llm to pull in updates as they are released. It’s not gpl, so you don’t need to publish your port

New comment by pyrolistical in "Rewriting Bun in Rust"

pyrolistical — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:08:22 +0000

Yeah but they turned it into something unreadable. Call it a skill issue if you wish.

I just haven’t found another language that just makes sense. Zig doesn’t hide anything from you

New comment by pyrolistical in "Cloudflare Meerkat - Globally distributed consensus"

pyrolistical — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:25:39 +0000

I predict we may be heading back to self implementations based off of papers since it is now cheaper to do so with AI coding agents.

Yeah they kinda suck and make mistakes right now, but tech only gets better.

It’s no different than 3D printing. Instead of cutting and joining a bunch of stock parts, you just print the desired part.

In the same way printing with plastic kinda sucks, the tech will improve. Now you can print in metal or in resin without supports.

The future will be take all the ideas from various off the shelf products but tightly integrate them together for my specific use case

New comment by pyrolistical in "We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code"

pyrolistical — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 01:50:12 +0000

That would require someone who knows what they are doing, hence this service

New comment by pyrolistical in "Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software"

pyrolistical — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:27:21 +0000

Within an order of magnitude. I would call this awash

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

pyrolistical — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:18:14 +0000

And then you can get AI do a nicer port of SDL.zig and you get way better decls.

Proper enums, proper tagged unions, and often reading the docs can allow the AI to distinguish T * to one of

1. [*]T

2. [:0]T

3. ?T

4. *T

And these are just the most common ones. If you know it’s a read only pointer/array then you can add the const modifier

New comment by pyrolistical in "To study how chips work, MIT researchers built their own operating system"

pyrolistical — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 03:59:09 +0000

What do you mean? By the time you have kernel access like that you’ve already won.

New comment by pyrolistical in "But yak shaving is fun"

pyrolistical — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:28:42 +0000

I’ve been yak shaving the interfaces not the implementation.

I used ai to convert c headers into in nice zig code. Then I link to the library.

It’s cheap to use zig translate-c to convert c headers but the output isn’t nice.

You can give ai c++ source which usually has more documentation than the compromised flat c header. It allows you to do a better zig port. Zig greatly cuts down the noise in c headers as everything needs to have long prefix for namespacing. But in zig we can just nest things properly.

We can introduce intermediate layers to use proper tagged unions and distinguish ?T, *T, [*]T

New comment by pyrolistical in "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"

pyrolistical — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:42:02 +0000

Expose the sync queue to end user and train them to understand if they attempt to close the tab with a pending queue they will get the ugly prompt warning them

New comment by pyrolistical in "I put a datacenter GPU in my gaming PC"

pyrolistical — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:19:40 +0000

The prefix cache is working properly 100k doesn’t prefill more than once

New comment by pyrolistical in "sp.h: Fixing C by giving it a high quality, ultra portable standard library"

pyrolistical — Sat, 23 May 2026 06:46:55 +0000

We should port the zig std lib as a c lib

New comment by pyrolistical in "A Markdown-based test suite"

pyrolistical — Thu, 21 May 2026 08:28:54 +0000

You can also write Gherkin in markdown and have test fixtures for each given, when, then

New comment by pyrolistical in "AI is a technology not a product"

pyrolistical — Sun, 17 May 2026 22:02:10 +0000

So robo taxis are going to stalk us?

New comment by pyrolistical in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"

pyrolistical — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:11:26 +0000

Crappy managers don’t know (or actively avoid) how to measure business value from individuals. So they need you to be in the office so they can physically see if you are putting in the effort.

Tokens is just yet another proxy for business value.

The problem they face is if everybody is judge by business value in dollars, crappy managers are the first to go

New comment by pyrolistical in "LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate"

pyrolistical — Sat, 09 May 2026 13:49:20 +0000

As a human I make typos all the time

New comment by pyrolistical in "I am worried about Bun"

pyrolistical — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:45:16 +0000

I love coding with bun. It comes with everything.

For my projects I don’t even need any additional dependencies. I use vanilla dom and sqlite