Hacker News: qwmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=qwmHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:09:00 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by qwm in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"]]>The guy who threw the molotov should have called his Congressman, signed a petition, and paid his taxes.

]]>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:08:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47746731qwmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47746731https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47746731<![CDATA[New comment by qwm in "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI"]]>I did this exact same thing for porting a compiler from one language to another with Codex. I run tests at every step, and verified that bytecode output was byte-for-byte identical. I was very impressed at the results, and this is coming from someone who's always pointing out issues with AI programming.

]]>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:59:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141108qwmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141108https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141108<![CDATA[New comment by qwm in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"]]>https://poop.net/

Yes, really.

]]>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:34:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46623889qwmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46623889https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46623889<![CDATA[New comment by qwm in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"]]>My compiler runs on my computer and produces the same machine code given the same input. Neither of these are true with AI.

]]>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 02:44:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46521914qwmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46521914https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46521914<![CDATA[New comment by qwm in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"]]>ahahahaha so many implications in this comment

]]>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 02:23:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46521766qwmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46521766https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46521766<![CDATA[New comment by qwm in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"]]>My favorite benchmark for LLMs and agents is to have it port a medium-complexity library to another programming language. If it can do that well, it's pretty capable of doing real tasks. So far, I always have to spend a lot of time fixing errors. There are also often deep issues that aren't obvious until you start using it.

]]>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 02:18:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46521731qwmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46521731https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46521731<![CDATA[New comment by qwm in "GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder"]]>This isn't an ownership problem, it's a medium problem (and perhaps a legal problem)

]]>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 06:29:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46430189qwmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46430189https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46430189<![CDATA[New comment by qwm in "GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder"]]>It's worth noting that many, if not most, games on Steam don't have DRM. You can often just take the .exe files out of them and play. Sometimes you need a polyfill for Steam's client API, but that's usually it.

]]>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 06:26:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46430175qwmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46430175https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46430175<![CDATA[New comment by qwm in "I sell onions on the Internet (2019)"]]>ai.com

]]>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 07:10:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46389923qwmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46389923https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46389923<![CDATA[New comment by qwm in "I sell onions on the Internet (2019)"]]>I wonder what this guy would think of what I'm doing with poop.net

]]>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 04:17:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46389184qwmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46389184https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46389184<![CDATA[Type Stripping with Zero Dependencies]]>Article URL: https://termer.net/blog/type-stripping-with-zero-dependencies/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257306

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]]>Sat, 13 Dec 2025 19:43:56 +0000https://termer.net/blog/type-stripping-with-zero-dependencies/qwmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257306https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257306<![CDATA[New comment by qwm in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"]]>It got my hopes up that they had backed off so they could solve their problems before returning to subject the kernel to their language.

]]>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:59:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46233004qwmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46233004https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46233004<![CDATA[New comment by qwm in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"]]>You don't generally need specific versions of GCC or Clang to build it I'm pretty sure.

]]>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:55:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46232941qwmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46232941https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46232941<![CDATA[New comment by qwm in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"]]>Unreasonably good at writing compilers? Not in my experience lol.

]]>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:38:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46232709qwmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46232709https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46232709<![CDATA[New comment by qwm in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"]]>Sometimes it's nice to know that something will run and compile reliably far into the future. That's a nice thing to have, and wide support for the language and its relatively unchanging nature make it reliable.

]]>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:37:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46232699qwmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46232699https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46232699<![CDATA[New comment by qwm in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"]]>Yes, that is success. A pretty large degree of success.

]]>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:36:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46232679qwmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46232679https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46232679<![CDATA[New comment by qwm in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"]]>If only Rust had a spec to do that with

]]>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:35:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46232664qwmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46232664https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46232664<![CDATA[New comment by qwm in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"]]>Sure, but the reason tends to be that if you want something to run everywhere, C is your best bet.

]]>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:33:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46232642qwmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46232642https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46232642<![CDATA[New comment by qwm in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"]]>> Don’t spread FUD

Only in cryptocurrency and Rust do I see this kind of phrasing used.

]]>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:23:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46232501qwmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46232501https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46232501<![CDATA[New comment by qwm in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"]]>Correct. C has a mostly standardized ABI, Rust does not. C has a spec, Rust does not. That matters in things like kernels.

]]>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:07:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46232304qwmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46232304https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46232304