Hacker News: qwm

New comment by qwm in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

qwm — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:44:36 +0000

> This isn't the death of open source. It's the death of the global village were everybody can freely roam and it's easy to interact. It's the resurrection of small, social, trusted communities. I hope this spreads to all of the internet.

This is definitely a microcosm of what's happening to the entire Internet.

New comment by qwm in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

qwm — Sat, 23 May 2026 06:30:57 +0000

Being conservative with technology choices and only using Node LTS has paid dividends lol

New comment by qwm in "A JavaScript static site generator that will still work in 5 years"

qwm — Thu, 14 May 2026 23:36:28 +0000

You can drop the library into your project as a single file and it'll still work without NPM. You can just copy it straight from GitHub, even.

A JavaScript static site generator that will still work in 5 years

qwm — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:33:22 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/termermc/wunphile

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140122

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by qwm in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

qwm — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:08:58 +0000

The guy who threw the molotov should have called his Congressman, signed a petition, and paid his taxes.

New comment by qwm in "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI"

qwm — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:59:32 +0000

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.

New comment by qwm in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

qwm — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:34:59 +0000

https://poop.net/

Yes, really.

New comment by qwm in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

qwm — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 02:44:34 +0000

My compiler runs on my computer and produces the same machine code given the same input. Neither of these are true with AI.

New comment by qwm in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

qwm — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 02:23:54 +0000

ahahahaha so many implications in this comment

New comment by qwm in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

qwm — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 02:18:40 +0000

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.

New comment by qwm in "GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder"

qwm — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 06:29:19 +0000

This isn't an ownership problem, it's a medium problem (and perhaps a legal problem)

New comment by qwm in "GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder"

qwm — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 06:26:11 +0000

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.

New comment by qwm in "I sell onions on the Internet (2019)"

qwm — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 07:10:03 +0000

ai.com

New comment by qwm in "I sell onions on the Internet (2019)"

qwm — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 04:17:18 +0000

I wonder what this guy would think of what I'm doing with poop.net

Type Stripping with Zero Dependencies

qwm — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 19:43:56 +0000

Article URL: https://termer.net/blog/type-stripping-with-zero-dependencies/

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

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by qwm in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"

qwm — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:59:05 +0000

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.

New comment by qwm in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"

qwm — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:55:18 +0000

You don't generally need specific versions of GCC or Clang to build it I'm pretty sure.

New comment by qwm in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"

qwm — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:38:01 +0000

Unreasonably good at writing compilers? Not in my experience lol.

New comment by qwm in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"

qwm — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:37:19 +0000

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.

New comment by qwm in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"

qwm — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:36:06 +0000

Yes, that is success. A pretty large degree of success.