Hacker News: random_mutexhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=random_mutexHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 25 May 2026 00:24:36 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by random_mutex in "Bun's unreleased Rust port has 13,365 unsafe blocks"]]>Is clanker defined behavior in this case

]]>Sun, 24 May 2026 02:16:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253678random_mutexhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253678https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253678<![CDATA[New comment by random_mutex in "//go:fix inline and the source-level inliner"]]>Magic comments have no place in a programming language

]]>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:13:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47354964random_mutexhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47354964https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47354964<![CDATA[New comment by random_mutex in "-fbounds-safety: Enforcing bounds safety for C"]]>A panic in Rust is easier to diagnose and fix than some error or grabage data that was caused by an out of bounds access in some random place in the call stack

]]>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:37:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074959random_mutexhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074959https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074959<![CDATA[New comment by random_mutex in "-fbounds-safety: Enforcing bounds safety for C"]]>There is use after free

]]>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:31:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074880random_mutexhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074880https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074880<![CDATA[New comment by random_mutex in "Banned C++ features in Chromium"]]>Because of compiler support

]]>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:04:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46745272random_mutexhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46745272https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46745272<![CDATA[New comment by random_mutex in "Scaling long-running autonomous coding"]]>Most likely LLMs are better at writing react

]]>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 06:09:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46643509random_mutexhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46643509https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46643509<![CDATA[New comment by random_mutex in "Scaling long-running autonomous coding"]]>It doesn't compile so no victory

]]>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 06:09:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46643501random_mutexhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46643501https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46643501<![CDATA[New comment by random_mutex in "An Honest Review of Go (2025)"]]>If you delve, pun intended, into the stdlib you'll find out it's a pleasure to run away from it.

]]>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:13:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629613random_mutexhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629613https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629613<![CDATA[New comment by random_mutex in "An Honest Review of Go (2025)"]]>I find the error story a horror one, mainly because it's quite easy to omit an error check when the err variable is reused which leads to weird crashes and garbage data, same happens when the error is explicitly ignored.

]]>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:11:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629590random_mutexhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629590https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629590<![CDATA[New comment by random_mutex in "An Honest Review of Go (2025)"]]>I wouldn't call tuples or error types weird, they're just poorly designed under the pretense of keeping the language (and first of all the compiler) simple.

It's not Go who popularized channel based concurrency, it's Erlang and Elixir.

]]>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:08:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629570random_mutexhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629570https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629570<![CDATA[New comment by random_mutex in "Go is 80/20 language"]]>More like 60/40

]]>Sun, 29 Jun 2025 08:44:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44411356random_mutexhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44411356https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44411356<![CDATA[New comment by random_mutex in "Show HN: Rill – Composable concurrency toolkit for Go"]]>value := int16((any(0xcafe)).(int))

]]>Sat, 30 Nov 2024 08:39:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42280393random_mutexhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42280393https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42280393<![CDATA[New comment by random_mutex in "More powerful Go execution traces"]]>TS tooling excels at preventing you from getting work done

]]>Fri, 15 Mar 2024 06:23:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39712575random_mutexhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39712575https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39712575<![CDATA[New comment by random_mutex in "Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive"]]>Eich = guy who created JavaScript

]]>Sat, 24 Feb 2024 20:40:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39494976random_mutexhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39494976https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39494976<![CDATA[New comment by random_mutex in "Err = Nil Sucks (Or Does It)"]]>In TypeScript or Python or any other language with unchecked exceptions you will rethrow and very likely the exception will be caught by te runtime when you least expect because someone else didn't bother handling it.

]]>Sun, 24 Dec 2023 08:55:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38752224random_mutexhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38752224https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38752224<![CDATA[Err = Nil Sucks (Or Does It)]]>Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZhwOWvoR3I

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38746051

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

]]>Sat, 23 Dec 2023 17:30:51 +0000https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZhwOWvoR3Irandom_mutexhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38746051https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38746051<![CDATA[New comment by random_mutex in "C++ Should Be C++"]]>That's what will end the AI hype.

]]>Thu, 21 Dec 2023 04:15:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38716945random_mutexhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38716945https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38716945<![CDATA[New comment by random_mutex in "Does uBlock Origin bypass the latest YouTube anti-adblock script?"]]>Were they losing or weren't they making enough to satisfy their greed?

]]>Wed, 06 Dec 2023 21:28:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38549722random_mutexhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38549722https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38549722<![CDATA[New comment by random_mutex in "Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware"]]>There are custom repositories and the ability to install packages from disk

]]>Wed, 13 Sep 2023 07:50:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37493514random_mutexhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37493514https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37493514<![CDATA[New comment by random_mutex in "The fear of a nuclear fire that would consume Earth"]]>And an some specimens from our species could do it with less

]]>Sun, 10 Sep 2023 20:25:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37459685random_mutexhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37459685https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37459685