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New comment by remexre in "ReactOS Shows Improved Stability and 64-Bit Support at Chemnitz Linux Days 2026"

remexre — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:56:46 +0000

pidfd, eventfd, AF_NETLINK, epoll, memfd, timerfd?

New comment by remexre in "We rewrote our Rust WASM parser in TypeScript and it got faster"

remexre — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 02:36:19 +0000

you're thinking of the programs in low-level langs that survived their higher-level-lang competitors; if you plot the programs on your machine by age, how does the low quartile compare on reliability between programs written in each group

CHERIoT Rust: Status update #0

remexre — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:02:46 +0000

Article URL: https://rust.cheriot.org/2026/02/15/status-update.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47153354

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by remexre in "Steel Bank Common Lisp"

remexre — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 05:50:13 +0000

my impression is that most CL these days is existing large closed-source codebases, hence the price tag for those compilers (you're not trying it out for a bit, you're funding the compiler devs to work full-time on the issues you're actually having) and relatively little open-source activity for "finished" things -- if you're developing against internal libraries, it's hard to open-source just the part you intend to

(work at a CL shop; mostly SBCL users, but maybe 1/3 of people are die-hard ACL fans)

New comment by remexre in "Defer available in gcc and clang"

remexre — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:58:37 +0000

https://0pointer.net/blog/file-descriptor-limits.html

New comment by remexre in "FlashAttention-T: Towards Tensorized Attention"

remexre — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 06:36:45 +0000

how does this compare to MoSA (arXiv:2505.00315)? do you require that there's a single contiguous window? and do you literally predict on position, or with a computed feature?

New comment by remexre in "Data Processing Benchmark Featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc."

remexre — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 09:49:19 +0000

c++ certainly also has and needs a similarly sufficiently smart compiler to be compiled at all…

Anthropic: Who's in Charge? Disempowerment Patterns in Real-World LLM Usage

remexre — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:04:00 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19062

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46811142

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by remexre in "Crafting Interpreters"

remexre — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 02:32:18 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexer_hack

Make your parser call back into your lexer, so it can pass state to it; make the set of type names available to it.

New comment by remexre in "A university got itself banned from the Linux kernel (2021)"

remexre — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:52:08 +0000

The point of an IRB is to act as an outside reviewer of _ethics_. IRBs aren't some checklist thing admin put in to protect the University's reputation, they exist as a direct reaction to huge amounts of unethical human experimentation occurring last century.

New comment by remexre in "Sampling at negative temperature"

remexre — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:42:19 +0000

There's usually an if(temp == 0) to change sampling methods to "highest probability" -- if you remove that conditional but otherwise keep the same math, that's not deterministic either.

Clicks Power Keyboard

remexre — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:06:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.clicks.tech/powerkeyboard

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46559332

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by remexre in "Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%"

remexre — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 15:07:22 +0000

What properties are you validating? ld.so/libdl don't give you a ton more than "these symbols were present/absent."

New comment by remexre in "Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%"

remexre — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 15:01:59 +0000

If you're trying to audit React, don't you either need to audit its build artifacts rather than its source, or audit those dev dependencies too?

New comment by remexre in "Scaling Latent Reasoning via Looped Language Models"

remexre — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 16:53:25 +0000

Or more like,

    x = tokenize(input)
    i = 0
    do {
      finish, x = layers(x)
    } while(!finish && i++ < t_max);
    output = lm_head(x)

Scaling Latent Reasoning via Looped Language Models

remexre — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 21:34:33 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25741

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46481849

Points: 84

# Comments: 15

New comment by remexre in "Extensibility: The "100% Lisp" Fallacy"

remexre — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 10:39:27 +0000

How would algebraic types work with SLIME? If I remove a constructor from my algebraic type, what happens to values of that type that are built with that constructor that're stored in globals?

In the same way that non-hygienic macros in a Lisp-2 with a CL-style package system are a local optimum, many non-obvious design choices in the Common Lisp type system and CLOS make SLIME "just work" in almost every case.

New comment by remexre in "Odin: Moving Towards a New "core:OS""

remexre — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 04:36:36 +0000

> get into "unsafe" states on purpose

see, this seems like something that's nice to actually put into the types; a Ptr is a real pointer that all the normal optimizations can be done to, but cannot be null or otherwise invalid, and UnsafePtr makes the compiler keep its distance and allows whatever tricks you want.

New comment by remexre in "LearnixOS"

remexre — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 17:39:46 +0000

This only covers what's in https://wiki.osdev.org/Bare_Bones, but in Rust, right?

New comment by remexre in "Big GPUs don't need big PCs"

remexre — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:16:36 +0000

For each token generated, you only send one token’s worth between layers; the previous tokens are in the KV cache.