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New comment by roetlich in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

roetlich — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:24:30 +0000

Love the exclamation marks. So let's just use, for example, this definition: https://www.britannica.com/topic/ad-hominem

Here it's a type of argument, and it's only sometimes a fallacy. Seems like this how it's defined most of the time, unless you explicitly look for "ad hominem fallacy". Ad hominem without any context can be vague, I guess, so I tried to be more explicit.

I don't know, maybe I'm wrong, English isn't my first language, but I think "Obvious Fabrication" (capital letters) is a bit silly.

New comment by roetlich in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

roetlich — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:40:45 +0000

Oh yes, I didn't clarify that I meant an argumentum ad hominem, which isn't the same thing as the informal fallacy of the same name. So yeah, I agree, this isn't directly fallacious.

New comment by roetlich in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

roetlich — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:21:58 +0000

> if Andrew isn't trying to enter the discussion

But he is. Both in the title, and in later half of the blog post, he directly enters that discussion. I'm not saying an ad hominem argument is always bad, but this clearly is one.

New comment by roetlich in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

roetlich — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:24:13 +0000

No, the discussion started with a the article from Bun, stating that rust has some technical advantages for them. The response from the Zig creator is a bunch of personal attacks directed at one guy, like calling him a stinky manager. All of these are fully unrelated to which language is better for Bun.

This is like the textbook definition of an ad hominem.

New comment by roetlich in "IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology"

roetlich — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:29:30 +0000

Well, this seems like a very dangerous way of using AI. If you keep pushing until you get back an answer that makes sense to you, you might just get your own believes fed back to you.

New comment by roetlich in "GitHub Copilot App"

roetlich — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:38:58 +0000

Who would have thought that git worktree is the technology of the year 2026?

New comment by roetlich in "Show HN: 500 years of Joseon court omens as an observability dashboard"

roetlich — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:09:37 +0000

Great, now we need this with current data for modern governments

New comment by roetlich in "Show HN: Chestnut – The antidote to AI-induced skill atrophy"

roetlich — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:48:44 +0000

Great idea, to include learning into the regular work.

Can you explain how the lessons are generated?

It looks like there are no pre-generated lessons, they are created on the fly by the AI. Wouldn't it be possible to write a skill or similar that does the same with your existing coding agent?

New comment by roetlich in "Graphs that explain the state of AI in 2026"

roetlich — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 23:30:01 +0000

My Firefox doesn't accept your https cert. Maybe check that out?

New comment by roetlich in "Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work"

roetlich — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:15:41 +0000

What does "done offline" mean? Otherwise you are limited by context window.

New comment by roetlich in "LibreOffice and the art of overreacting"

roetlich — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:56:15 +0000

"Managment" usually are office workers.

New comment by roetlich in "OpenAI – How to delete your account"

roetlich — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:19:58 +0000

> Does it continue if you agree to the warning?

No, you can't "agree".

> What if you ask about 9/11?

It answers the question.

New comment by roetlich in "Crafting Interpreters"

roetlich — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:44:34 +0000

Well, most interpreters use a compiler internally, for example to compile to byte code. The book explains that as well, so I'd recommend just reading it: https://craftinginterpreters.com/a-map-of-the-territory.html...

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

roetlich — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:51:57 +0000

Thanks, will fix! Haven't maintaineed the website in a bit :)

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

roetlich — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:45:19 +0000

https://till.red/ :)

New comment by roetlich in "C++ Web Server on my custom hobby OS"

roetlich — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 17:19:44 +0000

Very cool! Why was and the entire networking stack straight forward, but not HTTP (and TCP)? Could you take inspiration form other projects for things like DNS?

New comment by roetlich in "I DM'd a Korean presidential candidate and ended up building his core campaign"

roetlich — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 15:01:59 +0000

Interesting! The article talks mostly about how this all worked, but rarely about what was actually discussed. Which opinions of the party do you like or support?

New comment by roetlich in "Advent of Code 2025: Number of puzzles reduce from 25 to 12 for the first time"

roetlich — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 11:14:01 +0000

> one door per day until it's Christmas eve

That would be 24.

New comment by roetlich in "Dumb Pipe"

roetlich — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 10:56:18 +0000

What?

I think there must be some misunderstanding? I think deathanatos just wants an easy way to send files between computers when the internet is down, which seems decently reasonable.

New comment by roetlich in "Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default"

roetlich — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 12:52:54 +0000

Then don't turn it on?