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New comment by roflcopter69 in "Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark"

roflcopter69 — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:43:07 +0000

Sounds interesting! Please don't forget to link that in this comment thread :)

Deno 2.8

roflcopter69 — Fri, 22 May 2026 11:23:30 +0000

Article URL: https://deno.com/blog/v2.8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234380

Points: 275

# Comments: 122

New comment by roflcopter69 in "Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5"

roflcopter69 — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:21:18 +0000

I recommend reading the entire article

  Together with SpaceXAI, we're training a significantly larger model from scratch, using 10x more total compute.
  With Colossus 2's million H100-equivalents and our combined data and training techniques, we expect this to be a major leap in model capability.

Turso v0.6.0

roflcopter69 — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:08:36 +0000

Article URL: https://turso.tech/blog/turso-0.6.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139791

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by roflcopter69 in "Codex downloaded by Xcode 26.4.1 reported as Malware"

roflcopter69 — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:55:26 +0000

New comment by roflcopter69 in "PySimpleGUI 6"

roflcopter69 — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:17:52 +0000

Thanks for the answer. Sounds alright for the one's stuck with the Python ecosystem I suppose.

New comment by roflcopter69 in "SubQ: a sub-quadratic LLM with 12M-token context"

roflcopter69 — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:16:23 +0000

I'm usually okay with most LLM-assisted writing, but the amount of "it's not X. it's Y" style of phrases in https://subq.ai/how-ssa-makes-long-context-practical is disturbing.

Also, holy moly, the astroturfing.

But I'll still keep an eye on what they'll show up with in the next months. Sounds intriguing.

New comment by roflcopter69 in "PySimpleGUI 6"

roflcopter69 — Fri, 08 May 2026 06:54:25 +0000

How has your experience with NiceGUI been like? I was thinking about giving it a try some day but didn't get the chance to do so.

New comment by roflcopter69 in "Bevy game development tutorials and in-depth resources"

roflcopter69 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:29:01 +0000

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

New comment by roflcopter69 in "Bevy game development tutorials and in-depth resources"

roflcopter69 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:23:35 +0000

There's also ongoing work on the (for now hidden) Bevy Book https://bevy.org/learn/book/intro/

Already seems like a great resource to me but it's still WIP.

New comment by roflcopter69 in "Union types in C# 15"

roflcopter69 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:51:20 +0000

That actually sounds like a promising idea. Thanks for putting so much thought into this.

New comment by roflcopter69 in "Union types in C# 15"

roflcopter69 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:47:03 +0000

Hi! Love to see that C# language designers are here on HN :)

Just wanted to add just another opinion on a few things.

I think many people already mentioned it, but I also don't feel to good about non-boxed unions not being the default. I'd personally like the path of least resistance to lead to not boxing. Having to opt-in like the current preview shows it looks like a PITA that I'd quickly become tired of.

Also, ad-hoc union types could be really nice. At least in Python those are really nice, stuff like `def foo(x: str | int)` is just very nice. If I had to first give this union type a name I'd enjoy it way less.

But I'm aware that you are trying your best to find a good trade-off and I'm sure I don't know all the implications of the things I wish you'd do. But I just wanted to mention those to have another data point you can weigh into your decision process.

New comment by roflcopter69 in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

roflcopter69 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:28:20 +0000

Of course the "wait 7 days" are not a silver bullet, but it gives automated scanners plenty of time to do their work. Those automated scanners surely catch this `eval(base64.decode("..."))` stuff that some of those attacks used so in my book this dependency cooldown is a net win. I guess the skilled malicious actors will then up their game but I think it's okay to kick off an arms race between them and the security scanners in the dependency world.

Godot-Rust v0.5 Release

roflcopter69 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 01:16:53 +0000

Article URL: https://godot-rust.github.io/dev/march-2026-update/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47550512

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by roflcopter69 in "Swift 6.3"

roflcopter69 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:56:05 +0000

I tried Swift a few months ago in a project that made use of a bunch of bigger dependencies and I was instantly shocked by the compilation times. It's quite unimaginable to me using Swift for everyday work because of that. Especially when coming from the fast compile times of Go. But it's really unfortunate because I really enjoyed writing Swift because it feels like a very well made language. But iterating on some code and trying to get quick feedback is pure pain.

New comment by roflcopter69 in "ARC-AGI-3"

roflcopter69 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:08:22 +0000

About the lag, I didn't bother looking into it, but I suspect they log every single action you do and require that the request to their servers was confirmed before allowing to do the next action. They probably face a lot of traffic right now, which could cause the lag. Just speculation though.

New comment by roflcopter69 in "Mojo's Not (Yet) Python"

roflcopter69 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:21:05 +0000

I can't help myself but see this as a very strangely written article that does not meaningfully contribute anything? Did the author didn't bother to do some basic research and just dumped a bunch of thoughts, speculation and questionable code/command snippets?

To quote from https://docs.modular.com/mojo/roadmap/

  Mojo may or may not evolve into a full superset of Python, and it's okay if it doesn't.

New comment by roflcopter69 in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

roflcopter69 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:34:02 +0000

Definitely pixi imo. At least for me it works just as well as uv and imo does even more than uv by giving you the ability to mix dependencies from pypi.org and Conda. And the great thing about Conda is that they still build PyTorch for Intel Macs or OpenCV for macOS 11+ which is not the case for the wheels you'll find on pypi.org so it's really great if you want to build software that is shipped to a variety of old platforms.

New comment by roflcopter69 in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

roflcopter69 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:31:06 +0000

Can highly recommend pixi. It really is the "uv but for Conda" and actually quite a bit more imo. Don't know how relevant this is for you, but many packages like PyTorch are not being built for Intel Macs anymore or some packages like OpenCV are built such that they require macOS 13+. That's usually not too much of a problem on your most likely pretty modern dev machine but when shipping software to customers you want to support old machines. In the Conda ecosystem, stuff is being built for a wide variety of platforms, much more than the wheels you'd find on pypi.org so that can be very useful.

So I can really recommend you trying pixi. You can even mix dependencies from pypi.org with the ones from Conda so for most cases you really get the best of both worlds. Also the maintainers are really nice and responsive on their Discord server.

New comment by roflcopter69 in "Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uv/ruff/ty"

roflcopter69 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:26:47 +0000

+1 for Conda. I also have to mention pixi (https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi) which kinda is a uv for the Conda ecosystem. Highly recommend!