<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: rowanG077</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rowanG077</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:41:54 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=rowanG077" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowanG077 in "How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If your game fits in the bounds of N64 hardware it makes perfect sense IMO. You basically get virtually all modern platforms for free. Much easier than wrestling with all the modern API that are "platform independent" but not really.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:40:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49195331</link><dc:creator>rowanG077</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49195331</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49195331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowanG077 in "Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studio"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can purchase much cheaper TB to pcie converts in china. You add some generic 12v power and you're done.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:57:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136122</link><dc:creator>rowanG077</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136122</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowanG077 in "Go Analysis Framework: modular static analysis by go team"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you really being so obtuse? Of course in real code you might use the error. For printing, forwarding it to a logging frame or anything else. The point is the error does not guard access to the return value. Here basically the same example:<p>package main<p>import (
 "errors"
 "fmt"
)<p>func getMessage() (string, error) {
 return "DO NOT INSPECT", errors.New("something went wrong")
}<p>func main() {
 msg, err := getMessage()
 fmt.Println(msg)
 fmt.Println(err)
}</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 08:25:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49066630</link><dc:creator>rowanG077</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49066630</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49066630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowanG077 in "Go Analysis Framework: modular static analysis by go team"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Did you ever use go?<p>```
package main<p>import (
 "errors"
 "fmt"
)<p>func getMessage() (string, error) {
 return "DO NOT INSPECT", errors.New("something went wrong")
}<p>func main() {
 msg, _ := getMessage() // Ignore the error.
 fmt.Println(msg)
}
```<p>Compiles normally and prints "DO NOT INSPECT"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 07:43:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49066280</link><dc:creator>rowanG077</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49066280</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49066280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowanG077 in "Go Analysis Framework: modular static analysis by go team"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unwrap is an explicit action. Checking an error is usually just forgotten. No unwrap can enter your code without the dev being accutely aware of it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 06:29:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49065827</link><dc:creator>rowanG077</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49065827</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49065827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowanG077 in "It's not empowering to hand off the details"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It does that, yeah. But my experience mostly in codex with gpt 5.5 and 5.6 is that if you micromanage it enough you can get clear code. It just gets really annoying to repeatedly do that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 06:17:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49065747</link><dc:creator>rowanG077</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49065747</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49065747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowanG077 in "Memory safety absolutists"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I program mostly in Rust, Haskell and Python nowadays. I indeed would love to go gc-less dependently typed. But I work in a team where the code I build is expected to be maintained by other devs. And going that route is unfortunately not tenable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:40:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49055669</link><dc:creator>rowanG077</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49055669</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49055669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowanG077 in "Memory safety absolutists"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree. Rust does not go far enough imo. Still catching most memory problems at compile time is still much superior.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:41:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49052474</link><dc:creator>rowanG077</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49052474</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49052474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowanG077 in "Memory safety absolutists"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Something that is important to me is that it's caught at compile time. A memory issue is a logic bug. Fil-c simply moves that from undefined behavior/security issue/incorrectness to a crash. That's better than what it was. But I generally don't want my programs to crash. Having memory safety at compile time is much more worthwhile imo.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:12:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49051619</link><dc:creator>rowanG077</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49051619</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49051619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowanG077 in "OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Get real, you think LLMs got to where they are by training on 80 year old works? Your point is technically true, just basically irrelevant for LLM training.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:25:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022169</link><dc:creator>rowanG077</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022169</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowanG077 in "Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I really don't think that's true. Of course after the fact a counter example looks easy. Because look at it, it's obviously that it doesn't work. But that disregards the process of finding it. That requires great creativity(or computational resources if the problem is tractable at all).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:06:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998330</link><dc:creator>rowanG077</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998330</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowanG077 in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>These models are not copies, distillation is simply a part in the pipeline. suggesting that the Chinese models are full copies through distillation is simply wrong. Just because they are distilling does not mean they are not innovating. In fact there is pretty much a consensus in industry that in terms of model size/performance the chinese models are better. But of course we don't know the exact model sizes because OpenAI and Anthropic are not giving access to their models.<p>> Blatantly against ToS of any of the major labs hence their efforts to prevent it.<p>ToS are actively malicious and fortunately not worth the paper they are printed on. Violating a ToS is not illegal or "cheating".<p>> Not saying you are actually a Chinese astroturfer but this is essentially exactly what I would expect one to be saying.<p>The AI industry in china has been acting a lot more moral and forward looking than the, to be frank, mustache twirling evil US parties of Anthropic and OpenAI. Perhaps take that into account before randomly spewing accusations of astroturing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:53:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48984744</link><dc:creator>rowanG077</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48984744</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48984744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowanG077 in "Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Does anything truly better exist? I'm not a mathematician but I did use Rocq and Lean during university. And I found lean to be better.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:32:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976333</link><dc:creator>rowanG077</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976333</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowanG077 in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ah yes, because if a person agrees with anything a chinese company does it must be because they love Xi. Get real.<p>Munching of the top student in a class is clearly prohibited. Distillation is not cheating, it's learning from your competitor. Akin to a company purchasing their competitor thingamajig to see if you can improve their own product.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:32:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951985</link><dc:creator>rowanG077</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951985</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowanG077 in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Given that model distillation has existed since the early days of the current AI boom, and no robust defense has been demonstrated, the available evidence does not support your theory.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:16:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48940996</link><dc:creator>rowanG077</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48940996</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48940996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowanG077 in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Distillation is not an attack. It simply a way to train a model. Not doing it when you are behind is akin to snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:59:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48940153</link><dc:creator>rowanG077</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48940153</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48940153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowanG077 in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is just not true. Not even electricity or hell water is globally available.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:59:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48939483</link><dc:creator>rowanG077</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48939483</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48939483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowanG077 in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That someone needs to vent is not proof of anything. People get their panties twisted for the tiniest things. I would expect that if Andrew had a real valid reason than it would appear in this post. But it's really nothing but personal attacks with little substance.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:43:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48884592</link><dc:creator>rowanG077</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48884592</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48884592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowanG077 in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is no C/C++ static analyzer that can guarantee what rust does: full memory safety.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:30:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48884471</link><dc:creator>rowanG077</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48884471</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48884471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowanG077 in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nothing superficial about 120K USD donations. I have personally seen nothing but good vibes coming from Bun to Zig and Andrew. Re-writing is not "throwing under the bus" you make it out to be.</p>
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