<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: scuff3d</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=scuff3d</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 01:58:39 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=scuff3d" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scuff3d in "Zig's new bitCast semantics and LLVM back end improvements"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Usually I bounce between the Zig and Odin discords, as well as the Handmade Network discord.</p>
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<p>Why I've moved more to a couple of language/software dev discords and away from Hacker News. Way too much uninteresting AI nonsense on here for a while now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 02:54:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48681829</link><dc:creator>scuff3d</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48681829</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48681829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scuff3d in "Steam Machine launches today"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oof, that price point is rough. I hope this does well for them, but I'm not sure who this is for.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:33:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48633180</link><dc:creator>scuff3d</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48633180</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48633180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scuff3d in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On a semi-related note, I bought a Pixel phone about a month ago, and I'm shocked by how unpolished it is. I've had so many little annoyances pop up, issues I never had on other android phones. Keyboard hiding/appearing when it's not suppose to, bluetooth dropping, WiFi dropping, network switching taking forever, screen becoming unresponsive... It's mostly all small things, but they really start to add up after a while.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:28:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48482974</link><dc:creator>scuff3d</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48482974</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48482974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scuff3d in "Are you expected to run five Python type-checkers now?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seriously, just switch to Go or something</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:52:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48446967</link><dc:creator>scuff3d</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48446967</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48446967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scuff3d in "Zig by Example"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Rust didn't have nearly the industry adoption it does now back in 2020, but it was gaining traction in various parts of the community. If you learned it back then it was either because you love it, or you thought it had staying power.<p>I think Zig does, specifically because of its build system and it's C interopt story. Plus Zig has the added advantage that learning it teaches you about how the computer works, how memory gets laid out, etc. So even if it never gets wide adoption the skills are highly transferable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:42:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48446832</link><dc:creator>scuff3d</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48446832</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48446832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scuff3d in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can't. It's a worse case scenario. It got vibe coded but I don't have access to AI tools to undo it. Basically the company was running a test on some tools, one engineer went ham and the thing ended up getting used, then the company decided to drop the ban hammer on the tools.</p>
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<p>Literally in the middle of ripping apart a vibe coded mess at work to figure out what's even worth keeping. Not fun :(</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:32:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48390398</link><dc:creator>scuff3d</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48390398</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48390398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scuff3d in "Zig: Build System Reworked"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's a lot of little things that just added up, but I think the clearest example was the exchange regarding Andrew's pay from the foundation. I don't have an issue with him being paid for the work, or the amount he's taking, I would be surprised if anyone really did, but the way the interview asked the question came off as "Oh you're only making x? You should be paid so much more", and Andrew even commented in it saying "...it sounds like you're implying I deserve more...". I'm of course paraphrasing, but that's the impression I walked away with.<p>The questions also had a tendency to be somewhat shallow. There were a lot of places where it felt like the interviewer was queuing Andrew to respond to criticism or explain controversial choices made for the language or tool chain, but the interviewer doesn't really follow up on them are point out what the issues might be.<p>It might have been expectations I guess. I was hoping for an interesting technical interview and instead it seemed like a fluff piece.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 19:09:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339644</link><dc:creator>scuff3d</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339644</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scuff3d in "Zig: Build System Reworked"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have a lot of respect for Andrew, and I really enjoy Zig, but God that interview was awful. Andrews answers were fine, but the whole thing felt very sycophantic.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 16:59:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338381</link><dc:creator>scuff3d</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338381</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scuff3d in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As far as I'm concerned Bun has been extremely irresponsible with this entire rewrite, and it calls into question their entire development philosophy. Any project that cares about stability and reliability should steer clear of Bun for a while.</p>
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<p>Congratulations to everyone who uses Bun. You're now working as alpha testers for Anthropic... for free.<p>Anyone using Bun should consider migrating away immediately. Not because of the LLM angle, but because of how insanely irresponsible this is.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 20:12:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140614</link><dc:creator>scuff3d</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140614</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scuff3d in "The limits of Rust, or why you should probably not follow Amazon and Cloudflare"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thank you for so aptly demonstrating what I deal with at work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 16:59:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48124509</link><dc:creator>scuff3d</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48124509</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48124509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scuff3d in "The limits of Rust, or why you should probably not follow Amazon and Cloudflare"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The annoying thing about Rust, or at least the hype around Rust, is that people want to in use it for bloody everything.<p>We have absolutely no need for it at work. We're writing micro services that run in K8s with no extreme performance requirements. Nobody on the team knows the language (I know it better than the people arguing for it, and I don't know more then the basics). And yet, every couple of weeks, I'm having to talk someone out of switching certain services over to it. It's like a damn disease.</p>
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<p>I feel like this article was circling a point it never actually got to. All the advice in here (except controlling scope creep) is specific to a TUI with an elm like architecture.<p>But here's the thing, you almost never know what the architecture is up front. If you do you probably aren't the one writing the actual code anymore. Writing the code, with or without an AI <i>is</i> part of the design process. For most people it isn't until they've tried several times, fucked it up a bunch, and refactored or rewrote even more that you actually know what the architecture needs to be.</p>
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<p>This is awesome! I'll have to try reading through the code when I have more time.<p>It would be awesome to read a blog post about the project. Your approach, lessons learned, unexpected stuff, etc.</p>
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<p>You missed the point.<p>People want to use stuff like this as somehow evidence for AI being able to write entire software systems in a few days. We saw the same shit with the "compiler" they made with a bunch of agents. Literally the only reason it's possible is because the hundreds of thousands of man hours and God knows how much money that was poured into the reference projects befoes the AI got anywhere near it.<p>To replicate this kind of thing with a green field project would take an absolute ton of spec work and requirements derivation, which will substantially eat into any savings from having AI generate it.<p>The accomplishment itself is interesting, and unlocks opportunities to do work no one would have bothered with before, but it doesn't represent what a lot of people desperately want it to.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 22:14:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48078805</link><dc:creator>scuff3d</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48078805</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48078805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scuff3d in "The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Three out of four of the top comments don't even directly engage with the point of the article. They're focusing on nitpicking elements of it or just going off on a tangent only somewhat related.</p>
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<p>Not to mention to even attempt something like this from scratch would take hundreds of hours if spec work. I see it all day everyday in the aerospace sector. Software engineers have absolutely no idea what deriving a design document and all its associated artifacts actually looks like, and they're in for a rude surprise if the industry really does shift hard that direction</p>
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<p>Look what it can do in 6 days!<p>Ignore the hundreds of thousands of hours put into the original architecture and test suite that made it possible in the first place.</p>
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