Hacker News: shikck200

New comment by shikck200 in "Can I use my Outputs to train an AI model?"

shikck200 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:11:29 +0000

They stole all the data, and then dont want you to steal it back. Its basically Robin Hood all over again.

New comment by shikck200 in "Delta"

shikck200 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:10:09 +0000

God i hate this non stop AI slopfest

New comment by shikck200 in "Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library"

shikck200 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 05:13:23 +0000

Looks like OPs post was flagged. I have also seen this on multiple ocations. To me this is REALLY fishy. Since the janestreet fraud there has been a massive campaign online to downplay all negative comments, disable comments on JS videos, and overall radio silence.

I know some long term ocaml users and i can tell you that there is stuff boiling under the hood. Many are very much NOT HAPPY with JS and what they did.

New comment by shikck200 in "A migrant surge tests Spain's open policies"

shikck200 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:25:03 +0000

So immigrants flooded the border, and then noticed they never actually left Africa? What kind of dumb is this?

New comment by shikck200 in "Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types"

shikck200 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:23:13 +0000

Java? No thanks. I have some horrible memories from the ugliness, verbosity of Java. The cherry on the cake is the huge hog of an runtime called the JVM. Also java semi-forces you to have some bulky IDE. Last i looked there was no core java lsp server bundled in the tooling.

Java is the enterprise language that make programming suck.

New comment by shikck200 in "Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types"

shikck200 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:05:11 +0000

Go never was "no generics". It had generics rusted in from the get-go, but never implemented them as it was a complex feature and one that made the compiler slower. Im glad they waited. Compare to PHP, where every feature is bolted on and then you end up supporting it forever.

New comment by shikck200 in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

shikck200 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 09:16:57 +0000

Thats pretty limited. How do i buy a car with monero? A house? How about can i pay for medical treatment with monero?

New comment by shikck200 in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

shikck200 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 09:14:36 +0000

> WikiLeaks and SecureDrop would disagree.

This is just nonsense. You can also then argue we should ban email. I can get an anon throwaway email and send some leaked document that way to, say a reporter.

> Chat Control 2.0

Has nothing to with with cryptography. Banning that would mean we have no ssl, and no online payments / banking.

New comment by shikck200 in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

shikck200 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:35:28 +0000

Why would P2P/E2EE software be banned? Makes no sense to even compare that to crypto. Its like saying we ban C because the bitcoin is written in it.

> Software that gets used to leak state secrets?

Thats not really a "thing". If someone uploads something of the sorts, it probably going to be taken down. VPNs follow the same rules as P2P/E2EE, and has nothing to do with crypto.

Just look at github, they have taken down multiple repos during the years that are illegal, and/or breaks their TOS.

New comment by shikck200 in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

shikck200 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:28:13 +0000

I hear this over and over. What kind of privacy are we taking about here? You mean X gives Y 100 bucks in cash privacy? Or purchasing a house where there is no paper trail, no knowledge of who is the previous/current owner and no insurance at all kind of privacy?

Would you be happy to send your kids to a school that no one knows whos the owner, who operates it and if there is any kind of hazards and/or insurance/maintenance? Lets not even talk about how and what the teachers get paid, as its all fully private.

New comment by shikck200 in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

shikck200 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:07:41 +0000

We can send normal FIAT pretty much anywhere in the world, instantly. There might be some places that are truly out-of-reach, but at the same time, crypto is probably not working there neither as a) there i literally no computers and b) no way to use the crypto. So you end up exchanging crypto for fiat, and pay a high fee in the process.

New comment by shikck200 in "Incremental – A library for incremental computations"

shikck200 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:58:08 +0000

Jane street was/is a top user of ocaml, they kind of flushed their reputation down the toilet with they massive fraud in the asian markets. IIRC the entire company got banned from trading inside India, hongkong etc.

After they got caught most of their online posts/videos either got deleted, or locked so you could not comment on them.

I had hoped their front guy for ocaml, Ron Minsky had atleast made some sort of statement. Currently no ones know how deep that fraud went, but what we know ocaml was used in the fraud, damagine ocaml ecosystem too.

New comment by shikck200 in "Clojure Hosted on Go"

shikck200 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 03:36:10 +0000

Thats pretty sweet.

How does the repl work? Does it compile to Go, then execute? Or does it ship with a full vm? Most go repls are really slow because they need to compile/execute (they fake the "e" part in repl). Its a niche case, but could enable some fun projects.

New comment by shikck200 in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

shikck200 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:26:33 +0000

Why is this not the default? I removed homebrew years ago, because it was just full of nasty surprises like this. Does homebrew still share dependencies? Previously you could not have package A with a transitive dependency of lib-X = v1.2 and B that requires lib-X = v.0.7.

New comment by shikck200 in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

shikck200 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:47:09 +0000

Paywalled.

New comment by shikck200 in "Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language"

shikck200 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:49:07 +0000

Ocaml is just an ML in the traditional sense. It keep scope without curlies. There is really not much else to it.

New comment by shikck200 in "Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language"

shikck200 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:46:46 +0000

Lisette actually looks really nice! I huge improvement over Go (even i am really fond of the go runtime)

New comment by shikck200 in "Does anybody like React?"

shikck200 — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:24:11 +0000

There is many "like react" things out there. I avoid full fledged frameworks like the pest, but something like solid.js is probably the one that matches how i think of webdev.

New comment by shikck200 in "Rhombus Language"

shikck200 — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 11:56:30 +0000

I have aliases for these kinds of general things (in vim) for most languages i use. Eg. if im inside a typescript file i have a mapping produces if ($obj) { $ } and i tab to enter the next "$" to insert the correct things.

The same goes fo Go. I have a mapping for if err != nil { ... } and the cursor is places inside the block.

I dont understand why people dont use this kind of thing for the most common programming constructs.

New comment by shikck200 in "PHP 8.4.4 Released"

shikck200 — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 05:03:46 +0000

Why is the only PHP defence i hear always the same "use a framework!". I did those for decades, and they always end up sucking. Either you need to hack around them, they have shitty defaults and finally they are abandoned and bitrot without any way of rewriting because of the huge size of the app.

How about just write the code, using the stdlib and picking highly focused libraries for things you dont want to write (crypto, drivers etc.) your self.