Hacker News: silon42

New comment by silon42 in "Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick"

silon42 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:30:37 +0000

It's like googling... if you have skillz/experience you can google almost anything with 3-4 words...

New comment by silon42 in "AWS engineer reports PostgreSQL perf halved by Linux 7.0, fix may not be easy"

silon42 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:31:08 +0000

If you are spinning so long that it requires preemption, you're doing something wrong, no?

New comment by silon42 in "Show HN: Sycamore – next gen Rust web UI library using fine-grained reactivity"

silon42 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:12:51 +0000

For simple stuff, qml is OK/better (except the JS part)... but for some more complicated views I'd want qwidgets.

New comment by silon42 in "Show HN: Sycamore – next gen Rust UI library powered by fine-grained reactivity"

silon42 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:10:29 +0000

I get: Uncaught (in promise) ReferenceError: WebAssembly is not defined

New comment by silon42 in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

silon42 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:51:07 +0000

Yes, that why those need to be 100% sandboxed by default (ideally a VM), unless they are provided by distro

New comment by silon42 in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

silon42 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:00:16 +0000

Same here.. Overpass Mono was chosen for me, but several were quite close.

Also, black backgrounds require bolder fonts.

New comment by silon42 in "I hate: Programming Wayland applications"

silon42 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:07:53 +0000

You underestimate youself as a 13 year old... if you had to, you'd do it (given time).

New comment by silon42 in "Western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance"

silon42 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 08:48:46 +0000

Or maybe there aren't good EVs... however, ICEs are becoming worse, so the crossover might be happening eventually.

New comment by silon42 in "Western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance"

silon42 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 08:44:24 +0000

Yeah, I don't want OTA or "software"... Just make it simple and make it work. For everything complicated that needs"fixing" there's a phone.

New comment by silon42 in "No Semicolons Needed"

silon42 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 07:47:56 +0000

IMO, that is the only acceptable situation where semicolons can be removed from the language... if you need to add indentation rules, you've failed.

New comment by silon42 in "No Semicolons Needed"

silon42 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 07:46:28 +0000

looks cool..

Alternatively, I've several times used 'pass' as block terminator for my personal code.

New comment by silon42 in "Honda is killing its EVs"

silon42 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:53:09 +0000

To cause a huge annoyance, it could just randomly apply brakes for some time, which is probably much simpler than bypassing the pedal->brake.

New comment by silon42 in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

silon42 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:44:22 +0000

Someone should take that and submit it upstream.

New comment by silon42 in "The MacBook Neo"

silon42 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:11:04 +0000

Intel is fine too, for some uses.

New comment by silon42 in "Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web"

silon42 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 06:22:12 +0000

"out of the frying pan into the fire"...

I'd like to avoid wasm too...

New comment by silon42 in "BitNet: 100B Param 1-Bit model for local CPUs"

silon42 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:08:18 +0000

I always hope for "just a bunch of if statements" ... this is not it.

New comment by silon42 in "Agents that run while I sleep"

silon42 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 07:39:01 +0000

Depending on what you are doing, the above is not necessarily bad.. often much better than an SQL that locks an entire table (potentially blocking the whole DB, if this is one of the key tables).

New comment by silon42 in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

silon42 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 06:55:01 +0000

I wish also for desktop vs laptop ram comparison.

New comment by silon42 in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

silon42 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 06:53:50 +0000

For me, OOM effectively crashes my system 90% of the time, usually caused by firefox (chromium too), if a website goes out of control (rarely it's caused by too many pages open, as tab discarding takes care of that).

New comment by silon42 in "The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying"

silon42 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 08:34:44 +0000

Abstraction isn't free... even if you had the correct abstraction and the tools to remove the parts you don't need for deployment, there is still the cost of understanding and compiling.

There is also the cost reason, somebody trying to sell an abstraction will try to monetize it and this means not everyone will want/be able to use it (or it will take forever/be unfinished if it's open/free).

There's also the platform lockin/competition aspect...