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New comment by smnplk in "Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

smnplk — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:44:42 +0000

I hope they will be able to stretch their legs on the moon.

New comment by smnplk in "SSH Secret Menu"

smnplk — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:39:11 +0000

sssshhhh...don't just give out secrets like that .

New comment by smnplk in "Layoffs at Block"

smnplk — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:50:46 +0000

For shops on the US soil, yes.

New comment by smnplk in "Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship"

smnplk — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 23:53:18 +0000

I think Nakamura didnt play this time because of his Candidates prep. Otherwise I think Nakamura would have a slight edge on Carlsen in this game.

New comment by smnplk in "I’m joining OpenAI"

smnplk — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 23:02:42 +0000

please do continue. I like your points.

New comment by smnplk in "Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard?"

smnplk — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 01:05:43 +0000

There are layers science can not access.

New comment by smnplk in "Guix for Development"

smnplk — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 01:10:06 +0000

Thanks, I'll check it out.

New comment by smnplk in "RIP Low-Code 2014-2025"

smnplk — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:24:44 +0000

>> in a world where the cost of shipping code now approaches zero.

Reallly ?

New comment by smnplk in "Guix for Development"

smnplk — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 01:37:35 +0000

Guix looks really tempting to me because i find guile scheme so much more pleasant than nix. But i heard there are not that many packages in Guix. I wonder if some sort of transpiler from nix derivations to guix package definitions would be possible.

New comment by smnplk in "I was right about ATProto key management"

smnplk — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 01:22:23 +0000

This blog has a man page aesthetic. The problem is I immediately dont want to read it, because i dont like to read man pages.

New comment by smnplk in "I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog"

smnplk — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:18:11 +0000

I only accept human written letters.

New comment by smnplk in "Some C habits I employ for the modern day"

smnplk — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 23:50:45 +0000

Not distracting at all, it feels nostalgic to me. Id rather have these flashy things than a million popups and registration forms following you around, which is basically the modern web. I hate it so much. This site is pure balsam for my soul.

New comment by smnplk in "New YC homepage"

smnplk — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 23:41:26 +0000

didnt know they had a website. Do lobsters have a website too ?

New comment by smnplk in "String theory can now describe a universe that has dark energy?"

smnplk — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 22:18:01 +0000

You are clearly very philosophically inclined.

New comment by smnplk in "String theory can now describe a universe that has dark energy?"

smnplk — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:32:21 +0000

Here is the latest and in my opinion the best interview with Ed Witten [1]

Things he talks about go mostly over my head. What disappointed me a little bit is that he seems to be a materialist. But that is pretty common position among physicists anyway, so not that surprising.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAbP0magTVY

New comment by smnplk in "Wren: A classy little scripting language"

smnplk — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 22:36:11 +0000

I wish he would have used C for everything. You need to buyin into Java's whole OOP thing, which I am not a fan of.

New comment by smnplk in "How to create an OS from scratch"

smnplk — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 01:45:38 +0000

As I see it, the point of bootstraping a compiler is to develop a compiler in stages and that it doesnt require you to implement the full compiler in the original language.

For example, let's say you create a new language called Brute. You decide to write it in C (original language).

Stage 1: Create a Brute compiler in C, which can compile only a small subset of Brute language. Lets call it bruteC compiler.

Stage 2: Implement a compiler in Brute lang and compile it using your bruteC compiler. This produces brute-compiler executable.

Stage 3: Add new feature to your brute compiler source code and compile it using your brute-compiler executable, which produces new brute-compiler executable.. .

And so on... At the end your brute-compiler supports all language features and thus is self hosted.

New comment by smnplk in "Factory Raises $50M Series B"

smnplk — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 23:01:19 +0000

Might just burst soon... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37aUuoRyMhM

New comment by smnplk in "Resurrect the Old Web"

smnplk — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 22:48:21 +0000

But noone wants to look at another website anymore. People dont browse the web like in the old days or in the 2000s or in the 2010s. People are just used to being siloed now. Many dont even know what the old web was and how it felt. There are just a few silos now, FB , reddit, X and this is all they know, many dont even know much more than FB.

Internet has become dogshit wrapped in catshit.

New comment by smnplk in "Show HN: I'm a dermatologist and I vibe coded a skin cancer learning app"

smnplk — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 03:26:29 +0000

I was vibe coding server configurations all day.