Hacker News: sushisource

New comment by sushisource in "Our principles"

sushisource — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:19:32 +0000

"The world is going to be so much better! We're not really sure how, but, trust us, definitely better!"

New comment by sushisource in "Cursor 3"

sushisource — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:53:25 +0000

Zed's not a VSCode clone, and it's fantastic and OSS. They don't really have a business model that I see working though, IMO. I pay them purely because I love the editor, but the editor is free. The AI integration is what you pay for, but I just run claude code in a terminal.

New comment by sushisource in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

sushisource — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:10:54 +0000

> Regardless of what I do, the days I decide to wash my car, it ALWAYS rains the day after

Undeniable universal truth. I sometimes find myself making plans based on the fact that the most annoying possible outcome is also the most likely one.

New comment by sushisource in "Sizing chaos"

sushisource — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:10:09 +0000

Bikewear in particular is a bit hilarious. I'm 5'9", 150lb, so a bit smaller than you, but I have significantly more muscle in my upper body than the typical serious cyclist build. In my experience, the more high-end the bike clothes, the more they expect you to be shaped like a TDF rider, which is to say literally zero upper body mass.

So I have almost the opposite problem from you, where an M is usually reasonable for me on the bottom, but _comically_ tight on top. Even an L is usually way too tight through the chest and biceps for me, but now not long enough in the arms.

I just live with it, because whatever, I don't mind the top being a little tight, but it is frustrating.

New comment by sushisource in "I switched from VSCode to Zed"

sushisource — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 21:59:09 +0000

I dunno if you are aware, but you can use the diff/merge standalone. My gift to you:

     [mergetool "intellij"]
     cmd = 'intellij-idea-ultimate-edition' merge "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE" "$BASE" "$MERGED"
     trustExitCode = true

New comment by sushisource in "Lite^3, a JSON-compatible zero-copy serialization format"

sushisource — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 23:37:23 +0000

Really cool project. Any plans to port the API to other languages? My use case for something like this is to represent types that are used on either side of FFI (Rust <--> Some other language). Pairing this with a code generator for the shared types would be great. That's something flatbuffers/capnproto do well that isn't just pure speed.

New comment by sushisource in "Show HN: A 2-row, 16-key keyboard designed for smartphones"

sushisource — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 01:18:50 +0000

Seriously this explains so much. I thought I was going crazy, or just becoming an old man who can't type on a phone any more.

New comment by sushisource in "Career Asymtotes"

sushisource — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 23:18:37 +0000

That's super duper cool, but, it doesn't refute my statement. If what you're saying is "you can do anything you want at a level that will challenge you". Yeah, sure, but not at a level comparable to the best of the best.

New comment by sushisource in "Career Asymtotes"

sushisource — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 01:38:44 +0000

I mean that's just obviously, objectively, not true. If you're born with 12-inch legs you are _not_ going to be an elite marathon runner. Heck, even if you're born with average genetics, you're not going to be an elite runner.

What would make us think the same thing isn't true of mental activities? Obviously there's a lot more noise in the signal, and it's a lot more subjective, but there's pretty much 0% chance that if anyone just "tries hard enough" they can become a genius.

New comment by sushisource in "Lace: A New Kind of Cellular Automata Where Links Matter"

sushisource — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:20:47 +0000

+1 to this copy being a little bit over-the-top. This is neat, but, as you pointed out at the end of the day this is still computationally equivalent to normal 2d cellular automata. I suspect (not taking the time to prove this) that it's equal in a fairly obvious way, which is that you could just replace "links" with 8* additional sub-states per cell. The only real difference is just in how it's visualized.

So, neat, but not exactly mindblowing.

New comment by sushisource in "Zed is now available on Windows"

sushisource — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 05:26:55 +0000

You probably do. Many people just never notice that. It's not about typing or reading fast either, it's just about how it feels. Typing into something with shitty latency feels like dragging my fingernails across a chalkboard.

It's the same with high dpi monitors. Some people (me included) are driven absolutely insane by the font rendering on low density monitors, and other people don't even notice a difference.

Honestly, consider yourself blessed. One less thing in the world to annoy you.

New comment by sushisource in "Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems"

sushisource — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 22:16:49 +0000

When I say "any language" when interviewing candidates, I mean it. I would be stoked if someone busted out J in an interview.

Of course, my team also writes SDKs in a bunch of different languages, so it makes sense. Even if that weren't the case though, I'd be stoked. To your point though, early in your career, I get your viewpoint. It's hard out there to get a foot in the door and you have to seize opportunities.

New comment by sushisource in "Zed now predicts your next edit with Zeta, our new open model"

sushisource — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 01:05:38 +0000

While you're here...

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/14203

Would be a massive win that's fairly narrow in scope. More generally, being able to send arbitrary LSP commands to the server and see the response, even if it's just a text dump, would be super useful.

Love the project! I would say the only thing stopping me from moving over full time is a Git porcelain, but I'm sure you guys know that. Keep up the great work!

New comment by sushisource in "Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week"

sushisource — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:46:24 +0000

It's crazy to me that more people don't realize this. You're working crazy hours, have no meaningful hobbies or life outside of work... and for what? No one's going to remember that you built some nice feature in some bit of software in 100 years, or even 20. Enjoy your life, enjoy people and community and activities. You can still get paid incredibly well as an engineer, more than enough to live comfortably, and work a normal 40 hour week (or less).

People prioritize weird shit.

New comment by sushisource in "Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand"

sushisource — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 22:51:53 +0000

This kind of exactly misses the point the comment you're replying to is making. The point isn't that just complying and handing over your info is the ideal goal. The point is that, pragmatically speaking, it's a lot easier to just do that and move on with your life than making a big scene about standing up for your ideals - because A) You're not going to change shit in that situation anyway and B) It's just going to make it harder for you.

> Something a schoolyard bully would say to the kid who's too small to defend themself but refuses to comply.

Yeah, probably right. But, also, yeah, easier sometimes to just appease the bully and move on with life.

New comment by sushisource in "GPT-4o System Card"

sushisource — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 17:24:59 +0000

"We have evaluated ourselves and come to the conclusion that our performance is outstanding!"

New comment by sushisource in "Pompeii fixed potholes with molten iron (2019)"

sushisource — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 22:08:39 +0000

> as if the Roman empire wasn't on par with the western empire today

Huh? I mean, no, technologically it... definitely wasn't. Remind me how many teraflops the most powerful Roman computer was capable of?

The Romans were plenty advanced, sure, but that's just a nonsense statement.

New comment by sushisource in "Borgo is a statically typed language that compiles to Go"

sushisource — Thu, 02 May 2024 22:07:16 +0000

Oh! Cool somehow I missed that

New comment by sushisource in "Borgo is a statically typed language that compiles to Go"

sushisource — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 20:29:13 +0000

Most importantly: Null pointers still exist (yes I know they technically exist in unsafe Rust, to head off any pedants)

Also: No `?` operator

New comment by sushisource in "An open source initiative to share and compare heat pump performance data"

sushisource — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 18:35:48 +0000

Noise level seems huge. I don't have one, but every place I've stayed that has one the noise they make drives me insane. I would be really trepidatious about installing one in my place for this reason.