Hacker News: talloaktrees

New comment by talloaktrees in "Rewriting Bun in Rust"

talloaktrees — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:02:31 +0000

I like using Odin with LLMs for this. it's a simple statically typed language with no GC and very fast compile

New comment by talloaktrees in "The revenge of the philosophy majors"

talloaktrees — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:12:56 +0000

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/business/philosophy-major...

New comment by talloaktrees in "Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter"

talloaktrees — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 04:56:21 +0000

Deepseek chat answers this question in detail no qualms

New comment by talloaktrees in "Google I/O"

talloaktrees — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:59:23 +0000

i went to Google Cloud Next last month, this comment is on point

New comment by talloaktrees in "Attention Residuals"

talloaktrees — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:28:16 +0000

except it's not true

New comment by talloaktrees in "221 Cannon is Not For Sale"

talloaktrees — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 19:46:16 +0000

does that mean someone was paying into your social security, essentially boosting your benefit amount when the time comes?

New comment by talloaktrees in "US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year"

talloaktrees — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:32:36 +0000

honest question, because it's something I don't understand well. is it possible the quantity of job openings can mask the quality of jobs openings? if job openings at fast food restaurants goes up 1000% maybe this isn't positive

New comment by talloaktrees in "An Unexpected Benefit from Quitting Coffee – 10 Months In"

talloaktrees — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 21:39:45 +0000

your mother used the latin word "brassica?"

New comment by talloaktrees in "The anatomy of a Godot API call"

talloaktrees — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 22:30:14 +0000

I think this is correct... you can even go with Rust instead of C++

New comment by talloaktrees in "Fewer university students are studying Mandarin"

talloaktrees — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 02:36:29 +0000

I'm not ethnically Chinese but I studied Mandarin in college in the early 2000s then moved to Taiwan for almost a decade. I don't regret doing it, but it didn't provide me any sort of business or career advantage like everyone thought it would in the early 2000s

New comment by talloaktrees in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

talloaktrees — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 19:01:51 +0000

not a lawyer, but since your spouse is american you should be able to apply for a green card and have permanent residency and work rights

New comment by talloaktrees in "Going Rogue"

talloaktrees — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 18:57:23 +0000

at the time when Diablo came out it was clear it was a polished, graphical version of Nethack

New comment by talloaktrees in "Show HN: Writedown - Open Source Markdown Diary"

talloaktrees — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 20:43:00 +0000

I like this a lot, can you talk about what you are doing to protect user's private data? that's something I'd want to be convinced about before I use it.

New comment by talloaktrees in "Computer Programming with Nim"

talloaktrees — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 13:53:15 +0000

This is very exciting! I had no idea this book was being written.

New comment by talloaktrees in "The Ur-Quan Masters"

talloaktrees — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 02:36:40 +0000

also played on the Genesis and I definitely remember the framerate being low! compared to when I played Star Control 2 on PC a few years later

New comment by talloaktrees in "Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations"

talloaktrees — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 20:30:36 +0000

I don't think anyone with knowledge has ever seriously conisdered servers in China more private than US servers. Unless your goal was to keep information private only from the US government.

New comment by talloaktrees in "India bans e-cigarettes, citing youth health concerns"

talloaktrees — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 17:06:11 +0000

not to mention alcohol

New comment by talloaktrees in "Major U.S. cancer center ousts ‘Asian’ researchers after NIH flags foreign ties"

talloaktrees — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 18:17:48 +0000

> Cancer center officials have not named any of the five researchers. MD Anderson President Peter Pisters says all are “Asian”;

I believe because that's the official statement.

New comment by talloaktrees in "MIT cuts ties with Chinese tech firms Huawei, ZTE"

talloaktrees — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 16:55:38 +0000

That's not the same thing.

New comment by talloaktrees in "Kenya will start teaching Chinese to elementary school students from 2020"

talloaktrees — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 18:26:43 +0000

Xiang?