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New comment by te_chris in "Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online"

te_chris — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:04:23 +0000

Public libraries pay for their books

New comment by te_chris in "To become a better writer, read as much as you can"

te_chris — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:53:50 +0000

Proust. In search of lost time (caveat I’m halfway through book one) is a story in which almost nothing happens but it is described exquisitely.

New comment by te_chris in "There's no reason for software to be slow anymore"

te_chris — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:03:20 +0000

Because it’s a port of a scientific process and that’s what the scientists work in.

New comment by te_chris in "There's no reason for software to be slow anymore"

te_chris — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 07:15:46 +0000

This, 100%. I’ve rewritten some hydrology code in rust using codex sol to first a) profile and create comprehensive tests of the python, b) create full benchmark suites, c) create full scientific benchmark suites, then d) port to rust using a few different techniques.

It works, it’s at least 5x faster, sometimes much more, and memory use is like 10x less and even less in cases where lots of map tiles are involved.

This shit rules.

What I’m wondering now is can we reliably evolve python and have codex act as an extremely unreliable transpiler to the rust.

New comment by te_chris in "A Preview of DuckDB v2.0"

te_chris — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:49:44 +0000

Well, I can tell you this is making me actively reconsider dropping duckdb for ch as we go from prototype to prod

New comment by te_chris in "Software for One"

te_chris — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:37:45 +0000

No, it’s a plague on anxious, over-optimised middle class parents.

The idea that someone can send over a schedule in advance is pure voodoo. Much like huckleberry, the ml app that makes new parents insane over wake windows.

New comment by te_chris in "Refactoring cuisine: how an Iraqi stew sailed to Singapore"

te_chris — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:12:40 +0000

This is a lovely piece of writing. Well done.

New comment by te_chris in "Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake"

te_chris — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 05:35:43 +0000

“What it is today”.

Oh, glad we managed to not miss out on the 2-sided ai slop panopticon

New comment by te_chris in "The front end framework for correctness: built on Effect, architected like Elm"

te_chris — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:53:14 +0000

It’s great and the deep compiler integration means with a skill the agents write it well

New comment by te_chris in "The bread paradox: why convenience always wins, and why SaaS isn't doomed"

te_chris — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:49:42 +0000

I think there's a secondary competitor to certain types of process-SaaS like Vanta for smaller orgs: a smart Fractional (CISO, in the compliance case) paired with good AI. The purchaser gets proper human judgement, and you can handle the record-keeping bit with an ai-enabled DB like notion.

New comment by te_chris in "Sam Neill has died"

te_chris — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:09:50 +0000

As a kiwi he was the best of us. Creative, talented, willing to roll up his sleeves, maker of exceptional wine. Haere ra

New comment by te_chris in "Chatto is now open source"

te_chris — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:33:30 +0000

Spoilsport

New comment by te_chris in "The short leash AI coding method for beating Fable"

te_chris — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:29:49 +0000

I agree. Better to let it rip in a sandbox then spend your time correcting the finished product.

Waste of time being in the middle.

New comment by te_chris in "Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model"

te_chris — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:41:10 +0000

With pi they’re an extension, but that’s pi

New comment by te_chris in "I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer"

te_chris — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:18:11 +0000

The tweet Carmack's replying to is such a gross, cloying example of LLM slop. Bellard, of course is a legend.

New comment by te_chris in "What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes"

te_chris — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:14:27 +0000

GCP cloud run is pretty close to this. We’re using it now and I’ve a lot of experience with gke.

They’ve announced persistent “instances” recently which solves a big problem for us - sometimes you want continual long running workloads.

New comment by te_chris in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

te_chris — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:49:13 +0000

Great, so nihilism

New comment by te_chris in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"

te_chris — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:45:26 +0000

Was going to say, open qwen in lm studio, say hi, watch the thinking traces

New comment by te_chris in "Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it"

te_chris — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:33:04 +0000

Nice. I've got Claude code teaching me maths at the moment. Some skills, file system learning log, oss text books and a full curriculum based on Math Academy (which I was doing before but got bored of) and UK high school and university. Teaching me concept-first though. So we start with something complex and go up and down until I get it all. It's not necessarily thorough for everything, but the depth of my intuition is much better and each time I use it I find myself unlocking another sector of the map. I love LLMs for this.

New comment by te_chris in "Dopamine Fracking"

te_chris — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:38:08 +0000

To nit pick: Micromobility is the opposite of this.