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New comment by vopi in "Fable 5.1 World Modeling"

vopi — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:04:17 +0000

Cool demo! That's funny. I literally sketched out something similar 30 minutes ago on paper. I wonder if there was some recent, semi-related article/link that subconsciously prompted the relevance.

New comment by vopi in "Elixir-lang.org has a new design"

vopi — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:16:00 +0000

>I also worked on all of the copy myself, collecting feedback from core maintainers as I went. The new tagline was a suggestion from Theo which we iterated on. I did use LLMs as an assistant, but I did not ask it to generate the content.

>Might as well use LLMs for the whole thing next time, since we will be accused of doing so anyway! :D

New comment by vopi in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

vopi — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:24:58 +0000

I generally agree with you that choosing something based on where it's hosted is dumb. I still think there could be an impact wrt a network effect.

The original comment you replied to was talking about "the loss of network effect" and you sounded dismissive of it. It might not even matter, but I think it's somewhat fair to say it could have an impact.

New comment by vopi in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

vopi — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:21:58 +0000

I agree. It's possible in the future a project hosted on codeberg is a silent "stamp of quality". Though, I still think there could be impact wrt a network effect.

New comment by vopi in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

vopi — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:59:28 +0000

You’re telling me you would be as likely to contribute to a project hosted in CVS as compared to git (and on GitHub)?

New comment by vopi in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

vopi — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:54:23 +0000

“An Ad hominem refers to when a speaker attacks the character, motive, or some other attribute of the person making an argument rather than the substance of the argument itself”

It’s definitionally an ad hominem against Jared. If he stuck to why he thought it was bad for Bun to do this, I would be more sympathetic.

New comment by vopi in "Identity verification on Claude"

vopi — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:23:44 +0000

The answer seems to be yes [0]. Although I think it's important to state The Web Archive link proves that the recent Fable banning was not the catalyst for the page being linked.

Will Fable be back behind an ID verification step? I wouldn't be shocked if that happened. However, this specific support page and the ID veridiction process is not new. It is currently enforce.

It appears (but I can't be certain and don't think it's in bad faith) that many people are under the assumption that this is a result of the Fable banning. As a datapoint, I did some form of KYC verification to use OpenAI's cybersecurity platform a few weeks ago.

To be clear: I still think this is an important discussion.

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1smpjg8/well_iv...

Edit: truthbe above pointed out there was a privacy policy change.

New comment by vopi in "TypeScript 7.0 Beta (built on Go)"

vopi — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:27:15 +0000

A quote from the official FAQ - https://github.com/microsoft/typescript-go/discussions/411:

>By far the most important aspect is that we need to keep the new codebase as compatible as possible, both in terms of semantics and in terms of code structure. We expect to maintain both codebases for quite some time going forward. Languages that allow for a structurally similar codebase offer a significant boon for anyone making code changes because we can easily port changes between the two codebases. In contrast, languages that require fundamental rethinking of memory management, mutation, data structuring, polymorphism, laziness, etc., might be a better fit for a ground-up rewrite, but we're undertaking this more as a port that maintains the existing behavior and critical optimizations we've built into the language. Idiomatic Go strongly resembles the existing coding patterns of the TypeScript codebase, which makes this porting effort much more tractable.

TLDR: Typescript -> Go is much easier than Typescript -> Rust/Zig/$OTHERNATIVELANG

New comment by vopi in "Khipu Field Guide"

vopi — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:13:32 +0000

This is a very interesting reference/jupyter NB/historiography someone put together about deciphering Khipu, the cord-based numbering system/ancient Excel from the Inca's.

"Welcome to The Khipu Field Guide - Travel back in time to the Inkan empire of the 14th through 16th century. Explore how the Inkas used cloth to communicate and record commitments. Journey with me, as I work with other khipu scholars, to decipher the enigma behind a knotted mop of camelid yarn."

There is some statistical analysis here but part of my hopes in posting on HN is perhaps someone here might get nerdsniped by it.

Khipu Field Guide

vopi — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:08:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.khipufieldguide.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46783865

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by vopi in "When the CIA got away with building a heart attack gun"

vopi — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 10:31:33 +0000

Mind sharing some links? Curious what you are talking about.

Executive Order On – – – Nation's Cybersecurity

vopi — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:50:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2025/01/16/executive-order-on-strengthening-and-promoting-innovation-in-the-nations-cybersecurity/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42740116

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by vopi in "Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge management software"

vopi — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 20:40:22 +0000

As far as I know, it's the opposite (using Skia to render). Flutter for the web is a second-class citizen, whereas for mobile apps, it's quite productive.

Ask HN: How are you finding Gemini Ultra?

vopi — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 17:34:13 +0000

Is it worth a subscription (compared to GPT-4)?

Does anyone have interesting anecdotes in different categories? Programming, General Lookup, Math, etc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39444144

Points: 66

# Comments: 54

New comment by vopi in "Vanna.ai: Chat with your SQL database"

vopi — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 01:39:22 +0000

Are all those Twitter testimonials fake? None seem to be actual accounts.

New comment by vopi in "Convoscope: Smart Glasses Intelligence Tools"

vopi — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 15:28:07 +0000

Super cool demo. The potential for "contextual search engines" to live up to what I really wanted from Google Glass a decade ago is exciting.

Never tried the later enterprise Google Glass, but it always seemed generally to be more of a smart watch with a prism strapped to your face than a future-tech(tm) assistant strapped to your face.

New comment by vopi in "Ask HN: Why did Python win?"

vopi — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 17:27:31 +0000

Can you elaborate why we're living in the era of Textual? Genuinely. It seems like a pretty nifty library but I'm not sure it transcends to killer library territory. Thanks!

New comment by vopi in "G/O media will make more AI-generated stories despite critics"

vopi — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 23:30:26 +0000

Great quote.

New comment by vopi in "FCC orders phone companies to block scam text messages"

vopi — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 22:58:47 +0000

For me, it has a been a very recent thing. A couple years ago, I would have had a handful a year. Now it wouldn't surprise me if I had a couple a day.

New comment by vopi in "Llama.cpp: Port of Facebook's LLaMA model in C/C++, with Apple Silicon support"

vopi — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 21:05:18 +0000

Hmm. I'm not sure. Presumably this will be updated soon: https://www.youtube.com/@geohotarchive/videos