Hacker News: vopi

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

New comment by vopi in "Flux Keyboard"

vopi — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 21:01:03 +0000

Ahh thanks!

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 21:00:34 +0000

https://www.twitch.tv/georgehotz/videos?filter=archives&sort...

although, there is a VOD channel on YT that might be better.

New comment by vopi in "Flux Keyboard"

vopi — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 19:21:13 +0000

I was recently messing around with a very small eink display (and used it to display HN posts somewhat similar in concept to you). Out of curiosity, what display is that/where did you source it from?

New comment by vopi in "Fun Fact: I own porn I can't watch"

vopi — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 17:35:53 +0000

Perhaps you could call it a video essay?

New comment by vopi in "Panoramas of Deus Ex Human Revolution"

vopi — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 18:33:56 +0000

If it at all persuades you, I was barely home from the hospital when the original came out. I played it a couple of years ago as I love DX:HR and DX:MD. It takes a couple hours to get immersed past the technical limitations, but once you are in, it still holds up. I even chose not to use any modern patches to get the original experience. It can be a little wonky especially with 20 years of game development hindsight, but still worth a play through.

But I can completely understand if some people can't get through it (I'm like that with a lot of older games)

Chinese state media claims NSA infiltrated country’s telecommunications networks

vopi — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 16:45:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/22/us-nsa-hacked-chinas-telecommunications-networks-state-media-claims.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32941418

Points: 14

# Comments: 1

New comment by vopi in "U.S. Army Camouflage Improvement Explained (2013)"

vopi — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 16:27:51 +0000

Could you comment on the price aspect I thought up? As I understand it is cheap and only the cost per hour is an issue. Obviously the actual program is expensive, but I wanna ignore that for now and focus on the actual performance.

Because I'm at work and can't look through the full 372 page non-public report linked, can you provide some page numbers I could look at? I'm curious what the actual issues are in actual use.

Btw I'm not of the same mindset of the other guy, I'm not gonna call you a "Luddite Reformer" because I saw a YouTube video.

From when I know many of the issues are FUD, but obviously there is real issues and I'd like to better educate myself. But I am just a layman with limited research time.