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New comment by vorador in "Notes by djb on using Fil-C"

vorador — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 21:56:31 +0000

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New comment by vorador in "Notes by djb on using Fil-C"

vorador — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 17:48:00 +0000

No, back in the day C was used for everything. Vim was not written in C because it needed to wring every last bit of performance out of text editing.

Rewriting everything in rust "for memory-safety" is a false tradeoff given the millions of lines of C code out there and the fact that rewrites always introduce new bugs.

New comment by vorador in "Notes by djb on using Fil-C"

vorador — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 16:18:16 +0000

There's a contingent of rust fans that show up on every story about C – their premise is that C code is unsafe and most safety-critical C code should be rewritten in rust.

Fil-C is new and is a viable competitor to rust, that's why you're hearing all asides about tiny niches, unacceptable performance degradation, etc.

New comment by vorador in "What happens when private equity buys homes in your neighborhood"

vorador — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 19:58:31 +0000

It's a false premise, cities do not grow endlessly. If you look at other cities they're actually losing population – NYC for example.

New comment by vorador in "What happens when private equity buys homes in your neighborhood"

vorador — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 19:17:55 +0000

Well the problem with SF is less density and more than half of it is single-family home neighborhoods with zero amenities.

Anti-growth people will point to neighborhoods like Glen Park, NoPa and Noe as "SF" while forgetting most of the surface area of the city is empty neighborhoods like Parkside, Mt Davidson Manor, etc.

New comment by vorador in "Pico CSS – Minimal CSS Framework for Semantic HTML"

vorador — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 22:11:43 +0000

What did you/do you use the semantic web for?

New comment by vorador in "Pico CSS – Minimal CSS Framework for Semantic HTML"

vorador — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 21:10:59 +0000

It really feels like all these concerns about semantic everything belong to a previous era of the web. I remember arguing with people 20 years ago who believed RDF and the semantic web was going to take over, but the use cases never materialized.

Show HN: Rebuilding GPT2 inference in ~500 lines of (commented) code

vorador — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:12:24 +0000

Article URL: https://khamidou.com/gpt2/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45026850

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by vorador in "Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update"

vorador — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 15:36:22 +0000

When's the last time you paid for a compiler?

New comment by vorador in "Hyatt Hotels are using algorithmic Rest “smoking detectors”"

vorador — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 18:47:25 +0000

This is just pushing the externalities to the residents. It takes several months for airbnbs to get banned, and it's tough for smaller cities to get the bans enforced.

There must be a better answer than "pass a law so the american multinational does a better job at regulating its rentals"

New comment by vorador in "My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education"

vorador — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:29:20 +0000

It could also be misguided security guidelines – because of things like caller id spoofing where scammers would spoof one of their actual numbers to lull people into a false sense of security

New comment by vorador in "Brian Wilson has died"

vorador — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 17:49:50 +0000

Not to detract from your point but the movie was (already!) 15 years ago

New comment by vorador in "We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch"

vorador — Thu, 22 May 2025 22:25:19 +0000

Is this the end of fog creek? I remember they had shut down most of their services by the time their rebranded to glitch.

I wonder if anything is left of the company besides Joel's blog posts.

New comment by vorador in "The Prophet of Parking: A eulogy for the great Donald Shoup"

vorador — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 20:37:17 +0000

Most poor people don't own their house and often don't have a car – if you do own both you're middle class.

New comment by vorador in "Show HN: Check Supply – Send Checks in the Mail"

vorador — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 15:58:25 +0000

Exciting – many landlords in SF only believe in checks for some reason

New comment by vorador in "Tour de France riders are inhaling carbon monoxide in 'super altitude' recipe"

vorador — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 19:22:59 +0000

The competitive advantage is not physiological. Following your reasoning, that'd mean an F1 driver's competitive advantage is how fast they can push the pedals to get to 300kmph.

The real advantage is how fast you can navigate dangerous mountain roads which are narrow and have many hairpin turns.

New comment by vorador in "Tour de France riders are inhaling carbon monoxide in 'super altitude' recipe"

vorador — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 18:29:55 +0000

This is very wrong. These guys go downhill on small country roads very fast – sometimes over 100 kmh. You need deep riding skills to handle these speeds without getting injured.

New comment by vorador in "8 days downtime: Cloudflare r2 subscription bug ruins my business"

vorador — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 21:30:11 +0000

Do you run a multicloud system too? In case the AWS account gets shut down by billing issues?

New comment by vorador in "8 days downtime: Cloudflare r2 subscription bug ruins my business"

vorador — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 21:24:58 +0000

This is very unhelpful. There's a difference between "someone fatfingered a command and brought this mysql machine down" and "our cloud provider shut down a core feature for our account".

When you design a new system do you plan for S3 to go down for more than a day? Do you have a fleet of offsite machines to smoothly transition to? If not, why not?

New comment by vorador in "Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'"

vorador — Fri, 10 May 2024 16:20:18 +0000

Also the ad where mother nature visits apple park to check in on their green targets. Did she park her car at their huge garage too? (https://archive.curbed.com/2017/4/13/15274024/apples-new-cam...)