Hacker News: vrighter

New comment by vrighter in "Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM"

vrighter — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 11:07:38 +0000

pretty much most nontrivial programs need to have a different shape to fit into the rust mindset.

For example i wrote a digital logic simulator. The last step involved a linking step to turn all indexes into pointers, once the component graph is generated in full and becomes stable in memory. The simulator just chased pointers.

In rust all of that would have either had to keep using indices, be highly non idiomatic by boxing everything (and slower), or implemented in unsafe rust.

If I have to write a lot of unsafe rust, then i would actually switch to cpp because unsafe c++ is easier to get right than unsafe rust

New comment by vrighter in "Software developers are not okay"

vrighter — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 05:22:45 +0000

the reason software is first is not because software is the thing that's easiest to do. But in most other stuff it can be much easier to spot the bullshit.

New comment by vrighter in "God of War on PSP, recompiled to WebAssembly and running in the browser"

vrighter — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 05:21:04 +0000

and putting time limits on the subscription. Not enough to complete a single player game in a month at the highest tier

New comment by vrighter in "open-slopware – Alternatives to FOSS projects choosing to use LLMs/AI"

vrighter — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 18:12:28 +0000

it is a list I was actually hoping someone made

New comment by vrighter in "Push ifs up and fors down: The idiom, its algebra, and its limits"

vrighter — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 18:10:14 +0000

most people? i mean the condition in a for loop makes this pretty obvious

New comment by vrighter in "“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically"

vrighter — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 07:22:20 +0000

it is perfectly valid to have earth as the center. you just get very complicated orbits. But it's just a reference shift. The sun at the center makes for much simpler equations. But it's arbitrary. you can still do the math from both perspectives

New comment by vrighter in "Software's centaur age may last decades"

vrighter — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 07:18:00 +0000

embedded is the one where using ai has much larger risks.

New comment by vrighter in "Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B"

vrighter — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 06:43:02 +0000

i read that quote as "how it looks is more important than if it works"

New comment by vrighter in "Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B"

vrighter — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 06:41:54 +0000

because all that is needed is to delete the outer while loop. it's an llm that is only run once and generates just one token. But it outputs confidence levels! Yeah confidence levels are the only output from an llm

New comment by vrighter in "Reducing undefined behavior in the C language"

vrighter — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:37:20 +0000

i was actually thinking of starting a joke project which would make UB actually UB. not the sort of "in practice signed overflow is all done the same by most modern cpus". i mean an RNG and a compiler plugin system for introducing new Bs to go with the Us

New comment by vrighter in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

vrighter — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:33:19 +0000

they can't slow down because the investors are circling. But if they were forced to slow down by the government then they can use the zour hands are tied" excuse

New comment by vrighter in "Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?"

vrighter — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 10:12:53 +0000

this happens in either case

New comment by vrighter in "The era of software quality, or the era of ostriches?"

vrighter — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:48:46 +0000

So I could just keep spamming you with new PRs and run your ai usage bill up.... got it!

New comment by vrighter in "Why Pendulum had to write the most cursed "+" operator in all of Python"

vrighter — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:28:05 +0000

sounds like intercal's COME FROM statement

New comment by vrighter in "AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)"

vrighter — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:04:57 +0000

there will be eventually people who grew up with nothing but lag introduced by the cloud streaming. They won't know how much better they could have it. So they won't complain.

New comment by vrighter in "God of War on PSP, recompiled to WebAssembly and running in the browser"

vrighter — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 07:28:25 +0000

I'd say a reimplementation of a software library, or rather, a port to the new architecture wouldn't really count as emulation. If you can translate the game code itself why not the libraries it depends on?

New comment by vrighter in "Decision models like Jev don't beat LLM-as-a-judge or traditional classifiers"

vrighter — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:40:41 +0000

the "provide only structured output" is done by NOT having the model do it, but regular old software. So tuning/training doesn't apply for that.

New comment by vrighter in "Decision models like Jev don't beat LLM-as-a-judge or traditional classifiers"

vrighter — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:39:00 +0000

all llms output confidence scores on their tokens. That's literally all they generate. Picking an actual next token is a (semi) random sampling of those confidence levels.

New comment by vrighter in "Decision models like Jev don't beat LLM-as-a-judge or traditional classifiers"

vrighter — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:38:03 +0000

well because all jev is is a regular old llm, without the while loop around it. It generates one token. And since it's a tiny model in comparison, it's crap in comparison.

"But it is a classifier that outputs confidence scores!" ... yes exactly, all llms do that. It's just a small language model generating one token. And it's just a number, that could just as well be wrong.

A flat earther would say the earth is flat with 100% confidence. That 100% is still completely wrong.

New comment by vrighter in "Show HN: JBR-001 – An open-source 3D printable desktop robot"

vrighter — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 10:05:59 +0000

Ah.... arduino based. No thanks. If I wanted full linux capable SOCs i'd have chosen something else. They lost their whole point.