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New comment by whatsakandr in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

whatsakandr — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:24:12 +0000

I could still push an app to my phone via adb after this nonsense gets implemented?

New comment by whatsakandr in "Parallel agents in Zed"

whatsakandr — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:51:24 +0000

I gave zed agent another shot today, and it couldn't run bash commands, so back to opencode I go.

New comment by whatsakandr in "A simplified model of Fil-C"

whatsakandr — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:30:19 +0000

Yes it's slower, but it works. It's being built by one single dad who focused on compatibility before speed.

I'm not convinced that tying the lifetimes into the type system is the correct way to do memory management. I've read too many articles of people being forced into refactoring the entire codebase to implement a feature.

New comment by whatsakandr in "A simplified model of Fil-C"

whatsakandr — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:27:13 +0000

Fil-C is one of the most underrated projects I've ever seen. All this "rewrite it in rust for safety" just sounds stupid when you can compile your C program completely memory safe.

New comment by whatsakandr in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

whatsakandr — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:41:33 +0000

My wife has wanted a security system for a while. The turnkey cloud solutions freak me out. I've done some home automation with home aisstant before, and omg that was configuration slog. But with Claude..... It becomes fun.

New comment by whatsakandr in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

whatsakandr — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:11:55 +0000

I do not understand how these companies can have such high valuations when minimax m2.7 is going to be open weight.

New comment by whatsakandr in "Noq: n0's new QUIC implementation in Rust"

whatsakandr — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:34:48 +0000

Not to be confused with https://github.com/tsoding/Noq

Which got it's name from 'Not Coq'

Loss of Supply

whatsakandr — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 17:36:42 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_of_supply

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45837852

Points: 1

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New comment by whatsakandr in "Show HN: I was tired of wasting engineer time on screening calls so I built Niju"

whatsakandr — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 17:40:12 +0000

The purpose of a screening is not to determine competence, it is to determine whether recruit and company want to work together, which cannot be automated.

New comment by whatsakandr in "It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts"

whatsakandr — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 16:56:52 +0000

I have a prompt to make it not rewrite, but just point out "hey you could rephrase this better." I still keep my tone, but the clanker can identify thoughts that are incomplete. Stuff that spell chekcer's can't do.

New comment by whatsakandr in "Multi-Core by Default"

whatsakandr — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 02:20:50 +0000

He's describing the Cuda execition model.

More interestingly, it's the same model as Intel's Implicit SPMD Program compiler (ispc, God that name is awful). But ispc works across SIMD lanes.

New comment by whatsakandr in "What to do with C++ modules?"

whatsakandr — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 13:30:09 +0000

He makes such a good point. This is such a tragedy. Import std would of been an amazing thing that would of led some much less pain, but the committee got greedy.

New comment by whatsakandr in "I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file"

whatsakandr — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 18:11:40 +0000

For personal, I've got the nirvana life plan. It's great, for work, it's TODO.txt on a network drive.

New comment by whatsakandr in "Microplastics shed by food packaging are contaminating our food, study finds"

whatsakandr — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:09:21 +0000

Best idea of a solution I can think of is modifying bacteria to consume microplastics and releasing them into the wild. Make them a permanent part of the ecosystem.

New comment by whatsakandr in "Better Error Handling"

whatsakandr — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 23:52:21 +0000

Like most things in C++, I wish the default was `nothrow`, and you added throw for a function that throws. There's so many functions that don't throw, but aren't marked `nothrow`.

In my experience I've used exceptions for things that really should never fail, and optional for things that are more likely to.

New comment by whatsakandr in "An Introduction to Modern CMake"

whatsakandr — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 19:05:12 +0000

It would be nice if it just became a python interpreter. The concepts and build that CMake has is pretty good, but implementing it is a pain due to the quasi shell syntax.

New comment by whatsakandr in "Stupid Smart Pointers in C"

whatsakandr — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:01:39 +0000

This article should of had the conclusion of this is why you should use arena allocator.

New comment by whatsakandr in "[dead]"

whatsakandr — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:01:48 +0000

This article could benefit so much from defining what an ERP is.

New comment by whatsakandr in "Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools"

whatsakandr — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 17:01:41 +0000

The nice thing about chat is it's open ended, the terrible thing is that holy crap I have to write a paragraph describing exactly what I want when I should just be able to hit a button or navigate through a couple menus.

New comment by whatsakandr in "The Siren Song of Little Languages"

whatsakandr — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 13:04:57 +0000

Actually using the language is something Jon Blow is definitely getting right with Jai, if it ever releases.