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New comment by xydone in "Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years"

xydone — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:54:19 +0000

What a strange thing to say

New comment by xydone in "GitHub Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions"

xydone — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:01:10 +0000

git push --force. No time for the lease either

New comment by xydone in "Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand"

xydone — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:43:49 +0000

I've seen boilerplate be brought up as an argument very frequently and I keep wondering, what sort of boilerplate do you deal with that it is a considerable time sink? I feel like most languages and frontend frameworks have a pretty established template project which gets you going as far as boilerplate goes. When it comes to backend it's more of the same. When it comes to gamedev, you have established game engines which cut down on the boilerplate process. If you are writing your own engine in something like Vulkan which require a lot of pre-game ritual, there are still plenty of template projects to get you started, but they are more surface level than the frontend/backend examples due to the nature of the project. If you are working on popular hardware, like arduinos, esp32s, there are established template projects for most languages. And if you are working on a niche language or framework for which this doesn't apply, then roughly by the second project in them you'll find yourself just copying over the boilerplate from the first.

So I'm genuinely curious, what sort of things do people who complain about boilerplate ceremonies do?

New comment by xydone in "Zig: All Package Management Functionality Moved from Compiler to Build System"

xydone — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 07:33:03 +0000

C compiler != C replacement

New comment by xydone in "Claude Code is steganographically marking requests"

xydone — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 05:33:11 +0000

Were the copyright owners contacted prior to this lawful obtaining that you speak of? Or after?

New comment by xydone in "The AI backlash is only getting started"

xydone — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:20:53 +0000

Luddites, the group of people which famously were concerned about societal impact of a piece of technology? Right.

New comment by xydone in "The AI backlash is only getting started"

xydone — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:54:32 +0000

Yeah, that's also fine. However I am personally willing to side with the group which's arguments for the cause are environmental and societal impact over the one which's rebuttal to that is the fact we were wrong once 40 years ago. That's just me though.

New comment by xydone in "The AI backlash is only getting started"

xydone — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:19:43 +0000

I have a feeling that comparing a safe, sustainable energy source to large language models is disingenuous. If you support LLMs and the field, you can just state it outright, without insincere comparisons.

New comment by xydone in "Zig's new bitCast semantics and LLVM back end improvements"

xydone — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 04:59:03 +0000

Maybe people just like the language

New comment by xydone in "GLM-5.2 is a step change for open agents"

xydone — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 04:18:20 +0000

The point the post you replied to is making is that while you get value out of it, and in your case it's not that expensive, it's just simply not the case worldwide

New comment by xydone in "The Rise and (Potential) Fall of Letterboxd"

xydone — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:04:38 +0000

I'm well aware, my hope is that people eventually decide to move to a more independent platform.

New comment by xydone in "The Rise and (Potential) Fall of Letterboxd"

xydone — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:51:54 +0000

There's not much Letterboxd does that cannot be federated. For one, their metadata database is a near full replica of TMDB, with very minor exceptions such as retaining deleted TMDB media. I'm not opposed to Letterboxd dying if it means people consider an alternative that is less fragile.

New comment by xydone in "Ported my C game to WASM, here's every bug that I hit"

xydone — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:25:02 +0000

Oh that's interesting, never noticed it in my experience but I have never written anything in wasm where it would matter. Makes perfect sense now that I think about it though. Thanks!

New comment by xydone in "Ported my C game to WASM, here's every bug that I hit"

xydone — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:01:44 +0000

The memory64 proposal was merged into upstream last year, any reason to opt into 32 bit despite that?

New comment by xydone in "Zig: Build System Reworked"

xydone — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:01:27 +0000

There is no ETA on 1.0, but breakage has followed the pattern of it not really being hard to upgrade to a newer version, as it is very well documented on the version release notes.

New comment by xydone in "About LLMs at Zig Days"

xydone — Fri, 29 May 2026 09:24:05 +0000

People from ZSF and other maintainers have had a pretty clear stance that, while they don't necessarily like LLMs conceptually, they don't really care about if you will use them for tooling or development of your own projects. The anti-LLM stance has been on things that directly affect development of Zig (communication around issues, feature/pull requests, etc) and now, an event which is meant to be a connection place for Zig developers around the world to show off their projects and talk about other projects, and I'm sure you understand why this is a nice place to have human on human communication be the primarily encouraged method.

None of these really affect the end user of the compiler of making functioning, good tools with the language, with a LLM, if they wish to. Ghostty uses LLMs extensively, Bun was essentially vibe coded even before the Rust port. You might not wish to, ideologically speaking, develop in a language built by people who don't like your method of building things, but it's not a blocker that will turn the language into a "hobby language" (if we are judging hobbyism by lack of AI usage)

New comment by xydone in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

xydone — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:39:06 +0000

This is a PR that has been getting reviewed since the end of January. The Bun port branch was created 9 days ago.

New comment by xydone in "Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust"

xydone — Tue, 05 May 2026 08:09:37 +0000

The LLM rule has been a thing for a very long time at this point.

New comment by xydone in "Hear your agent suffer through your code"

xydone — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:03:09 +0000

Maybe I'm the person who yells at clouds but I find the personification of LLMs, for lack of better, less strong words, horrific.

New comment by xydone in "The Birthday Paradox Experiment (2018)"

xydone — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 17:25:52 +0000

It's a relatively small gym so I assume they don't have the resources to improve the system and quite frankly I too would prefer if they spent the money on more equipment