Hacker News: xyproto

New comment by xyproto in "Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua"

xyproto — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:07:55 +0000

The Algernon web server comes with built-in support for Teal.

New comment by xyproto in "Yes, and"

xyproto — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:00:08 +0000

Yes, I added support for deterministic `.prompt` files to the Algernon web server 2 years ago: https://github.com/xyproto/algernon/commit/e09858f9364f8e018...

New comment by xyproto in "Yes, and"

xyproto — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 11:03:27 +0000

AI tools can be deterministic by setting the temperature to 0. This does allow it to behave as a high level programming language, contrary to what the article claims.

C for Rust programmers

xyproto — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 13:44:36 +0000

Article URL: https://bd103.dev/blog/2026-10-07-c-for-rust-programmers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50005743

Points: 173

# Comments: 217

New comment by xyproto in "California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law"

xyproto — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 07:42:37 +0000

What do you mean by regulation? Laws that could lead to a fine or jail time, or the enforcement of laws through ie. the police?

New comment by xyproto in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

xyproto — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:07:42 +0000

What will the long term effects of this be? Models on Hugging Face that only runs properly on NVIDIA hardware?

New comment by xyproto in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"

xyproto — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:36:14 +0000

Achtually... if it's a 31556952 second clock, it's only right once a year.

New comment by xyproto in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"

xyproto — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:35:02 +0000

As long as one didn't have to downgrade X11, they were straightforward to install. You are right that upgrades was a pain, but I believe the drivers themselves were on-par with the Windows drivers.

New comment by xyproto in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"

xyproto — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:02:51 +0000

NVIDIA created quality (but proprietary) drivers for Linux early on, when supporting Linux at all was not a given. They should get at least a tiny bit of credit for this.

New comment by xyproto in "Don't be a meat proxy"

xyproto — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:28:24 +0000

Quick, solve a double integral by hand!

New comment by xyproto in "Don't be a meat proxy"

xyproto — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:54:37 +0000

Some skills are easy re-pick-uppable, like bicycling. Mathematics is probably more challenging. Not sure about programming, especially "borint" business-like programming.

New comment by xyproto in "Don't be a meat proxy"

xyproto — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:38:46 +0000

It's also very easy to dismiss everyone falling into the "AI trap" as being mediocre in the first place, though. But one just can't know this without having seen their work pre-AI.

New comment by xyproto in "AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job"

xyproto — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:48:10 +0000

I can't tell if this is insightful or copium.

New comment by xyproto in "Ford rehires 350 engineers after AI fails to preserve expertise or train juniors"

xyproto — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:49:15 +0000

Oh how the wheels have turned.

New comment by xyproto in "CSSQuake"

xyproto — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:16:24 +0000

Has science gone too far?

New comment by xyproto in "AI Engineers aren't safe from being replaced by AI"

xyproto — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:15:20 +0000

Having long time perspective, seeing the wider context, talking to people, having vision and taste. Curating and sanity-checking the results. Security and trust.

The reasons are many.

New comment by xyproto in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

xyproto — Thu, 07 May 2026 08:20:01 +0000

I believe that the assumption that customers reviewing the output artifacts is "the final boss" is wrong. If AI use spreads, customers are also likely to use AI to review the artifacts. Vision, taste and curation remains, though.

New comment by xyproto in "Ti-84 Evo"

xyproto — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:30:13 +0000

I wonder why they don't have a "Buy now" button on their website.

New comment by xyproto in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

xyproto — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:55:36 +0000

I am all for taking AI out of education, like China recently announced that they will do.

New comment by xyproto in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

xyproto — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:40:51 +0000

Even if a tool can only be used for lobotomizing humans, the usage of the tool is where the main blame should be placed.