Hacker News: zem

New comment by zem in "South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access"

zem — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:57:27 +0000

malka older's "infomocracy" is another interesting science fiction look at universal access to information

New comment by zem in "Sky – an Elm-inspired language that compiles to Go"

zem — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:03:40 +0000

awesome! will definitely check back regularly.

New comment by zem in "What does ⍋⍋ even mean? (2023)"

zem — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:45:08 +0000

"a programming language".

New comment by zem in "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"

zem — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:57:59 +0000

the fact that you can't name the UK equivalent offhand should tell you how obscure these regional agency names and acronyms are in general.

New comment by zem in "Sky – an Elm-inspired language that compiles to Go"

zem — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:42 +0000

they're inspired by repeating elm's good features and fixing the bad ones!

New comment by zem in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

zem — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:18:12 +0000

I've found claude startlingly good at debugging race conditions and other multithreading issues though.

New comment by zem in "What being ripped off taught me"

zem — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:59:10 +0000

recalcitrant companies with a presence within the court's jurisdiction, which in the OP's case doesn't sound likely.

New comment by zem in "Sky – an Elm-inspired language that compiles to Go"

zem — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:21:22 +0000

ocaml has a complex type system but it's also very pragmatic in that it doesn't force you into any one paradigm, you can do whatever works best in a given situation. (scala arguably goes further in the "do whatever you want" direction but it also dials the complexity way up)

New comment by zem in "Sky – an Elm-inspired language that compiles to Go"

zem — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:44:10 +0000

at first glance this looks amazing! basically provides everything I have ever wanted in a full stack language. looking forward to experimenting with it.

edit: looking through the docs/examples some more, it looks like javascript interop is fairly clunky, both because it relies on string concatenation to embed fragments of javascript, and because the string concatenation syntax is not great (and the formatter makes it even worse - see the example at https://github.com/anzellai/sky/blob/main/examples/13-skysho...)

I would encourage you to at the least add multiline strings with interpolation support, and ideally add a small compiler for html literals.

New comment by zem in "I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK"

zem — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:30:31 +0000

often the blocked features are specifically blocked on the mobile web (i.e. on your desktop they won't make you get your phone out to use the app instead), so forcing the webpage to desktop mode helps.

New comment by zem in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

zem — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:58:46 +0000

I wonder if this also applies to tools that interact with the claude code tui through tmux's capabilities.

New comment by zem in "iNaturalist"

zem — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:45:02 +0000

wow, that would be my cue to uninstall the app and write zeros repeatedly over the place it used to be!

New comment by zem in "Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own"

zem — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:06:51 +0000

> I think the author just intends to signal political affiliation through the soft-shibboleth of Being the Type of Guy to Say Cuck A Lot

agreed, I got strong edgelord vibes off that. completely distracted from any message the poster wanted to convey.

New comment by zem in "I quit. The clankers won"

zem — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 03:26:15 +0000

> This requires the ability to write well (or well enough to get what you want from the agent) and clearly communicate intent (in your language of choice, not code; very different IMO).

I do not see why you can't write your spec in pseudocode if you really want to - communicating your intent to the LLM, for how the code should be developed is far closer to programming than writing skillwise.

New comment by zem in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

zem — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:56:55 +0000

interesting, I still see "coauthored by..." messages put into my git commits (or was a couple of weeks ago at least)

New comment by zem in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

zem — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:36:22 +0000

that's really awesome. how did you go about building the component library?

New comment by zem in "Researchers find 3,500-year-old loom that reveals textile revolution"

zem — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:41:49 +0000

I think it's not just puzzle solving - for me it's the idea of creating something from raw materials where that something is itself a standard building block. it appeals to the same part of me that programming does.

New comment by zem in "Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed"

zem — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:24:59 +0000

we used ninja as a parallel task runner in pytype - had our whole-project analyser generate a ninja file with a task graph, and then just evoke ninja to run it, taking care of dependencies and parallel execution. it worked very nicely indeed.

New comment by zem in "Google's insecure-by-default API keys and 30h billing lag cost my startup $15k"

zem — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:22:16 +0000

I really hope that one effect of ai code generators making code cheaper to write is that the calculus around "accept vendor lock in return for getting up and running faster" changes dramatically

New comment by zem in "You are falling behind because you haven't fed the insincerity machine"

zem — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:00:07 +0000

this is why the only youtube channels I really watch regularly are the ones where the formula is the point, e.g. https://youtube.com/@crackingthecryptic