Hacker News: zerr

New comment by zerr in "ZapFast: A fast, native WhatsApp client in Rust and egui"

zerr — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 12:14:48 +0000

For any vibe-coded open-source project, shouldn't the prompt history and token costs be published as well?

New comment by zerr in "Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why"

zerr — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 20:02:11 +0000

So, it has always been a skill issue.

New comment by zerr in "The Flash C Compiler"

zerr — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 16:47:55 +0000

Exactly. Some "Prolog interpreter in Tcl" is a prompt away in LLMs but what's the point of inferring and dumping it on github? Same goes for any vibe-coded project.

New comment by zerr in "Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory"

zerr — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 11:34:12 +0000

Isn't it a shithole anyway? Outside London, I've seen senior engineer ads for 39K GBP per annum :) I'm pretty sure delivery chaps make much more...

New comment by zerr in "Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI"

zerr — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 10:22:30 +0000

Akin to Java in Oracle vs Google case, keeping the API but LLM-ing the implementation can be considered as fair use.

New comment by zerr in "North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist"

zerr — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 18:03:58 +0000

I know people grinding leetcode on work laptops, during working times, at the office, for interviews at other companies.

New comment by zerr in "C++26 Disapproved"

zerr — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 09:52:30 +0000

Can we have a 10 year break from further language changes?

New comment by zerr in "Ask HN: Anyone here still writing code for reasons other than fun or learning?"

zerr — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 14:17:10 +0000

Yes. I was also considering Ask HN-ing that we should add a new flag in Who Is Hiring threads, like NOAGENTIC or similar. @dang

New comment by zerr in "StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month"

zerr — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 09:57:53 +0000

Lycos as well.

New comment by zerr in "Pharo 14"

zerr — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:59:55 +0000

It's getting harder to pick between Pharo vs Eiffel for a new project :)

New comment by zerr in "C vs. C#: racing VLC's Gaussian blur"

zerr — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 09:02:14 +0000

It never was a priority I believe. As opposed to C, the main target audience of C#/.NET has always been LOB CRUD app shops.

New comment by zerr in "Crystal 1.22"

zerr — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:43:36 +0000

Isn't Crystal significantly more expressive than Golang?

New comment by zerr in "Android apps running native on macOS"

zerr — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 07:11:28 +0000

Maybe it is intended for LLMs? For writings of more than a page, most readers are going to use LLM summarizations anyway.

New comment by zerr in "Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf]"

zerr — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:17:38 +0000

Well, there is just horse riding as well, done for fun. I think this is a better analogy.

New comment by zerr in "A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE"

zerr — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 07:41:43 +0000

I wonder how much did it cost.

New comment by zerr in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)"

zerr — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:57:45 +0000

For the backend, any plans switching to Raku (Perl 6)?

New comment by zerr in "Turbo Haskell"

zerr — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:34:05 +0000

I was expecting some Turbo Vision based TUI IDE.

New comment by zerr in "EDG C++ front-end goes public"

zerr — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:05:18 +0000

This is common in Lisps.

New comment by zerr in "Show HN: Pac-Bench – How well can models one-shot a Pac-Man game?"

zerr — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:55:50 +0000

Articulating about architecture (as opposed to engineering (as opposed to programming)) is a part of coping I believe. Yes, LLMs do architectures as well. I think the vibe-coding is the more precise term, also considering that less and less human reviews are being done.

New comment by zerr in "Using any C++ library in Godot"

zerr — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:10:20 +0000

> // Copy the position of every entity into the MultiMesh buffer

So, is a zero-copy impossible due to world (C++ vs Godot) boundaries?