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SergeAx

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Serial technical co-founder / engineering teams builder. Avid sailor and traveler. Hedonist and bon vivant. Fine arts, wine and food aficionado. Currently in Belgrade, Serbia.

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github.com 2mo ago

Zig → Rust porting guide

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www.catb.org 3mo ago

The Story of Mel (1983)

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twitter.com 3mo ago

Mark Andreessen: "AGI is here"

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investors.digitalocean.com 3mo ago

DigitalOcean Announces Proposed Public Offering of Common Stock

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asimov.inc 4mo ago

Asimov DIY Kit

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fortune.com 4mo ago

Supermicro's co-founder arrested for smuggling $2.5B in GPUs to China

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blog.adafruit.com 4mo ago

Disassemble Z80 instructions by changing the font

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yii3.yiiframework.com 6mo ago

YII Framework 3.0 Released

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store.steampowered.com 7mo ago

Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction

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www.levernews.com 1y ago

Airlines Are Collecting Your Data and Selling It to ICE

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www.themoscowtimes.com 1y ago

1 Killed, Several Injured After Shooting Outside Online Retailer Moscow Office

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twitter.com 1y ago

Twitter enabled training Grok on users' posts by default

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www.raspberrypi.com 2y ago

Raspberry Pi AI Kit

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world.hey.com 2y ago

DHH: Forcing master to main was a good faith exploit

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devblogs.microsoft.com 2y ago

MS Windows: The largest Git repo on the planet (2017)

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trufflesecurity.com 2y ago

Google OAuth is broken (sort of)

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www.gomponents.com 2y ago

Gomponents – HTML 5 components in pure Go

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en.wikipedia.org 2y ago

RAS Syndrome

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blog.railway.app 2y ago

Railway V2

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github.com 2y ago

Yandex open sourced it's BI tool DataLens

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www.cnbc.com 2y ago

Airbnb reduced partying by 55% in two years

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philhillaa.com 2y ago

EdTech company laid off half the staff without severance

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www.digitalocean.com 3y ago

Paperspace Joins DigitalOcean to Expand AI Capabilities

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ieeexplore.ieee.org 3y ago

Defining, Measuring, and Managing Technical Debt (By Google)

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slack.engineering 3y ago

How We Use Terraform at Slack

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www.pnas.org 3y ago

Gender inequality is associated with differences in the brains of women and men

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en.wikipedia.org 3y ago

Gin pennant

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github.blog 3y ago

NPM Package Provenance

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twitter.com 3y ago

Elon Musk announced Twitter paid subscription service

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www.reuters.com 3y ago

Nasdaq tells Yandex, other Russian firms of plan to delist stocks

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I still think that generating a Zig-Rust transpiler would be a better approach, given all the LLM quirks, including the ability to just /goal the model with binary-identical LLVM bytecode.

However, an open-sourced tool like that would've greatly harmed the Zig ecosystem and community.

This topic starter. I saw a post on Twitter in "for you" feed, verified it, found an interesting bit (rewriting prompt) and started a topic on HN. Like I said, I never expected it to hit #1.

I couldn't use that title because I didn't know if it an experiment at the moment. Even now the correct title would be "Bun author says that he is entertaining the idea of porting it from Zig to Rust, creates an experimental branch".

I am a topic starter, and I had no emotional response, was just being curious. Never expected it will land at HN #1. I specifically posted the link to the first commit and not to the whole branch, because currently the prompt is the most interesting part.

Thank you for the clarification!

While you are here, can you elaborate on the method chosen? For example, why not write a conversion script for phase A? I mean, same Anthropic model will produce it in no time, prompting it is at the same cognitive load level, but you would have a deterministic result.

Lots of people, me included, heavily invested their time and expertise into Bun, using it as a daily driver, to bundle production code or even using it in production as a JS/TS runtime. Of course, we are interested in Bun to stay a useful tool. The Anthropic acquisition was worrying enough on its own.

On the contrary. If you really do this street-corner experiment, 80% of answers would be "I want my phone to last longer on one charge." Other 20% will be "I want my phone to charge faster". No one will say, "Oh, I want it to be foldable," or "Oh, I want an AI inside my phone." Zero. Zilch. Nada.

Mobile phones are totally okay the way they are now. No one needs new ones, and almost no one wants new ones. My previous phone lasted for 5 years. I changed the battery halfway, of course - it took a repair guy in a local shop about an hour.

I wonder if they deliberately withheld SMTP sending to get better vendor lock. However, without SMTP support, the email sending service is mostly unusable.

If you are not ready to trust a vibe-coded app with all your digital life, I recommend Filestash[1], easy to install self-hosted frontend for virtually any type of storage. Written in Go, it can be enhanced with plugins. Uses local SQLite database.

I am using it with Hetzner Storage Box[2], which is insane value for money at 11 euro per 5 terabytes per month.

[1] https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash [2]: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/

other than AI stuff, where does a non powerful computer limit you? As a software engineer: 1) I need Docker to run some dependencies for my project: databases, caches, things like that 2) My IDE is quite a resource hog 3) I prefer my build process to be as fast as possible.

A couple of weeks ago, I decided to write a GUI utility to propagate my new PuTTY default settings to existing sessions. I took the Go Walk package, which is Win32, and was done in several hours, most of those spent hunting down an obscure layout bug. So long with memory-unsafe languages.

Here's the source code for those who are interested: https://github.com/sergeax/stamputty