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I have seen people talking about this "hosting a small streaming service for friends" thing, and I really have trouble understanding that. It just seems a bad idea to expose such a server to the Internet and maintain it, even with a VPN, and I don't know what kind of friends they have. That's a lot of effort for very questionable return, considering the requirements for your hard drive space, bandwidth, the time it takes to curate your library including "acquisition" and pruning etc.

Is the US expected to win wars? We all know how Vietnam went. Maybe consider that before asking the "why" question?

Is Russia expected to win wars?

And I would rather see none of these stupid wars start in the first place.

I initially thought rewriting an entire codebase with AI would be a huge mistake

Keep in mind that you are not Anthropic, and you'll likely NOT consider rewrite at all if you don't have unlimited budget

Can't comment on others, but new Node.js also has typescript out of the box and works pretty well.

It's not a fair question.

You are absolutely mistaken.

You have no rights whatsoever to question what a person is willing to put into an open source project. That's called being entitled and ungrateful. Perhaps look in the mirror and see who's the real jerk.

If you still have doubts, look at the social engineering and emotional manipulation in the xz incident.

Re $200: give me one example where $200 of LLM credit "saved" an open source project.

I always find it interesting when I see posts here around "LLMs are just fancy autocompletion machines" and there are 100 comments below it.

PlayStation users are moving to PC en masse

Source? Is that reddit?

It simply doesn't make sense.

And I don't understand why a serious media outlet is covering this at all. The entire article could be irrelevant the next day.

Without any actual, meaningful news coming out of the company (important financial update, new product, bankruptcy etc), stock price moves are only meaningful to day traders, not anyone who is doing serious investing. LA Times is making themselves the same as CNBC or sources you find on Yahoo finance.

Does it matter to you as a user, other than the Nodejs/npm requirement?

It seems that you still haven't realized the gigantic hole in your arguments even after I already pointed them out.

If you don't know what open source software is or how projects are typically run (including where the funding, if any, comes from), educate yourself before posting meaningless texts in a forum.

no regular users

Source?

$200 mean very different things to different people.

I would never say it's "reasonable" to expect anyone (including maintainers) to contribute money or code to an open source project.

Must be easy for you to type these things from your comfortable armchair.

So?

Does that negate any of the points?

Fighting complex technical and non-technical issues "with code" may be the most programmer way of thinking about things.

To begin with, that 200 dollars need to come from somewhere. Are you going to personally contribute to that 200 dollars? If not, someone needs to find money from somewhere. Then, I can assure you it's going to be much more than 200 dollars before you realize it.

You don't need to trust them. You can request information as allowed under FOIA and vote the mayor out in the next election if there is any sign of misuse.

With Flock? Good luck.

A few of which are on HN front page.

easy or good?

I have no beef in this flight -- I don't write Zig or Rust or use Bun (other than using Claude Code which runs on Bun, but that's an implementation detail that I don't care). But the more I look at this, the more I despise Anthropic and respect the Zig foundation. One is like "we can do whatever we want because WE HAVE MONEY, what can you do about it", the other looks at things from a engineering perspective.

It will be sad if everyone buys Anthropic's hype, forget the basic engineering principles in this industry and think that AI solves every problem. Fortunately lots of people don't.

It's a matter of whether this project will provide bug fixes, will continue to exist next month and whether the company will end up scrambling to replace it. No CTO cares about (very) questionable "improvements". They care about if it works and will continue to work.

Sorry, as someone who has been involved in many of these decisions, I don't think you understand how any of this actually works in the real world.

Let me just point out:

The project is not cool. This is not a new idea, and there is nothing special.

Students won't use it as an example of porting code. I am not aware "porting code" is part of standard software engineering or computer science curriculum. That's not the kind of thing being taught in schools.

Companies won't switch to it unless their CTOs are either insane or incompetent.

If you can do a Rust rewrite with AI, I can create one as well. What makes yours better than mine? Your decade long expertise in database or Rust language? Your reputation? Your proven track record to manage large, complex projects? Your time committed to the project? I don't see any of that.

I don't know why anyone would choose this over the actively (community) maintained proper Postgres project.

Because it's a waste of token.

I'd love to be proven wrong, but chances are that nobody will use this in production, people will completely forget about the project in 6 months, and the project will be archived not long after that.

This is not the first one of similar projects.

Yet nobody is going to use it in production.

So what's the point?

I would not put it in production

Nobody else would either.

If this is meant for personal learning, do it that way and make it clear that others should not even consider using this project.

In fact, even for personal learning it's wasteful. You can learn so much about database without a rewrite like this.

Because chances are that it's never going to be production ready, never trustworthy enough to be used by anything serious, and the project will eventually be archived and become at best a (extremely inefficient) learning experience for the author, or at worst a total waste of tokens. I could be completely wrong about this specific project, but most of these projects are like that, and statistics don't lie.

Linux kernel is not even run on github. Somehow people manage to find its source and contribute to it.

I don't think Bun actually matters much, even for web development. For sure there is a lot of enthusiasm, but all the production systems I know continue to use Node.js and are not moving to Bun any time soon. In the "real world" not that many people care about it.

If you bothered to actually learn just a little bit about the Zig project, you'll know that they are doing ok. They never cared about introducing new features at a fast speed, having lots of contributors, or getting corporate sponsorship, if that's not already obvious from the article. In fact, they intentionally keep a distance from all of that to make the project more sustainable and less prone to the whims of corporations.

Would have been a great opportunity to outline the benefits of Zig!

Eh, Google and ChatGPT both exist?

Perhaps that's the definition of taste (or lack of).