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Hasn't Node been able to run TypeScript for a couple of versions? Why's the transpiler needed?
Location: Portugal
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Rails, Django, Postgres, React, Node, Next.js, Go, Postgres, Redis, KDB+
Résumé/CV: https://0x1.pt/Vitor_Sousa_Pereira_CV.pdf
Email: vmsousapereira@gmail.com
I didn't know I was part of a trend, that's pretty cool. I've been buying originals related to the Portuguese Estado Novo and Carnation Revolution for some years. A ton of ad-hoc, clearly political, publishers spawned right after the revolution and I've been thinking of digitizing some of the stuff I have for historical purposes.
With the kind of press it’s getting, I bet this model will outsell all others made in the last 10y. I don’t remember the last time a Ferrari was on the news.
Is anyone actually using agent swarms for anything real?
That wasn't a value judgment on the acquisition. I was just pointing out that it made the project more sustainable.
I wonder how Deno's faring.
Node's the stable solution and will be with us forever. You can now use TypeScript with it and, soon enough, you'll be able to build your app to a single executable -- including native deps.
Bun's chaotic but, nonetheless, it's _fast_ and it's taking an interesting approach by including everything in the stdlib. Plus, bought by Anthropic.
Deno had an awesome story with the sandbox and ease of import for third-party dependencies. Sandboxes feel pretty commoditized now and I'm not sure the import mechanism ended up being that much nicer than a `npm add`.
Everyone prefers real problems. It's something you already know how to do instead of something you explicitly have to train for.
It doesn't change the fact that the real work could be an hour's exercise or longer remunerated work. This isn't an either/or scenario like you put it. Plus, for a fact, companies will happily have you doing both the leetcode and the take-home test.
Some companies do this and pay the candidate for their time, regardless of outcome. I don't think there's much to comment there. Some don't pay the candidate. In that case, it's just a predatory practice to take advantage of the tough job market.
It's cool to see Nim in the wild, you don't hear about it often
Reminds me of Litestack for Rails. Eventually, it was abandoned because Rails itself started going all out on SQLite.
Wouldn't this kind of architecture yield a slower compiler, regardless of output quality? Conceptually, trying to implement the least-amount of passes with each doing as much work as possible would make more sense to me.
Interesting lib. Sort of like Hotwire Native
How does one learn about designing chips, ISAs and the manufacturing process? I feel like it’s hard info to got or, at least, to know how to get started.
Terrific initiative, either way. Open-source chips must be the way.
True. Google was even thinking of switching TensorFlow from Python to Swift.
As a Portuguese I have a more nuanced view of these type of takes.
We invested _heavily_ and prematurely in renewable energies -- see my comment from a couple of years ago [0]. Since then, our energy prices were high for a while and now they're not much lower than the EU's average because all that investment needs to be amortized [1]. Two years ago, we ran a whole month on renewables [2]. Despite this, our increase in energy prices since the Iran war started has been dramatic and the price of everything has been going up significantly. I can't help but think about the ROI on all those renewables if they can't help make our lives easier at a time like this. I'd much rather we go nuclear.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37719568
[1] https://eco.sapo.pt/2026/03/11/precos-da-eletricidade-e-gas-...
[2] https://www.portugalglobal.pt/en/news/2024/april/renewable-e...
Not directly related to the post but what does OpenUI do? I'm finding it interesting but hard to understand. Is it an intermediate layer that makes LLMs generate better UI?
Is doing stuff like constant folding pre-execution really worth it? I mean, won't the engine itself (V8, JSC, MozJS) be doing it anyway? I know that Google's Closure Compiler — probably still the most advanced JS optimized — also does it but I can't help but think it's probably pointless.
I'm guessing this is a fork of Facebook's abandoned library? https://github.com/facebookincubator/CG-SQL
I like to keep it simple.
Snapchat also maintains Djinni, used to generate type-safe bindings for C++ code. With Valdi, it seems like they chose to go another route.
That's perfectly reasonable but, at that point, the argument becomes: build 95% natively and maybe there's a 5% "core" that warrants extracting into a common lib. Technically? That's excellent architecture. In terms of saving development time — which is where stuff like React Native comes in? Not so much.
I hear this and it makes sense but when I actually go about implementing it, it quickly falls apart.
Most apps are UI, remote requests and maybe some storage. What do you put in the common core? Android does HTTP requests one way. iOS does them another way. You go for the lowest common denominator an implement a third way, using libcurl or something?
Or do you just put business logic in the common core? Is there really that much business logic that doesn't issue requests or access a database?
There's an accompanying blog post at https://zserge.com/posts/fenster/
This author has some pretty cool stuff, like a tiny alternative to Firebase https://zserge.com/posts/pennybase/
No. This is a trend. HN is a tech and startups website so it will show trends. At one point it was VR, eventually it was Web 3.0. Right now it's LLMs but this too will pass and something else will come along.
Homebrew was kind of slow, at one point, but I find that it works pretty well these days. Still, this is pretty cool and competitions is always good.
Interestingly, I always imagined that a would-be replacement would come written in Swift. I guess I was wrong.
Looks similar to Clasp but implements Clojure instead of Common Lisp.
Is this it?
How does one get into the investment business?