Here’s another example: fn f<T>() -> T { loop { println!(“Looping”); } } This won’t compile. How do you express to the compiler that this is correct (because the function never completes) without a never type? Rust also…
Why is it bad? Implicit integer conversions are generally bad because they can produce unexpected behavior at runtime and obstruct what’s really happening, but that doesn’t seem to be what’s happening here. Never is a…
> This is patently false. I think what they're trying to say is that housing being a good investment long-term is fundamentally incompatible with housing being affordable, and society should choose the latter. Within a…
Why does building a successful business necessitate generating economic externalities? Many do, and that should be prevented, but many also don’t. And to say that those externalities are responsible for a majority of…
I couldn’t disagree more. Most of my company’s backend code is written in Scala, and most of our engineers dislike it because the language is difficult to understand, has way too many features, and has many ways to…
Apple’s hardware teams are seriously running laps around their software teams. Which is odd, because historically, it’s been the opposite. Until iPad OS actually becomes capable for complex work and multitasking, I…
I'm curious, how much does this weigh? I've ridden e-bikes a few times, and it's always surprising how much heavier they are than ordinary bikes. I can't imagine how heavy this must be.
It seems like this problem (differences in how humans and LLMs use probabilistic language) and hallucination are one in the same. LLMs don’t have access to information about how confident they are, so they always choose…
The article cites Amazon prohibiting sellers from selling their products for less on other platforms as anticompetitive behavior. I don’t doubt that this is happening, nor that it’s anticompetitive. That being said,…
Then won’t foreign governments just ban freedom.gov? This problem has already been solved with networks like Tor and I2P. It seems like it would be more strategic to fund those projects instead.
I think what bugs me about EU legislation like this is how micro-targeted it is. Why apparel specifically? If waste and a disregard for the finite-ness of natural resources is the problem, why not impose a blanket,…
This question may be naive, but why is the agricultural industry so subsidized? I understand the moral argument, but why, economically, does subsidizing farms result in a more efficient allocation of resources? I've…
I’m also looking forward to gpui (https://www.gpui.rs/) from the Zed folks.
Agreed. I don’t think easy package management is the problem, though. Rather, it’s just triggered a Cambrian explosion of packages, and now security needs to catch up.
I think the point about tooling being the problem deserves more emphasis. I'm a firm believer that the right thing to do should be the easiest thing to do. Currently, the easiest place to innovate is at the top of the…
Really interesting stuff. Am I correct in thinking that if productivity were to rapidly increase in the service sector (e.g. due to AI) the same way it did in the manufacturing sector in the 19th and 20th centuries,…
I work one of these teams! At my company (~300 engineers), we have tech debt teams for both frontend and backend. I’m on the backend team. We do the work that’s too large in scope for other teams to handle, and clearly…
Happy Thanksgiving, HN!
This article seems sensationalized and lacking evidence. Layoffs alone (especially when so much of the industry did them) doesn't seem sufficient to explain today's outage, especially when we know so little of the…
What benefit do skills over beyond writing good, human-centric documentation and either checking it into your codebase or making it accessible via an MCP server?
Rust's choice of constructs also makes writing safe and performant code easy. Many other compiled languages lack proper sum and product types, and traits (type classes) offer polymorphism without many of the pitfalls of…
I’ve considered running an email server on my personal domain for some time, but the effort of changing my email hasn’t felt worth it to me, given how many services I’ve signed up for with my current email (a Gmail…
I think when the answer becomes more important than the journey, AI tools become more valuable. Want to figure out why a bug is occurring? Tools like Claude Code can be great for this. Implementing a new API or feature?…
I really, really want an ARM laptop with great Linux support. It's very difficult to justify buying an non-M series laptop today, when the M series laptops outperform x86 laptops in battery life by such a wide margin.…
Support for garbage collection is really nice to see. Previously, it’s been very difficult to do garbage collection in WASM because you don’t have direct access to the stack, so traditional approaches like stack…
Here’s another example: fn f<T>() -> T { loop { println!(“Looping”); } } This won’t compile. How do you express to the compiler that this is correct (because the function never completes) without a never type? Rust also…
Why is it bad? Implicit integer conversions are generally bad because they can produce unexpected behavior at runtime and obstruct what’s really happening, but that doesn’t seem to be what’s happening here. Never is a…
> This is patently false. I think what they're trying to say is that housing being a good investment long-term is fundamentally incompatible with housing being affordable, and society should choose the latter. Within a…
Why does building a successful business necessitate generating economic externalities? Many do, and that should be prevented, but many also don’t. And to say that those externalities are responsible for a majority of…
I couldn’t disagree more. Most of my company’s backend code is written in Scala, and most of our engineers dislike it because the language is difficult to understand, has way too many features, and has many ways to…
Apple’s hardware teams are seriously running laps around their software teams. Which is odd, because historically, it’s been the opposite. Until iPad OS actually becomes capable for complex work and multitasking, I…
I'm curious, how much does this weigh? I've ridden e-bikes a few times, and it's always surprising how much heavier they are than ordinary bikes. I can't imagine how heavy this must be.
It seems like this problem (differences in how humans and LLMs use probabilistic language) and hallucination are one in the same. LLMs don’t have access to information about how confident they are, so they always choose…
The article cites Amazon prohibiting sellers from selling their products for less on other platforms as anticompetitive behavior. I don’t doubt that this is happening, nor that it’s anticompetitive. That being said,…
Then won’t foreign governments just ban freedom.gov? This problem has already been solved with networks like Tor and I2P. It seems like it would be more strategic to fund those projects instead.
I think what bugs me about EU legislation like this is how micro-targeted it is. Why apparel specifically? If waste and a disregard for the finite-ness of natural resources is the problem, why not impose a blanket,…
This question may be naive, but why is the agricultural industry so subsidized? I understand the moral argument, but why, economically, does subsidizing farms result in a more efficient allocation of resources? I've…
I’m also looking forward to gpui (https://www.gpui.rs/) from the Zed folks.
Agreed. I don’t think easy package management is the problem, though. Rather, it’s just triggered a Cambrian explosion of packages, and now security needs to catch up.
I think the point about tooling being the problem deserves more emphasis. I'm a firm believer that the right thing to do should be the easiest thing to do. Currently, the easiest place to innovate is at the top of the…
Really interesting stuff. Am I correct in thinking that if productivity were to rapidly increase in the service sector (e.g. due to AI) the same way it did in the manufacturing sector in the 19th and 20th centuries,…
I work one of these teams! At my company (~300 engineers), we have tech debt teams for both frontend and backend. I’m on the backend team. We do the work that’s too large in scope for other teams to handle, and clearly…
Happy Thanksgiving, HN!
This article seems sensationalized and lacking evidence. Layoffs alone (especially when so much of the industry did them) doesn't seem sufficient to explain today's outage, especially when we know so little of the…
What benefit do skills over beyond writing good, human-centric documentation and either checking it into your codebase or making it accessible via an MCP server?
Rust's choice of constructs also makes writing safe and performant code easy. Many other compiled languages lack proper sum and product types, and traits (type classes) offer polymorphism without many of the pitfalls of…
I’ve considered running an email server on my personal domain for some time, but the effort of changing my email hasn’t felt worth it to me, given how many services I’ve signed up for with my current email (a Gmail…
I think when the answer becomes more important than the journey, AI tools become more valuable. Want to figure out why a bug is occurring? Tools like Claude Code can be great for this. Implementing a new API or feature?…
I really, really want an ARM laptop with great Linux support. It's very difficult to justify buying an non-M series laptop today, when the M series laptops outperform x86 laptops in battery life by such a wide margin.…
Support for garbage collection is really nice to see. Previously, it’s been very difficult to do garbage collection in WASM because you don’t have direct access to the stack, so traditional approaches like stack…