HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

cultofmetatron

4,607 karma · joined March 27, 2007

submissionscomments
cultofmetatron··on JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history
I really like the way air works. the big reason I dont use it is because they have refused to support elixir which is my daily driver language.

I love that I can use browse the code in it and inline my comments for my prompts and send out all my requests into a single prompt

cultofmetatron··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
> Israel is doing very well since October 7 whereas Hamas and Gaza is not.

sounds like the terrorists did indeed win

cultofmetatron··on Was silent reading unusual during Augustine's time?
"silent spell casting"
cultofmetatron··on Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust
> write it in C and ask an LLM to weed out the memory bugs?

because a non-determinist chain of reasoning is not the same as a fully deterministic algorithm. Its the best tool when a deterministic system is not feasable.

cultofmetatron··on Teen reading slumps to worst this century due to surge in screen time
> I wouldn't be surprised if the Greeks and Romans felt the same.

reading and writing are corrupting your ability to remember everything you need to know!!

cultofmetatron··on Coyote v. Acme (1990)
the price for movie tickets in america are insane too. I went to see the odyssey in malaysia. It was less than half the price for an equivalent experience.
cultofmetatron··on Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)
> I don't recall us bombing Pakistan, India, Israel, China, or North Korea.

pakistan and india did it in secret.

incidentally, its alleged that one of the countries on that list killed a very prominent american in order to prevent us from stopping them from creating a nuclear program.

cultofmetatron··on The Harness Is the Thing
am I the only one here who is perfectly fine with deepseek and qwen? generally I do all the planning in my head and a few sentences describing what I want is enough for deepseek to save me hours of work. Hell I get away with flash for most of it and use pro for some reviews.
cultofmetatron··on How Universities Should Prepare Founders
> Most of them end up dead…

wait till you see what happens to a lot of forbes 30 under 30

cultofmetatron··on SiFive's First Server Platform
> Support for double-wide GPUs (Up to 450W)

oh a double wide surprise for the AI industry? just what we needed.

cultofmetatron··on The Work Number: credit score but for your employment history – by Equifax
I see no way this could go wrong at all.
cultofmetatron··on Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells in mice
hmm inquisition, conquistadores in south america, and british expansion into india, the genocide of the kumir ruge and congo under leopold and the holocaust had nothign to do with islam.

atheist here, from my perspective, all the religions seem to lean in teh direction of violence when paired with a greedy elite.

also have you read the old testament? large sections of it come down to "god told us to kill them so we did down to the last sheep"

islamaphobia is a symptom of the uneducated.

cultofmetatron··on Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells in mice
> Sure, never mind the millions of jews in concentration camps. Or what about the jews being terrorized by the likes of hamas, al-queda, taliban, al-shebab, IS, or any other islamic terror organization worldwide? Over the past 80 years, the number of children involved may dwarf the figure you got from hamas.

the levels of shamelessness here on display here is breathtaking...

cultofmetatron··on Zohran Mamdani's NYC Tech Team Is What DOGE Should Have Been
you can't beat the Zorhan!
cultofmetatron··on Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage
I found the new deepseek flash is so good I rarely have to pull out gpt sol anymore. if anything for coding tasks, gpt sol ends to go out of scope and I have to reign it in. Trying to keep my tasks managably small for human review is a endless battle with the frontier models.
cultofmetatron··on Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
its a bit like how big companies will pullin a CEO who;s job is to do all the unpopular stuff and then summarily dismiss him after (while keeping the policies he created in tact).

ideally we should be throwing our support behind democratic socialists like zorhan mamdani but old school moderate democrats are just as bad as trump. they are juts happy letting trump do the dirty work. At the end of the day they are both working for a certain foreign government and not the interests of the american people.

cultofmetatron··on Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
both democrats and republicans take their money from the same donors. its all a show.
cultofmetatron··on Teaching Kids Forth
probably the arbitrariness of it. PEMDAS is more or less burned into my brain at this point but its basically the qwerty of notations.
cultofmetatron··on Measuring developer productivity with the DX Core 4
the whippings will continue until Dx core 4 metrics improve
cultofmetatron··on Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude
I do recall that a "famous redditor" was driven to suicide for making works available and he wasn't even making money for it.
cultofmetatron··on Xiaomi-Robotics-1
"Yet" is the keyword. it won't be long before we arent' any different from china at the rate we are going at and I think a lot of us would be better off preventing the west from turning into an oppressive autocracy instead of judging china.
cultofmetatron··on Xiaomi-Robotics-1
western elites are currently at odds with the chinese elites and every impressionable idiot is being inundates with antichinese propaganda.

Lets be frank, every single issue we have with the CCP is either also being done by the west or in the works.

chinese oppression of the uighurs is nothing compared to whats going on in Gaza.

china forces prisoners to peel garlic while american prisoners are paid pennies a day to fight wildfires while being prohibited from being paid for those very same skills as firefighters when rehabilitated.

america is quickly workin on legislation to to make criticism of certain foreign governments illegal with very real reprucussons (revoking passports).

At least china has a working power grid and high speed train network.

cultofmetatron··on Elixir-lang.org has a new design
elixir also has hygenic macros ala scheme. it also easier to write and read day to day compared to erlang. elixir also made strings more manageable.

they made a bunch of tangible improvements

cultofmetatron··on G#: A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics
I've been suspecting this myself and its probably the biggest thing I dislike about ai having taken over the proffession.
cultofmetatron··on EVE Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Creations explains why
what you want a game where they take into account the expansion of space? are we also going to model the complete breakdown of causality on the otherside of the ftl?
cultofmetatron··on The family keeping watch over a 52-year-old pot of soup
I'm currently in bangkok atm. where can I go try this soup?
cultofmetatron··on What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)
> Yes, there is a middle ground. Elixir's Ecto does this well.

Ecto is by far the closest thing to a perfect pattern for abstracting over sql that I've ever seen. I WISH other languages would create similar libraries. Its the biggest thing keeping me coming back to elixir for any kind of database project. it just makes sql so ergonomic.

cultofmetatron··on We Don't Have to Be This Bad at Improving Society
> worship of a single person, personal loyalty triumphing over competence, and the Chinese economic machine, subject to whims of a single person, seems to be slowing down.

The whole world is swinging in that direction. its not like the US is any better in that respect in our current political climate.

cultofmetatron··on We Don't Have to Be This Bad at Improving Society
> There are plenty of disastrous decisions in the last 70 years at the level of major policies.

one thing I've come to respect about the Chinese is that while they make huge decisions that sometimes have disastrous consequences, they don't make the same mistakes twice.

At this point they have fed information from their environmental impacts into reforesting entire mountains and improving air quality.

They went in on Evs. not just subsidies but recognizing that you need an entire supply chain. so while americans bitch constantly about the failing power grid and how we can't switch to evs cuz it would be disastrous, the chinese built renewable energy projects and a massive DC transmission line accross the entire country. This is also a big part of why they can provide AI services for way less than america can.

cultofmetatron··on US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections
> If you weren't OK with that you weren't eligible to serve on a jury.

same reason they are really out to disqualify jurors who know about jury nullification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification

Page 1 of 34Next →