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whatsakandr··on Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils
They could just compile the core utils with fil C and call it a day.
whatsakandr··on Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days
As a C++ dev, that operator delete looks like something I would see in prod.
whatsakandr··on A walk through of the DeltaNet family of linear attention variants
I used to think this, then I realized that the amount of time you spend with equations is so much more than code, and the terseness makes them much easier to read once you know what the symbols are.

Also, letters avoid having to name them, naming being a hard problem and all.

whatsakandr··on I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025)
Reminds me of a sub plot from Accelerando. Wasn't a huge fan of the book but it left an impression.
whatsakandr··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
I wonder how much zed industries is being valued at.
whatsakandr··on Your phone is about to stop being yours
I could still push an app to my phone via adb after this nonsense gets implemented?
whatsakandr··on Parallel agents in Zed
I gave zed agent another shot today, and it couldn't run bash commands, so back to opencode I go.
whatsakandr··on A simplified model of Fil-C
Yes it's slower, but it works. It's being built by one single dad who focused on compatibility before speed.

I'm not convinced that tying the lifetimes into the type system is the correct way to do memory management. I've read too many articles of people being forced into refactoring the entire codebase to implement a feature.

whatsakandr··on A simplified model of Fil-C
Fil-C is one of the most underrated projects I've ever seen. All this "rewrite it in rust for safety" just sounds stupid when you can compile your C program completely memory safe.
whatsakandr··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
My wife has wanted a security system for a while. The turnkey cloud solutions freak me out. I've done some home automation with home aisstant before, and omg that was configuration slog. But with Claude..... It becomes fun.
whatsakandr··on OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation
I do not understand how these companies can have such high valuations when minimax m2.7 is going to be open weight.
whatsakandr··on Noq: n0's new QUIC implementation in Rust
Not to be confused with https://github.com/tsoding/Noq

Which got it's name from 'Not Coq'

whatsakandr··on Show HN: I was tired of wasting engineer time on screening calls so I built Niju
The purpose of a screening is not to determine competence, it is to determine whether recruit and company want to work together, which cannot be automated.
whatsakandr··on It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts
I have a prompt to make it not rewrite, but just point out "hey you could rephrase this better." I still keep my tone, but the clanker can identify thoughts that are incomplete. Stuff that spell chekcer's can't do.
whatsakandr··on Multi-Core by Default
He's describing the Cuda execition model.

More interestingly, it's the same model as Intel's Implicit SPMD Program compiler (ispc, God that name is awful). But ispc works across SIMD lanes.

whatsakandr··on What to do with C++ modules?
He makes such a good point. This is such a tragedy. Import std would of been an amazing thing that would of led some much less pain, but the committee got greedy.
whatsakandr··on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
For personal, I've got the nirvana life plan. It's great, for work, it's TODO.txt on a network drive.
whatsakandr··on Microplastics shed by food packaging are contaminating our food, study finds
Best idea of a solution I can think of is modifying bacteria to consume microplastics and releasing them into the wild. Make them a permanent part of the ecosystem.
whatsakandr··on Better Error Handling
Like most things in C++, I wish the default was `nothrow`, and you added throw for a function that throws. There's so many functions that don't throw, but aren't marked `nothrow`.

In my experience I've used exceptions for things that really should never fail, and optional for things that are more likely to.

whatsakandr··on An Introduction to Modern CMake
It would be nice if it just became a python interpreter. The concepts and build that CMake has is pretty good, but implementing it is a pain due to the quasi shell syntax.
whatsakandr··on Stupid Smart Pointers in C
This article should of had the conclusion of this is why you should use arena allocator.
whatsakandr··on [dead]
This article could benefit so much from defining what an ERP is.
whatsakandr··on Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools
The nice thing about chat is it's open ended, the terrible thing is that holy crap I have to write a paragraph describing exactly what I want when I should just be able to hit a button or navigate through a couple menus.
whatsakandr··on The Siren Song of Little Languages
Actually using the language is something Jon Blow is definitely getting right with Jai, if it ever releases.
whatsakandr··on 1-800-ChatGPT
Honestly this seems like a really nice feature. There's been so many times I'm driving and just want to Google something. Used to use Google assistant for that, but I no longer use android auto, so that ended.
whatsakandr··on Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO
I used to think gitlab was the bees knees, but more recently there's just a lack of user awareness. They've had a open issue for years about failing a job due to not finding artifacts. The logs even say "ERROR" I've concluded they're now a marketing organization.
whatsakandr··on C++ proposal: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte
Hoesntly at thought this might be an onion headline. But then I stopped to think about it.
whatsakandr··on How to build highly-debuggable C++ binaries
I've had good luck with -fno-omit-frame-pointer, omitting it is an unfortunate default, and makes stack traces horrible.
whatsakandr··on rr – record and replay debugger for C/C++
Has anyone gotten rr to work with opengl or vulkan? It seems to always crash for me after making an opengl call.
whatsakandr··on rr – record and replay debugger for C/C++
I've used rr very sucessfully for reverse engineering a large code base using a break on variable change combined with reverse-continue. Took the time to extract critical logic way down.
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