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This is a good argument for rewriting HN in Rust.
by mkl95 4y ago
This is a good argument for rewriting HN in Rust.
- powerhour 4y agoWhile we're at it, can we build a blockchain to store the votes already? It's 2022!
- VikingCoder 4y ago[Can't tell if serious.] Remember the Slashdot equivalent of blockchaining everything? "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!"
- politelemon 4y agoPerhaps we could fund HN by issuing NFTs for each poll response.
- cmrdporcupine 4y agoI'm disappointed that we haven't talked about a) using the GPU to accelerate the poll item sorting (EDIT: I was wrong! Someone did!) b) rewriting not just the backend in Rust, but the whole front-end in Rust, compiling to WebAssembly. (Drawing the whole thing into the canvas instead of using the icky DOM, too!) c) Machine learning wasn't mentioned once
- water-your-self 4y agoRe: c) who do you think writes these comments?
- mkl95 4y agoVanilla HN votes considered harmful
- culi 4y agohttps://lobste.rs/ https://lobste.rs/
- speps 4y agoJust in case some people think that's not a joke, Lobsters is written with Ruby on Rails: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/ https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/
- Pepe1vo 4y agoWritten in Ruby though[0] and pretty badly at that (or so they claim themselves) [0] https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
- mod 4y agoBy glancing at the link they provide, "quite sad" is obviously a reference to the top comment on the reddit thread, where someone immediately shits on the whole project by pointing to one line of code that they don't approve of.
- HeyLaughingBoy 4y agoAn Arc to Rust transpiler would do a much better job than a manual rewrite!
- timdorr 4y agoI suppose we can find a consultant for that in this thread.
- atonse 4y agoIn addition to being written in Rust, make sure it's also GPU accelerated.
- aspyct 4y agoDrop in some blockchain for added goodness.
- EddySchauHai 4y agoHahahahahahaha this made me lose some of my coffee. Who volunteers to write the data analytics in Julia?