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by freetonik 1y ago
A lot of wire transfer code and other foundational banking code is written in COBOL.
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by freetonik 1y ago
I don’t necessarily agree with a somewhat childish “unlearn OOP” idea, but… a lot of that enterprise software is of bad quality. Whether it’s OOP or something else’s fault, simply stating that a lot of backbone is written in Java does not p
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It's not just you – the iOS keyboard is broken [video](youtube.com)
6 points by freetonik 1y ago|0 comments
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by freetonik 1y ago
>I want it to do what I tell it. Me too, but writing software that does whatever user tells it to do, in a consistent and robust way, is very hard. Making it accessible and developing good UX for that kind of software is even harder. Thi
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by freetonik 1y ago
I was a guest lecturer at a university, and got a glimpse of a staff meeting about the problem of plagiarism (in code assignments). It was a surprise to them when I asked "why wouldn't you use something like diff for obvious cases
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by freetonik 1y ago
There is no guarantee ChatGPT did the correct thing. There may be no indication whatsoever. This is not like comparing pen&paper to a calculator, it's more like comparing pen&paper to "calling a random, allegedly smart per
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Valetudo: Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation(valetudo.cloud)
391 points by freetonik 1y ago|213 comments
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Edge: Modal terminal-based text editor for GNU/Linux(github.com)
3 points by freetonik 1y ago|0 comments
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by freetonik 1y ago
Missing Datacrunch [1], Finland-based GPU cluster provider. Also, funnily enough, the european.cloud website seems to be experiencing a hug of death and barely loads at the moment, with frequent server-side failures. Gotta find a better clo
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by freetonik 1y ago
The only thing those have in common is the word `base` in their names.
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by freetonik 1y ago
Related: I recently found a way to make Half Life 2 (purchased via Steam) run on arm-based Macs. It’s probably my favourite game of all time, and totally worth a bit of hassle. https://rakhim.exotext.com/how-to-play-half-lif
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Therac-25: one of the first documented cases of software bugs killing humans(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by freetonik 1y ago|0 comments
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by freetonik 1y ago
Related (from recent posts on HN): https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2025/abstraction-not-syntax I really like the idea of color representing scope and relatedness, rather than syntax.
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by freetonik 1y ago
I had an Opel hybrid, produced by Stellantis, the parent company of Jeep, Opel and many other brands. It's a great car completely ruined by software. It had a "engine failure" notice 2 days after delivery. Apart from frequent
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by freetonik 1y ago
Ironically, also because Go is one of few popular languages for web applications that can produce a single executable binary and does not require a container to deploy with ease.
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Fastmail Desktop App(fastmail.com)
1 points by freetonik 1y ago|0 comments
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Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps(data-star.dev)
306 points by freetonik 1y ago|287 comments
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by freetonik 1y ago
I've used Replit for educational materials when teaching beginners Python and JavaScript. They had a nice product called Teams for Education. It was even announced that it'll become fully free (the original blog post with the anno
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by freetonik 1y ago
>occasional users That's exactly what I'm pointing to in the post: >When jumping between projects, languages and frameworks, it takes a considerable amount of mental energy to restore the context and understand what is going
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by freetonik 1y ago
In addition, OP clearly describes themselves as a "Fanatical C Developer", so that's enough justification in my book! :)
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by freetonik 1y ago
I hope you don't feel discouraged by some comments questioning the meaningfulness of this. It's a cool project, and you obviously put some thought into it. Congrats!
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by freetonik 1y ago
What are you referring to here? The starters of the linked discussion? Or the subjects of that discussion?
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by freetonik 1y ago
I know. Though I wish those popular, influential tech people would be less interested in politics, and less vocal about it. I wish I could afford to not care about any of it.
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by freetonik 1y ago
Oh man... Technology has always been a refuge from politics for me. I know this is a childish view of the world, but still... Today the nerdiest of things are still filled with politics. Rust, nix, open source hardware... there is nowhere t
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by freetonik 1y ago
>Novel as in "an LLM can maintain coherence on a 100k+ LoC project written in zig"? Yeah, that's absolutely novel in this space. Absolutely. I do not underestimate this.
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by freetonik 1y ago
Ok, not trivial for sure, but not novel? IIUC, the language does not have really new concepts, apart from the keywords (which is trivial). Impressive nonetheless.
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Lesser-known science fiction movies(rakhim.exotext.com)
4 points by freetonik 1y ago|1 comments
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by freetonik 1y ago
I also got good results for “above CRUD” stuff occasionally. Sorry if I wasn’t clear, I meant to primarily share an observation about vastly different responses in discussions related to LLMs. I don’t believe LLMs are completely useless for
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by freetonik 1y ago
I see a pattern in these discussions all the time: some people say how very, very good LLMs are, and others say how LLMs fail miserably; almost always the first group presents examples of simple CRUD apps, frontend "represent data usin
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by freetonik 1y ago
Yes, like 95% of commenters here, I also have an RSS reader. Mine is kinda social (you can follow people and see their subscriptions in your feed), and also has full-text search and “related” recommendations. I also curate and grow a direct

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