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A Year of 3D Printing

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128 points·by nindalf·vor 6 Monaten·117 comments

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nindalf
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
True. But this comment broke guidelines as well. (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
nindalf
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
I flag uninteresting comments, such as yours.
nindalf
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
The armour is Hulkbuster. The satellite that launches it is Veronica.
nindalf
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
Rust will never be in Android user space, because it's not competing with Kotlin. Kotlin is already excellent there. Rust will replace the parts of Android written in C++ gradually. That was always the plan. It feels weird and cope-y to move the goalposts to say it's not a big deal unless Rust also replaces Kotlin.

Chrome only needs to replace the parts of their codebase that handle untrusted input with Rust to get substantial benefits. Like codec parsers. They don't need to rewrite everything, just the parts that need rewriting. The parts that are impossible to get right in C++, to the point where Chrome spins up separate processes to run that code.

Rust is the future for Android, and it will become an important of Chrome and Linux and git (starting 3.0). That's just the way it is.
nindalf
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
Same reason Android and Chrome and git and Linux weren't written in Rust when they started. Rust didn't exist. All of these projects integrate Rust now, after being single language projects for the longest time.

It's notable that the projects you mentioned mostly don't need to deal with adversarial user input, while the projects I mentioned do. That's one area that Rust shines in.
nindalf
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
Zig is what you want to write, because it gets out of the way.

Rust is what you want your colleagues to write, to enforce good practices and minimise bugs. It's also what I want my past self to have written, because that guy is always doing things that make my present life harder.
nindalf
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
dang can we please ban any user that writes comments with AI?
nindalf
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
> oil will only get more expensive in the long term

Will it? Oil price will reach an equilibrium because lower demand due to electrification will lead to lower prices, which will increase higher consumption.

There are enough low cost oil producers like Saudi Arabia to keep the pipes filled with oil at whatever the prevailing market price is.
nindalf
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
You've written a lot of words to avoid saying a simple thing - you wanted to mess with someone to entertain yourself and it backfired. That's the whole story. The philosophy is window dressing.
nindalf
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
> We delete these messages after X time

They never had the plaintext of the messages in the first place, so they don't need to delete them. That's what end-to-end encrypted means.
nindalf
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
> Yeah, you see, I don’t think you’ve quite understood the art of talking to anyone

Have you? You're dripping with condescension for everyone who's replied to you so far, in addition to the guy in your anecdote. You've asked one person to "fuck off" when they were polite. Do you think closewith or pingou have enjoyed their interaction with you?

Or is your art of talking to people just meant to amuse you and ignore the feelings of others?

By the way, there is a social convention that we refrain from commenting on what's on people's phones even though we can see it. It's considered an invasion of privacy if we do.
nindalf
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
They haven't yet made languages other than JavaScript first-class languages for the web - https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/making-webassembly-a-first.... I wouldn't call this a broken promise, but it was something people were hoping would take less than a decade.
nindalf
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
How did you come to the conclusion that it was blogs that made it change behaviour? Look at the examples where Claude shifted behaviour dramatically between Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.6. Drizzle ORM went from 21% to 100%. Was there an avalanche of Drizzle related blog posts that we all missed? Celery went from 100% to 0%. Was there a massive but invisible hate campaign against Celery?

Blog posts almost certainly helped. But dramatic shifts like these to favour newer tech indicates that there's some other factor in play.
nindalf
·vor 4 Monaten·discuss
Art isn't just a job or a way to make money, like being a courier is.
nindalf
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
Tried it just now. Sonnet 4.6 says:

> I can't continue text from the Harry Potter series, as it's copyrighted material. I'd be happy to help you write your own original story in a similar style, or discuss the themes and characters from the books if you're interested!

Opus 4.6 says the same but misidentifies it as Chamber of Secrets. Not a good look for your theory.
nindalf
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
> So that should technically be sufficient

Sufficient to build something close to human performance. But self driving cars will be held to a much higher standard by society. A standard only achievable by having sensors like LiDAR.
nindalf
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
Honestly, if every HN thread was just filled with positivity it would make this just a worthless circlejerk. No one would bother reading the comments because we'd already know what they say.

I rely on comments for giving me a more realistic picture of something. I'm not saying OP should change their site to do this, but asking an LLM to generate a thread consensus/sentiment would be more honest. And for every Dropbox there's a WeWork, which got slated here for being absolutely delusional.
nindalf
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
> it cannot even host its own tools

You say this like this is the basic requirement for a language. But languages make tradeoffs that make them more appropriate for some domains and not others. There's no shade if a language isn't ideal for developer tools, just like there's no shade if a language isn't perfect for web frontends, web backends, embedded development, safety critical code (think pacemakers), mobile development, neural networks and on and on.

Seriously, go to https://astral.sh and scroll down to "Linting the CPython code base from scratch". It would be easy to look at that and conclude that Python's best days are behind it because it's so slow. In reality Python is an even better language at its core domains now that its developer tools have been rewritten in Rust. It's the same excellent language, but now developers can iterate faster.

It's the same with JavaScript. Just because it's not the best language for linters and formatters doesn't mean it's broken.
nindalf
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
> with no option to format them back

Try git reset --hard, that should work.
nindalf
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
The XCheck program has nothing to do with anything you’re thinking of. You read some old misinformation and didn’t read the post debunking the misinformation.

Source: me. https://nindalf.com/posts/xcheck/