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dom96

7,046 karmajoined 16 tahun yang lalu
Currently working as a Software Engineer at Cloudflare on Workers (and particularly on Python Workers). Previously at Meta.

Since 2010 I have been involved with building the Nim programming language, as well as many tools and libraries for it. I have also published a book about Nim called Nim in Action.

These days I'm working on various personal projects- some big, some small. Most recently https://onlyhumanhub.com, https://listifications.app and https://mousetrack.co.uk

Github: http://github.com/dom96

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/dom96.picheta.me

Twitter: http://twitter.com/d0m96

Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@dom96

Website: http://picheta.me, my contact info is here, always happy to receive emails.

Submissions

Ask HN: Any point in buying a beefy MacBook Pro for local LLM use?

2 points·by dom96·4 bulan yang lalu·1 comments

The Future of Social Media Is Human

blog.picheta.me
1 points·by dom96·5 bulan yang lalu·0 comments

The Future of Social Media Is Human

blog.picheta.me
1 points·by dom96·5 bulan yang lalu·3 comments

The future of social media is human

blog.picheta.me
1 points·by dom96·5 bulan yang lalu·0 comments

Python Workers redux: fast cold starts, packages, and a uv-first workflow

blog.cloudflare.com
143 points·by dom96·7 bulan yang lalu·79 comments

Ask HN: What were the best books you read in 2025?

22 points·by dom96·8 bulan yang lalu·20 comments

comments

dom96
·2 jam yang lalu·discuss
What I don't understand is where are the Starlink competitors. Supposedly the UK government owns a stake of 10% in OneWeb and yet they are planning to use Starlink for trains.

Is it really just too hard to put enough satellites in orbit to be competitive with Starlink?
dom96
·3 jam yang lalu·discuss
Calling something "slop" is dismissive, vague and not constructive. That's why it's not professional.

If you want to tell someone their code quality is poor, then you better do so with specific things that is poor so that the person you are telling it to can learn and do better.
dom96
·kemarin dulu·discuss
And for those interested in Mitchell's take on it: https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2075261972061594106?s=20.

TL;DR: No comment.
dom96
·kemarin dulu·discuss
Reminds me of another language that I used to know...

For real though, if your goal as a language isn't to become popular then why should anyone learn it? Why should anyone spend their limited time building libraries in it when the language isn't likely to grow (and thus is more likely to disappear)?
dom96
·kemarin dulu·discuss
I know you said you don't care to know. But for others wondering: being professional is important because it reduces conflict. Having a leader of the language personally insult someone like this makes the community feel that it is okay to insult others in the community too.

Personally I find it hard to believe that a community isn't toxic when their leader acts in this way.
dom96
·kemarin dulu·discuss
That’s a good attitude to have. Any tips for identifying projects which have leadership which does this?
dom96
·kemarin dulu·discuss
Calling someone’s code “slop” surely isn’t professional nor courteous.
dom96
·kemarin dulu·discuss
Agreed. This article should have stuck to the cold facts, rather than a series of personal criticisms that you wouldn’t see written out in the workplace.

Sadly there are far too many open source developers out there who are far too comfortable writing like this. It’s one reason I have stopped being active in open source. You would be fired (or at least disciplined) from any reasonable workplace if you acted like this.
dom96
·4 hari yang lalu·discuss
ooh nice
dom96
·4 hari yang lalu·discuss
What evidence do you have for this? It doesn't pass the sniff test: why would anyone buy a game for full price when they can get it for far less by just grabbing a cheaper subscription? (that they can cancel any time)
dom96
·5 hari yang lalu·discuss
Nice, thanks for sharing! I'm definitely hoping to make use of the determinism for my netcode, if you have any useful write ups about that I'd be interested to read more.
dom96
·5 hari yang lalu·discuss
I've had the same experience with my PS5. It wouldn't even let me play 007 First Light a few weeks ago because it needed to update the system. Starting to wonder if I should/could just keep it offline to stop it from updating incessantly.
dom96
·5 hari yang lalu·discuss
Could this be due to the games being available on Game Pass? Why would anyone buy them on Steam if they can play them on Game Pass for "free"?
dom96
·10 hari yang lalu·discuss
Funny to see this just a few days after I’ve started building a Tron-like 3D game for the browser using Jolt[1]. So far Jolt is working pretty well but I’ll certainly be taking a look at this.

1 - I’ve been sitting on this domain for years: https://lightcycles.io
dom96
·10 hari yang lalu·discuss
It’s hilarious that I can’t tell if you’re being serious or not here
dom96
·10 hari yang lalu·discuss
If the EU actually mandates each member country implements a ZKP for this then I am all for it.

Can they also provide other ZKPs? Specifically to attest that someone is a unique human being? Humanity verification is incredibly important to fight against propaganda online[1]

1 - https://blog.picheta.me/post/the-future-of-social-media-is-h...
dom96
·10 hari yang lalu·discuss
That’s not how I interpret gamergate. Actually I view gamergate as the staging post for MAGA and Trump getting elected.

It was a great trial run for flooding the zone with lies and outrage to defeat progressives. It worked then and continues to work.
dom96
·11 hari yang lalu·discuss
If you're interested in detail of how it works, I wrote about it here: https://blog.picheta.me/post/the-future-of-social-media-is-h...
dom96
·11 hari yang lalu·discuss
No humanity verification is perfect. 50% of people is already pretty good.

Really governments need to do better here, and make it possible to do this type of verification using zero knowledge proofs.
dom96
·11 hari yang lalu·discuss
This already happened in the iTunes era, didn’t it? My partner bought South Park episodes and songs and lost them all.