Serial technical co-founder / engineering teams builder. Avid sailor and traveler. Hedonist and bon vivant. Fine arts, wine and food aficionado. Currently in Belgrade, Serbia.
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I still think that generating a Zig-Rust transpiler would be a better approach, given all the LLM quirks, including the ability to just /goal the model with binary-identical LLVM bytecode.
However, an open-sourced tool like that would've greatly harmed the Zig ecosystem and community.
This topic starter. I saw a post on Twitter in "for you" feed, verified it, found an interesting bit (rewriting prompt) and started a topic on HN. Like I said, I never expected it to hit #1.
Bun may become unusable after Antropic meddling with it. In that case the expertise would be wasted. It's not a great deal for most of users, but still.
I couldn't use that title because I didn't know if it an experiment at the moment. Even now the correct title would be "Bun author says that he is entertaining the idea of porting it from Zig to Rust, creates an experimental branch".
I am a topic starter, and I had no emotional response, was just being curious. Never expected it will land at HN #1. I specifically posted the link to the first commit and not to the whole branch, because currently the prompt is the most interesting part.
While you are here, can you elaborate on the method chosen? For example, why not write a conversion script for phase A? I mean, same Anthropic model will produce it in no time, prompting it is at the same cognitive load level, but you would have a deterministic result.
Lots of people, me included, heavily invested their time and expertise into Bun, using it as a daily driver, to bundle production code or even using it in production as a JS/TS runtime. Of course, we are interested in Bun to stay a useful tool. The Anthropic acquisition was worrying enough on its own.
On the contrary. If you really do this street-corner experiment, 80% of answers would be "I want my phone to last longer on one charge." Other 20% will be "I want my phone to charge faster". No one will say, "Oh, I want it to be foldable," or "Oh, I want an AI inside my phone." Zero. Zilch. Nada.
Mobile phones are totally okay the way they are now. No one needs new ones, and almost no one wants new ones. My previous phone lasted for 5 years. I changed the battery halfway, of course - it took a repair guy in a local shop about an hour.
"Prediction markets" are just scams where insiders trade against suckers. So those who are not insiders should understand that their money will be alleviated by insiders, end of story.
I wonder if they deliberately withheld SMTP sending to get better vendor lock. However, without SMTP support, the email sending service is mostly unusable.
For about 10 years, I have had a habit of creating a new, separate Google account for every new project I start, and then adding my personal account as a team member/collaborator. This way, the potential blast radius is (hopefully) limited.
A system like the one in "my phone's operating system". Do you assume that "Alphabet boys" have access to all parts of all Android file systems of all the phones ever produced?
Right. So I send a push notification with the "silent" flag and encrypted content; the app receives it, decrypts the text, and displays the notification locally. Google/Apple has only ciphertext in their FBI/CIA/NSA-accessible databases.
If you are not ready to trust a vibe-coded app with all your digital life, I recommend Filestash[1], easy to install self-hosted frontend for virtually any type of storage. Written in Go, it can be enhanced with plugins. Uses local SQLite database.
I am using it with Hetzner Storage Box[2], which is insane value for money at 11 euro per 5 terabytes per month.
I just listened to the top 3 songs of this project out of curiosity, and it feels like the same song. Same rhythmic pattern, same harmonies, same instruments.
However, I also listened to several other artists on the chart[1]. They all, bar a couple, are so low effort that they may also be generated by neural networks, FWIW.
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