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by hardwaresofton 9d ago
Guix has a full source bootstrap, by the way: https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-...
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by hardwaresofton 18d ago
AGPL…?
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by hardwaresofton 2mo ago
> Gabriel offers the examples of the adoption of C over Lisp, Unix over Lisp machines and VMS, and x86 over reduced instruction set computers as examples of technically worse solutions defeating more elegant ones by arriving to market fi
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by hardwaresofton 3mo ago
Ah to be clear this isn’t my work! Interested in seeing what the HN community thinks about this project I skimmed the code and it looks reasonable, but I have to assume it’d vibe coded (which doesn’t mean it’s bad).
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by hardwaresofton 3mo ago
Another really interesting Lisp that I recently came across: https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp
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Rust port of transformers (1M lines of code)(github.com)
4 points by hardwaresofton 3mo ago|2 comments
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by hardwaresofton 3mo ago
Wow, had no idea this existed, thanks for writing it and sharing it!
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by hardwaresofton 3mo ago
No worries, and thanks for your service -- people buying possibly-disappointing early devices definitely enables the newer devices to exist :)
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by hardwaresofton 3mo ago
> I hadn't heard of the Pinenote before looking at your comment, so I looked at the site and saw some things that made it seem unfit for purpose as an ereader. I made my comment because I was interested in hearing your impressions i
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by hardwaresofton 3mo ago
> More expensive and less out-of-the-box software, but straight to the point on device ownership/what kind of software you can run, fewer strings attached. This note was in the original comment, did you read it? The fact that it is
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by hardwaresofton 3mo ago
BTW for those who are looking for a device, the PineNote exists: https://pine64.org/devices/pinenote/ More expensive and less out-of-the-box software, but straight to the point on device ownership/what kind o
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The Texan Ideology(thebaffler.com)
4 points by hardwaresofton 4mo ago|0 comments
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by hardwaresofton 4mo ago
can't stand the thought of people not understanding the above reply[0] [0]: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/its-one-banana-michael-what-c...
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by hardwaresofton 4mo ago
You want to waste VRAM, in this economy?
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by hardwaresofton 4mo ago
This is a great point. Back when I was checking I think I was underwhelmed by the customization ecosystem for kobos but now I’m not sure what was stopping me/made me reconsider. Upon further inspection there is also the Pine Note! htt
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by hardwaresofton 4mo ago
That’s a great question and something we’re going to have to figure out going forward on the JS side. What I can say now is that the first version will probably be single threaded stack switching coroutines, and the model that seems to fit
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by hardwaresofton 4mo ago
This is awesome! How reliable are kindle jailbreaks/avoiding updates, etc? Have opted for other devices like the xteink (or a boox in the future) due to what seemed like a relatively small ecosystem around “aftermarket” kindle modifica
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by hardwaresofton 4mo ago
That’s right — I’m assuming you mean OS threads when you write “actual threads”. Stackless Coroutines are currently supported for p3, stackful coroutines AKA “virtual threads” are coming (which I assume is what you mean by green threads), a
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by hardwaresofton 4mo ago
If you’re poking around WASM consider falling down the Component Model rabbit hole: https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model/blob/main/des... Threading is actively being worked on right now (to be
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by hardwaresofton 4mo ago
It seems we're at a bit of a crossroads. It seems like the world both needs: - Permissionless email (i.e. for agents, empowered users who can program now) - Pervasive email allow listing Wonder if these can both exist at the same time,
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by hardwaresofton 4mo ago
You can't have it all, forever -- the tech is there for anyone to fork and improve, build new businesses (!), inspect, etc. F/OSS is basically a miracle as-is. If we compare the current state of the world to one in which they were
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by hardwaresofton 4mo ago
This is essentially a re-explanation of Neon’s architecture as a blog post. Amazing that the Postgres ecosystem got this software for “free” (as in at least a basic version of it is F/OSS, IIRC there wasn’t any core bits held back), an
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by hardwaresofton 5mo ago
Not the original commenter but this is an excellent answer, thanks for the clear explanation — this is what people continue to come to HN for IMO. Also thanks for all the podcasts and content, always a joy to watch.
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by hardwaresofton 5mo ago
Wow HN really does have a problem with commenting on anything to do with Mozilla. Anyway, awesome to see this from the team inside Mozilla — hope this can become a new revenue stream over the long term. Really excited to see some tight inte
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by hardwaresofton 6mo ago
Incredibly badass. This is the best news I’ve read all year — world is better with Sid in it.
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by hardwaresofton 6mo ago
I think we probably disagree on the most important parts of the tooling. I’m a lot more focused on what it lets me do/whether the abstractions are right. That said, people have worked on IDE integration (it’s not zero, ex. WIT syntax h
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by hardwaresofton 6mo ago
Very reductive :) there are flavors and hints of all these previous technologies /paradigms in WebAssembly + Component Model today, because only fools would attempt to build something without considering relevant prior art. Won't
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by hardwaresofton 6mo ago
> Get your blatant component model propaganda outta here ;) It's perfectly good content, sir! > (to elaborate: WASM works just fine without the component model, it's not "the future of WebAssembly", just an option
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by hardwaresofton 6mo ago
If you’d like to get acquainted with modern WebAssembly, check out the component model book: https://component-model.bytecodealliance.org/ It includes high level concepts, practical code samples and more that introduce the
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by hardwaresofton 6mo ago
*linear types (the leak free future bit) This description is also a good crystallization of why one would want linear types

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