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> 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 solut…

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 c…

Another really interesting Lisp that I recently came across: https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp

Wow, had no idea this existed, thanks for writing it and sharing it!

No worries, and thanks for your service -- people buying possibly-disappointing early devices definitely enables the newer devices to exist :)

> 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 be…

> 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 ori…

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 …

can't stand the thought of people not understanding the above reply[0] [0]: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/its-one-banana-michael-what-c...

You want to waste VRAM, in this economy?

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. Up…

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 …

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 relative…

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 …

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 work…

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 l…

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 cu…

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 i…

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 …

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 stre…

Incredibly badass. This is the best news I’ve read all year — world is better with Sid in it.

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 wor…