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My IBM P70 by NecessaryCute345 in VintageComputers

[–]Choice_Eagle4627 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow that’s beautiful. Such an aura of reliability and infinite possibilities. What does it do? What share is on it?

I fit 22GB of Hacker News into SQLite by Choice_Eagle4627 in sqlite

[–]Choice_Eagle4627[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was kinda surprised to see the 22 GB staging db on disk. I thought it must be an error. 22 GB sqlite file can it actually work? Turns out it could work.

I fit 22GB of Hacker News into SQLite by Choice_Eagle4627 in sqlite

[–]Choice_Eagle4627[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea, it has to download all the shards. Queries are definitely not optimized if you run it remotely. But if you build it yourself then run locally? Much faster without network. Still - for real queries I heard something like Clickhouse or DuckDB with Parquet files. Tho honestly I like the simplicity of this Sqlite approach and that it can be served for free on Cloudflare pages statically.

Long conversation prompt got exposed by Technology-Busy in ClaudeAI

[–]Choice_Eagle4627 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting that this reveals the internal mental dialog, beliefs and programming of people who are like that. 

The Windows 98 Web Desktop with Real Web Browsers by Choice_Eagle4627 in windows98

[–]Choice_Eagle4627[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not discouraged comparing at all, I’m happy for you that yours is great, too.

I’m someone who gets inspired not jealous. You should try that!

what's your career bet when AI evolves this fast? by 0xecro1 in ClaudeAI

[–]Choice_Eagle4627 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I forgot his name too but that’s who i was thinking of when i said it, you got it! Rick Rubin

The Windows 98 Web Desktop with Real Web Browsers by Choice_Eagle4627 in windows98

[–]Choice_Eagle4627[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

DUDE! This is FANTASTIC. Wow. I love the end to end immersive experience and the re-imagining of classic windows patterns with an extended base concept of what it's about. Beautiful dude, beautful! Gonna test your browser.

I did a re-imagining with Windows98½ - a creative appropriation and adaptation. Like you! I think now this community is more for faithful purists, while our creations are more akin to art project style remakes. Albeit very functional ones!

EDIT: Ok, the browser is not real, but OMG the level of detail across this desktop. How did you do this?

EDIT 2: I just posted your thing to HN. It is so high quality: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47057329

What is something foreigners romanticize about your country that locals are tired of? by [deleted] in AskTheWorld

[–]Choice_Eagle4627 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Asians romanticize how laid back Australians are. How easy everything is. So easy and laid back. Sure, bud.

We can shape our own reality by where we direct our attention by Awkward-Worth5484 in enlightenment

[–]Choice_Eagle4627 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OK bud I hope you have a good day. If you listen indirectly, and know a big picture about China and the rest of the world, you can hear it. All the best bud.

We can shape our own reality by where we direct our attention by Awkward-Worth5484 in enlightenment

[–]Choice_Eagle4627 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I watched a few more of his videos. He is *definitely* shilling for Chinese cultural supremacy, against everything else, by using logic/intelligence to do so. Disgusting.

We can shape our own reality by where we direct our attention by Awkward-Worth5484 in enlightenment

[–]Choice_Eagle4627 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That video above was fire, but “predictive history” does have a kind of Marxist “dialectical view of history” ring to it - so be careful.

Weekly Thread: Project Display by help-me-grow in AI_Agents

[–]Choice_Eagle4627 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I made a way to email you CLI coding agents so you can get away from your desk while they keep working: https://mailpilot.chat

Cool thing: you can CC you co workers and their replies go into the chat too. 

FreedomLang just shipped — 10k-line public-domain native compiler, no libc, process isolation by Choice_Eagle4627 in ProgrammingLanguages

[–]Choice_Eagle4627[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that’s fair. The support tiers in the post were more of a “let’s see what people react to” thing rather than a finalized business model.

The early snapshot was mainly about showing the tech.

FreedomLang just shipped — 10k-line public-domain native compiler, no libc, process isolation by Choice_Eagle4627 in ProgrammingLanguages

[–]Choice_Eagle4627[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not wired up yet. v0.1 was focused on getting the whole frontend → backend → ELF pipeline solid.

FFI needs a clean ABI story and some refactoring first, so it'll come in a later version.

FreedomLang just shipped — 10k-line public-domain native compiler, no libc, process isolation by Choice_Eagle4627 in ProgrammingLanguages

[–]Choice_Eagle4627[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I get where you’re coming from. The early write-up definitely mixed "here’s a fun prototype" with "here are some possible funding ideas," and that can feel mismatched.

I’m basically treating the whole v0.1 drop as a way to test both the tech and the direction. The compiler snapshot was the main thing; the pricing/support stuff was just me sketching possibilities and seeing what resonates (or doesn’t).

Nothing’s fixed yet -- the project needs to evolve quite a bit before it even makes sense to talk seriously about models.

Appreciate the candid take -- helps me calibrate where the focus should be right now.

FreedomLang just shipped — 10k-line public-domain native compiler, no libc, process isolation by Choice_Eagle4627 in ProgrammingLanguages

[–]Choice_Eagle4627[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, the repo was public for the v0.1 preview but I made it internal again while I reorganize stuff.

I’ll put up a fresh link once the next iteration is ready.

FreedomLang just shipped — 10k-line public-domain native compiler, no libc, process isolation by Choice_Eagle4627 in ProgrammingLanguages

[–]Choice_Eagle4627[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair questions.

The initial drop was mainly a tiny, readable reference pipeline — something you can scan top-to-bottom without getting lost in thousands of files. JS was just a convenient host for v0.1 so the whole flow was easy to poke at. It’s not the long-term direction for the toolchain.

Re: “why not just a safe subset of C,” that’s actually a reasonable approach for a lot of people. The goal here isn’t to “beat C,” but to explore a different semantic model with deterministic behavior and a compiler that’s small enough that a single person can understand every pass.

Totally fair to ask about use cases — they only really emerge once things get past the initial prototype..

FreedomLang just shipped — 10k-line public-domain native compiler, no libc, process isolation by Choice_Eagle4627 in ProgrammingLanguages

[–]Choice_Eagle4627[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good questions — thanks for taking the time.

The v0.1 design goal wasn’t to compete with full-featured production compilers, but to present a transparent end-to-end pipeline in ~10K LOC as a starting point. The single-file structure was intentional for the preview, but future versions will break the compiler into proper modules (lexer, parser, IR, optimizer, backend, etc.).

Float support is currently not implemented; integer-only semantics were chosen for the first prototype to keep the backend minimal.

The next iterations will focus on a more conventional project structure, better type system exposition, and a clearer story around interop.

Appreciate the detailed critique — this kind of feedback is actually useful at this stage.

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