Comment by justinlords

25 days ago

The differential fuzzing approach is clever — way safer than a big-bang rewrite. Running both versions in parallel to catch edge cases before switching over is how you actually ship rewrites without breaking production. The 160k to 90k LOC drop is impressive, but the real engineering win is the validation strategy.

On binary size, static linking with LTO should handle most of the bloat without needing custom stdlib builds.

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chinathrow  25 days ago

We really need an AI filter here on HN.

  • stingraycharles  25 days ago

    A comment like this works as well, let the community do its thing.

    • rvnx  25 days ago

      There are a couple of bots here.

      Quoting a user:

          keeping it simple: a flat $15,000 to get you on the front page of Hacker News.
    [...] contact e-mail below

      Expensive, but now with LLMs it's super cheap to do.

      Spend a week to do a bot, get 10'000 USD of ARR for your B2B tech SaaS, and applause from your investors.

      And a week is probably exaggerated, 2 days max

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