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Re:Four Years with Decker
on Thursday October 22, 2026 @01:53PM (#50198833)
This is a style of programming in c, relying heavily on the preprocessor. It is usually used by all array languages modeled on the style used by Arthur whitney.
It’s hard for me and you to read and understand this, but more talented programmers like John and Arthur and others use it daily.
So, it’s not a mess at all, but very condensed code.
Re:The people holding up the internet
on Thursday October 08, 2026 @03:57PM (#50011218)
Did you go and read the tzdb? Go ahead, it’s on github. There is so much amazing historical info in there, clearly many years of research went into making it.
Apple/Google can create something that works somehow, but they can’t replace the knowledge that went into making tzdb. And whatever they make won’t be universally accepted.
Re:OpenRadioss is not open anymore
on Friday October 02, 2026 @02:47PM (#49937088)
I am very happy to see this, a continuation under the stewardship of rocky linux. I really hope it takes off and continues with force and velocity… I intend to help if I can.
Re:OpenRadioss is not open anymore
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @06:06PM (#49927621)
Probably, but not the last one, maybe from few months ago
Re:OpenRadioss is not open anymore
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @05:49PM (#49927468)
Until recently it was under AGPL. It was open sourced in 2022, and now siemens bought altair (the company who developed it for many years) and closed it again.
Some of us cared and contributed, and now it’s gone…
Maybe this can continue under another name using the last source release?
Re:Eating Fruit Skins
on Saturday September 12, 2026 @05:17PM (#49677309)
I always eat the whole thing, especially an apple, skin seeds and all. It’s natural to me. Also kiwi with it’s skin.
I only peel mango, it’s skin is not tasty…
Re:Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+d...
on Thursday July 23, 2026 @01:28AM (#49017282)
There is also impress.js[1], a 3d infinite canvas for slides which I used in the past. You write your content as plain html in a single file, very easy.
Re:Pint in England
on Monday July 06, 2026 @11:21AM (#48805930)
Check out this fun book for history of ipa and burton.
Re:Paradise Revisited: What Darwin Saw in the Galápagos
on Sunday June 28, 2026 @04:52AM (#48705575)
Nice read. After you finish, go read this book [1] which tries to solve the 20 years to publication mystery.
[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Darwin-Conspiracy-John-Darnton/dp/140...
Re:Renault: Electric motors with no rare earths
on Saturday June 13, 2026 @04:19AM (#48514832)
It rusts just like iron, but the rust (AlOx, or alumina) stays bonded to the metal and actually protects it.
Re:Before GitHub
on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @08:35AM (#47947468)
You can link the commit with the ticket by including its hash in the commit message, and then mark the ticket as fixed. See here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5761669/how-to-fix-a-tic...
Re:Before GitHub
on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @04:26AM (#47945586)
Yeah, museum sounds like dead and rot… However on my small site [1] that’s the name of the fossil repos page
Re:Before GitHub
on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @02:52AM (#47944965)
You should continue with a name which is related to fossils, fossillab.io, boneyard.dev and so on…
Re:Notes on Lagrange Interpolating Polynomials
on Monday March 02, 2026 @11:36AM (#47220276)
The Lagrange polynomials form the normal basis of most Finite Elements Method (FEM) software. There are other polynomials which are used as well, but these are the workhorse of most solvers.
Re:Fossil versus Git
on Monday January 12, 2026 @09:25AM (#46588932)
I actually use fossil all the time for my projects. It just makes more sense to me in the way it works and the ease of use. And you can self host your repos with ease, for example [1]
Re:How SQLite is tested
on Thursday December 18, 2025 @03:18AM (#46310139)
I guess you are not the only one. Here is talk by Andrew Godwin about using aviation practices for software engineering:
Re:Ask HN: Is starting a personal blog still worth it in the age of AI?
on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @09:30AM (#46288939)
Thanks for the fun and clever guides!
Re:QStudio SQL Analysis tool now open source
on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @09:19AM (#46288774)
Congratulations! But I can’t find the source link, nor the license …
Re:Make the Web Human Again
on Sunday November 16, 2025 @04:51PM (#45948738)
I agree. Here is my little site, which I try to keep minimal, fun and fast: https://hdrz.cc
Re:Micro Men(2009) – movie about the creation of ARM
on Saturday September 27, 2025 @04:34PM (#45399113)
OK I watched the whole thing. Highly recommended! It is about the rivalry between Sinclair and acorn, where the head of acorn once worked for Clive sinclair. It is about the time before ARM.
Reminds me of the past, as my first computer was sinclair spectrum. Fun times!
Re:Micro Men(2009) – movie about the creation of ARM
on Friday September 26, 2025 @12:40PM (#45388446)
Just watched the first minutes of the film. Looks like it’s about Sinclair, which is of-course pretty good as well. When I have time will watch the whole thing, maybe ARM will come up as well.
Re:GNU Midnight Commander
on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @02:28AM (#45272443)
Try doublecmd[1], much better then tc, open source, updated frequently, works on all platforms. Oh and written in object pascal, which I like a lot!
Re:9 Years of "Learning to Code" and I Still Couldn't Build a To-Do App
on Saturday August 23, 2025 @05:05PM (#44999135)
Oh man. 9 years… just pick something, one thing. Just one new (or old) technology that interests you, and code something with it. That’s all.
After that, code the next thing. That’s all it takes. For reference, I still code with Object Pascal (because I like it), don’t care about newer languages. Recently got interested in lisp, picked janet[1], and coded something with it. Just do it (R)
[1]: https://janet-lang.org
Re:The beauty of a text only webpage
on Saturday August 16, 2025 @06:36AM (#44922034)
But you can. There are bearblog lookalike SSG themes. For example: https://janraasch.github.io/hugo-bearblog/
Re:Learning Assembly for Fun, Performance and Profit
on Sunday April 13, 2025 @07:43AM (#43672055)
The first commenter on the article page states that his favorite is pdp-11 assembly. In the 90s at uni I learned to write assembly on pdp-11 emulator running on a pc. It truly was a nice experience.
Re:Ask HN: Any decent open-source CGM software?
on Sunday March 30, 2025 @12:33PM (#43525405)
Sure there is: https://xdrip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
This is for android, there other projects based on this code for iOS as well.
Re:I stopped everything and started writing C again
on Thursday March 13, 2025 @03:34AM (#43351045)
C with dynamic arrays and classes? Object pascal says hello…
Re:Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life
on Saturday February 22, 2025 @04:28AM (#43137527)
This. Just use the most immediate thing available.
For me its:
* Apple Notes
* Apple Reminders
That’s it. Gets the job done.