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Re:I Made a Realtime C/C++ Build Visualizer
on Thursday August 14, 2025 @02:54PM (#44904193)
Nice, I’ve been looking for something like this for a while.
I’ve noticed on my huge catkin cmake project that cmake is checking the existence of the same files hundreds of times too. Is there anything that can hook into fork() and provide a cached value after the first invocation?
Re:GPTs and Feeling Left Behind
on Sunday August 10, 2025 @03:38AM (#44853482)
Code is a liability. When I let a LLM take the wheel, I end up with thousands of lines of crappy abstractions and needless comments and strange patterns that take way more brain power to understand than if I did it myself.
My current workflow has reverted to primitive copy paste into web chat (via Kagi Assistant). The friction is enough to make me put a lot of thought into each prompt and how much code context I give it (gathered via files-to-prompt from simonw).
I have little experience with frontend and web apps, so I am trying out a supervised vibe coding flow. I give most of the code base per prompt, ask for a single feature, then read the code output fully and iterate on it a few times to reduce aforementioned bad patterns. Normally I will then type it out myself, or at most copy a few snippets of tens of lines.
What doesn’t work I found is asking for the full file with changes applied already. Not only does it take a long time and waste tokens, it normally breaks/truncates/rewords unrelated code.
So far I’m happy with how this project is going. I am familiar with all the code as I have audited and typed it out nearly entirely myself. I am actually retaining some knowledge and learning new concepts (reactive state with VanJS) and have confidence I can maintain this project even without an LLM in future, which includes handing it over to colleagues :)
Re:Show HN: Jaws – a JavaScript to WASM ahead-of-time compiler
on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @01:21AM (#42113265)
Probably 10 at most.
Re:Show HN: Jaws – a JavaScript to WASM ahead-of-time compiler
on Sunday November 10, 2024 @04:40AM (#42099310)
What worked for me in Estonia was to find a C++ job (robotics) then gradually push for Rust as I gained seniority and autonomy. Now maybe 70% of the code I write is Rust, both robot side and backend :)
Re:Ask HN: What work/office purchase transformed your life?
on Thursday November 16, 2023 @10:36AM (#38290835)
I have been trying out a trackball as a mouse replacement only. I will try this setup, nice idea
Re:Write about what you learn. It pushes you to understand topics better
on Monday August 14, 2023 @07:12AM (#37119665)
I’m having this problem now. I want to publish a post about recent months of progress on my project, but while writing it I found the solution isn’t complete and still has some flaws, so I feel I must put some more weeks of work into the code first before I can publish the post…
I’m trying to practice writing “this doesn’t work yet” acknowledging in the post that it isn’t fully done, and publishing the bloody thing. We will see how it works next time I sit down to write!
Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred domain registrar?
on Sunday August 13, 2023 @02:38AM (#37107252)
iwantmyname.com, because I couldn’t find anywhere else that would sell .ms domains for cheap. Never had a problem with them
Re:Show HN: List (OPML) of Hacker News Users Personal Blogs
on Friday July 07, 2023 @12:56PM (#36634667)
Me too, added now!
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
on Thursday July 06, 2023 @01:05AM (#36611507)
https://domwillia.ms
I write about Rust and game engine development while slowly working towards a Dwarf Fortress-like game.
Re:Ask HN: What projects did you build to get better as a programmer?
on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @01:42AM (#35242893)
I wrote game engine after game engine with various languages and designs. Somehow I’m still motivated today to rewrite navigation in my 15th engine for the 3rd time.
Re:Estonia: Become an E-Resident
on Thursday November 17, 2022 @06:58AM (#33637753)
Yep, moved to Tallinn from England for work 6 months ago. Being a software engineer classes you as a “top specialist” so getting a visa and residence permit was very straightforward.
It really is a beautiful country. And today is the first day of snow :)
Re:Fixing an ancient GDB problem
on Friday September 30, 2022 @06:46AM (#33033238)
Great suggestion, thanks. I’m sick of the program output constantly screwing up the tui.
Re:Ask HN: Have you ever had a changed-your-life moment?
on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @09:13AM (#32250007)
I remember reading your post about this a few years ago, when I was first considering moving abroad!
Glad it’s going well for you. I have recently taken the plunge and moved to Estonia :)
Re:The Lazy Monad
on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @05:19AM (#31651721)
It is, after all, just a monoid in the category of endofunctors.
Re:Ask HN: How do you keep track of your to-dos? longer-term projects?
on Sunday April 24, 2022 @04:56PM (#31148256)
For my long term side project I just dump ideas into a barely organised backlog.md [^1]. After finishing a feature or taking a few months away, I normally dive back in by browsing this and choosing the next milestone.
It's worked well for a couple of years, and helps me keep the long term goals in mind.
[^1] https://github.com/DomWilliams0/name-needed/blob/develop/.pl...
Re:Ask HN: Share your personal site
on Thursday April 07, 2022 @04:47AM (#30942139)
https://domwillia.ms
I write about Rust side projects occasionally.
It uses a custom static site generator because I needed to procrastinate somehow before starting the first post... Now it's nicely stable and punishing new posts is quick and easy
Re:An update on recent service disruptions
on Thursday March 24, 2022 @03:05AM (#30787033)
Very interesting, thanks for sharing. I didn't know I wanted to understand how ticker names are implemented until now!
Re:Show HN: FUSE Filesystem for Manipulating Minecraft
on Saturday March 05, 2022 @02:14PM (#30570856)
Author here, this was a fun side project as an excuse to mess around with FUSE, Rust and Kotlin.
I've written a blog post covering the technical details: https://domwillia.ms/minecraft-fs
Re:How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2022
on Friday February 25, 2022 @03:10AM (#30464803)
These posts are always a pleasure to read. it's great to see continuous work on improving compiler performance, and especially with good results too.
Re:Rust 1.59.0 with inline assembly support etc.
on Thursday February 24, 2022 @01:07PM (#30458079)
Glad to see inline asm is finally stabilised, that's one less reason to use nightly for osdev!
Re:Chris Lattner left Swift core team
on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @05:15AM (#30439616)
The recent post[^1] about the roadmap for Async Rust shows promise for the coming years.
[^1]: https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2022/02/03/async-in-2...
Statically Recompiling NES Games into Native Executables with LLVM and Go (2013)
Re:How to mentor software engineers
on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @03:56PM (#29800361)
Aspell is a good interactive spell checker for just before publishing.
‘aspell -c text.md’
Re:How do I transfer files from Linux to iOS and vice versa via local ...
on Thursday December 30, 2021 @06:04AM (#29735689)
I use a simple python http server that supports uploads. Good for transfers of photos and files both ways.
Re:Why is Excalidraw so good?
on Friday November 05, 2021 @05:52AM (#29117203)
You can go into insert mode with i, then keys like question mark will be forwarded to the site.
Re:Ask HN: What is your story of immigrating to another country?
on Saturday October 09, 2021 @10:57AM (#28810414)
Very timely for me too, as I'm planning an unbounded move from the UK to Europe in the next few months.
Re:How does Google Authenticator work?
on Saturday August 28, 2021 @02:58AM (#28336162)
Sounds like they're doing it properly then!
Re:Ask HN: How to become a ridiculously good back end staff eng?
on Friday August 13, 2021 @03:26AM (#28166403)
My personal experience - after nearly 3 years at my current employer working mostly on features and bug fixes for existing big projects, I've found myself at the centre of several greenfield projects that fit my expertise perfectly. I am now one of "the guys" to go to about these exciting long term projects, which is exactly what I was looking for.
Re:Ask HN: Problems in your field that you want, but can't, solve?
on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @02:23AM (#27431227)
Falling asleep on a plane is another option