<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Aardwolf</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Aardwolf</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:57:16 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Aardwolf" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Aardwolf in "Nvidia partners with LG robotics to build humanoid robots in South Korea"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'd love the robot to fill and empty the dishwasher and put the stuff in the correct drawers and cabinets<p>edit: but if the robot could in addition also do dishes in the sink and not need a dishwasher at all, that'd also save up space in the kitchen for something else</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:52:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48445353</link><dc:creator>Aardwolf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48445353</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48445353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Aardwolf in "Branchless Quicksort faster than std:sort and pdqsort with C and C++ API"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On what datatype though, e.g. for sorting arbitrary length strings? I think that is if the comparator is expensive, quicksort and variants do not win because they do a constant factor more comparisons</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:01:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48409886</link><dc:creator>Aardwolf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48409886</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48409886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Aardwolf in "Under Notre Dame, a 'dig of the century' unearths 1,700 years of history"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's about two and a half Ford Tauri stacked on top of each other</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:36:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48399325</link><dc:creator>Aardwolf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48399325</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48399325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Aardwolf in "Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The payload is a single contiguous big-endian integer<p>Why not little endian like modern CPUs?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 06:39:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48333308</link><dc:creator>Aardwolf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48333308</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48333308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Aardwolf in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> He did not enter a plea and was released on a $2.25 million bond<p>I'm not familiar with the US system of bond. Is this payment a kind of fine that you don't get back, or a temporary payment? And what does it give you? I mean if prosecuted you get prison anyway, right?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 14:15:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48309262</link><dc:creator>Aardwolf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48309262</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48309262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Aardwolf in "Converting an Integer to a Decimal String in Under Two Nanoseconds"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> An example of a galactic algorithm is the fastest known way to multiply two numbers,[4] which is based on a 1729-dimensional Fourier transform.[5]<p>That number looked familiar, and yep it's the taxicab number. Coincidence? Neither of the two references seems to mention it</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 16:18:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258521</link><dc:creator>Aardwolf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258521</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Aardwolf in "Fast Factorial Algorithms"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That one is an approximation rather than returning all millions of exact big integer digits though (the approximation is more useful for real life statistics etc..., but doesn't look like what this article is targeting)</p>
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<p>I'd actually rather just have the compiler give some guarantees on producing SIMD code when you write regular C++ code doing sums, multiplications, etc... in a particular way. And perhaps add a few more operators/keywords to the language for modern CPU instructions (we got things like popcount, countl_zero and fma, but what about e.g. pext, pdep, aes, ...)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 09:01:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48167210</link><dc:creator>Aardwolf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48167210</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48167210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Aardwolf in "Scorched Earth 2000 – Web"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Great, I got the almost invisible red tank on a magenta background!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 18:34:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139328</link><dc:creator>Aardwolf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139328</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Aardwolf in "Int a = 5; a = a++ + ++a; a =? (2011)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But this is not valuable if doing so results in different numerical results, and I think that will always happen if ++ is executed at different times, there's no point in a compiler optimizing pointless code that can silently give different results elsewhere</p>
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<p>What's the reason that C didn't define the order of this?<p>The horrible undefined behavior of signed integer overflow at least can be explained by the fact that multiple CPU architectures handling those differently existed (though the fact that C even 'attracts' its ill-defined signed integers when you're using unsigned ones by returning a signed int when left shifting an uint16_t by an uint16_t for example is not as forgivable imho)<p>But this here is something that could be completely defined at the language level, there's nothing CPU dependent here, they could have simply stated in the language specification that e.g. the order of execution of statements is from left to right (and/or other rules like post increment happens after the full statement is finished for example, my point is not whether the rule I type here is complete enough or not but that the language designers could have made it completely defined).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 18:19:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139147</link><dc:creator>Aardwolf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139147</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Aardwolf in "I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> and the trash collection truck passing by.. (guess the country I live in)<p>Many countries have trash collection in the early morning, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 17:30:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111445</link><dc:creator>Aardwolf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111445</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Aardwolf in "I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is side sleeping possible with these?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 16:14:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48110319</link><dc:creator>Aardwolf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48110319</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48110319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Aardwolf in "First tunnel element of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel immersed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"It looks like you're trying to visit our US site, but you're not based in the US. If you'd prefer to visit our global site, please click on 'Global site' below, alternatively if you wish to continue to the US site, please click 'Continue'."<p>Do they want me to read their article or not? It shouldn't matter where I am for that<p>Are they aware this question invokes anxiety to the visitor because many websites will show a different generic page instead of the desired one when clicking one of the options?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 14:56:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48095855</link><dc:creator>Aardwolf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48095855</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48095855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Aardwolf in "I’ve banned query strings"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> You could argue that I’m abusing 414 URI Too Long. I respond that it’s funnier this way. Other options I considered were:<p>Another option to consider is "418 I'm a teapot": teapots usually also don't support query strings</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 20:07:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48077801</link><dc:creator>Aardwolf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48077801</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48077801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Aardwolf in "A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> You came here from news.ycombinator.com. Your browser told us the address of the page you were reading before this one. Every link you follow tells the destination where you were. The page you just left knows you left. This page knows where you came from. Neither was asked.<p>I thought this didn't work anymore and browsers left out the referer in the case of https, is that not so then?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 17:36:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48066310</link><dc:creator>Aardwolf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48066310</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48066310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Aardwolf in "US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't even see how buildings can survive that actually... (unless it's happening very evenly)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 12:25:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48007824</link><dc:creator>Aardwolf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48007824</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48007824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Aardwolf in "Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Firefox reader view on PC shows the exact same text as is in the article</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 22:19:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991158</link><dc:creator>Aardwolf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991158</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Aardwolf in "A programmable watch you can actually wear"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Too bad it seems to not do health monitoring, my main use case of a watch now is sleep tracking with as long battery life as possible</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:46:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47886985</link><dc:creator>Aardwolf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47886985</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47886985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Aardwolf in "Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Very neat!<p>Some bugs I noticed:<p>Searching for Zurich allows you to go to the article for the canton of Zurich, not the city. Clicking the link "Zürich (city)" inside of this article, opens this same article again about the canton, rather than opening the actual article for the city<p>When viewing an article, the search for articles (leftmost search box) doesn't seem to work at all for me (in Firefox). When being on the main page, it does work<p>There's a small clickable 'home' button on the right, but muscle memory from how other websites work makes me expect that clicking the big title "Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th Edition" on the top left also goes to home</p>
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