Hacker News: ArchAndStarch

New comment by ArchAndStarch in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

ArchAndStarch — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:50:01 +0000

Actually, that was just recently merged into InstantSpaceSwitcher!

New comment by ArchAndStarch in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

ArchAndStarch — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:25:51 +0000

Check out https://github.com/joshuarli/iss !

New comment by ArchAndStarch in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

ArchAndStarch — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:20:11 +0000

Hey, author here, and cool project! I spent some time comparing Yabai's scripting addition to InstantSpaces' scripting addition. They seem to be doing the exact same thing, but Yabai works while InstantSpaces doesn't, and I eventually gave up trying to figure out why.

Regardless, I still prefer InstantSpaceSwitcher because its implementation is simpler and it doesn't require disabling SIP. If you can get it working, however, I can edit my blog post to say so!

How many iconic computing numbers can you recognize?

ArchAndStarch — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 23:58:36 +0000

Article URL: https://numbers.arhan.sh/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46842165

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ArchAndStarch in "Memory-Corrupting Pong"

ArchAndStarch — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 18:54:10 +0000

Allocating heap memory on the screen

Memory-Corrupting Pong

ArchAndStarch — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 18:54:10 +0000

Article URL: https://arhan.sh/blog/memory-corrupting-pong/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45956685

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

The Generativity Pattern in Rust

ArchAndStarch — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 19:59:34 +0000

Article URL: https://arhan.sh/blog/the-generativity-pattern-in-rust/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44803469

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

How many iconic computing numbers can you recognize? (V2)

ArchAndStarch — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 06:00:20 +0000

Article URL: https://numbers.arhan.sh/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42801140

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by ArchAndStarch in "Keymashed: Motivate your internet by mashing your keyboard"

ArchAndStarch — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:41:10 +0000

Ya know, how sometimes your computer's internet is slow?

What if... you could motivate it. Make the internet itself flow a lil' quicker.

Since making the internet faster is a hard research problem, keymashed instead worsens the internet and then eases up proportional to how fast you mash the keyboard. It features:

- an overengineered network protocol - a from-scratch video codec based on JPEG - humor

Keymashed: Motivate your internet by mashing your keyboard

ArchAndStarch — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:41:10 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/kartva/keymashed

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42612853

Points: 13

# Comments: 2

New comment by ArchAndStarch in "How many iconic computing numbers can you recognize?"

ArchAndStarch — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 18:14:20 +0000

I wanted to stay consistent with the 3-6 digits per number rule to make the challenge easier to figure out in general. There are only two numbers that are actually truncated, so hopefully it isn't that big of a problem.

New comment by ArchAndStarch in "How many iconic computing numbers can you recognize?"

ArchAndStarch — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 14:14:05 +0000

I'm a huge fan of both computer science and secret messages. If that's your cup of tea, I challenge you to decipher this secret message in under 30 guesses and test your general knowledge of computing.

How many iconic computing numbers can you recognize?

ArchAndStarch — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 14:14:05 +0000

Article URL: https://arhan.sh/blog/how-many-iconic-computing-numbers-can-you-recognize/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41329201

Points: 4

# Comments: 5

Implementing strict equality in JavaScript from scratch

ArchAndStarch — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 21:30:40 +0000

Article URL: https://arhan.sh/blog/implementing-strict-equality-in-javascript-from-scratch/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41278140

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

My GitHub repository has 100k contributors

ArchAndStarch — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 14:22:11 +0000

Article URL: https://arhan.sh/blog/my-github-repository-has-100000-contributors/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40846095

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ArchAndStarch in "Show HN: I made a programmable computer from NAND gates"

ArchAndStarch — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 03:53:51 +0000

Oh wow, I didn't actually know that. Thanks for the interesting trivia

New comment by ArchAndStarch in "Show HN: I made a programmable computer from NAND gates"

ArchAndStarch — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 01:26:10 +0000

One curious idea my friends have entertained is to go one level even deeper and emulate the very transistors that make up the NAND gates on the web, too. It would certainly spell disaster for performance, but it's without-a-doubt interesting.

New comment by ArchAndStarch in "Show HN: I made a programmable computer from NAND gates"

ArchAndStarch — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 21:51:27 +0000

I primarily used the physical book to learn about the nand2tetris platform. I highly recommend it, it's an enthralling read

New comment by ArchAndStarch in "Show HN: I made a programmable computer from NAND gates"

ArchAndStarch — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 20:25:01 +0000

I've inspected my code closely. Every clock cycle, the NAND gate is used 3,234 times :)

New comment by ArchAndStarch in "Show HN: I made a programmable computer from NAND gates"

ArchAndStarch — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 19:52:49 +0000

A few nand2tetris fanatics have actually done this! And by a few, I mean quite a lot of people. Here's one such hardware project of nand2tetris: https://gitlab.com/x653/nand2tetris-fpga/

But you can Google "nand2tetris fpga" for more.