Hacker News: Conscat

New comment by Conscat in "Hard Road – A beautiful procedural post-apocalyptic game"

Conscat — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:26:21 +0000

I was able to upload hacky unpolished amateur game demos long before LLMs existed.

New comment by Conscat in "Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now"

Conscat — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:57:55 +0000

Clang pointer authentication makes any type of vtable attack impossible in C++.

New comment by Conscat in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

Conscat — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:08:27 +0000

According to Apple, are there any tech companies in the galaxy who haven't stolen their trade secrets?

New comment by Conscat in "For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides"

Conscat — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:08:48 +0000

It would only be effective if the significance of this work is clear. They certainly felt this message needed to reach people, and that it did work makes it self evident they were probably right.

New comment by Conscat in "How H-E-B became Texas' most beloved brand (2024)"

Conscat — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 22:44:33 +0000

Personally I hated Publix when I lived in Florida and it made me homesick. I've never had so much food come with mold in the packaging than from Publix.

New comment by Conscat in "How H-E-B became Texas' most beloved brand (2024)"

Conscat — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:36:51 +0000

As much as I loved growing up with HEB, my fondest memories are of eating Central Market squid salad and brie in its playground/music venue backyard.

New comment by Conscat in "I built a GPU back end for Emacs"

Conscat — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:56:08 +0000

This seems like the "obvious" solution. Why was the rejected?

EDIT: It appears to be an objection to GPU programming entirely.

New comment by Conscat in "FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model"

Conscat — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:37:00 +0000

I have been a ClearFlow user for over a year now. Generally I like it, but there absolutely are still common words that are hard to input consistently. The THEA cluster has given me no shortage of problems. Still a fan though.

New comment by Conscat in "Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches"

Conscat — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 07:22:20 +0000

A Pascal string has a leading length byte. Because that is one byte, the text can't exceed 255 characters.

New comment by Conscat in "Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches"

Conscat — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 06:39:18 +0000

Clang and GCC both let you use Pascal strings in C if you would like (with `\p`). But Pascal strings aren't that useful today because the maximum length is too short.

New comment by Conscat in "Digital Printing of Arabic: explaining the problem (2017)"

Conscat — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 05:48:51 +0000

I feel like I've never gotten a compelling explanation for why Nastaliq is hard/unavailable. I'm not an expert on abjads, but it doesn't look harder to render then Naskh (and it self-evidently is possible since the fonts exist). Does anyone here know why they make it difficult? Urdu is much less obscure than, say, Sharada or other languages with Unicode support. I think Punjabi is also often written in Nastaliq when it's not in Gurmukhi or Roman.

New comment by Conscat in "Amateur may have cracked Linear A, a 120-year-old puzzle"

Conscat — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:31:34 +0000

Isn't it customary for the author of a post shared on HN to leave a comment on the thread?

New comment by Conscat in "World Capitals Voronoi"

Conscat — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:54:49 +0000

I find it very funny to imagine Keralam and Tamil Nadu part of Sri Lanka.

New comment by Conscat in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

Conscat — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:40:07 +0000

I've got really comfy `just` scripts for generating Clang "intermediaries" in my CMake project. I can generate `.ii` files which get formatted and edited in a manner making them directly recompilable, along with `.ll`, `.bc`, and `.s` files. All the above are per-translation unit or post-LTO and I can constrain the output to specific functions or files, and the LLVM bitcode can take optimization passes or optimization levels to very easily introspect how my work in this codebase optimizes.

I've also got a clang-repl wrapper for this codebase that is very easy to use and makes interactive programming much easier for me.

New comment by Conscat in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

Conscat — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:15:21 +0000

Obviously 5 year olds deserve access to safe abortions whether they are trans or cis. It's not safe to carry a pregnancy so young.

New comment by Conscat in "Flipper Zero Zig Template"

Conscat — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:36:42 +0000

The point here is that these examples need to be updated because @cImport, the syntactic feature of Zig, is being deprecated and removed. That there exists an alternative isn't relevant.

New comment by Conscat in "Nvidia Cosmos 3"

Conscat — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:54:06 +0000

These demos honestly look pretty good to me. But it is objectively true that this and similar technologies are used at huge scale by every leading autonomous vehicle manufacturer, so we can inductively reason that it _is_ good enough for that use-case. I don't work on Cosmos, but I am currently working on a superficially similar non-open technology at Nvidia used by many of these leaders which, in my opinion, produces similar quality. Some of the open research for it is here:

https://github.com/nv-tlabs/3dgrut/

https://github.com/NVIDIA/harmonizer

https://github.com/NVIDIA/instant-nurec

https://github.com/nvidia/ncore

Nvidia also is integrating Gsplat into at least what I work on and contributing upstream.

https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/gsplat

New comment by Conscat in "KDE at 30"

Conscat — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:19:25 +0000

Does anyone else miss KWrite? I had it configured as a very slightly more advanced Notepad.exe clone. I really enjoyed opening it for quickly writing out thoughts that crowd my ADHD brain, and I feel like the full Kate takes much longer to open up and looks much much heavier and emotionally oppressive for what I want to do.

New comment by Conscat in "Noroboto: Lying Fonts and Mitigation in Rust"

Conscat — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:36:06 +0000

These are some very extreme examples of this that push the feature's limits:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47256810

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26495059

New comment by Conscat in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

Conscat — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:46:59 +0000

Fwiw, nobody has ever suggested to me that I employ token compression in my daily workflow. I don't pay full attention in all the AI workflow demos I'm supposed to attend, but I don't recall that even being discussed. Is this an Nvidia blog or tweet you're referencing? I'm actually interested to see what they have to say.