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New comment by Davidbrcz in "Ask HN: How do you manage too many open tabs?"

Davidbrcz — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:25:53 +0000

Tree Style Tab https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

New comment by Davidbrcz in "Ask HN: HN frontpage feels boring now?"

Davidbrcz — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:08:17 +0000

https://lobste.rs/ feel more like old-HN

New comment by Davidbrcz in "Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?"

Davidbrcz — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:56:38 +0000

This is the 2020s re-enactement of the early 2000 WYSIWYG editors.

Dear researchers: help me deal with incidents [pdf]

Davidbrcz — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:11:08 +0000

Article URL: https://surfingcomplexity.blog/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/dear-researchers.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48643747

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by Davidbrcz in "LeetCode is the best way to learn a new language"

Davidbrcz — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:23:12 +0000

The best way to learn a new language is to follow a proper structured resource which would cover syntax, semantic, tooling & ecosystem and best practices.

New comment by Davidbrcz in "C++: The Documentary"

Davidbrcz — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:23:18 +0000

And that's the usual fallacy (just ignore the bad stuff).

But if you work with C++ in professional context, you will encounter it somewhere (library, teamate's PR, legacy code, LLM output, book / blog / conference ...). |

You actually need to know the bad stuff to be able to judge it and discard it.

New comment by Davidbrcz in "C++: The Documentary"

Davidbrcz — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:18:52 +0000

Python, Java, Lua, Ruby are ~30 years old, Ada being as old as C++.

Sure, none is perfect and they have cruft and warts, but they are not such a mess as C++ is.

New comment by Davidbrcz in "C++: The Documentary"

Davidbrcz — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:38:31 +0000

No it's not.

The language keeps growing, with

- new features overlapping old features from previous standards without replacing them or deprecating them (function::copyable_function vs std::function, std::less<> key for transparent lookup in maps)

- new features not usable by the layman (coroutines ...)

- Cryptic syntax (reflection...)

- Stuff you are told not to use because of performance reason and that cant be fixed because of ABI (regex)

- Compile errors that are 1km long (no, concepts are not helping here, the 'nicer' message is still buried into a hot pile of template instantiation callstack).

New comment by Davidbrcz in "C++: The Documentary"

Davidbrcz — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:31:38 +0000

Except the language keeps growing, with

- new features overlapping old features previous standards without replacing them or deprecating them. - new features not usable by the layman - ...

See function::copyable_function vs std::function, modules, coroutines, Reflection syntax is cryptic at best, ...

New comment by Davidbrcz in "Castor: CERN Advanced STORage Manager"

Davidbrcz — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:53:10 +0000

I was an intern at CERN in mid 2010s and worked on this !

New comment by Davidbrcz in "New features in GCC 16: Improved error messages and SARIF output"

Davidbrcz — Thu, 21 May 2026 06:40:12 +0000

Concepts have been disappointing for me: what they tell you is still buried in 1000 lines of errors.

ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct

Davidbrcz — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:23:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48094678

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Forcing dark mode in PDFs for Firefox

Davidbrcz — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:14:02 +0000

Article URL: https://drgrizz.xyz/firefox_pdf_dark.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936453

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by Davidbrcz in "Ask HN: When might we not have to do laundry or fold clothes or cook"

Davidbrcz — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:50:54 +0000

We are more likely to have water and food shortages because of resource exhaustion and climate change. Maybe goods shortages because of war or economic depression.

New comment by Davidbrcz in "Ask HN: What to Expect in 2030s?"

Davidbrcz — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:44:02 +0000

More climate disasters, more wars (water's war), more refugees.

New comment by Davidbrcz in "How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer"

Davidbrcz — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:52:27 +0000

> Dissimilar redundancy eliminates that risk. A completely different OS, different codebase, different development team.

Not entirely true. I've heard during my uni years of a case were two independent teams used the same textbook for implementing a feature, which had an error, and thus resulting in the same failure mode.

New comment by Davidbrcz in "Ask HN: Where are all the disruptive software that AI promised?"

Davidbrcz — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:31:14 +0000

They are all the regular software, but with new bugs in it !

New comment by Davidbrcz in "Looking at Unity made me understand the point of C++ coroutines"

Davidbrcz — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:26:19 +0000

I use asio at work for coroutine. It's one of the most opaque library I've ever used. The doc is awful and impenetrable.

The most helpful resource about it is a guy on stackoverflow (sehe). No idea how to get help once SO will have closed

New comment by Davidbrcz in "Ask HN: Starting a New Role with Ada"

Davidbrcz — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:16:24 +0000

Just need to check if it's plain Ada or one specific profile or SPARK

New comment by Davidbrcz in "Extending C with Prolog (1994)"

Davidbrcz — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:47:10 +0000

Refreshing stories between all the AI ones (and crypto/web3 before that)