Hacker News: Delgan

New comment by Delgan in "Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore"

Delgan — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:00:41 +0000

I, too, was curious to see it in practice.

Here is the ticket opened by @retr0id: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/28030

And here is the swarm of bots / LLMs / agents that open, review and bikeshed the PR before it's closed by the stalebot: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/28031

It's hilarious. But also a little sad.

New comment by Delgan in "Issue links now open in a popup"

Delgan — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:26:08 +0000

Alas, GitHub has been plagued by bugs and UX regressions year after year.

I reported a bug last year about being unable to quote code blocks. It's quite a basic yet fundamental feature, right? They acknowledged the bug and moved on. To this day, quoting a block of code is still broken [1].

They simply don't care. I suppose their attention is focused on other subjects...

Anyway, I kind of accepted the "enshitification" of things I used to like. Fortunately, in this case, we can still hack our way around using custom userscripts [2].

[1] https://imgur.com/a/github-bug-cant-quote-blocks-of-code-Z9O...

[2] https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/192665#discuss...

New comment by Delgan in "Why is GitHub UI getting slower?"

Delgan — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 17:11:50 +0000

I was baffled by the technical blog post they published on this subject, in 2023: https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/cr...

They completely redesigned the code navigation to load it dynamically using React. One of the regressions introduced caused the entries to be duplicated when searching for a word using Ctrl+F. Their solution to address this issue? Decompose the source character by character, assigning each individual character its own distinct HTML node...

Needless to say, in addition to abysmal performance (it took seconds to display on my laptop), this also caused new problems (such as the inability to search for certain composite emojis). The worst part is that they seemed proud of their hack, since they wrote a blog post about it.

Git Notes: Git's coolest, most unloved feature (2022)

Delgan — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 09:14:35 +0000

Article URL: https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2022/11/19/git-notes-gits-coolest-most-unloved-feature/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44345334

Points: 579

# Comments: 145

New comment by Delgan in "Important Coding Habits"

Delgan — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 21:54:27 +0000

There is also a linked Youtube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gi7nMuyUc4

He looks real.

GitHub Skyline: Your GitHub story in 3D

Delgan — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 16:06:25 +0000

Article URL: https://skyline.github.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31682947

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Delgan in "Battleship"

Delgan — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 23:07:09 +0000

It reminds me of the multiplayer section from CodinGame website: https://www.codingame.com/multiplayer/bot-programming

Although there is no specific implementation for Battleship, but I believe that some users sometimes have the possibility to create and submit their own games.

New comment by Delgan in "Show HN: I gamified a habit tracker to fight procrastination"

Delgan — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 09:30:26 +0000

One month ago, I spent hours testing dozens of apps for "gamified todo list". I could not find any that would perfectly suits my needs (Habitica is too gamified for example).

Your app looks very promising. Polished UI. Intuitive. Unlimited habits. Simple "task -> award" principle without added complexity layers.

Something I'm having trouble finding in the apps I've tried is the distinction between "habit" and "task". An habit is something I want to do multiple time in a week. While a task is a one-shot TODO that I would like to execute at some point when I'm not procrastinating. Once done, I don't need to repeat it, but I like to be rewarded.

Your application seems to be more habit oriented. Is the notion of a one-time task something you could eventually incorporate?

I’m only making business card sized games now

Delgan — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 22:16:23 +0000

Article URL: http://frankforce.com/?p=5826

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19548904

Points: 264

# Comments: 173

StackRating: An Elo-Based Rating System for Stack Overflow

Delgan — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 18:53:58 +0000

Article URL: https://stackrating.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19504581

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Delgan in "“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL”"

Delgan — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 07:36:42 +0000

On the contrary, loop-and-a-half is intended to avoid repeating stuff outside and inside of the loop body.

    while true:
        x = stuff
        if not x:
            break

Modifying the Python object model

Delgan — Sat, 19 May 2018 07:46:46 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/754163/a38214c50e7b3ece/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17107047

Points: 63

# Comments: 44

New comment by Delgan in "Python startup time: milliseconds matter"

Delgan — Wed, 02 May 2018 20:53:01 +0000

Isn't it what Numba does quite successfully for a subset of Python?

[1]: https://numba.pydata.org/

Basic Income Is a Dead End

Delgan — Sun, 14 May 2017 00:43:53 +0000

Article URL: http://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/anke-hassel-basic-income-dead-end

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14333686

Points: 8

# Comments: 2

The ethics of emulation: how creators, community and law view console emulators

Delgan — Sun, 02 Apr 2017 09:46:10 +0000

Article URL: http://www.pcgamer.com/the-ethics-of-emulation-how-creators-the-community-and-the-law-view-console-emulators/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14016593

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Hacker News: Delgan

New comment by Delgan in "Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore"

New comment by Delgan in "Issue links now open in a popup"

New comment by Delgan in "Why is GitHub UI getting slower?"

Git Notes: Git's coolest, most unloved­ feature (2022)

New comment by Delgan in "Important Coding Habits"

GitHub Skyline: Your GitHub story in 3D

New comment by Delgan in "Battleship"

New comment by Delgan in "Show HN: I gamified a habit tracker to fight procrastination"

I’m only making business card sized games now

StackRating: An Elo-Based Rating System for Stack Overflow

New comment by Delgan in "“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL”"

Modifying the Python object model

New comment by Delgan in "Python startup time: milliseconds matter"

Basic Income Is a Dead End

The ethics of emulation: how creators, community and law view console emulators

Git Notes: Git's coolest, most unloved feature (2022)