Hacker News: GalaxyNova

New comment by GalaxyNova in "GPU World"

GalaxyNova — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:14:25 +0000

What will happen when everyone has access to a hot air balloon?

New comment by GalaxyNova in "Claude × retrocomputing: emulating a QIC-117 tape drive"

GalaxyNova — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:02:23 +0000

I think LLMs go against the retrocomputing ethos

New comment by GalaxyNova in "1kB Website as Status Symbol"

GalaxyNova — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 20:38:30 +0000

There is something distinctly dystopian about someone using AI to write a blog post about how we sold out our taste to LLMs.

New comment by GalaxyNova in "Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI""

GalaxyNova — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 16:46:40 +0000

Gentoo, Guix, a few others

New comment by GalaxyNova in "Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7"

GalaxyNova — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:20:17 +0000

But CCL is very stable and works very well on the platforms it supports, sometimes in a much more compliant way than SBCL.

New comment by GalaxyNova in "Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7"

GalaxyNova — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:24:46 +0000

CL can be used pretty much anywhere nowadays, even on the web with ECL wasm compilation.

New comment by GalaxyNova in "The Zilog Z80 has turned 50"

GalaxyNova — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:21:21 +0000

The Z80 stopped being manufactured last year unfortunately

New comment by GalaxyNova in "Don't you mean extinct?"

GalaxyNova — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:02:56 +0000

It's reminiscent of the proprietary compilers of the 80s

New comment by GalaxyNova in "[dead]"

GalaxyNova — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 01:36:13 +0000

what does it even mean to "adopt AI"

The Sneakerweb

GalaxyNova — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 01:35:09 +0000

Article URL: https://sneakerweb.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799781

Points: 109

# Comments: 24

New comment by GalaxyNova in "OpenRA"

GalaxyNova — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 23:14:28 +0000

I love OpenRA! Play it every weekend with my dad.

New comment by GalaxyNova in "Epoll vs. io_uring in Linux"

GalaxyNova — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 04:28:21 +0000

The year is 2050; there are 20 different ways to poll a socket on Linux.

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

GalaxyNova — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:02:19 +0000

Yes I have seen it happen a few times with `strlen` being called in a loop silently causing O(N) to turn to O(N^2)

New comment by GalaxyNova in "Automating my job away"

GalaxyNova — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 03:08:19 +0000

What? Am I missing something? I was expecting more of a story... As it stands the article doesn't really convey any information.

New comment by GalaxyNova in "I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys"

GalaxyNova — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:12:39 +0000

No, it's because a lot of the time you want to use a different keyboard layout. For instance with international keyboards.

New comment by GalaxyNova in "IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake"

GalaxyNova — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:39:13 +0000

No they are not. There is frankly no other way to handle the cases that IPv6 zones do.

New comment by GalaxyNova in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

GalaxyNova — Sun, 31 May 2026 08:20:44 +0000

What's next? Vibe coded coreutils?

Vim Classic

GalaxyNova — Mon, 25 May 2026 23:29:06 +0000

Article URL: https://vim-classic.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48273089

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by GalaxyNova in "Leave Me Behind"

GalaxyNova — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:39:43 +0000

Maybe our customers do care about how it's made.

New comment by GalaxyNova in "It is time to build a new internet"

GalaxyNova — Fri, 22 May 2026 02:32:15 +0000

And I definitely suggest writing a server or client for it! It is a really fun weekend project.