Hacker News: Koshkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=KoshkinHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 29 Oct 2026 21:51:30 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by Koshkin in "NetBSD adds a new text editor called atto"]]>> `w_doto` for `cursorOffset`

Well, sometimes we call the cursor "the dot."

]]>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:43:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50293924Koshkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50293924https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50293924<![CDATA[New comment by Koshkin in "BioWare Is Shutting Down"]]>BioShock Infinite is a masterpiece.

]]>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:17:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50185255Koshkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50185255https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50185255<![CDATA[New comment by Koshkin in "Wine ported to OpenBSD"]]>This wasn't a joke. It is well-known that Wine is the best and the most stable implementation of the Win32 API out there (closely followed by ReactOS).

]]>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:17:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50169603Koshkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50169603https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50169603<![CDATA[New comment by Koshkin in "A Visual Intro to Complex Numbers"]]>> came clearly recently. They're just...

I assure you this is not the last enlightening moment that you are going have about what the complex numbers are.

> Geometric Algebra

Ah... Haven's heard about that one in quite some time...

]]>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:55:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074859Koshkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074859https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074859<![CDATA[New comment by Koshkin in "Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen"]]>If it did they should get the Novel prize.

]]>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:39:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49986339Koshkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49986339https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49986339<![CDATA[New comment by Koshkin in "Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen"]]>A cubic kilometer is a volume, it does not dictate the shape.

]]>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:36:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49986298Koshkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49986298https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49986298<![CDATA[New comment by Koshkin in "Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1"]]>Is a widget a monad? Anyway, the examples in this tutorial are another proof that Haskell is the best imperative language!

]]>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:08:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49969946Koshkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49969946https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49969946<![CDATA[New comment by Koshkin in "Why Plain Text Is Still One of the Best Technologies We Have"]]>"A picture is worth a thousand words"

]]>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:01:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49969852Koshkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49969852https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49969852<![CDATA[Ask HN: What would an ideal programming language for the use by AI look like?]]>People train, and force the ai to program, in languages that are designed for humans; what could a better if not ideal programming language for the AI to use look like? How would the AI get trained on such a language in the absence of an extensive pre-existing code?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49908827

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

]]>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 13:41:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49908827Koshkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49908827https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49908827<![CDATA[New comment by Koshkin in "OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005"]]>Is it even possible for the same cyphertext to encode different messages using different keys?

]]>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:51:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49814679Koshkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49814679https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49814679<![CDATA[New comment by Koshkin in "ReactOS 0.4.16"]]>Why, this could be a fun excrement for sure

]]>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:46:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49515202Koshkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49515202https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49515202<![CDATA[New comment by Koshkin in "ReactOS 0.4.16"]]>Or maybe https://bellard.org/jslinux/

]]>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:44:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49515184Koshkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49515184https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49515184<![CDATA[New comment by Koshkin in "ReactOS 0.4.16"]]>> lets you run macOS software

> must be running a 64-bit x86

]]>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:39:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49515133Koshkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49515133https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49515133<![CDATA[New comment by Koshkin in "ReactOS 0.4.16"]]>> a new DC21X4 network adapter driver

Hasn't the point been for the OS to be compatible with the existing Windows drivers?

]]>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:27:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49515027Koshkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49515027https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49515027<![CDATA[New comment by Koshkin in "So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021)"]]>The Feynman Lectures and/or Berkeley Physics Course [1] would give one the basics one would ever need.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Physics_Course

]]>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:04:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897239Koshkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897239https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897239<![CDATA[New comment by Koshkin in "Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report"]]>> If there was a Linux Apple App Store, I would buy stuff from it.

I believe you.

> I already buy from Steam.

I believe this even more.

]]>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:26:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48750324Koshkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48750324https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48750324<![CDATA[Time may be an illusion derived from quantum entanglement]]>Article URL: https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/time-may-be-an-illusion-derived-from-quantum-entanglement/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48731622

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

]]>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:15:59 +0000https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/time-may-be-an-illusion-derived-from-quantum-entanglement/Koshkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48731622https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48731622<![CDATA[New comment by Koshkin in "What five simple habits can do over 35 years"]]>> Healthy lifestyles: 21 or less units of alcohol per week

Looks Good

]]>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:33:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48362276Koshkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48362276https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48362276<![CDATA[New comment by Koshkin in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"]]>> we have created operations

It seems that addition (for instance) was "created" long before us.

On the other hand, it seems highly unlikely that a civilization similar to ours could "invent" an essentially different kind of mathematics (or physics, etc.)

]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 23:17:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215664Koshkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215664https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215664<![CDATA[New comment by Koshkin in "Googlebook"]]>A fun name... (I wonder how many non-native English speakers realize that the two occurrences of 'oo' in 'googlebook' are not pronounced the same.)

]]>Tue, 12 May 2026 19:16:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113057Koshkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113057https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113057