Hacker News: MForster

New comment by MForster in "Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older one"

MForster — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:09:51 +0000

The sentence that you quoted is more generic. The Zig issue is only one example of "some reason".

New comment by MForster in "New laws to make it easier to cancel subscriptions and get refunds"

MForster — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:03:52 +0000

Or the GEZ... :-)

New comment by MForster in "Why Mathematica does not simplify sinh(arccosh(x))"

MForster — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 10:09:18 +0000

It also equals x with appropriate assumptions (x > 0).

New comment by MForster in "Safe C++ proposal is not being continued"

MForster — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 05:17:32 +0000

You are talking about spatial safety. There are a few other types of memory safety:

- temporal safety (e.g. no use after free) - initialization safety (no read of initialized memory) - thread safety (no data races) - type safety (accessing memory with the correct type)

New comment by MForster in "Jujutsu for busy devs"

MForster — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 10:57:36 +0000

> The main things that drives me crazy about jj is that all changes are always staged implicitly.

That's one way to look at it, but I would encourage you to think about it a bit differently.

JJ does not have a concept of "staging", it only has changes and commits. Yes, it automatically snapshots the workspace commit, but I wouldn't use the workspace commit as your staging area. If you want to do explicit staging use the parent commit (@-) as your staging area. You can move changes from the workspace commit (@) to the staging area (@-) explicitly, just like in Git. And you can "commit" (Git terminology) your staging area by starting a new staging area.

The difference here really is "only" that the workspace, the index, and committed changes are modeled with the same concept. And that is very powerful. Admittedly you have to make an informed decision on how to map your workflows onto the model, but that is what comes with the powerful flexibility that it gives you.

New comment by MForster in "Jujutsu for busy devs"

MForster — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 05:32:40 +0000

You don't even need to re-clone. You can add jj to an existing git repo.

New comment by MForster in "European Commission presents Roadmap for lawful access to data"

MForster — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 15:15:59 +0000

The CDU has moved from very right to less right, but still right-of-center under Merkel. After Merkel they have moved back right, maybe even more than they were to compete with the extremists.

New comment by MForster in "Memory safety for web fonts"

MForster — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:03:52 +0000

It's quite the opposite. This is intended for engineers to make good trade-off decisions as a rule of thumb without financial micromanaging.

New comment by MForster in "jj: a Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful"

MForster — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 04:35:40 +0000

You can still use a similar workflow as with the index. The difference is that the staging area is modeled as a commit, so it's not another concept that will take a while to grok.

Same with the working copy.

New comment by MForster in "jj: a Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful"

MForster — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 04:29:53 +0000

https://jj-vcs.github.io/jj/latest/sapling-comparison/

Factorio 2.0 and Factorio Space Age DLC Release

MForster — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 11:05:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/factorio-space-age-release

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41902851

Points: 17

# Comments: 1

New comment by MForster in "Audapolis: Edit audio files by transcript, not waveform"

MForster — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 18:53:23 +0000

And here I was expecting that I could edit the text and the app would change the audio file to say what I had typed...

New comment by MForster in "'It's All Happening Again.' The Supply Chain Is Under Strain"

MForster — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 18:04:09 +0000

It's multiple locks, first up, then down. The middle section is at a higher altitude than the ocean on both sides

New comment by MForster in "Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection"

MForster — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 05:11:45 +0000

Is it because of the enemies?

FWIW, you can turn them off. I always play with them disabled. Just not what I'm interested in. You might enjoy that, too.

I also enjoyed shapez, but it's no comparison to the depth of Factorio, especially with mods.

New comment by MForster in "Bayer is getting rid of bosses and asking staff to ‘self-organize’"

MForster — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 06:03:23 +0000

This is not at all what Google does, though.

New comment by MForster in "Show HN: Online database diagram editor"

MForster — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 04:01:44 +0000

This looks great.

Would be even better if it lived in VSCode, auto-syncing with my DDL files...

Full Stack Rust with Leptos

MForster — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 10:35:33 +0000

Article URL: https://benw.is/posts/full-stack-rust-with-leptos

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39904186

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by MForster in "Garbage collection for systems programmers (2023)"

MForster — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 16:58:45 +0000

Rust by default doesn't do reference counting.

You can opt into reference counting with `std::rc::Rc`. (You can even opt into mark-and-sweep GC using the `gc` crate, but this isn't done much...).

Map of the IPv4 Internet

MForster — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 13:11:32 +0000

Article URL: https://map.bgp.tools/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39429363

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by MForster in "You're So Vain, You Probably Think This App Is About You: On Meta and Mastodon"

MForster — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 15:23:13 +0000

Yes, that's what I did (and said so in the top post)