Hacker News: NanoWar

New comment by NanoWar in "Show HN: Boxes.dev: ditch localhost; run Claude Code and Codex in the cloud"

NanoWar — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 05:57:53 +0000

I believe this to actually be the silent majority. But of course our job is object to a lot of changes right now and people are nervous what the "next job" will look like. You can hold position like me and just take the the new tools when they are well tested and integrated, be pragmatic about it. Fingers crossed!

New comment by NanoWar in "Claude Opus 4.8"

NanoWar — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:05:28 +0000

Just show me the pelican, ah wait we are past pelicans. Can we get something like that ever again?

New comment by NanoWar in "An AI coding agent, used to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs"

NanoWar — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:39:34 +0000

First Agent I used: Do a proper code review of the changeset, it adds comments in my merge requests. Then the junior devs paste these into their IDEs and loop forever :-P

New comment by NanoWar in "Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)"

NanoWar — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:55:47 +0000

It was OK, just needed to memorize the commands, they are all reachable via a combination of number keys :-)

New comment by NanoWar in "XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub?"

NanoWar — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:45:11 +0000

XORing just feels more like xxxxing out the register. SUB feels like a calculation or mistaken use of a register.

New comment by NanoWar in "Antimatter has been transported for the first time"

NanoWar — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:33:26 +0000

One cannot image what would happen if antipasti and pasti collide!

New comment by NanoWar in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

NanoWar — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:54:37 +0000

I'd say the chance of me one shotting C++ is veeeery low. Same for bash scripts etc. This is where the LLM really shines for me.

New comment by NanoWar in "Tell HN: Merry Christmas"

NanoWar — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 08:58:50 +0000

My fav tree today: https://www.dwitter.net/d/34638

New comment by NanoWar in "Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels"

NanoWar — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 06:49:05 +0000

I moved from Hamburg (north) to close to Munic (south) and the difference is huge. I can see the blue sky, for example! So much better here.

New comment by NanoWar in "Ask HN: What is nowadays (opensource) way of converting HTML to PDF?"

NanoWar — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 15:07:32 +0000

We use this in production and it's very stable. It also supports background gradients which we wanted to use so badly :-) Can recommend

New comment by NanoWar in "Show HN: I built an AI that turns any book into a text adventure game"

NanoWar — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 19:30:05 +0000

How do you come up with this? I feel it is quite hard to formulate exactly what you want from the LLM in general. Is this something you exercised? So good. Or just output from another AI, who knows haha

New comment by NanoWar in "Extreme skydiver Baumgartner dies in paragliding accident"

NanoWar — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 19:08:36 +0000

According to the meme: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Felix_Baumgartn...

New comment by NanoWar in ""AI" on a Calculator (2023)"

NanoWar — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 23:36:27 +0000

Cool project! And what a suitable domain name you got there Kerm :)

New comment by NanoWar in "The State of the TI Community (1999)"

NanoWar — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 21:41:42 +0000

It's because a lot of us used to use a calculator in school and some (like me) learned to code with it. Actually, I used dwedit.inc a lot in the beginning and loved dragon warrior monsters as much as you! What a great time. Thank you.

New comment by NanoWar in "Curl native support for –aws-sigv4 (2023)"

NanoWar — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 08:19:06 +0000

I had fun recently to make such a request in C#. In the end I ported the code from the aws typescript implementation to C# which was surprisingly easy: https://gist.github.com/NanoWar/788860d74c49f337f4c3dab6dd24...

New comment by NanoWar in "Hackers discover how to reprogram NES Tetris from within the game"

NanoWar — Wed, 08 May 2024 05:51:23 +0000

Off topic, but hey is that you, Dan from the old Ti83 World? Thanks for the huge include file and I loved your work on DQM ;-)

New comment by NanoWar in "Show HN: Htmldocs – Typeset and generate pdfs with HTML/CSS"

NanoWar — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 21:45:10 +0000

I have used Gotenberg [1] in a production environment. Dockerized in a Kubernetes Cluster. It just works! I can absolutely recommend it. Uses Chromium under the hood and was able to render gradients and text shadow, nice! [1] https://gotenberg.dev/

New comment by NanoWar in "At what age should a teenager be given a cell phone?"

NanoWar — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 15:01:48 +0000

New comment by NanoWar in "Ask HN: What boosted your confidence as a new programmer?"

NanoWar — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 11:15:56 +0000

The best confidence boost is when someone uses your software and talks about it! Happened to me when I was young and programmed a game at school on a calculator and everyone wanted it, sent via link cable :)

New comment by NanoWar in "People competing to make the worst computer games possible"

NanoWar — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 11:13:20 +0000

Here is the original Post by Jim: https://csscgc23.blogspot.com/2023/04/asl-2023-jim-waterman....