Hacker News: Surac

New comment by Surac in "Nairobi became a nexus for the black market in giant harvester ants"

Surac — Fri, 15 May 2026 10:18:50 +0000

At least the are not ground to powder or something to be used as a fertiliser for Chinese man penis

New comment by Surac in "More than sixty percent of the United States is experiencing drought conditions"

Surac — Fri, 15 May 2026 09:23:30 +0000

So that‘s „making Amerika dry again“ trump is promising?

New comment by Surac in "NSA Warned Everyone to Reboot Their Routers"

Surac — Sat, 02 May 2026 10:55:15 +0000

so NSA installed a backdoor to each router and now needs you to restart it to open the backdoor?

New comment by Surac in "Ti-84 Evo"

Surac — Sat, 02 May 2026 06:38:04 +0000

To bad it is still made for pupils and not engineers. I tried using it for computer science and math and it lost to a Casio

New comment by Surac in "A Dumb Introduction to Z3 (2025)"

Surac — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:05:27 +0000

Problems solved nothing learned. Poking my problems into a black box and getting numbers let me only learn how to poke numbers into black boxes

New comment by Surac in "High-Level Rust: Getting 80% of the Benefits with 20% of the Pain"

Surac — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:01:23 +0000

I would disagree with C# having a (-) at Types. The Type system is indeed the most impressing part of .net/C#. having written static analysers for many languages i find the c# type system the most logical and most easy to parse

New comment by Surac in "The Vercel plugin on Claude Code wants to read your prompts"

Surac — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:10:19 +0000

i use SVN, Git isn't the only thing out there

New comment by Surac in "Suspect Arrested for Throwing Molotov Cocktail at Sam Altman's Home"

Surac — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:12:31 +0000

Was it a robot?

New comment by Surac in "USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers"

Surac — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:14:57 +0000

Yes Claude is impressive in HW-Development. It knows all those magic numbers and how chips work. i even use it to do development for Power delivery Systems.

New comment by Surac in "USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers"

Surac — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:13:36 +0000

i had to do this inside a FPGA. In the end it is just a very complicated Serial device. Was a Nightmare to support HDI Devices

New comment by Surac in "C# in Unity 2026: Writing more modern code"

Surac — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:11:32 +0000

I started using .Net with 2.0, learned the api and framework and was very happy with all the functions. i never had the need to switch to the more idiomatic idoms. Sometimes on the go i picked up some new tricks and adopted some new types. Form me a good programmer knows how to avoid cognitive overload and how things work under the hood. Why use LINQ when i can use a foreach or a hashmap. Most of the time people don't understand how i get so much performance out of C#, then i tell them KISS. And know your type system.

New comment by Surac in "Show HN: I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++"

Surac — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:01:49 +0000

Uses CMAKE, Sorry not for me. Call me old but i prefere good old make or batch. Maybe it's because i can understand those tools. Debugging CMAKE build problems made me hate it. Also i code for embedded CPU and most of the time CMAKE is just overkill and does not play well the compiler/binutils provided. The Platform independency is just not happening in those environments.

New comment by Surac in "The Vercel plugin on Claude Code wants to read your prompts"

Surac — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:56:32 +0000

I still use Claude to code in a very stoneage way. I copy c code into the web site/desktop App and type in my prompt. Then i read the output and if i like it i copy paste it into my code. I always felt very old doing that way when things like Claude code exists. Now i fell somehow not so old. All this hacking into my private space using a develpment tool is insane. Also i do not use Git

New comment by Surac in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

Surac — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:37:05 +0000

namedropping hell.

New comment by Surac in "LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server"

Surac — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:35:52 +0000

i had to block all traffic, except that of my country. As i offer a service that is exclusive to my country it worked like a charm.

New comment by Surac in "Solod – A subset of Go that translates to C"

Surac — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:59:13 +0000

I seem too stupid. Why not use C11 in the first place? Can anyone explain?

New comment by Surac in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

Surac — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:28:15 +0000

No im sure he uses linux or osx. Everyone uses this since windows phone was killed

New comment by Surac in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

Surac — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:26:43 +0000

Same here. Also the benefit of a visual Editor in Visual Studio is just Premium. Windows.forms also allow all those „modern“. Takes on ui either with ownerdraw or some grids/hand layouting.

New comment by Surac in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

Surac — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:24:54 +0000

Today i still use C# with Windows.Forms. All my old knowledge is still usefull. People know how to use a Windows.Forms program.

New comment by Surac in "Lisette a little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go"

Surac — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:58:06 +0000

borrowing syntax from rust is not what i like to read. Reading Rust code always gives me VisualBasic vibes. In VB you also declare variables like: dim a as Integer. and use let a=a+1