Hacker News: SvenL

New comment by SvenL in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

SvenL — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:21:37 +0000

New comment by SvenL in "Zig: Build System Reworked"

SvenL — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:38:10 +0000

People always laugh when I mention C# in this regard. It has so many things, like pointer, you can define that memory alignment works like in C, SIMD, AoT compilation, Span. I think you can do pretty much C like programming in C#.

New comment by SvenL in "Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy"

SvenL — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:35:43 +0000

I was referring to this:

>I think that Nolan sells himself (The online worship can hardly all be organic) as an authentic, technical director interested in accurate physical props.

I just wanted to give an example of such accurate physics props, that this is not only due to Oppenheimer.

This was not about the historic accuracy.

New comment by SvenL in "Archaeologists find Egyptian mummy buried with the 'Iliad'"

SvenL — Thu, 21 May 2026 08:26:24 +0000

Well, interstellar has also some nerd stuff in it. If I remember correctly Kip Thorne did physics consulting on the movie and they even use a simulation running on a cluster to visualize the black hole physically correct.

They could have used some arbitrary CGI…but no, they wanted it accurate according to science.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03808

New comment by SvenL in "Introduction to Beaver Triples"

SvenL — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:22:12 +0000

What a weird site, my iPhone 16 is heating up and Safari crashes.

New comment by SvenL in "Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows"

SvenL — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:18:38 +0000

Actually I thought the same for macOS for certain things, like window management was way better on Windows than on macOS (snapping etc.) Luckily after years macOS finally has something decent to organize windows. I know that there were 3rd party apps like rectangles but something simple like organizing windows missing from a desktop OS always felt weird.

New comment by SvenL in "The peril of laziness lost"

SvenL — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:29:19 +0000

I also struggle with this all the time, balance between bringing value/joy and level of craft. Most human written stuff might look really ugly or was written in a weird way but as long as it’s useful it’s ok.

What I don’t like here is the bragging about the LoC. He’s not bragging about the value it could provide. Yes people also write shitty code but they don’t brag about it - most of the time they are even ashamed.

New comment by SvenL in "Am I German or Autistic?"

SvenL — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:42:04 +0000

You are absolutely correct and the context is also right. My comment was a little bit out of frustration (happend several times). I only heard about it from an amazing ccc talk (https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10652-bahnmining_-_punktlichkeit...).

New comment by SvenL in "Am I German or Autistic?"

SvenL — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:51:33 +0000

The Deutsche Bahn rather cancel trains completely instead of them being late - which also says something.

New comment by SvenL in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

SvenL — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:45:20 +0000

Didn’t knew that, but only if they also sold windows pc? Like, if a company would only sold blank PCs without any offering associated to MS they wouldn’t need to pay MS anything.

New comment by SvenL in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

SvenL — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:51:26 +0000

Apple requires Developers to use AppStore with their App alongside threats to withhold their App if they don’t comply.

Just an example… and yes, I know the EU ruling but it’s still fitting.

New comment by SvenL in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

SvenL — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:46:14 +0000

Well “had to use” is a strong phrase here. Linux was already around and you could have used it too with your hardware. I think you can always bend an argument to fit your point.

New comment by SvenL in "Show HN: WinForge A daily OS connects your annual goals to what you do today"

SvenL — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:31:31 +0000

The terms of service link at the bottom does not work.

New comment by SvenL in "TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool"

SvenL — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:30:39 +0000

So we’re going full circle here right? Can’t wait for the first TUI MVC/MVVM/MVP/M-whatever framework to show up.

New comment by SvenL in "Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)"

SvenL — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:23:35 +0000

Yes it’s good, but it’s bad that conservative parties still blocking modernization of the power grid/renewables.

It would be good if we could modernize our grid to support easier exchange of power from north to south and vise versa.

New comment by SvenL in "BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time"

SvenL — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 06:25:57 +0000

I second this! Excel is a front end everybody knows and everybody can run. I always got laughed at when I say the biggest competitor of small apps (things like gym diary, meal planner etc.) is excel. Now that it even support python…

New comment by SvenL in "Why does C have the best file API"

SvenL — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 22:37:50 +0000

I think you don’t need to be unsafe, they have normal API for it.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/io/memory-...

New comment by SvenL in "Why Europe doesn't have a Tesla"

SvenL — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:23:32 +0000

That’s sounds like it should be even better to threaten people’s life to motivate them to be more innovative.

I think the best way to be innovative is to have peace of mind and be able to focus on something without being distracted by fear. Fear as a motivator doesn’t sound right.

New comment by SvenL in "Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway"

SvenL — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:31:46 +0000

They don’t care because Musk is marketing Tesla not as a car company but as a technology company (building robots and self driving rental service). And why does he do that? Maybe because his car sales are down…

New comment by SvenL in "Deutsche Telekom is throttling the internet"

SvenL — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 10:39:05 +0000

Yes, as a German I can agree.

However, I remember the anecdote of how France has two different companies for the trains and trainstations. The first ordered trains which were a little bit to wide for the trainstations, due to a miss communication.

When I read about this, I thought „this could have been Germany too.“