Hacker News: YoshiRulz

New comment by YoshiRulz in "Nixpkgs for the frontend impaired"

YoshiRulz — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 04:20:38 +0000

Another option: https://zero-to-nix.com

New comment by YoshiRulz in "The Last Museum: Semantic search across 5.8M artworks from major museums"

YoshiRulz — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 22:50:12 +0000

Try https://paulina.toolforge.org or https://openartbrowser.org

New comment by YoshiRulz in "NixOS is making me less afraid"

YoshiRulz — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 22:30:17 +0000

https://nixmultiverse.com

New comment by YoshiRulz in "Pirating the Pirates"

YoshiRulz — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:49:04 +0000

Having played the video game, yeah that's how the level went, and it kinda sucked.[1] It's a looping circular river (physics be damned), and I recall having to do many loops before I got 100%, since moving targets are hard to hit with a gamepad.

[1]: https://youtu.be/HLReeDFGA7E?t=975s

New comment by YoshiRulz in "English: A vs. An"

YoshiRulz — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:19:31 +0000

For anyone interested in getting "more 9s" from the heuristics and then building something useful with it, come join us at https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z32314

New comment by YoshiRulz in "English: A vs. An"

YoshiRulz — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:09:46 +0000

a.k.a. "hard attack". There's a nice video on the subject by linguist Geoff Lindsey: https://youtu.be/nCe7Fj8-ZnQ

New comment by YoshiRulz in "It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis"

YoshiRulz — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 03:00:25 +0000

The tools that exist for fuzzing speedruns (TASers call it "botting") are fairly primitive, excluding a few game-specific ones. Because of that, there really aren't that many TASes where a distributed randomised search could make improvements which don't get immediately overshadowed within a day of human attention. Improving botting tools and increasing their adoption would be more effective IMO. (Incidentally, TASVideos.org recently banned one of the people pioneering bot development.)

Meanwhile BOINC is well-established as the platform for distributed computation. If you can figure out how to squeeze its work units into Wasm challenges, I'm sure a lot of researchers would thank you.

New comment by YoshiRulz in "A spectre is haunting Unicode"

YoshiRulz — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:23:14 +0000

I assume they meant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal_Tap_(band) not anything to do with notation.

New comment by YoshiRulz in "How the words we teach English language learners changed"

YoshiRulz — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:47:53 +0000

Another commenter mentioned that enWiktionary[1] has some, and I also found a dewp article[2].

[1]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists/Ge...

[2]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequenzwörterbuch

New comment by YoshiRulz in "Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled"

YoshiRulz — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 22:22:40 +0000

From the article: https://mathlib.org

Also https://1000-plus.github.io and https://us.metamath.org

New comment by YoshiRulz in "G# – A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics"

YoshiRulz — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:41:00 +0000

Other way around, enabling AoT requires you also enable single-file

New comment by YoshiRulz in "G# – A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics"

YoshiRulz — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:36:29 +0000

Generally when people say LINQ they're referring to the IEnumerable/IQueryable APIs in the BCL, not to C#'s little-used query syntax.

New comment by YoshiRulz in "Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works"

YoshiRulz — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:05:41 +0000

This same idea as a Wikidata query: https://w.wiki/SV9k (something something everything is a nail)

New comment by YoshiRulz in "Tiny Emulators"

YoshiRulz — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:50:28 +0000

Unrelated, but thanks for your chips project! We've used it in BizHawk as part of our CPC emulator core.

New comment by YoshiRulz in "StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time"

YoshiRulz — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 08:48:26 +0000

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Games#Contribution_ga...

New comment by YoshiRulz in "A native graphical shell for SSH"

YoshiRulz — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:51:11 +0000

PuTTY is (or was, in the years before WSL) the go-to SSH client for Windows. If you're a Windows user getting onboarded at a job / uni class which uses Linux machines, installing it is the first thing you'd be told. The laptop in question would obviously have a terminal emulator and SSH client pre-installed, but a Windows user wouldn't think to look for them, and they might not even know that SSH exists outside of PuTTY or that it's a separate concept to the terminal.

New comment by YoshiRulz in "Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger blocked from editing Wikipedia"

YoshiRulz — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:42:37 +0000

In that specific case, you could add those data to Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19867977#P2541

New comment by YoshiRulz in "Minecraft: Java Edition 26.2, the first version with Vulkan 1.2"

YoshiRulz — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 02:18:34 +0000

Great, now someone can backport it to one of the good versions. Maybe Mojang's implementation is better than the Nvidium mod. (For those OOTL, Mojang prohibits mods which backport preview/experimental features to stable versions. Also for those OOTL, Minecraft JE's development has changed from stagnation to regression since 2024, though you could argue it goes back to 2021 or earlier.)

New comment by YoshiRulz in "A website that lists websites to submit your website to"

YoshiRulz — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:23:02 +0000

Does that make this a list of lists of lists of lists? https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q957#sitelinks-wikipedia

New comment by YoshiRulz in "I hate compilers"

YoshiRulz — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:19:07 +0000

The original reCAPTCHA which was used to train OCR came out back when Google was at least pretending to not be evil, hence the favourable coverage about old books. Now that the challenges are used to train Waymo cars (citation needed, but obviously they won't be sharing the data), and Google is definitely not tracking everyone with it (according to... Google, the adtech company), there's no positive spin you could possibly put on it.

Were Anubis to add crypto mining, even if all the revenue went to Techaro, you could still say "the enshittification is a shame, but at least they're not Google". Using the compute for BOINC protein folding somehow should be unobjectionable.