<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: alcover</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alcover</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:26:54 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=alcover" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alcover in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fascinating broken-bot glitch, thank you. Reminds me of some sci-fi movies.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 00:13:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48317323</link><dc:creator>alcover</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48317323</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48317323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alcover in "Building a new Flash"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>May the Gods be with him. The nostalgia is very strong. Opening Flash and start a new project was an immense source of joy to me in the 00's.</p>
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<p>Thank you. This reading lowers my anxiety. I believe we'll rationally - and in a hurry - come down to this kind of solution. It makes solid sense.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:43:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46981514</link><dc:creator>alcover</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46981514</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46981514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alcover in "The C3 Programming Language"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> (1) If I read "io.print", is this "the print function in the module io" or "the print method for the variable io"<p>I don't see the issue. Just look up the id ? Moreover, if modules are seen as objects, the meaning is quite the same.<p>> checking is much easier if the namespace is clear from the grammar.<p>Again (this time by the checker) just look up the symbol table ?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2026 23:02:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46482648</link><dc:creator>alcover</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46482648</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46482648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alcover in "Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's it. Plus they would work neatly on old computers/phones.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 19:55:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46368783</link><dc:creator>alcover</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46368783</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46368783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alcover in "Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree. Something componenty like Flash, yes. But it'd be easier to subset what already exists..</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 18:33:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367870</link><dc:creator>alcover</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367870</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alcover in "Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh they would care if one shows them much snappier versions of services they use. They just don't know better.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 18:27:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367810</link><dc:creator>alcover</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367810</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alcover in "Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> that means being compatible with websites that normal people use<p>No, new adhering websites would emerge and word of mouth would do the rest : normal people would see this fast nerd-web and want rid of their bloated day-to-day monster of a web life.<p>One can still hope..</p>
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<p>I wish for this new year we reboot the Web with a super light standard and accompanying ecosystem with<p><pre><code>    - A small and efficient JS subset, HTML, CSS
    - A family of very simple browsers that do just that
    - A new Web that adheres to the above
</code></pre>
That would make my year.</p>
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<p>I am also doing this. Like you i guess I want a nicer C. I produce my own errors though because it's better for the user.</p>
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<p>Naive question: would using such an OS bring some security by obscurity ?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 06:36:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45788258</link><dc:creator>alcover</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45788258</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45788258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alcover in "John Carmack on mutable variables"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You need two keywords. One for assignability and one for writability :<p><pre><code>    const ptr;  // can't reassign, can't write-through (if r/o by default)
    const mut ptr;  // can write</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 19:16:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45784475</link><dc:creator>alcover</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45784475</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45784475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alcover in "John Carmack on mutable variables"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> you don't need both a "const" keyword and a "mutable" keyword<p>What if the lang has pointers? How express read-only?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 13:07:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45771571</link><dc:creator>alcover</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45771571</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45771571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alcover in "Astronomers 'image' a mysterious dark object in the distant Universe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's important because we seem to be the only (visible) thing that can <i>scheme</i>.</p>
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<p>I agree so much. For all we know yet, there's nothing out there. Nothing conscious or even sentient. So our lives and the life on earth are infinitely important.<p>I never understood this `we're but a speck`. Do you know of many other specks with life ?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 22:31:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45585827</link><dc:creator>alcover</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45585827</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45585827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alcover in "The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> tracking of this information down to that level would be pretty pointless<p>Maybe pretty pointfull tracking shadow economy. When Bob sells moonlight stuff his clients will more often than not simply go to the ATM, withdraw the sum and hand it to him. Bob will then buy at shop with big bill. Shop owner will deposit bill at bank..</p>
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<p>> Beware that only tagged unions are considered the same type<p>I don't get it. Tagged union is just a design pattern.</p>
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<p>> as Julia Ecklar sings, it's kind of like construction work with a toothpick for a tool.<p><pre><code>    I was taught assembler
    in my second year of school.
    It's kinda like construction work —
    with a toothpick for a tool.
    So when I made my senior year,
    I threw my code away,
    And learned the way to program
    that I still prefer today.
    
    Now, some folks on the Internet
    put their faith in C++.
    They swear that it's so powerful,
    it's what God used for us.
    And maybe it lets mortals dredge
    their objects from the C.
    But I think that explains
    why only God can make a tree.
    
    For God wrote in Lisp code
    When he filled the leaves with green.
    The fractal flowers and recursive roots:
    The most lovely hack I've seen.
    And when I ponder snowflakes,
    never finding two the same,
    I know God likes a language
    with its own four-letter name.
    
    Now, I've used a SUN under Unix,
    so I've seen what C can hold.
    I've surfed for Perls, found what Fortran's for,
    Got that Java stuff down cold.
    Though the chance that I'd write COBOL code
    is a SNOBOL's chance in Hell.
    And I basically hate hieroglyphs,
    so I won't use APL.
    
    Now, God must know all these languages,
    and a few I haven't named.
    But the Lord made sure, when each sparrow falls,
    that its flesh will be reclaimed.
    And the Lord could not count grains of sand
    with a 32-bit word.
    Who knows where we would go to
    if Lisp weren't what he preferred?
    
    And God wrote in Lisp code
    Every creature great and small.
    Don't search the disk drive for man.c,
    When the listing's on the wall.
    And when I watch the lightning burn
    Unbelievers to a crisp,
    I know God had six days to work,
    So he wrote it all in Lisp.
    
    Yes, God had a deadline.
    So he wrote it all in Lisp.</code></pre></p>
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<p>> Leta is also useless if your browser blocks all cookies, tracking pixels and other tracking technologies.<p>Err.. it would still be useful to mask your IP ?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2025 22:43:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44121292</link><dc:creator>alcover</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44121292</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44121292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alcover in "Mullvad Leta"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What if browsers supported a property like <i><script hash=64192876></i> ?
They would store the hash on first connection then verify on subsequent ones.<p>I know this should be refined and hardened but you get the idea.</p>
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