Hacker News: aninteger

New comment by aninteger in "Gemma 4 on iPhone"

aninteger — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:29:47 +0000

Having Scarlett Johansson's voice might not be so bad or even something less robotic.

New comment by aninteger in "I hate: Programming Wayland applications"

aninteger — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:45:19 +0000

XCB did not largely replace Xlib. In fact, some (all?) implementations of Xlib are built on top of XCB.

New comment by aninteger in "DECwindows Motif"

aninteger — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 06:42:00 +0000

Time to port this to Wayland using Claude code, right?

New comment by aninteger in "Let's write a toy UI library"

aninteger — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:25:12 +0000

You could submit your PR to Nakst's Luigi toolkit: https://github.com/nakst/luigi

You don't have to make a complete alternative. You can add calls to ATK (accessibility toolkit) on Linux/Unix platforms. I'm not sure what needs to be done on Win32 platforms though.

New comment by aninteger in "The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]"

aninteger — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 03:56:38 +0000

It doesn't but it definitely "implements" a single inheritance tree (with up casting/down casting) which I believe Xt toolkits (like Motif) also did.

New comment by aninteger in "The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]"

aninteger — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 03:20:41 +0000

The best example I can think of is the Win32 controls UI (user32/Create window/RegisterClass) in C. You likely can't read the source code for this but you can see how Wine did it or Wine alternatives (like NetBSD's PEACE runtime, now abandoned).

Actually the only toolkit that I know that sort of copied this style is Nakst's Luigi toolkit (also in C).

Neither really used inheritance and use composition with "message passing" sent to different controls.

New comment by aninteger in "Vibe Coding in the 90s"

aninteger — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 00:11:28 +0000

Vibe coding in the 90s was probably like learning C and pointers for the first time and then deciphering strange errors when you couldn't figure out how scanf worked, so you added asterisks and ampersands to the code until it compiled.

New comment by aninteger in "Contracts for C"

aninteger — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 12:54:11 +0000

There seems to be at least 2 lcc forks (lcc-win32/win64, and pelles-c) that have their own small communities. Although maybe they are dead.

New comment by aninteger in "WebAssembly: Yes, but for What?"

aninteger — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 21:58:16 +0000

I guess https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan might just be the WebAssembly for the command line then.

New comment by aninteger in "Gecode is an open source C++ toolkit for developing constraint-based systems"

aninteger — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 15:01:03 +0000

For some reason I pictured this software as a system for developing memory or CPU constrained software. Like granting only 1 mb of memory and maybe having functions executed in a certain number of "clock ticks"

New comment by aninteger in "Hacktical C: practical hacker's guide to the C programming language"

aninteger — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 15:47:20 +0000

> Less controversially, when you write C, you write for a virtual machine described by the C spec, not your actual hardware.

Isn't this true for most higher level languages as well? C++ for instance builds on top of C and many languages call into and out of C based libraries. Go might be slightly different as it is interacting with slightly less C code (especially if you avoid CGO).

New comment by aninteger in "Why Is This Site Built with C"

aninteger — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 00:58:15 +0000

The article also mentioned the size of the dependency (over 400 mb)

New comment by aninteger in "Best Buy and Target CEOs say prices are about to go up because of tariffs"

aninteger — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 02:40:59 +0000

I guess it's time to print out those "I did this!" stickers of Trump and put them next to the price tags.

New comment by aninteger in "Decompilation of Minecraft: Legacy Console Edition"

aninteger — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 02:25:53 +0000

> If you are on Ubuntu 18.04...

Probably best to use a slightly newer Ubuntu.

New comment by aninteger in "Linux as co-operative Windows process (2017)"

aninteger — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 16:12:55 +0000

I wonder if something like this might make a comeback for workers that are blocked from using wsl/hyperv on their corporate laptops. For me I've been using msys2 as an "alternative" since I'm unable to use wsl. It's not the same but it's all I got.

New comment by aninteger in "The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster"

aninteger — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 03:18:41 +0000

Pretty impressive, only $20 grand?

New comment by aninteger in "Liberux: Linux phone"

aninteger — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 13:37:57 +0000

The point is that since the price isn't listed, it's likely high or very high.

New comment by aninteger in "Curl-Impersonate"

aninteger — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 14:32:00 +0000

I think we should list the sites where this fingerprinting is done. I have a suspicion that Microsoft does it for conditional access policies but I am not sure of other services.

New comment by aninteger in "Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE)"

aninteger — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 03:34:41 +0000

> It's like the FAQ is trying to hint that TDE is the "real" KDE, a continuation of the same project initiated by Matthias Ettrich (who, afaict, has no connection to TDE), and that the KDE Foundation's project is an impostor.

Certainly that's one interpretation. The other interpretation is exactly what is said and no more. Where did this "imposter" accusation come from?

New comment by aninteger in "Goodbye, Rust. I wish you success but I'm back to C++ (sorry, it is a rant)"

aninteger — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 23:42:08 +0000

At first I thought you were serious, but I can appreciate a good attitude with sarcasm.