Hacker News: asalahli

New comment by asalahli in "Queryable Executables"

asalahli — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:11:07 +0000

As another comment points out down in the thread, that's already a problem today with programs storing their config and data in a fixed location.

On the other hand, sqlite supports concurrency and ACID transactions, so it might actually be better at handling concurrent access to shared state

New comment by asalahli in "Every Fucking Website (2020)"

asalahli — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:47:34 +0000

And tabs! Browsers have tabs. None of the "apps" I use seem to comprehend that I might want to look at or do more than one thing at a time with them

New comment by asalahli in "What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?"

asalahli — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:55:32 +0000

https://xkcd.com/2265/

New comment by asalahli in "Choose Boring Technology (2015)"

asalahli — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:18:16 +0000

This was a great read, thanks! I've naively tried to stop too many beans-and-noses situations in the past.

New comment by asalahli in "Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available"

asalahli — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:22:43 +0000

Can't you do the same in C? You don't really need any headers, you can just declare function prototypes yourself

New comment by asalahli in "Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available"

asalahli — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:20:07 +0000

Please tell me this is a joke, a la brainfuck

New comment by asalahli in "Making holograms with a pen plotter"

asalahli — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:50:24 +0000

Steve Mould has a great video on youtube explaining how they work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv-38lwV6vc

New comment by asalahli in "Show HN: I've built a words game based on binary search"

asalahli — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:22:05 +0000

I'm genuinely curious, what's the reason for filtering out words based on offensive-ness?

I'd imagine it'd be easier to screen the chosen word every day for your criteria and, beyond that, let people type whatever they want as long as what they type is in the dictionary

New comment by asalahli in "Netstrings (1997)"

asalahli — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:36:20 +0000

Not sure if it counts as notable, but SCGI uses it too: https://python.ca/scgi/protocol.txt

New comment by asalahli in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

asalahli — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:54:43 +0000

I recognize all the words but I have no idea what this means

New comment by asalahli in "Pystd, similar-ish functionality with a fraction of the compile time"

asalahli — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 07:11:22 +0000

This is giving the same vibe as Windows Subsystem for Linux[0] - it kinda makes sense once somebody explains it, but is confusing as hell when you first see it

0. https://www.reddit.com/r/bashonubuntuonwindows/comments/t952...

New comment by asalahli in "Jerry's Map"

asalahli — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:45:54 +0000

I should check that out. Thank you

New comment by asalahli in "Jerry's Map"

asalahli — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:21:04 +0000

Not the person you replied to, but like them, I too liked to draw imaginary maps when I was a kid, mainly of medieval towns. I also tend to like the world-building aspects of strategy games, arguably more than the actual strategy parts.

Cities: Skylines have been in my wishlist since shortly after it came out but I never got around to playing it until about a month ago, and... didn't like it at all. It felt too "micro-manage-y" (for the lack of a better word) while also having the pressure of the ticking time.

Needless to say, I was very disappointed after looking forward to it for ~10 years.

New comment by asalahli in "Boot Naked Linux"

asalahli — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:48:31 +0000

> Somewhere, a LLM is trained on this code as we speak :)

Had a similar thought when I saw

  dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M count=1

New comment by asalahli in "Faking keyword arguments to functions in C++"

asalahli — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:22:27 +0000

There was a similar CppCon talk[0] in 2018. Highly recommended (by me, fwiw), as is any other talk by Richard Powell

0. https://youtu.be/Grveezn0zhU

New comment by asalahli in "Time to talk about my writerdeck"

asalahli — Wed, 27 May 2026 07:51:10 +0000

I wonder if she knew about the woman at the post office!

New comment by asalahli in "Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning"

asalahli — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:19:19 +0000

Wrong thread?

New comment by asalahli in "Stop MitM on the first SSH connection, on any VPS or cloud provider"

asalahli — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:50:54 +0000

It baffles me why VPS providers don't display the fingerprints on their dashboards or expose them through the API.

New comment by asalahli in "Why most product tours get skipped"

asalahli — Wed, 06 May 2026 00:55:44 +0000

Even then, a new user account doesn't necessarily mean a new user.

Every time I start on a new job, I have to click through Slack's, Github's and many other dev tools' stupid guided tours for the hundredth time

New comment by asalahli in "Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m"

asalahli — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:37:37 +0000

Where are you getting a ~$10/month VPS with 12GB RAM from?