Hacker News: carlos256

New comment by carlos256 in "Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C"

carlos256 — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:10:13 +0000

Jesus, I hate those macro hacks so much. Most of the time you only need a single container, so writing an ad-hoc implementation is cleaner than that.

New comment by carlos256 in "Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available"

carlos256 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:08:51 +0000

No Linux version.

New comment by carlos256 in "Gzip decompression in 250 lines of Rust"

carlos256 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:10:33 +0000

Interesting, the decompressor in Jdeflate is around 4k LoC. https://github.com/Jpn666/jdeflate

New comment by carlos256 in "Gzip decompression in 250 lines of Rust"

carlos256 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:07:53 +0000

>the only flag we care about is FNAME The specification does not define an encoding for the file name. Different file systems may impose restrictions on certain names, so FNAME should not be used.

New comment by carlos256 in "Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc"

carlos256 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:58:24 +0000

If you need to optimize the allocator you are doing it wrong.

New comment by carlos256 in "On the Design of Programming Languages (1974) [pdf]"

carlos256 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:19:41 +0000

He has some good points. This one is from a different paper (Good Ideas, Through the Looking Glass):

Designers had ignored both the issue of efficiency and that a language serves the human reader, not just the automatic parser. If a language poses difficulties to parsers, it surely also poses difficulties for the human reader. Many languages would be clearer and cleaner had their designers been forced to use a simple parsing method.

New comment by carlos256 in "Delphi is 31 years old – innovation timeline"

carlos256 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:09:46 +0000

31 years old and it can't run on GNU/Linux. What a waste. The future of Delphi is darker than ever.

Post POSIX Manifest

carlos256 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:41:40 +0000

Article URL: https://rentry.co/g7aofwhc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46709681

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by carlos256 in "Ideas are cheap, execution is cheaper"

carlos256 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:23:38 +0000

What a waste of words. If you idea is easily replicable probably it was not a good idea after all. LLMs don't change the equation.

New comment by carlos256 in "Microsoft will finally kill obsolete cipher that has wreaked decades of havoc"

carlos256 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:45:26 +0000

Nope. AES is not trivial to implement securely, so most implementations simply rely on hardware support. ChaCha20 and XChaCha20 are more secure ciphers.

New comment by carlos256 in "Giving C a superpower: custom header file (safe_c.h)"

carlos256 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:48:33 +0000

Please don't do It.

Post-POSIX Manifest

carlos256 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 20:19:00 +0000

Article URL: https://rentry.co/g7aofwhc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45610177

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by carlos256 in "UTF-8 is a brilliant design"

carlos256 — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 20:31:11 +0000

* unary encoding coding.

New comment by carlos256 in "UTF-8 is a brilliant design"

carlos256 — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 20:23:15 +0000

No, it's not. It's just a form of Elias-Gamma coding.