Hacker News: citbl

New comment by citbl in "Layoffs at Block"

citbl — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:07:32 +0000

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New comment by citbl in "Langjam-Gamejam Devlog: Making a language, compiler, VM and 5 games in 52 hours"

citbl — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 08:05:44 +0000

I've been amazed by this jam. It's like bigger and better every year (in terms of jams going deeper and deeper).

I imagine we're 5 years away of "Make your own OS, language, compiler, VM and game in 12 minutes, 36 seconds. Extra points if you gave yourself a stroke."

New comment by citbl in "Always bet on text (2014)"

citbl — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:35:23 +0000

The last 2 paragraphs were quite poetic.

PS: 2014

New comment by citbl in "Show HN: Gaming Couch – a local multiplayer party game platform for 8 players"

citbl — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 10:22:56 +0000

Impressive work. I shipped couch multiplayer games on PS4 in the past and it has passed its heyday (it didn't do too well, financially).

So seeing it done on the web actually makes a lot of sense.

New comment by citbl in "Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together"

citbl — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 01:15:45 +0000

There are still plenty of things that VSCode does and Zed doesn't. E.g. Dart debugging.

Also there is the VC money problem with Zed, at some point, that money will want returns on every dollar spent.

New comment by citbl in "I'm just having fun"

citbl — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 06:21:15 +0000

It wouldn't hurt if they could capitalise their sentences every now and then.

New comment by citbl in "NTSB Preliminary Report – UPS Boeing MD-11F Crash [pdf]"

citbl — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 09:13:10 +0000

All cargo companies run a wide fleet of many different plane types, particularly to avoid this very problem of being grounded by the FAA. But yes, these were still widely used in cargo transports. Although newer 2 engine planes can haul the same kg and use a lot less fuel.

New comment by citbl in "OpenBSD 7.8"

citbl — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 04:17:33 +0000

hmmmmm youth.

I remember running windows95 overnight so that it could be a "server".

The next morning, moving the mouse was making the harddrive go nuts, it was paging just by moving the cursor!

Memory leak galore.

This makes me want to run linux as my daily driver! [1]

[1] https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95/blob/master/Screensho...

New comment by citbl in "OpenBSD 7.8"

citbl — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 04:14:28 +0000

Incidentally it was also on a thinkpad that I had installed it.

Honestly I've never owned any other laptops than thinkpads and macbooks. Every other laptop I've ever touched in a computer shop left me with "eww".

New comment by citbl in "OpenBSD 7.8"

citbl — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 04:02:56 +0000

I'm surprised seeing improvements in Suspend/Hibernate support.

I've used OpenBSD on laptops before and it was _fine_. I thought they primarily target servers. This feels like laptop specific improvements. Perhaps to the benefits only to those developing OpenBSD.

New comment by citbl in "Show HN: I'm making a detective game built on Wikipedia"

citbl — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 05:23:59 +0000

This is a very clever idea. I've toyed with the idea of making a multiple site mystery challenge in the past, a bit like a geo game with real world tagging and drop boxes.

Never got around to it, but this is clever.

New comment by citbl in "The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation"

citbl — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 02:17:04 +0000

Ok, thank you for this.

New comment by citbl in "The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation"

citbl — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 22:15:09 +0000

That is not what deflation is. Deflation is prices are going up and wages are stagnant or falling.

New comment by citbl in "Could the XZ backdoor been detected with better Git/Deb packaging practices?"

citbl — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 02:47:41 +0000

The next one probably won't be caught by running noticeably slower than usual.

It was a pure fluke that it got discovered _this early_.

New comment by citbl in "Moonlander.BAS"

citbl — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 01:17:11 +0000

I used to load up tapes for 15' on my spectrum and then poke around trying to understand what was under the hood.

All I had was a thick book in a language I didn't speak yet.

No internet, no friends to bounce it with. Infinite time.

Good times.

New comment by citbl in "IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)"

citbl — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 13:40:49 +0000

What a wonderful write up and I feel the same.

I've been working on my free time on a tui code editor in the same vein eventually with make and lldb built in.

New comment by citbl in "Show HN: OnlyJPG – Client-Side PNG/HEIC/AVIF/PDF/etc to JPG"

citbl — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 13:48:07 +0000

Nice, bookmarked.

But if you're serious about reducing carbon waste, don't make visitors download 7.5MB to load the webpage.

New comment by citbl in "Love C, hate C: Web framework memory problems"

citbl — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 05:53:47 +0000

Thanks I didn't know about this. I just read some article and took it for granted.

New comment by citbl in "Codex Is Live in Zed"

citbl — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:56:09 +0000

and for me it's the dart debugging!

we all want something.

New comment by citbl in "Qbecc – QBE based C compiler"

citbl — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:15:49 +0000

Sorry late response/question.

Do you have a good source of documentation regarding QBE?

I tried to use it in the past and it was a PITA as I was left basically helpless. I don't do the discord thing.