Hacker News: emilbratthttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=emilbrattHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:14:12 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by emilbratt in "Show HN: Minimalist library to generate SVG views of scientific data"]]>Looks neat! As someone who also did a barplot library with SVG output, I can tell you that this sort of program is really fun to write.

https://crates.io/crates/eb_bars

]]>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:53:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47540023emilbratthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47540023https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47540023<![CDATA[New comment by emilbratt in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"]]>In 2012, that would be true! :)

]]>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:04:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47371190emilbratthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47371190https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47371190<![CDATA[New comment by emilbratt in "Bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux Devices"]]>But as far as i know, there has never been working HW accelerated video in their build of Chromium. But yeah, I guess you have point.

]]>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:12:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47357982emilbratthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47357982https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47357982<![CDATA[New comment by emilbratt in "Bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux Devices"]]>I have been waiting... so many years for this. Like, I figured it would never come. So happy to be wrong. Wonder if it will work well on Raspberry Pi and also if it will come with Hardware Video Acceleration out of the box.

]]>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:02:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47357051emilbratthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47357051https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47357051<![CDATA[New comment by emilbratt in "Good software knows when to stop"]]>App is slow. It plays music video content as default. Gui has many non interesting parts. I just want a list of albums and songs. I guess I just want it to be "boring but functional. :)

]]>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:10:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47265077emilbratthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47265077https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47265077<![CDATA[New comment by emilbratt in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"]]>Still rocking M1 air, still a great machine and Im still happy. :-)

]]>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:32:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47239346emilbratthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47239346https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47239346<![CDATA[New comment by emilbratt in "Alex Honnold completes Taipei 101 skyscraper climb without ropes or safety net"]]>About to watch the film now. I know there are controversial aspects to this, but in my opinion this is something I myself need to allow happen. Alex know it himself, that there is a risk of ending it, but most people will not understand the feelings he get before, during and after a climb. So who am I to judge from my couch in my livingroom whether he should be allowed to pursue his lifestyle or not. He is not actively hurting anyone.

]]>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 07:40:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46751695emilbratthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46751695https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46751695<![CDATA[New comment by emilbratt in "Lights and Shadows (2020)"]]>I find it refreshing that a webpage can give such joy, to the point of having people talk about it in the same way you talk about books and movies. You know, being able to enjoy it for the first time and so and so.

]]>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:40:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46540828emilbratthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46540828https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46540828<![CDATA[New comment by emilbratt in "I switched from VSCode to Zed"]]>Woah, slow down there. One of your requirements to a code editor is video preview? I didnt even know this existed. Gonna spin up VSCode at home and find out.

]]>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:53:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501248emilbratthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501248https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501248<![CDATA[New comment by emilbratt in "CSS Grid Lanes"]]>I dont know what would be the best way, but I personally want each image to be represented correctly in relation to all other image. This means that the way images are laid out will looked jagged. However, as a consequence of that, it is easy to find back to a specific image. Its like when you are coding, you look at the "shape" of the code when scrolling to find that specific function definition etc..

Here is an example of the layout of a photostream that I was satisfied with.

https://frifoto.emilbratt.no/?view_mode=photo-stream&tag=All...

]]>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 10:35:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46335107emilbratthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46335107https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46335107<![CDATA[New comment by emilbratt in "CSS Grid Lanes"]]>I always thought that the masonry layout looked good but made it harder to get a good overview of the images.

]]>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:33:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46332629emilbratthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46332629https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46332629<![CDATA[New comment by emilbratt in "You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser"]]>Pushing the nostalgic effect aside, I agree. The gameplay is the important part and is why I can still play snes games to this day.

]]>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 20:19:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46330409emilbratthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46330409https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46330409<![CDATA[New comment by emilbratt in "30 years of <br> tags"]]>Im only half way through, but just wanted to share that I love this kind of write up

]]>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 23:26:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46296156emilbratthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46296156https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46296156<![CDATA[New comment by emilbratt in "Common Rust Lifetime Misconceptions"]]>Yeah, even the official Rust book points it out and if my memory serves me right (not punintended) also gives an example in the form of creating a memory leak (not to be confused with memory unsafe).

]]>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:22:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46273036emilbratthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46273036https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46273036<![CDATA[New comment by emilbratt in "Copenhagenize Index 2025: The Global Ranking of Bicycle-Friendly Cities"]]>In Trondheim, Norway we have the famous bycicle lift. :)

https://youtu.be/zipZ5kwhFfs?si=2kEsb-7wEpcS2Vkn

]]>Sat, 29 Nov 2025 16:18:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46088669emilbratthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46088669https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46088669<![CDATA[New comment by emilbratt in "XBMC 4.0 for the Original Xbox"]]>I remember modding my Xbox and putting XBMC on it. One of my fondest memories is actually playing games directly off the hard-drive. One of the great "side-effects" of that was basically cutting loading times almost in half.

I especially remember the loading animation in the game Crash Bandicoot - Wrath of Cortex. Crash Bandicoot himself would keep falling during the loading screen. (note: PS2 version had another looking version). The game loading screen for Xbox was designed so that the camera movement nicely panned throughout it during the time the loading took, but due to the loading time being shorter the "animation" was cut short.

..just a fun little thing that stuck with me. :)

EDIT: Oh! I found videos on youtube demonstrating the "difference".

Here is the original experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1327&v=jLf9EZWLins

Here is the experience when cut short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1157&v=Vk8AuLhnu58

]]>Sat, 22 Nov 2025 09:44:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46013490emilbratthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46013490https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46013490<![CDATA[New comment by emilbratt in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"]]>Yeah that was it for me, the rotation really threw me off.

]]>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 07:08:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45873246emilbratthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45873246https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45873246<![CDATA[New comment by emilbratt in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"]]>I love it. I struggle more than I want to admit, but super fun nonetheless.

]]>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 02:24:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45871644emilbratthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45871644https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45871644<![CDATA[New comment by emilbratt in "Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python (2023)"]]>That is not a compiler. That is called a wrapper script. But funny none the less.

]]>Wed, 03 Sep 2025 20:01:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45119830emilbratthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45119830https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45119830<![CDATA[New comment by emilbratt in "This Month in Ladybird"]]>I love Rust, but I do not like how people are rust evangelists and look down on everything else. That is not how we in the Rust community look at things.

Now, with that out of the way. Andreas has been very clear about the reasons why C++ is the chosen language. He has years of experience with it along with writing browsers.

Im paraphrasing here, but he has said that the web evolved around the era of OOP and C++ is the OOP language of that era. Including statements on how C++ fits nicely with the OOP styles of web specs.

]]>Sat, 02 Aug 2025 11:36:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44766770emilbratthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44766770https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44766770