Hacker News: fallat

New comment by fallat in "Amiga Screens: A Primer"

fallat — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:19:07 +0000

In a sense pixels arent even real today right? It's an abstraction

New comment by fallat in "This Code Is CRAP (2011)"

fallat — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:27:30 +0000

> CRAP1(m) = comp(m)^2 * (1 – cov(m)/100)^3 + comp(m)

and

> Here’s why we think that CRAP1 is a good anti-pattern to detect. Writing automated tests (e.g., using JUnit) for complex and convoluted code is particularly challenging, so crappy code usually comes with few, if any, automated tests.

This is so wrong.

The formula uses code coverage as a fundamental metric, when in reality, a lot of people write code "correct from construction", so coverage is not even applicable. Many times too, people only care the use cases they care about work perfectly.

There are also many other reasons code is not tested, not because it's complex, but because it's simple.

New comment by fallat in "Benchmark: CadQuery vs. OpenSCAD for agentic CAD work"

fallat — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 21:34:27 +0000

such a garbage post for various reasons, but the ending is the kicker

after making SEVERAL observations that cadquery is pretty much better overall, they say "ehhh we're going to stay with openscad".

New comment by fallat in "ZX Spectrum: Experimenting with 1-Bit Sound"

fallat — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:34:11 +0000

People may enjoy this too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6f8PURcPEE

End result of it playing 1-bit music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjTihhFG03o

New comment by fallat in "M-DISC – DVD/Blu-ray compatible discs that may last up to 1000 years"

fallat — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 14:56:39 +0000

Major market gap for sure.

New comment by fallat in "The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC"

fallat — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:26:17 +0000

Someone will have to explain the value proposition to me...

We have git.

jujutsu works with git.

git can do everything jujutsu can do (otherwise, jujutsu couldn't work with git).

Thus, jujutsu is a UX / new steering wheel.

ERSC is trying to be a GitHub competitor with what surplus value?

Don't get me wrong, GitHub has a slew of its own problems, but I have not seen any commentary on how ERSC addresses any of the downfalls GitHub has too. We're jumping from one frying pan into another, currently-cooler one?

What about SourceHut? Codeberg? They could offer the same steering wheels.

Edit: Thank you to everyone who replied. The enterprise/teams infrastructure angle makes sense.

New comment by fallat in "Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel"

fallat — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 11:45:15 +0000

Brutal

I hope when people read this though they understand this is a communication style; they're clearly trying to strongly discourage people from thinking they are suddenly protected. Effective? Maybe at one time, where "macho dev energy" was a thing. Today, not so much. You can tell they mean well because the intro sentence is actually pretty cheeky!

New comment by fallat in "New MCP Roadmap"

fallat — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 15:35:49 +0000

This is the strongest argument I've seen against CLI for LLMs. Thank you.

Zoo CAD on a Nintendo 3DS

fallat — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:37:08 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/zoodotdev/status/2088362877640122543

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49345461

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Lisp moving Forth moving Lisp

fallat — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:37:33 +0000

Article URL: https://letoverlambda.com/textmode.cl/guest/chap8.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49060363

Points: 125

# Comments: 35

New comment by fallat in "The Zilog Z80 has turned 50"

fallat — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:32:41 +0000

Z80 assembler in _machine code_ could be really fun.

New comment by fallat in "Programmers need to start meditating"

fallat — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:30:25 +0000

You don't already? I thought that's what every programmer has been doing.

New comment by fallat in "Single Dose of Frog-Derived Gut Bacterium Eradicates 100% of Tumors in Mice"

fallat — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:47:47 +0000

Spoken like a true redditor

New comment by fallat in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"

fallat — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:01:09 +0000

Ah, so we're not talking creating full on brains after-all?

New comment by fallat in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"

fallat — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 04:18:14 +0000

Do that at scale

New comment by fallat in "Pre-2022 Books"

fallat — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:42:09 +0000

There has always been shit books - let that sink in.

There will be _more_ shit books now, but that's the only difference.

There will be probably a constant rate of "good" books.

New comment by fallat in "Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures"

fallat — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:24:11 +0000

Did you even read what SKG was advocating for in detail? Because it answers your question.

New comment by fallat in "An Attempt at Explaining Why You Want to Use Forth"

fallat — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:39:53 +0000

Updated with feedback from last year & now annotated with HTML for nicer typesetting.

An Attempt at Explaining Why You Want to Use Forth

fallat — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:39:53 +0000

Article URL: https://im-just-lee.ing/forth-why-cb234c03.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527121

Points: 7

# Comments: 3

New comment by fallat in "The best relationships are all-encompassing."

fallat — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:55:04 +0000

/remindme 1 year