Hacker News: glownagger

New comment by glownagger in ""Rising cost of memory," Microsoft explains why Windows 11 will use less RAM"

glownagger — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:11:18 +0000

Most of the old apps still run on newer OSes. E.g. mspaint from WinXP.

New comment by glownagger in "Ephemeral Testing"

glownagger — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:10:30 +0000

This is an application of the rule of three: you need at least three clients to write a good library, protocol, or other underlying abstraction. Except it proposes using a large language model to write the three clients and then throwing them away.

New comment by glownagger in "The complement of true is true, except when it's false"

glownagger — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:02:19 +0000

I thought attributes were reserved for compiler-specific semantics like calling conventions. Here they're just being used as stropping for a language feature with syntactic significance!

New comment by glownagger in "ASOS app users receive push notifications apparently sent by hackers"

glownagger — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:30 +0000

Five popups. Five. To read this article that doesn't even tell me what ASOS is.