Hacker News: hougaard

New comment by hougaard in "WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 depending on the workload"

hougaard — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 14:13:32 +0000

Interesting, hacker News has truly become the new slashdot :)

New comment by hougaard in "Vancouver strip club's Instagram taken down over sign featuring lake joke"

hougaard — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 05:16:21 +0000

Drove past the club yesterday, the sign is still up with the lake joke.

New comment by hougaard in "Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows"

hougaard — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 02:57:53 +0000

Tried it (the full version, using 120 GB RAM), wasn't impressed, gave it some defective code, and asked it to fix all errors. It kept looping around and around and digging itself deeper and deeper into a rabbit hole; eventually, it got into a "reasoning" discussion about whether a custom compiler was used that supported the wrong syntax...

New comment by hougaard in "Prediction: Microsoft will eventually ship a Windows-themed Linux distro"

hougaard — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 01:34:41 +0000

Because the "UX" of Windows sucks, Microsoft will switch the "Kernel" to Linux?

I don't get the argument. There are parts of Windows I don't like, so I have chosen a 3rd-party (often open-source) replacement. The exact same process as I do on Linux. I don't see why I have to switch to Linux to have that freedom.

(and to be honest, I don't care where the taskbar is)

New comment by hougaard in "I put sheet music into smart glasses [video]"

hougaard — Sat, 03 May 2025 05:26:24 +0000

Fun, did that 8 years ago with the original Hololens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6cBX4t2kX0

New comment by hougaard in "Posting a 5x5 crossword every day"

hougaard — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 06:58:58 +0000

Sounds like an llm task.

New comment by hougaard in "Blitz: A lightweight, modular, extensible web renderer"

hougaard — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 07:42:21 +0000

How about rendering with print specific CSS to images/pdf ?

New comment by hougaard in "1989 Networking: NetWare 386"

hougaard — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 14:19:51 +0000

What warez dump?

New comment by hougaard in "Show HN: A user-friendly UI for viewing and editing Markdown files"

hougaard — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 16:55:20 +0000

Came here to say the same, kinda misleading :)

New comment by hougaard in "DevToys – A Swiss army knife for developers"

hougaard — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 15:40:09 +0000

Been using it for a while, like it :)

New comment by hougaard in "Commodore 64 VIC-II 6567/6569 Replacement Project"

hougaard — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 03:49:49 +0000

Just reviewed by Adrian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bak-MePFsJ0

New comment by hougaard in "A $200 mini-laptop with a Intel 8088 chip and 640KB"

hougaard — Fri, 19 May 2023 04:42:11 +0000

Pointless with a 16:9 ratio display :(

New comment by hougaard in "International Pascal Congress"

hougaard — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 04:08:40 +0000

I program in Pascal every day, and I still love it.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central has a built-in development environment with a language called AL. AL is a variant of Pascal.

A bit of background, Pascal was very popular in Denmark in the 80'ties and 90'ties (Turbo Pascal was created by a Dane, Anders Hejlsberg, later Delphi, c# and TypeScript fame). Business Central was a Danish piece of software created for IBM before Microsoft acquired it, so choosing Pascal as the base language was a very natural thing.

I got my first job because IBM needed Pascal developers for this new accounting system they got and I already knew Turbo Pascal.

Today the AL compiler is built on Roslyn (same as the c# compiler) and have a fully capable language server supporting all the fancy intellisence stuff in VS Code, also supported by GitHub CoPilot.

p.s. I even created my own AL compiler, written in AL https://www.hougaard.com/toolbox

New comment by hougaard in "Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples"

hougaard — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 22:27:11 +0000

Lo and Hi tom samples seem to be switched?

New comment by hougaard in "Modula-2 GCC compiler front-end patches sent out for review"

hougaard — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 02:49:02 +0000

I wrote a fair amount of Modula-2 back in the mid 90'ties. Used the TopSpeed Modula-2 compiler and produced both DOS and OS/2 executables from the same source code.

How about learning a domain specific language?

hougaard — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 13:29:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4i3yhpnyys

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32637963

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New comment by hougaard in "Why do arrays start at 0?"

hougaard — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 17:27:44 +0000

... but if you have something that's 150cm, that's not 151cm, that's 150cm?

New comment by hougaard in "Why do arrays start at 0?"

hougaard — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 17:21:50 +0000

That depends on your language and culture, "floor" is not easily translated, some languages have a word describing all the layers added to the base layer, so "1. sal" (Danish as an example) actually means "the first layer added on top of the base house".

Again, this is more a spoken language/culture thing, and this goes back to what premises we use to communicate with the machines, ours or the machines...

New comment by hougaard in "Why do arrays start at 0?"

hougaard — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 17:08:25 +0000

Yeah age is confusing even for non-computer-folks :)

If you have 4 classes in school today, you would never talk about the 1st class as number 0, the last one is the 4th, not the 3rd.

New comment by hougaard in "Why do arrays start at 0?"

hougaard — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 17:02:46 +0000

An assembler spillover into C.