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New comment by hyperbrainer in "A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned"

hyperbrainer — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:40:12 +0000

https://archive.is/20260524231039/https://www.wired.com/stor...

New comment by hyperbrainer in "“This is not the computer for you”"

hyperbrainer — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:56:15 +0000

AlexandertheOk's documentary on Elite and the BBC Micro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC4YLMLar5I

New comment by hyperbrainer in "Typst Examples Book"

hyperbrainer — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:56:36 +0000

Context for those unaware: https://xkcd.com/1053/

New comment by hyperbrainer in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)"

hyperbrainer — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:10:47 +0000

Customer Data Platform

New comment by hyperbrainer in "Parametric CAD in Rust"

hyperbrainer — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 08:12:51 +0000

I download and use parts dimensioned in metric to ISO standards all the time...

New comment by hyperbrainer in "Parametric CAD in Rust"

hyperbrainer — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 07:15:24 +0000

> "highly paramteric like fastners, gears, 3D printed boxes"

1. These parts should probably be on McMaster. If you are not using them straight from there, you better have a _great_ reason as to why not when it comes up in the design review.

2. Solidworks has Smart Fasteners, Inventor has Spur Gear Component Generator, Sketch->Extrude->Shell takes 30 seconds, so not sure why 3D printed boxes would be faster or better with this for most stuff. Also, this stuff is easily solved by things like the component library and configurations.

New comment by hyperbrainer in "This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser"

hyperbrainer — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:22:31 +0000

I have to start reading from the top instead of skimming.

New comment by hyperbrainer in "This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser"

hyperbrainer — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 03:04:13 +0000

Reminds me of the Cosmopolitan project: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan

3B1B: Recruiting, both for myself and for other companies (potentially yours)

hyperbrainer — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 01:34:52 +0000

Article URL: https://3blue1brown.substack.com/p/recruiting-both-for-myself-and-for

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46155830

Points: 4

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New comment by hyperbrainer in "Die shots of as many CPUs and other interesting chips as possible"

hyperbrainer — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:36:57 +0000

I do not know enough to analyse these chips in any meaninful way, but is there a trend or cool feature to be seen across?

New comment by hyperbrainer in "How to tame a user interface using a spreadsheet"

hyperbrainer — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 04:08:28 +0000

There is also all the helpful work that Mathworks does such as Simulink ... Also, consider that MATLAB works much more like how one would write on paper (including 1-indexing) and is what people are used to at this point.

New comment by hyperbrainer in "How to tame a user interface using a spreadsheet"

hyperbrainer — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:28:11 +0000

> If an engineer came to you and said “So for this project, I put all the code, input data, output data and comments scattered about one big two-dimensional array with no type safety, no portability, no scalability, no security, no variable names, no code re-use, no unit tests, no integration tests, no abstractions and no error handling”

So, how is this different from engineers and MATLAB?

New comment by hyperbrainer in "How to tame a user interface using a spreadsheet"

hyperbrainer — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:26:41 +0000

Now I wonder if I can make category theory diagrams in spreadsheets.

New comment by hyperbrainer in "How to tame a user interface using a spreadsheet"

hyperbrainer — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 06:54:26 +0000

Irrelevant but spreadsheets have always struck me as one of the most beautiful pieces of software that we use. Automatically updating calculations, programming logic complex anough for most ERPs, using it is a database, easy organisation of data, graphs -- it has it all. From both a user and developer perspective, they are one of the most diverse tools on a computer. MS may make terrible software sometimes, but damn it, does Excel run the world.

How to Count N-Ary Trees

hyperbrainer — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 12:28:12 +0000

Article URL: https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2025/07/counting_trees.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44797191

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by hyperbrainer in "A deep dive into Rust and C memory interoperability"

hyperbrainer — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 15:37:49 +0000

That's the first thing on the page.

> Interviewer: “What happens if you allocate memory with C’s malloc and try to free it with Rust’s dealloc, if you get a pointer to the memory from C?”

> Me: “If we do it via FFI then there’s a possibility the program may continue working (because the underlying structs share the same memory layout? right? …right?)”

New comment by hyperbrainer in "My Ideal Array Language"

hyperbrainer — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 15:36:23 +0000

I see it as beautiful the same way Galadriel would be beautiful as the Dark Queen. Utterly captivating and powerful, and yet something that should never be.

A deep dive into Rust and C memory interoperability

hyperbrainer — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 15:12:20 +0000

Article URL: https://notashes.me/blog/part-1-memory-management/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44786962

Points: 154

# Comments: 79

New comment by hyperbrainer in "Seed7 – Extensible Programming Language"

hyperbrainer — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 17:14:48 +0000

If functions are first class, then they must be stored as variables. I mean, consider any FP Language.

New comment by hyperbrainer in "This Month in Ladybird"

hyperbrainer — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 09:09:32 +0000

My first thought was that this was done with consideration for mobile phones, since many higher-end models use 120 Hz displays, but Ladybird does not seem to support mobile for now.

> Websites using requestAnimationFrame now render at up to 120Hz on supported hardware

But the phrasing of it about "can now" suggests to me that this may simply be a performance issue too. They changed it from 60 to 120. Perhaps in the future they can go from 120 to 144 or even 240.