Hacker News: jason_s

New comment by jason_s in "Bitburner, programming-based incremental game"

jason_s — Thu, 28 May 2026 22:02:39 +0000

oog -- I do programming for work, don't really want to delve deep into it in a game ;-(

New comment by jason_s in "Zero Lines Maze: What the 8-Bit Guy's One-Liner Can Still Teach Us"

jason_s — Wed, 27 May 2026 03:57:37 +0000

Oh that -- I used to print those out from my C64 to my Star Micronics dot-matrix printer and add selected white-out / ink to make them more interesting.

New comment by jason_s in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

jason_s — Wed, 27 May 2026 03:42:03 +0000

something something something China something something intellectual property something something....

New comment by jason_s in "C array types are weird"

jason_s — Wed, 27 May 2026 03:37:29 +0000

yeah that's what I thought the article was going to be about.

New comment by jason_s in "C array types are weird"

jason_s — Wed, 27 May 2026 03:37:00 +0000

From the title, I thought they were going to point out that `a[2]` and `2[a]` have identical meaning in C.

New comment by jason_s in "I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph"

jason_s — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:04:50 +0000

I like the article (lost art, indeed!) --- please consider using a proportional font, however... fixed-width fonts have lower readability.

New comment by jason_s in "Will agents like Git any more than we do?"

jason_s — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:52:03 +0000

>Mercurial never had an equivalent platform push, which turned out to matter more than any of its technical merits. Version control systems are fundamentally collaboration platforms, and GitHub understood that before anyone else.

Mercurial did have an equivalent platform, on Bitbucket, but then Atlassian acquired Bitbucket and let its Mercurial support wither and die.

Ten Little Algorithms #8: Miller-Rabin Primality Test (Living with Uncertainty)

jason_s — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:36:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/1808.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48228561

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jason_s in "RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust"

jason_s — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:19:45 +0000

I greatly prefer Typst's clean architecture than TeX's macro-centric hell pounded into passable utility.

New comment by jason_s in "Ted Turner has died"

jason_s — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:50:18 +0000

I had a similar idea, Who's Still Alive / Who Died First with pairs of people. (Who died first: Johnny Carson or Ed McMahon? John Glenn or Neil Armstrong?)

New comment by jason_s in "Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI"

jason_s — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:03:38 +0000

I'm really tired of JIRA, to the point where I have expressed it publicly: https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/1772.php

New comment by jason_s in "NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers"

jason_s — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:36:53 +0000

Now I have the Pink Floyd song in my head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8pEjmZVx3k

New comment by jason_s in "Michael Rabin has died"

jason_s — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:32:53 +0000

Could you send link to Galois Field series please?

New comment by jason_s in "Michael Rabin has died"

jason_s — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:32:13 +0000

I am 90% finished writing an article about Miller-Rabin primality testing. A few weeks ago I was looking around and found out that Rabin was still alive, which I hadn't expected... and was wondering if I should try to contact him to ask a few questions regarding his motivation to explore stochastic algorithms. Too late. :-(

We are all in his debt.

New comment by jason_s in "Artifacts: Versioned storage that speaks Git"

jason_s — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:09:08 +0000

> for example it's possible to check out only the relevant sub-tree from the remote, or to commit changes only to the said sub-tree w/o having to affect and therefore contest the history of unrelated parts of the repo.

I'm misunderstanding your statement... are you saying it is possible to do this, or you would like it to be possible?

I am looking for something similar; I would like to archive a bunch of data, much of which is binary rather than text, in a hierarchical form, and work with subtrees without having to clone the whole damn thing.

New comment by jason_s in "Franklin's bad ads for Apple II clones and the beloved impersonator they depict"

jason_s — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:09:39 +0000

Is there no end to the burgeoning websites using fixed-width fonts for text? We're not using ASCII terminals anymore... oh, to be able to read text more easily.

New comment by jason_s in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

jason_s — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:07:51 +0000

after what kind of shutdown?

New comment by jason_s in "Show HN: Vanilla JavaScript refinery simulator built to explain job to my kids"

jason_s — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 05:09:25 +0000

> How awesome that you were able to find this! I’m only missing a couple!

Missing a couple of features you want to add?

The "able to find this" (the 1981 Exxon magazine) needs context to appreciate re: the dispersion of certain personal belongings over time. I would have picked the magazine up in 1981 or 1982 (possibly 1983) at the school energy fair, and it remained in my physical possession for the next 40-something years.

In elementary school I did not have a significant amount of possessions outside of toys. Then in middle school I got a small desk, and in high school I got a larger desk, and it ended up in a folder of "neat stuff" that I saved.

Then after college my stuff from the desk ended up in a banker's box, which I still have, along with a couple of other boxes of stuff from that era. This year I looked for maybe 20-30 minutes and found it.

I still have all of my copies of Compute's Gazette from the mid-late 1980s.

I will say that it is amazing to be able to go online and find all sorts of old computer/electronics/whatever magazines from the 1950s-1980s on archive.org or bitsavers or worldradiohistory.org and there they are... unless they're not.

New comment by jason_s in "Shall I implement it? No"

jason_s — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 04:59:20 +0000

Where can I find out more information about sandboxing Claude and other agents?

New comment by jason_s in "Show HN: Vanilla JavaScript refinery simulator built to explain job to my kids"

jason_s — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:14:30 +0000

OOH! Neat! I looked on my mobile phone enough to get a sense of what this is.

I'm not in the petroleum industry, but about 45 years ago I was mesmerized at an energy fair at my elementary school by this Exxon magazine that showed the refinery flow with a bunch of little dots: https://archive.org/details/p-2330663/P2330670.JPG