Hacker News: jcmeyrignac

New comment by jcmeyrignac in "Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex"

jcmeyrignac — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:17:06 +0000

Delivering is cheap, but maintenance is expensive... if not impossible!

New comment by jcmeyrignac in "Dhtml Lemmings (2004)"

jcmeyrignac — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 10:04:21 +0000

I remember him, since he won a PHP contest of DownNOut (I finished second).

Another programmer had the same pseudo, but was working on the Atari ST.

New comment by jcmeyrignac in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

jcmeyrignac — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 08:30:53 +0000

Impossible to connect to JIRA here (France).

New comment by jcmeyrignac in "Make the most of compiled C loops on the 68000"

jcmeyrignac — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 12:43:32 +0000

You can optimize further by unrolling the loop. For example:

  .L2:
        move.w d1,(a0)
        move.w d1,(a0)
        move.w d1,(a0)
        move.w d1,(a0)
        dbra d0,.L2
        rts

New comment by jcmeyrignac in "Virtue garnish: A mental hack to short-circuit bad habits"

jcmeyrignac — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 09:00:16 +0000

Sorry, but these tricks cannot work on aphantasic people (I'm one of them), since they cannot visualize.

New comment by jcmeyrignac in "The $25k car is going extinct?"

jcmeyrignac — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 06:26:37 +0000

In Europe, the average age for buying a new car is 50. This means that most of the cars sold are second-hand. Most people think that the car is a luxury and prefer to focus on their home first, then their family, and after that, their car.

New comment by jcmeyrignac in "XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web"

jcmeyrignac — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 11:52:38 +0000

There are 2 main problems with XSLT. The first one is that manipulating strings is a pain. Splitting strings, concatenating them is verbose like hell and difficult to read. The second one is that it quickly becomes a mess when you use the "priority" attribute to overload functions. I compare XSLT to regular expressions, with great flexibility but impossible to maintain due to poor readability. To my knowledge, it's impossible to trace.

New comment by jcmeyrignac in "Games That Weren't: Preserving Cancelled and Unreleased Video Game History"

jcmeyrignac — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 10:23:07 +0000

Yes, I programmed Snow Bros for the Atari ST. It was finished but never released. And no, I have no copy either. When I worked for Cryo, I coded a game "Trashman" for the SNES. I still have a copy of the game but it's not finished.

New comment by jcmeyrignac in "Games That Weren't: Preserving Cancelled and Unreleased Video Game History"

jcmeyrignac — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 09:55:35 +0000

I worked for Ocean Software France at this moment. Ocean Software stopped all development on Amiga and Atari ST, so there were a few games that we working on that were never released. They wanted to focus on licenses, so all the other games were ditched

New comment by jcmeyrignac in "The Small World of English"

jcmeyrignac — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 18:27:07 +0000

Nice work! Here is a similar idea: https://wordassociations.net/en

In french, there is a game to build relations with words (they provide a word, and you have to type the most related words): https://www.jeuxdemots.org They reached 677 million of relations in 2024!

New comment by jcmeyrignac in "Reciprocal Approximation with 1 Subtraction"

jcmeyrignac — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 14:37:58 +0000

A better value could be 0x7EEEEBB3, as in: https://github.com/parallella/pal/blob/bd9389f14fe16db4d9630...

New comment by jcmeyrignac in "Show HN: A singing synthesizer for the browser with automatic 3-part harmony"

jcmeyrignac — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 14:11:13 +0000

More experiments here: http://david.li/

New comment by jcmeyrignac in "A benchmark of three different floating point packages for the 6809"

jcmeyrignac — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 09:28:20 +0000

The MO5/MO6/TO7 were based on the 6809: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson_MO6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson_TO7 Since I met the engineers, I believed that they implemented their own Basic, but I might be wrong.

New comment by jcmeyrignac in "A benchmark of three different floating point packages for the 6809"

jcmeyrignac — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 07:03:33 +0000

Here are a few other 6809 FP libraries: https://gitlab.com/dfffffff/fpo9 https://github.com/spotlessmind1975/ugbasic/blob/main/ugbc/s...

If I remember correctly, the ROM of MO6/TO7 contain also a fast implementation, but I was not able to find a disassembly.

New comment by jcmeyrignac in "Show HN: Wordllama – Things you can do with the token embeddings of an LLM"

jcmeyrignac — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 09:33:12 +0000

Any plan for languages other than english? This would be a perfect tool for french language.

New comment by jcmeyrignac in "Bit Twiddling Hacks (2009)"

jcmeyrignac — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 10:13:59 +0000

Some related links: http://aggregate.org/MAGIC/

https://web.archive.org/web/20190703172150/http://www.hacker...

New comment by jcmeyrignac in "I built a second brain tool for college students"

jcmeyrignac — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 07:32:54 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39482641

New comment by jcmeyrignac in "Ask HN: Do You Have a Copy of IBM "Logo: Programming with Turtle Graphics"?"

jcmeyrignac — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 20:58:33 +0000

In France, there is one that seems to match your needs: https://www.leboncoin.fr/ad/ordinateurs/2379851136 but it's quite expensive!

New comment by jcmeyrignac in "GPT-4o"

jcmeyrignac — Mon, 13 May 2024 21:15:06 +0000

Sorry to nitpick, but in the language tokenisation part, the french part is incorrect. The exclamation mark are surrounded by spaces in french. "c'est un plaisir de vous rencontrer!" should be "c'est un plaisir de vous rencontrer !"

New comment by jcmeyrignac in "One Knuckle Rice Rule"

jcmeyrignac — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 09:54:21 +0000

It depends on the rice. 2 cups of water is good for 1 cup of rice for 1 or 2 cups of rice. If you use 4 or more cups, you'll get something soggy. Probably the correct ratio is 1.5 when using 4 cups.