Hacker News: jgtrosh

New comment by jgtrosh in "The Clock"

jgtrosh — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:32:19 +0000

Yeah, this screamed US date format to me! (Though there's no year in this clock)

New comment by jgtrosh in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

jgtrosh — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:42:45 +0000

I like the Trosh game

New comment by jgtrosh in "JSLinux Now Supports x86_64"

jgtrosh — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:33:55 +0000

Similarly I've used it for technical interviews.

New comment by jgtrosh in "System76 on Age Verification Laws"

jgtrosh — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 08:04:40 +0000

To my surprise, this graph [0] shows that even when taking into account vaping, it seems that smoking has truly gone down in the US.

[0]: https://ecigone.com/featured/vaping-statistics/

New comment by jgtrosh in "Humans 40k yrs ago developed a system of conventional signs"

jgtrosh — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 05:42:05 +0000

Your instinctive reaction matches with scientific consensus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_writing

> Each historical invention of writing emerged from systems of proto-writing that used ideographic and mnemonic symbols but were not capable of fully recording spoken language. True writing, where the content of linguistic utterances can be accurately reconstructed by later readers, is a later development. As proto-writing is not capable of fully reflecting the grammar and lexicon used in languages, it is often only capable of encoding broad or imprecise information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_speech

> vocal languages must have begun diversifying at least 100,000 years ago

New comment by jgtrosh in "A CPU that runs entirely on GPU"

jgtrosh — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:25:52 +0000

The dedicated term GPGPU [0] didn't catch on.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_computing_on_g...

New comment by jgtrosh in "Nobody likes lag: How to make low-latency dev sandboxes"

jgtrosh — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:42:34 +0000

These rely on undoing within a game's constrained environment. There isn't a way to magically undo any possible procedure with side effects.

New comment by jgtrosh in "Windows 11 Outperforming Linux on an Intel Arrow Lake H Laptop"

jgtrosh — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 11:37:53 +0000

I appreciate the fact that they waited two months to check their results before sharing them publicly. However, this feels like there should be a hypothesis for explaining the difference other than “this fits expectations”, especially after the author extensively claims this does not fit their own expectations. Did I miss something?

New comment by jgtrosh in "HTML Slides with notes"

jgtrosh — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 08:05:58 +0000

A vimmer*

New comment by jgtrosh in "I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]"

jgtrosh — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 23:32:08 +0000

His crusade is in part about how pods are overdosed which can reduce their effectiveness (and be super wasteful)

New comment by jgtrosh in "The Farmer Was Replaced [video]"

jgtrosh — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 13:25:31 +0000

The game looks fun and pretty, but am I the only one to get triggered by the “replaced” naming?

All of these eager claims to replace humans feel violently antisocial. (And in many instances hypocritical if coming from people who defensively claim “it's just a tool”…)

New comment by jgtrosh in "NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86k times"

jgtrosh — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 06:49:25 +0000

Is this bait? The whole context is malicious software being installed en masse via NPM micro dependencies.

New comment by jgtrosh in "Scripts I wrote that I use all the time"

jgtrosh — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 05:58:42 +0000

It's equivalent to xargs -I {} rm {}

       -I replace-str
              Replace occurrences of replace-str in the initial-arguments
              with names read from standard input.  Also, unquoted blanks
              do not terminate input items; instead the separator is the
              newline character.  Implies -x and -L 1.

New comment by jgtrosh in "Show HN: I created a cross-platform GUI for the JJ VCS (Git compatible)"

jgtrosh — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 06:24:48 +0000

"[name-redacted]" is quite distinct and searchable imo

New comment by jgtrosh in "Show HN: I created a cross-platform GUI for the JJ VCS (Git compatible)"

jgtrosh — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 06:23:08 +0000

From the Discord:

> It's a compose multiplatform[1] app, and it's templated-output-parsed rather than Rust-based.

[1]: https://www.jetbrains.com/compose-multiplatform/

New comment by jgtrosh in "Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor"

jgtrosh — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:39:07 +0000

The WM has no job being the browser, but yes we should be able to run firefox without tabs like it's surf (and stop doing part of the WM's job). But you cannot practically do that.

New comment by jgtrosh in "The strangest letter of the alphabet: The rise and fall of yogh"

jgtrosh — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 22:43:32 +0000

That's /ˈmɪŋɪs/,/ˈmɪŋɡɪs/ for anyone wondering

New comment by jgtrosh in "What brain surgery taught me about the fragile gift of consciousness"

jgtrosh — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 13:06:19 +0000

Before Wittgenstein, Epicurius:

> Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Letter_to_Menoeceus

New comment by jgtrosh in "Python f-string cheat sheets (2022)"

jgtrosh — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 10:37:19 +0000

Yes, it's a generalisation of `%g` in f-string's ancestor printf(3). This is what people expect to find in formatting templates.

New comment by jgtrosh in "Devstral"

jgtrosh — Thu, 22 May 2025 06:55:23 +0000

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/french-data-cente... this Eclairion colo currently being built south of Paris, mostly for Mistral has received some public money (incl. 3M€ from the region https://www.iledefrance.fr/toutes-les-actualites/ia-un-super...)