Hacker News: jsrcout

New comment by jsrcout in "Show HN: A pure-Ruby X11 terminal"

jsrcout — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 05:05:29 +0000

> Why? Because I can.

Always the best reason.

New comment by jsrcout in "Perlisisms (1982)"

jsrcout — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 05:01:12 +0000

> 11. If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.

That brings back some memories. Just glad I eventually learned better.

New comment by jsrcout in "More Molly Guards"

jsrcout — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:06:31 +0000

It was amazing to read the original account in the alumni newsletter, and it was great to see the photo. The legend is real! Heh heh.

New comment by jsrcout in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

jsrcout — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:03:10 +0000

I was... not prepared for your standup to comic README. Besides just being a cool idea, you gave me some things to think about and several new rabbit holes to explore.

New comment by jsrcout in "Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948"

jsrcout — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:03:53 +0000

> 1948 was an interesting time for computing.

Not a commonly seen statement :-)

New comment by jsrcout in "The dead economy theory"

jsrcout — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:45:03 +0000

Dammit, another horrifying yet entirely realistic near-future scenario to keep me up at night.

New comment by jsrcout in "U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators"

jsrcout — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:48:47 +0000

Oh, absolutely. For instance I never thought Lysenkoism would happen again, but the conditions are ripe for it.

New comment by jsrcout in "Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes"

jsrcout — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:17:50 +0000

Same here. The Teams meeting page layout pisses me off on a regular basis, with way too much useless space around everything, tons of unhideable icons and crap filling half the screen, and all the actual content crammed into a little box. I'm sitting here with a 4K 27" monitor and all that space and resolution is just wasted. Yeah you can work around it, but what a PITA.

New comment by jsrcout in "Mounting tar archives as a filesystem in WebAssembly"

jsrcout — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 05:23:28 +0000

Ratarmount is so cool. Recently I wanted to look at a couple random files in a > 300G compressed tarball. It just wouldn't have been worth doing without it.

New comment by jsrcout in "At long last, InfoWars is ours"

jsrcout — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:03:09 +0000

  - Terrorist Bomb Pierces Bob Dole's Outer Hull
  - Are Your Cats Old Enough To Learn About Jesus?
  - Deadly Super Rainbow Tears Through West Coast
  - Clinton Deploys Vowels To Bosnia
  - Rescue Chip Sent In To Save Broken Tostito Submerged In 7 Layer Dip

That last one in particular was absolutely epic.

New comment by jsrcout in "VOID: Video Object and Interaction Deletion"

jsrcout — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 04:09:26 +0000

Correct.

New comment by jsrcout in "Ariane 6 user's manual [pdf]"

jsrcout — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 03:53:55 +0000

Docs like this make playing space engineer so much more fun.

New comment by jsrcout in "Tracy Kidder has died"

jsrcout — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:00:46 +0000

Very sad to hear. As an already-addicted computer nerd when The Soul of a New Machine came out, his book put me inside an utterly fascinating alternate world, a world where brilliant people fought incomprehensible difficulties to create the hardware that made my software come to life. Better yet, he brought those people, not just their machines, to life. Still one of my favorite books.

New comment by jsrcout in "Even faster asin() was staring right at me"

jsrcout — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:46:32 +0000

Same, this is something I would use often. Sort of like #pragma once, but for initialization.

New comment by jsrcout in "FFmpeg 8.1"

jsrcout — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:08:40 +0000

Just realized they tag the releases with great names in math/computing. Very cool.

New comment by jsrcout in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"

jsrcout — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:42:45 +0000

Edit is unironically one of my favorite text editors these days. It opens incredibly fast compared to everything else I use, it's easy to use, works fine on Linux. It's not going to replace emacs or VS Code, but it's incredibly handy for basic editing chores.

New comment by jsrcout in "First Website (1992)"

jsrcout — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:01:44 +0000

I've been trying to track down "What's New" for a long long time. If memory serves, there was a daily email titled "What's New on the World Wide Web" - very possibly the source for this monthly summary.

It was a fascinating way to experience the early WWW's exponential growth. It started out small, but once it began to grow, you could see it expanding faster and faster practically in real time.

At first it only took seconds to give the daily list a good once over. Over time it started taking minutes, then 20 minutes or half an hour (if things weren't too busy at work), and eventually it morphed into almost another full time job. There was just no way to keep up. Around that time they stopped sending it out.

From a historical point of view, these daily emails and monthly summaries would be a terrific resource for those interested in the early Web. It's hard to believe now that there was once a time when you could literally check out every new Web site as they came online.

New comment by jsrcout in "How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have? (2020)"

jsrcout — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:20:34 +0000

Tried to answer this question years back for just the "basic" x86 registers. Quickly realized there was never going to be any single answer until I had mastered the entire ISA. Oh well.

New comment by jsrcout in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

jsrcout — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:03:20 +0000

ENOPE.

New comment by jsrcout in "We mourn our craft"

jsrcout — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 20:15:30 +0000

Art, photography, acting, music - none of them are good career choices. You'll either be one of the fortunate few, or you'll struggle to make a living. Sucks but that's how it is.