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New comment by kristianp in "Fast and Easy Levenshtein distance using a Trie (2011)"

kristianp — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:36:02 +0000

A better intro to them is at https://blog.startifact.com/posts/succinct/

New comment by kristianp in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7"

kristianp — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:32:21 +0000

This has similar problems to swe bench in that models are likely trained on the same open source projects that the benchmark uses.

https://blog.brokk.ai/introducing-the-brokk-power-ranking/

New comment by kristianp in "Fast and Easy Levenshtein distance using a Trie (2011)"

kristianp — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:57:52 +0000

The author also has an interesting discussion of Succinct Data Structures at https://stevehanov.ca/blog/succinct-data-structures-cramming...

New comment by kristianp in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

kristianp — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:12:09 +0000

Doesn't that make it impossible to place the stones in the correct positions?

New comment by kristianp in ""How I built on-device-only architecture for Mac utilities (and why it matters)""

kristianp — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:34:37 +0000

This is a link to your website home page, not the article implied by the title. You should change the title to start with "Show HN:". See guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

New comment by kristianp in "Want to write a compiler? Just read these two papers (2008)"

kristianp — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:21:16 +0000

Here's an archived version converted to x86: https://web.archive.org/web/20220603004249/http://www.pp4s.c...

New comment by kristianp in "Fuck the cloud (2009)"

kristianp — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:28:54 +0000

I've taken to buying the occasional CD and DVD. While I still use spotify more than physical cds, I still have my old CD collection and the sound quality is so refreshing. And soundtracks aren't on Spotify. With movies it's hard to rewatch favourites because they don't stay on the streaming services. Again it's much more satisfying to own them yourself.

New comment by kristianp in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

kristianp — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:40:42 +0000

However laws that stop large corporations' websites being accessible would never be passed in the US. Government for the corporation.

New comment by kristianp in "The Journal of C Language Translation"

kristianp — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:58:01 +0000

I came across this magazine when searching for Bob Jervis' programming language, Parasol, he wrote a two part series about the language [1]. Jervis was the creator of Wizard C, that went on to become the compiler for the Turbo C IDE.

P.J. Plauger was the technical editor, and wrote an article in each issue, which was a quarterly. It ran from 1989 to 1995. Plauger is known as the coauthor "The Elements of Programming Style" and "Software Tools" with Brian Kernigan. [2]. He also wrote for C/C++ Users Journal.

[1], http://jclt.iecc.com/Jct23.pdf , http://jclt.iecc.com/Jct24.pdf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._J._Plauger

The Journal of C Language Translation

kristianp — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:12:20 +0000

Article URL: http://jclt.iecc.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760027

Points: 33

# Comments: 3

New comment by kristianp in "AI Is Using So Much Energy That Computing Firepower Is Running Out"

kristianp — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:46:57 +0000

> As of April 8, Anthropic’s Claude API had a 98.95% uptime rate in the last 90 days.

The headline talks about Energy, but nowhere in the article is it mentioned. It seems it's more about lack of compute vs demand. And perhaps the inefficiency of tokens in agentic use cases.

New comment by kristianp in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"

kristianp — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:13:45 +0000

> You can enter ALT+F to open the File menu, then hit N

Some developers raised on Macs don't understand the need for this behaviour in the Windows version of their software. Most do, but it's frustrating when the windows version of a multi platform framework doesn't afford for this.

Also the arrival of windows 8 which put controls and buttons at top and bottom of the screen was a big step backwards in consistency. Mobile interfaces (Android) still do this and it slows down interactions.

New comment by kristianp in "Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6 (2010)"

kristianp — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:38:34 +0000

According to this, Dr Dobbs was to stop new articles at the end of 2014: https://slashdot.org/story/211167

Before the internet it was a good way to have a picture of what was out there. I remember the magazines had a particular smell in early 90s. Like a sweet smell, different to other magazines. There was rarely an Mac content though, which seems shortsighted. Swaine started writing Mac articles at some point if I recall, but they weren't very technical, often about hypercard?

I was reading this article from '91, the creator of Wizard C, Bob Jarvis criticised C++'s lack of modules, something it's getting around 35 years later. 91 was when Mode X graphics programming was introduced by Abrash in a series of articles.

New comment by kristianp in "Apple is running out of A18 Pro chips for the MacBook Neo"

kristianp — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:12:27 +0000

More detailed is the source they cite: https://www.culpium.com/p/apple-in-talks-to-boost-mac-neo-pr...

Apparently the processors for the Neo are 5 core rejects from iphone 16, (which is no longer in production), which is a 6 core A18 cpu.

Apple in Talks to Boost Mac Neo Production as Sales Exceed Expectations

kristianp — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:09:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.culpium.com/p/apple-in-talks-to-boost-mac-neo-production

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688566

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kristianp in "LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server"

kristianp — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:54:23 +0000

Also why are most requests for non existent pages?

New comment by kristianp in "LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server"

kristianp — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:32:31 +0000

> Nearly all of them were for non-existent pages.

Do any webservers have a feature where they keep a list in memory of files/paths that exist?

Voltage drops when powering a Raspberry Pi4B from a LM2596T regulator

kristianp — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:06:21 +0000

Article URL: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/767760/voltage-drops-when-powering-a-raspberry-pi4-b-from-a-lm2596t-regulator-how-can

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47683445

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by kristianp in "Solod – A subset of Go that translates to C"

kristianp — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:35:30 +0000

> multiple returns

So no go error handling?

    x, err := func()

Not a choice I would have made.

New comment by kristianp in "Kimi's response to "hello. what are you" is "I'm Claude ""

kristianp — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 03:46:42 +0000

From https://github.com/bgauryy/open-docs/blob/main/docs/opencode...

> 1. Provider Header Purpose: Some providers benefit from identity "spoofing" to improve behavior.

> "You are Claude, a large language model trained by Anthropic. Knowledge cutoff: 2024-04 Current date: 2025-01-15"