Hacker News: macmac

New comment by macmac in "Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links"

macmac — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:11:53 +0000

I agree. Probably a cost issue as all interviews appear to be done in person.

New comment by macmac in "Show HN: Mail Server Builder – Deploy a Full Mail Server on Ubuntu from Windows"

macmac — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:18:23 +0000

So you would like me to give my VPS root password to your internet connected Windows app? no thanks. I really hope this is well intentioned, but nobody should use this.

New comment by macmac in "Parametric CAD in Rust"

macmac — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 13:19:41 +0000

Aren't a few definitions missing from the examples (e.g. base_holes and wall_holes)?

New comment by macmac in "EU chief says EU should abandon caution after Bessent calls Denmark 'irrelevant'"

macmac — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:18:46 +0000

Greenland is not a country, it is a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark.

New comment by macmac in "How to Teach People SQL"

macmac — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:02:58 +0000

UNION is not a type of JOIN

New comment by macmac in "[dead]"

macmac — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:21:09 +0000

The man is clearly mentally ill, and the ethics of interviewing such a person, is the only reason this interview is interesting.

Microflora Danica–a genetic atlas of Danish environmental microbiomes

macmac — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 23:06:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09794-2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46154465

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by macmac in "Learning Music with Strudel"

macmac — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:36:09 +0000

I love this approach to learning music.

A nitpick: Isn't the below statement wrong? I thought "RolandTR909" was the name of the soundbank which is used for both bd and sd?

"bd is bass drum (also called kick-drums), sd is snare drum. RolandTR909 is the name of the sound."

New comment by macmac in "The R47: A new physical RPN calculator"

macmac — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 08:43:15 +0000

Already Out of Stock. I want one :-(

New comment by macmac in "Show HN: Halloy – Modern IRC client"

macmac — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 12:14:19 +0000

I use Halloy on a daily basis and could not be happier. It is super smooth in use and highly configurable using the config file. Halloy is also a great show case for the iced GUI framework and Rust for desktop apps.

New comment by macmac in "Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps"

macmac — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 11:15:33 +0000

With Datastar your front end logic (if any) is minimal, and you can use any typesafe (or not) language you want for the backend. If you build webcomponents for your Datastar frontend you can use TS to your heart's content.

New comment by macmac in "Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps"

macmac — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 10:59:14 +0000

So your answers is no, you cannot provide any arguments.

New comment by macmac in "Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps"

macmac — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 10:09:50 +0000

Could provide actual arguments for why these aspects of Datastar are "crazy", "even more crazy" and "wrong"?

New comment by macmac in "Zippers: Making Functional "Updates" Efficient (2010)"

macmac — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 12:34:16 +0000

Zippers are part of Clojure API (clojure.zip). They take a bit of work to get used to, but once you get it they are an amazing way of making "transactional" "changes" to immutable data structures.

New comment by macmac in "Timesketch: Collaborative forensic timeline analysis"

macmac — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 08:57:15 +0000

Thanks, I thought I was the only one baffled by this.

New comment by macmac in "ChatControl update: blocking minority held but Denmark is moving forward anyway"

macmac — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 21:06:48 +0000

Our "minister of Justices" is a scared little boy, deeply traumatised by a childhood characterised by the lack of a basic sense of safety. This trauma has never been addressed and with age he has unfortunately become a politician and earned a law degree. His rational faculties and academic degree are of course a faint echo compared to his childhood trauma, so he has no reservations destroying any personal liberty in the name of safety. I feel deeply for the boy, but fear the man.

New comment by macmac in "Tech execs are joining the Army – no grueling boot camp required"

macmac — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 13:37:03 +0000

Utterly, utterly pathetic. An affront to the uniform.

Lisp in your Excel sheet via lambda

macmac — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 20:25:05 +0000

Article URL: https://spreadsheet.institute/lisp/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44195446

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by macmac in "Show HN: Tesseral – Open-Source Auth"

macmac — Wed, 28 May 2025 15:52:42 +0000

This looks neat, unfortunately the dependency on AWS is a show stopper for many European companies these days.

New comment by macmac in "Private Japanese lunar lander enters orbit around moon ahead of a June touchdown"

macmac — Sat, 10 May 2025 13:56:54 +0000

No they did not, Firefly did.

UPDATE, my bad did not read properly.