Hacker News: maplant

New comment by maplant in "HP re-releases classic computer science calculator: The HP-16C"

maplant — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:46:55 +0000

I wish they would re-release the HP50-g, I had one somewhere but it got lost and I _loved_ that thing!

New comment by maplant in "My new obsession: A horse-racing board game of pure luck"

maplant — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:21:42 +0000

Not to distract from what is undeniably a pretty cool thing, it's hard to even call these "games" as there's absolutely no decision making going on. I absolutely loathe games like these because you're not actually doing anything.

New comment by maplant in "Flipper One Tech Specs"

maplant — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:25:55 +0000

I plan on using it to create a backup password/2FA device... eventually

New comment by maplant in "Hanoi’s humble beer glass and the memory of a nation"

maplant — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:18:41 +0000

These glasses look absolutely stunning

New comment by maplant in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

maplant — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:53:59 +0000

I can't speak for the parent but I have a 5090 and it works perfectly fine

New comment by maplant in "Cartoon Network Flash Games"

maplant — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:50:01 +0000

There’s on called “sonic boom: link and smash?”

New comment by maplant in "Kalshi CEO expects US DOJ to prosecute insider trading cases"

maplant — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:59:12 +0000

I'm not really sure what position you're taking but taking a rake can certainly change the legality of an activity; in California, playing poker in private is considered a social game and is legal, _except_ if party is taking a rake.

New comment by maplant in "Hong Kong Police Can Now Demand Phone Passwords Under New Security Rules"

maplant — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:30:04 +0000

The cops from the John Woo HK action flicks I've seen would love this

New comment by maplant in "Throwing away 18 months of code and starting over"

maplant — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:31:12 +0000

I'm not really arguing with your point, I'm correcting your incorrect description of what I'm saying.

To argue with your actual point: I don't really care about the overall context, actively disallowing tests in a codebase is a _bad decision_. Look how it worked out for them.

> it's time for you and I to bug out conversationally

Fine with me

New comment by maplant in "Throwing away 18 months of code and starting over"

maplant — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:58:00 +0000

> He edited his reply to me multiple times...

I got the sense from your reply that some extra clarity would be beneficial.

> This is unnecessary. OP came out with "AUTHOR IS INSANE" even on the most generous of interpretations.

I did not actually call the author insane, I called their decision to explicitly disallow testing insane. It's an insane decision. I am not _literally_ calling the author insane.

New comment by maplant in "Throwing away 18 months of code and starting over"

maplant — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:19:08 +0000

> Did you edit the wording of your original comment slightly to emphasise the "actively disallowing them" in every situation?

I did not.

New comment by maplant in "Throwing away 18 months of code and starting over"

maplant — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:02:23 +0000

Did I say that my way was the right way? No: what I said was actively disallowing tests in every situation was the wrong way.

There is no ability here for the cost benefit analysis to change over time. There is only no tests

New comment by maplant in "Throwing away 18 months of code and starting over"

maplant — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:26:28 +0000

Having a culture of not ever writing tests and actively disallowing them is so insane I can't even imagine why there's anything else in this post

New comment by maplant in "How to talk to anyone and why you should"

maplant — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:40:19 +0000

A dictatorship? Are you being forced at gunpoint to talk to people?

Perhaps more unsurprisingly, at the mere suggestion that socializing is good for you (it demonstrably is https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11403199/), you went and wrote a comment that I can only imagine someone who is deeply unhappy would write.

New comment by maplant in "How to talk to anyone and why you should"

maplant — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:36:23 +0000

Talk about Poe's law.

I know what ECDSA is and if you brought it up in a random conversation unprompted I'd try to find your spaceship so I could escape the conversation on it.

New comment by maplant in "I Wrote a Scheme in 2025"

maplant — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:52:45 +0000

That is linked literally in the first sentence of the article

New comment by maplant in "I Wrote a Scheme in 2025"

maplant — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 23:35:01 +0000

They don't. They will probably get added in R7RS large. They're available in scheme-rs regardless: https://scheme.rs/Standard%20Libraries/prompts/

New comment by maplant in "I Wrote a Scheme in 2025"

maplant — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:05:28 +0000

I think people underestimate how pragmatic meta programming can be because there are some obvious downsides. Arguably one of things that made Rust so popular was its inclusion of procedural macros.

But beyond that the thing I don't understand about the modern hate towards macros is that they are simply very fun.

I Wrote a Scheme in 2025

maplant — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:44:32 +0000

Article URL: https://maplant.com/2026-02-09-I-Wrote-a-Scheme-in-2025.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46948278

Points: 141

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New comment by maplant in "Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet"

maplant — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 06:17:52 +0000

what a coincidence, I'm switching fully over to linux tomorrow