Hacker News: mhd

New comment by mhd in "Pico CSS is no longer maintained"

mhd — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 08:43:28 +0000

I miss 960px grid systems…

New comment by mhd in "Cuba is skipping its November 1, 2026 clock change and staying on DST until 2027"

mhd — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:38:27 +0000

Swatch Beat time.

New comment by mhd in "Getting Banned from r/java"

mhd — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:02:30 +0000

Yeah, news aggregators, amirite?

New comment by mhd in "Rabbits were a medieval royal luxury in England until the Black Death"

mhd — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 07:13:41 +0000

Any reason why they didn't get their own "meat name" then? I thought that the "cow/beef"-"pig/pork" split was due do that, with the initially Norman nobles consuming most of that luxury meat. Thus nothing for "chicken", either. Did "lapin" or something like that get lost?

New comment by mhd in "`123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach"

mhd — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:23:17 +0000

They should've just written it in Danish, nothing seems more secure than how they construct numbers. The 56 part would've been "six-and-half-triple-score" or something similarly insane.

New comment by mhd in "IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]"

mhd — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:54:34 +0000

Yes, I'm pretty sure it's by the human Jackie Daytona.

New comment by mhd in "IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]"

mhd — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:53:42 +0000

I remember playing a somewhat decent adventure based on the BiFi salami snacks in the 90s.

New comment by mhd in "We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person"

mhd — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:59:08 +0000

I hope "slop doula" sticks around…

New comment by mhd in "The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC"

mhd — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:16:51 +0000

"human ↔ machine collaboration" sounds rather creepy, to be honest.

New comment by mhd in "Matrox: Graphics for Professionals"

mhd — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 06:52:45 +0000

I have some pretty fond memories of Matrox. Saw the Millennium at a trade fair, as pretty much the first sign that 3D will reach the PC segment (I also saw a SGI Onyx there).

And later I got one as pretty much the most solid Linux graphics card, which even was capable of going dual screen. And while I don't miss XFree86 modeline configs, it was nice when there wasn't just a GPU triopoly.

New comment by mhd in "Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2"

mhd — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:04:58 +0000

In Germany this was certainly true, as the local distributor CPS put out their own "Sound Blaster" cards for a while until stopped by a lawsuit. IIRC they were rebranded Aztech sound cards. I had a "Sound Blaster Junior" which I was quite fond of (until I saved some money for a GUS ACE).

New comment by mhd in "User Interfaces of the Demo Scene"

mhd — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:47:28 +0000

There's also Renoise, which tries to marry the contemporary DAW with a tracker-style timeline.

https://www.renoise.com

New comment by mhd in "Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion"

mhd — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:08:22 +0000

On the same page (for me): "Silicon Valley needs to get God"

Well, seems it already did.

New comment by mhd in "A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones"

mhd — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:57:28 +0000

Beowulf cluster time for old Pixels?

New comment by mhd in "QBE – Compiler Backend – 1.3"

mhd — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:38:24 +0000

> I love that there are compilers beside the big 2

Whatever happened to Tendra?

New comment by mhd in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"

mhd — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:08:41 +0000

Surprised that this isn't part of a "journey"…

New comment by mhd in "From CVS to Git, thirty years of source control"

mhd — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:43:58 +0000

One interesting predecessor were the versioned files of time-sharing systems. You can still access Donald Knuth's directory tree for example, and see that a lot of files have different revisions.

Knuth's Tex directory: https://www.saildart.org/%5BTEX,DEK%5D/

New comment by mhd in "Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language"

mhd — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:19:13 +0000

I once had some Norwegian room mates in Ireland, and whenever we collectively couldn't find the proper English word, we usually got lucky with our native tongues. When listening to Scandi TV series, I'm still surprised more than I should be by the occasional match (recently: suddenly -> "plutselig", similar to German "plötzlich").

Now, as for the Danish room mate, he might as well have been speaking Greek.

New comment by mhd in "Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language"

mhd — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:10:08 +0000

Like a more devious Lingua::Romana::Perligata?

https://metacpan.org/dist/Lingua-Romana-Perligata/view/lib/L...

New comment by mhd in "Ada, Its Design, and the Language That Built the Languages"

mhd — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:01:56 +0000

No mention of Algol? Or Mesa?