Hacker News: mnurzia

New comment by mnurzia in "Franklin's bad ads for Apple II clones and the beloved impersonator they depict"

mnurzia — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:16:43 +0000

More details about the electronic bible (released in 1989):

http://pnylab.com/products/bible/main.html

Very interesting read and a neat product from a technical perspective. I'd like to know the specifics of the data structure used to compress and index the text.

New comment by mnurzia in "MAME 0.285"

mnurzia — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:56:13 +0000

MAME is a really impressive piece of software. It emulates tens of thousands of machines and goes into painstaking detail to get things right.

One of the coolest aspects of their codebase is the ASCII-art diagrams of arcade circuit boards[1], dip switches, and memory maps. These are used to help document each machine driver.

[1] https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/f548e02647523b87b269ff7...

New comment by mnurzia in "Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires"

mnurzia — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:29:10 +0000

I think electrical/phone sockets were placed at that level because many telephones were designed to hang on the wall (docking onto and covering up the faceplate) for easy access. My childhood home had one that we used this way before we got a landline.

New comment by mnurzia in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"

mnurzia — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:01:52 +0000

This is really cool. What do you think the remaining ~1% is?

New comment by mnurzia in "Apple M5 chip"

mnurzia — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 21:44:45 +0000

Do you have any links to these discussion posts? This sounds very interesting, and I'm intrigued to learn more about the hardware explanation for this phenomenon.

New comment by mnurzia in "CARA – High precision robot dog using rope"

mnurzia — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 00:19:20 +0000

Wow! I actually met Aead last week while he was printing parts for this project (we both work at the same place). Surreal to see it at the top of HN.

New comment by mnurzia in "Inspect ANSI control codes and escape sequences"

mnurzia — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 10:27:40 +0000

Neat tool, I could see this being handy for debugging TUI tools.

I noticed that it works with _escaped_ ESC characters ("\x1b", "\u001b", "\033") but it didn't recognize raw ESC characters that I had in my clipboard. It might be useful to support those (maybe highlight them similarly to how VS Code highlights whitespace characters). The characters show up as numbered unicode error glyphs (I'm on Firefox, if that helps)

New comment by mnurzia in "Show HN: Hardtime.nvim – break bad habits and master Vim motions"

mnurzia — Sun, 18 May 2025 22:36:08 +0000

This was the neovim plugin that really caused me to stick with it. I've been using this plugin for over a year, after the (short) initial period of frustration with the delays I was able to start really flying with vim motions. Now I can't imagine going back to a regular text editor.

New comment by mnurzia in "Show HN: Non-backtracking, Unicode aware regular expression library in C89"

mnurzia — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 21:29:21 +0000

There's a MIT license in both source files, but I added a copy of it to the project root for those that have this constraint. Thanks!

Show HN: Non-backtracking, Unicode aware regular expression library in C89

mnurzia — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 15:45:28 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mnurzia/bbre

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42424011

Points: 7

# Comments: 3

New comment by mnurzia in "Th64: Tiny Hash Function in C"

mnurzia — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 19:59:16 +0000

This is super cool. Any insight into how this may have been designed? High-quality, compact hash functions are really useful in C.

New comment by mnurzia in "Roche Biochemical Pathways"

mnurzia — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 23:04:40 +0000

I ordered one of these posters a few years ago as a gift for my mom, who is a scientist. Large posters with lots of information to get lost in are always fun. This one does not disappoint!

New comment by mnurzia in "Paint.net"

mnurzia — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 18:02:04 +0000

yep, I started using it when I was 5, so that tracks.

New comment by mnurzia in "Paint.net"

mnurzia — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 03:07:32 +0000

paint.net is one of the only pieces of software that I miss from Windows. After having started with Tux Paint, I found paint.net extremely intuitive and easy to use (very nice for making goofy memes in middle/high school, and quick/easy drawings). I think that even after not having used it for years I am still more productive in it than I am in, say, Photoshop or GIMP.

New comment by mnurzia in "Boston's too expensive, so "alarming" number of young adults plan to leave"

mnurzia — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 03:00:24 +0000

Have been renting in Boston for two years because I go to school here, I'm renting again next year. It's not uncommon in my zip code for rents to be raised $150-200/bedroom/month every year. The green line is 300ft from my house, yet when I worked downtown, the journey (~3 mi) routinely took 40 minutes or more. The neighborhood I live in has only one store, a Stop and Shop, and it's incredibly expensive, compared to stores in adjacent neighborhoods. Everything just seems overwhelmingly pricey here, and for little actual value.

New comment by mnurzia in "Monodraw"

mnurzia — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 22:01:26 +0000

I've had this list bookmarked for years. Thanks for this!

New comment by mnurzia in "'A mouse for your mouth': New device allows users to scroll with their tongues"

mnurzia — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 15:19:34 +0000

Not really. The very first computer I used growing up (~2005 dell inspiron) had one but I could barely use a keyboard at that point. Haven't had access to one since. Do you use one? If so, do you think getting a standalone keyboard with a trackpoint is worth it for someone in my situation?

New comment by mnurzia in "'A mouse for your mouth': New device allows users to scroll with their tongues"

mnurzia — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 23:55:38 +0000

I could actually see myself using this, if it is reasonably precise. A lot of the software that I use is GUI-only, and I really don't like taking my hands off of the keyboard to reach my mouse.

New comment by mnurzia in "True(1) Man Page"

mnurzia — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 00:18:06 +0000

A few implementations of true(1):

coreutils: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coreutils/coreutils/master...

openbsd: https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/usr.bin/true/true.c?rev=1.1

busybox: https://git.busybox.net/busybox/plain/coreutils/true.c?h=1_3...

New comment by mnurzia in "Russia's Gas Production Collapses to Late-Stage USSR Levels"

mnurzia — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 15:36:51 +0000

I'm curious, why does this situation require Western experts in particular?