<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: mzs</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mzs</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:37:21 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mzs" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mzs in "The BBC Tetris Companion"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>nice series from same author:<p><a href="https://www.leadedsolder.com/2020/02/16/colecovision-diy-part-1.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.leadedsolder.com/2020/02/16/colecovision-diy-par...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:25:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211927</link><dc:creator>mzs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211927</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mzs in "Brow6el: A full-featured web browser for the terminal using Chromium"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"This reporitory [<a href="https://tangled.org/janantos.tngl.sh/brow6el" rel="nofollow">https://tangled.org/janantos.tngl.sh/brow6el</a>] is now the main and only source of truth, previous on Codeberg [<a href="https://codeberg.org/janantos/brow6el" rel="nofollow">https://codeberg.org/janantos/brow6el</a>] is kept for referrence only. I have decided to migrated from Codeberg because of my other projects are not welcomed there anymore and I want to keep my projects together on single platform."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:42:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49025392</link><dc:creator>mzs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49025392</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49025392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mzs in "My husbands suicide shows theres something very wrong with US insurance industry"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Similar story for our youngest - excuse after excuse. We just bought two round-trip tickets to Warsaw and paid privately. It was a little more but my wife and son got to spend time with friends and family for that extra. The effort we had spent in US we never got back. I hope it worked-out okay for your family as well.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:16:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982690</link><dc:creator>mzs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982690</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mzs in "My husbands suicide shows theres something very wrong with US insurance industry"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"I've never been suicidal..."<p>That's why you can't understand.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:10:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982581</link><dc:creator>mzs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982581</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mzs in "Shinjuku Station in 3D"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://github.com/satoshi7190/Shinjuku-indoor-threejs-demo" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/satoshi7190/Shinjuku-indoor-threejs-demo</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:49:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48980557</link><dc:creator>mzs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48980557</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48980557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The U.S. last beat screwworm in 1966]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2026/06/25/texas-screwworm-history-eradication/">https://www.texastribune.org/2026/06/25/texas-screwworm-history-eradication/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674928">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674928</a></p>
<p>Points: 6</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:31:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.texastribune.org/2026/06/25/texas-screwworm-history-eradication/</link><dc:creator>mzs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674928</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trick or spice? How the 'nutmeg' came to dominate the soccer world]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://text.npr.org/2026/05/28/nx-s1-5831957/nutmeg-world-cup-soccer-spice">https://text.npr.org/2026/05/28/nx-s1-5831957/nutmeg-world-cup-soccer-spice</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48310569">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48310569</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 15:40:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://text.npr.org/2026/05/28/nx-s1-5831957/nutmeg-world-cup-soccer-spice</link><dc:creator>mzs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48310569</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48310569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mzs in "My Stratum-0 Atomic Clock"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder how, if at all, you can improve precision with 4 stratum-1 clocks like he author has.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:57:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47962598</link><dc:creator>mzs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47962598</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47962598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mzs in "Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I miss the days of knowing who last touched every source file and precisely what version it was:<p><pre><code>  $ what /usr/bin/file
  /usr/bin/file:
   PROGRAM:file  PROJECT:file-106
   $File: apprentice.c,v 1.309 2021/09/24 13:59:19 christos Exp $
   $File: apptype.c,v 1.14 2018/09/09 20:33:28 christos Exp $
   $File: ascmagic.c,v 1.109 2021/02/05 23:01:40 christos Exp $
   $File: buffer.c,v 1.8 2020/02/16 15:52:49 christos Exp $
   $File: cdf_time.c,v 1.19 2019/03/12 20:43:05 christos Exp $
   $File: cdf.c,v 1.120 2021/09/24 13:59:19 christos Exp $
   $File: compress.c,v 1.129 2020/12/08 21:26:00 christos Exp $
   $File: der.c,v 1.21 2020/06/15 00:58:10 christos Exp $
   $File: encoding.c,v 1.32 2021/04/27 19:37:14 christos Exp $
   $File: fsmagic.c,v 1.81 2019/07/16 13:30:32 christos Exp $
   $File: funcs.c,v 1.122 2021/06/30 10:08:48 christos Exp $
   $File: is_csv.c,v 1.6 2020/08/09 16:43:36 christos Exp $
   $File: is_json.c,v 1.15 2020/06/07 19:05:47 christos Exp $
   $File: is_tar.c,v 1.44 2019/02/20 02:35:27 christos Exp $
   $File: magic.c,v 1.115 2021/09/20 17:45:41 christos Exp $
   $File: print.c,v 1.89 2021/06/30 10:08:48 christos Exp $
   $File: readcdf.c,v 1.74 2019/09/11 15:46:30 christos Exp $
   $File: readelf.c,v 1.178 2021/06/30 10:08:48 christos Exp $
   $File: softmagic.c,v 1.315 2021/09/03 13:17:52 christos Exp $
   $File: file.c,v 1.190 2021/09/24 14:14:26 christos Exp $
  ...
 
  WHAT(1)                     General Commands Manual                    WHAT(1)
  
  NAME
       what - show what versions of object modules were used to construct a file
  
  SYNOPSIS
       what [-qs] [file ...]
  
  DESCRIPTION
       The what utility searches each specified file for sequences of the form
       "@(#)" as inserted by the SCCS source code control system.  It prints the
       remainder of the string following this marker, up to a NUL character,
       newline, double quote, `>' character, or backslash.
  
       The following options are available:
  
       -q      Only output the match text, rather than formatting it.
  
       -s      Stop searching each file after the first match.
  
  EXIT STATUS
       Exit status is 0 if any matches were found, otherwise 1.
  
  SEE ALSO
       ident(1), strings(1)
  
  STANDARDS
       The what utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 ("POSIX.1").  The -q
       option is a non-standard FreeBSD extension which may not be available on
       other operating systems.
  
  HISTORY
       The what command appeared in 4.0BSD.
  
  BUGS
       This is a rewrite of the SCCS command of the same name, and behavior may
       not be identical.
  
  macOS 26.4                     December 14, 2006                    macOS 26.4</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 04:34:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47930494</link><dc:creator>mzs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47930494</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47930494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mzs in "Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers (2008)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>archive of forth translation of Crenshaw’s howto<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190712115536/http://home.iae.nl/users/mhx/crenshaw/tiny.html" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20190712115536/http://home.iae.n...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:27:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47779478</link><dc:creator>mzs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47779478</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47779478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mzs in "Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You'll probably dislike this too:<p><pre><code>  $ {
  >     echo foo \
  >     && echo bar \
  >     || echo baz ;
  > }
  foo
  bar
  <^P><^A>$<^F>IFS
  ${IFS#   echo foo   && echo bar   || echo baz ; }
  $ _
</code></pre>
There's good and bad to both approaches. I like how I can use () and {} to bracket things and otherwise every line that end in \ is continued. I line-up on the left with the operator, you with indentation. When you use a # style comment, you have to look up and back and forward to see what the operator is you are continuing over to the next line:<p><pre><code>  $ foo |
    bar | # ?Do? *the* $bar$ && [do] {it!}
    baz
</code></pre>
Which only takes an extra neuron or so, but then history...<p><pre><code>  <^P>
  $ foo |   bar | # ?Do? *the* $bar$ && [do] {it!}
  baz</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:00:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47534300</link><dc:creator>mzs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47534300</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47534300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mzs in "Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wow I hate* that. I use bracket comments. They're cool cause they are bracket comments, so I use it in scripts to document pipelines. They are annoying cause they are bracket comments, in an interactive shell I have to type more and in TWO places. It's fun to reason-out how it works ;)<p><pre><code>  $ echo foo | tr fo FO | sed 's/FOO/BAR/'
  BAR
  $ echo foo | ${IFS# tr fo FO | } sed 's/FOO/BAR/'
  foo
</code></pre>
It's nice to have a way to both /* ... */ and // ...
in shell scripts though:<p><pre><code>  foo \
  | bar ${IFS Do the bar. Do it. } \
  | baz
</code></pre>
* in the best possible way, like it's awful - I hate I didn't think of that</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:06:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47532957</link><dc:creator>mzs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47532957</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47532957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mzs in "Tracy Kidder has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>indeed: B. Joshua Rosen  <a href="https://www.polybus.com/hdlmaker/Resume.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.polybus.com/hdlmaker/Resume.html</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:24:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47521996</link><dc:creator>mzs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47521996</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47521996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mzs in "A Compiler Writing Journey"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Part 64: Self-compilation on an 8-bit CPU"<p>Unlike how a bunch of projects end right as they start to get good, this has a great ending. Thank you</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:47:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47518044</link><dc:creator>mzs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47518044</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47518044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mzs in "Stdwin: Standard window interface by Guido Van Rossum [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>the code from 1995<p><a href="https://github.com/thomas-hori/mirror-cwi-stdwin" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/thomas-hori/mirror-cwi-stdwin</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:37:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47437232</link><dc:creator>mzs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47437232</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47437232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mzs in "(Media over QUIC) on a Boat"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>1. is? <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1659672" rel="nofollow">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1659672</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:38:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47426371</link><dc:creator>mzs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47426371</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47426371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LHCb Collaboration discovers new proton-like particle]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://home.cern/news/news/physics/lhcb-collaboration-discovers-new-proton-particle">https://home.cern/news/news/physics/lhcb-collaboration-discovers-new-proton-particle</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47411577">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47411577</a></p>
<p>Points: 5</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:11:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://home.cern/news/news/physics/lhcb-collaboration-discovers-new-proton-particle</link><dc:creator>mzs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47411577</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47411577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mzs in "Building a Shell"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Had an assignment to build a shell in a week, how hard could it be?<p><pre><code>  controlling terminal
  session leader
  job control
</code></pre>
The parser was easy in comparison.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:39:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47411297</link><dc:creator>mzs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47411297</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47411297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mzs in "Strip mining of Illinois' coal deposits reveal the secret of the Tully Monster"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Solving the mystery of the Tully Monster: <a href="https://www.anl.gov/article/solving-the-mystery-of-the-tully-monster" rel="nofollow">https://www.anl.gov/article/solving-the-mystery-of-the-tully...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:52:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366114</link><dc:creator>mzs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366114</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strip mining of Illinois' coal deposits reveal the secret of the Tully Monster]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.uhaul.com/SuperGraphics/illinois/learn-more/introduction/">https://www.uhaul.com/SuperGraphics/illinois/learn-more/introduction/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366080">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366080</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:50:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.uhaul.com/SuperGraphics/illinois/learn-more/introduction/</link><dc:creator>mzs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366080</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366080</guid></item></channel></rss>