Hacker News: nickwanninger

New comment by nickwanninger in "Your hex editor should color-code bytes"

nickwanninger — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:58:46 +0000

I added type-based color printing to my hexdump in my kernel [1] if anyone wants to have that code. It was instrumental in finding bugs quickly in wee hours of the night sometimes, especially if you have heap corruption. ---- [1] https://github.com/ChariotOS/chariot/blob/e046849c668458d25e...

Sigbovik 2026 Livestream (5pm ET)

nickwanninger — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:56:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JazxeftHDwY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47723561

Points: 1

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New comment by nickwanninger in "The Performance Impact of C++'s `final` Keyword"

nickwanninger — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 18:28:00 +0000

At the level that LLVM's LTO operates, no information about classes or objects is left, so LLVM itself can't really devirtualize C++ methods in most cases

New comment by nickwanninger in "Botlib: C Telegram bot framework"

nickwanninger — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 02:59:06 +0000

New comment by nickwanninger in "Threads, an Instagram app"

nickwanninger — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 20:57:11 +0000

It looks like threads.net is going to be a web version -- though it isn't very clear how useful it will be.

New comment by nickwanninger in "How SerenityOS declares ssize_t"

nickwanninger — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 13:03:00 +0000

Lucky for them, it's a fully custom OS that doesn't follow the standard :)

New comment by nickwanninger in "The Floppotron 3.0"

nickwanninger — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 02:49:27 +0000

Not long till can we have a GB of floppys on one table. Imagine!

New comment by nickwanninger in "BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run Linux"

nickwanninger — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 21:16:56 +0000

Likely that it supports the Supervisor execution environment from the riscv spec [1]. This means it can run the typical ring 0 and ring 3 for kernelspace and userspace respectively, and importantly the board supports virtual memory.

[1] https://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/riscv-privilege...

New comment by nickwanninger in "Pocket Casts acquired by NPR"

nickwanninger — Thu, 03 May 2018 21:18:13 +0000

From the article: "New York Public Radio's investment in Pocket Casts was made possible, in part, by Cynthia King Vance and a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York."

I don't think it was from donations, but I could be wrong

New comment by nickwanninger in "Keep VS Code from Becoming an IDE"

nickwanninger — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 15:03:06 +0000

I think they mean to say "being bloated like an IDE is slow, here's how to not be slow because of bloat". Or at least thats what I got out of it

New comment by nickwanninger in "Pinebook: An Affordable 64-bit ARM based Open Source Notebook"

nickwanninger — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 05:19:16 +0000

Do you rebind your caps lock to escape? That's what I did, and it's become second nature at this point.

New comment by nickwanninger in "Coinbase acquires Earn.com"

nickwanninger — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 16:35:15 +0000

"Joins" isn't in the thesaurus for "was bought by"

New comment by nickwanninger in "The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects"

nickwanninger — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 19:27:48 +0000

I actually usually have a general-use Makefile that I work from as a starting point [1]. It takes all c files from a src/ folder and builds their objects to build/ and then links them all in one go. No need for me to specify the files. It also works recursively.

[1]: https://pastebin.com/b1tr9th3

New comment by nickwanninger in "Show HN: Mux Video, a simple API to powerful video streaming"

nickwanninger — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 18:07:14 +0000

I think that is quite possibly the best deal of all time.

New comment by nickwanninger in "Tiny Core Linux"

nickwanninger — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 19:08:23 +0000

Do you have to do anything special to load it all into the cache or is that just something that would happen by default?

New comment by nickwanninger in "DOJ: Strong encryption that we don’t have access to is “unreasonable”"

nickwanninger — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 06:41:14 +0000

Gotta love the fact that the EU seems to think the exact opposite

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/19/eu-outlaw...

New comment by nickwanninger in "Yosemite bolt replacement and Death Block removal (2012)"

nickwanninger — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 01:43:46 +0000

Was going to say that this was a joke about MacOS bugs, but then I opened the article. :P

Updates to DevTools in Chrome 62

nickwanninger — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 20:53:42 +0000

Article URL: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/08/devtools-release-notes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15469163

Points: 95

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