Hacker News: nikbackmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nikbackmHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 06 Oct 2026 04:25:48 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by nikbackm in "Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C (2025)"]]>There are already plenty of such languages, Zig among others.

]]>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:19:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965250nikbackmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965250https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965250<![CDATA[New comment by nikbackm in "Improvements to Std:Format in C++26"]]>Why even call it in that case?

]]>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:08:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48641850nikbackmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48641850https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48641850<![CDATA[New comment by nikbackm in "Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)"]]>Maybe related to text encodings?

I think riggrep will not search UTF-16 files by default. I had some such issue once at least.

]]>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:42:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47500775nikbackmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47500775https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47500775<![CDATA[Windows: Prefer the Native API over Win32]]>Article URL: https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/issues/31131

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47013324

Points: 71

# Comments: 97

]]>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:15:24 +0000https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/issues/31131nikbackmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47013324https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47013324<![CDATA[Important Clarification: Notepad++ Security Incident]]>Article URL: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/clarification-security-incident/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46896137

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

]]>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:47:46 +0000https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/clarification-security-incident/nikbackmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46896137https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46896137<![CDATA[A Prophetic Poem about Artificial Intelligence Written in 1961]]>Article URL: https://rodneybrooks.com/a-prophetic-poem-about-artificial-intelligence-written-in-1961/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45809601

Points: 1

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]]>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 11:01:02 +0000https://rodneybrooks.com/a-prophetic-poem-about-artificial-intelligence-written-in-1961/nikbackmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45809601https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45809601<![CDATA[Reflections on My Tech Career – Part 1]]>Article URL: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/reflections-on-my-tech-career-part-1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45678378

Points: 3

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]]>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 05:17:57 +0000https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/reflections-on-my-tech-career-part-1/nikbackmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45678378https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45678378<![CDATA[New comment by nikbackm in "C++26: range support for std:optional"]]>No it’s not.

]]>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 20:33:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45598046nikbackmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45598046https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45598046<![CDATA[New comment by nikbackm in "US Intel"]]>Geopolitical rivals then if you prefer that.

]]>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 17:23:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45029587nikbackmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45029587https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45029587<![CDATA[New comment by nikbackm in "Microplastics shed by food packaging are contaminating our food, study finds"]]>Clean, beautiful lead.

]]>Tue, 24 Jun 2025 13:33:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44366095nikbackmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44366095https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44366095<![CDATA[New comment by nikbackm in "Singularities in Space-Time Prove Hard to Kill"]]>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_star

]]>Wed, 28 May 2025 09:07:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44114091nikbackmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44114091https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44114091<![CDATA[New comment by nikbackm in "Edit is now open source"]]>Who knows?

Can't imagine anyone here using 32bit Windows and limiting themselves to 4GB of RAM.

Are there even any cheap laptops sold with that little nowadays?

]]>Tue, 20 May 2025 08:24:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44039136nikbackmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44039136https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44039136<![CDATA[Collections: Alexander Goes West (A Silly Counterfactual)]]>Article URL: https://acoup.blog/2025/05/16/collections-alexander-goes-west-a-silly-counterfactual/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44004358

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

]]>Fri, 16 May 2025 12:00:49 +0000https://acoup.blog/2025/05/16/collections-alexander-goes-west-a-silly-counterfactual/nikbackmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44004358https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44004358<![CDATA[New comment by nikbackm in "Astronomers confirm the existence of a lone black hole"]]>No, how does that relate?

]]>Tue, 22 Apr 2025 07:03:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43759723nikbackmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43759723https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43759723<![CDATA[New comment by nikbackm in "Big brands are spending small sums on X to stay out of Musk's crosshairs"]]>Sounds like a protection racket.

]]>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:23:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43537449nikbackmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43537449https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43537449<![CDATA[Standards for ANSI Escape Codes]]>Article URL: https://jvns.ca/blog/2025/03/07/escape-code-standards/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43298930

Points: 24

# Comments: 3

]]>Sat, 08 Mar 2025 10:02:12 +0000https://jvns.ca/blog/2025/03/07/escape-code-standards/nikbackmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43298930https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43298930<![CDATA[Humanity May Achieve the Singularity Within the Next 12 Months]]>Article URL: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a63922719/singularity-12-months/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43209297

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

]]>Fri, 28 Feb 2025 19:24:50 +0000https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a63922719/singularity-12-months/nikbackmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43209297https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43209297<![CDATA[New comment by nikbackm in "Resistance to Rust abstractions for DMA mapping"]]>So similar in that regard to Herb Sutter's experimental Cpp2 perhaps?

]]>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 10:09:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42930487nikbackmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42930487https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42930487<![CDATA[Hail and Farewell (2019)]]>Article URL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/msdn-magazine/2019/november/editor-s-note-hail-and-farewell

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42772425

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

]]>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 19:58:51 +0000https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/msdn-magazine/2019/november/editor-s-note-hail-and-farewellnikbackmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42772425https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42772425<![CDATA[Stay Gold, America]]>Article URL: https://blog.codinghorror.com/stay-gold-america/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42621416

Points: 19

# Comments: 1

]]>Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:33:45 +0000https://blog.codinghorror.com/stay-gold-america/nikbackmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42621416https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42621416