Hacker News: nikbackm

New comment by nikbackm in "Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)"

nikbackm — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:42:35 +0000

Maybe related to text encodings?

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

Windows: Prefer the Native API over Win32

nikbackm — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:15:24 +0000

Article URL: https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/issues/31131

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

Points: 71

# Comments: 97

Important Clarification: Notepad++ Security Incident

nikbackm — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:47:46 +0000

Article URL: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/clarification-security-incident/

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

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

A Prophetic Poem about Artificial Intelligence Written in 1961

nikbackm — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 11:01:02 +0000

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

# Comments: 0

Reflections on My Tech Career – Part 1

nikbackm — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 05:17:57 +0000

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

# Comments: 0

New comment by nikbackm in "C++26: range support for std:optional"

nikbackm — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 20:33:21 +0000

No it’s not.

New comment by nikbackm in "US Intel"

nikbackm — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 17:23:02 +0000

Geopolitical rivals then if you prefer that.

New comment by nikbackm in "Microplastics shed by food packaging are contaminating our food, study finds"

nikbackm — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 13:33:04 +0000

Clean, beautiful lead.

New comment by nikbackm in "Singularities in Space-Time Prove Hard to Kill"

nikbackm — Wed, 28 May 2025 09:07:52 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_star

New comment by nikbackm in "Edit is now open source"

nikbackm — Tue, 20 May 2025 08:24:52 +0000

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?

Collections: Alexander Goes West (A Silly Counterfactual)

nikbackm — Fri, 16 May 2025 12:00:49 +0000

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

New comment by nikbackm in "Astronomers confirm the existence of a lone black hole"

nikbackm — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 07:03:20 +0000

No, how does that relate?

New comment by nikbackm in "Big brands are spending small sums on X to stay out of Musk's crosshairs"

nikbackm — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:23:28 +0000

Sounds like a protection racket.

Standards for ANSI Escape Codes

nikbackm — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 10:02:12 +0000

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

Humanity May Achieve the Singularity Within the Next 12 Months

nikbackm — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 19:24:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a63922719/singularity-12-months/

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

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

New comment by nikbackm in "Resistance to Rust abstractions for DMA mapping"

nikbackm — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 10:09:02 +0000

So similar in that regard to Herb Sutter's experimental Cpp2 perhaps?

Hail and Farewell (2019)

nikbackm — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 19:58:51 +0000

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

Stay Gold, America

nikbackm — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:33:45 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.codinghorror.com/stay-gold-america/

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

Points: 19

# Comments: 1

Getting the linker to verify identical functions

nikbackm — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 16:16:56 +0000

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20241223-00/?p=110672

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42502850

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nikbackm in "In Search of a Faster SQLite"

nikbackm — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 13:46:44 +0000

From the same url:

SQLite is open-source, meaning that you can make as many copies of it as you want and do whatever you want with those copies, without limitation. But SQLite is not open-contribution. In order to keep SQLite in the public domain and ensure that the code does not become contaminated with proprietary or licensed content, the project does not accept patches from people who have not submitted an affidavit dedicating their contribution into the public domain.

All of the code in SQLite is original, having been written specifically for use by SQLite. No code has been copied from unknown sources on the internet.