Hacker News: nlehuen

New comment by nlehuen in "Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS"

nlehuen — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:01:52 +0000

I purchased Turbo Pascal 3 for Amstrad CPC 6128 with my pocket money back in 1989(?). That was 1000 FF back then (~275€ today) so quite a big sum for a teenager. My dad took pity on me and funded 50% of it. Best investment ever!

Learning Pascal after Locomotive Basic was night and day. And the speeeeeed! I could finally compute 320x200 Mandelbrot set renderings in reasonable amounts of time (few minutes IIRC).

I still have the disk & manual somewhere, as well as a couple related books. And for whatever reason Ctrl-K Ctrl-W still haunts my mind.

It's really mind boggling that the entire thing (CP/M + IDE + compiler + libraries) fit on one side of a 3" floppy disk (<180 kB).

New comment by nlehuen in "France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls"

nlehuen — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:15:05 +0000

French video explaining how one particular telemarketing scam works in France:

https://youtu.be/1HoU17dIEos?is=8giBMS_TRJEvmzM3

I'm really curious to see what impact the new law will have on this scourge.

New comment by nlehuen in "Our position on open-weights models"

nlehuen — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 07:17:24 +0000

Please reconsider this comment. Calling one side superior and the other side insects really doesn't help with the discussion, and dehumanizing a whole swath of people really has dark consequences.

New comment by nlehuen in "Echoes (Live at Pompeii) (1972)"

nlehuen — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:16:18 +0000

This song is a wonderful >24 minutes psychedelic trip and reading lyrics on genius.com is missing out a lot

You can listen & watch it on https://youtu.be/JQ2pTamaqQ4?is=T8TaqnsHRx0rqGyZ for instance.

New comment by nlehuen in "Scrcpy v4.0"

nlehuen — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:21:04 +0000

I think it's implemented now. Last time I transferred from one Android phone to another, I connected them with an USB cable and the new phone prompted me to enter the old phone's PIN. I was confused why, I guess that's the reason?

The old phone's screen was OK though, and I don't remember if I had to use it to initiate the transfer.

New comment by nlehuen in "Show HN: Hallucinopedia"

nlehuen — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:37:43 +0000

https://halupedia.com/spatial-bowel-movement-observatory

New comment by nlehuen in "Show HN: Hallucinopedia"

nlehuen — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:28:49 +0000

I'm having a blast adding new seeds :)

https://halupedia.com/fcuk-spellchecking-society https://halupedia.com/characterization-of-the-reluctant-peng...

New comment by nlehuen in "Show HN: Hallucinopedia"

nlehuen — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:43:14 +0000

Looks like some single quote escaping issue? I suspect the first link to be "Archduke Ferdinand VII's Bureau of Non-Demographic Surveys" and the apostrophe breaks the link.

New comment by nlehuen in "Show HN: Hallucinopedia"

nlehuen — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:40:28 +0000

This is excellent, congrats!

FYI I manually created this page and some link markup looks malformed: https://halupedia.com/list-of-uninhabited-countries

Python Is Dead

nlehuen — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:53:34 +0000

Article URL: https://calebfenton.substack.com/p/python-is-dead

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47787374

Points: 16

# Comments: 11

New comment by nlehuen in "We replaced Node.js with Bun for 5x throughput"

nlehuen — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:53:15 +0000

The SQL query they replaced was extremely cringe and amateurish ("let's sprinkle DISTINCT until all those pesky redundant rows that come from our inefficient KV metadata schema go away"). The fact they did not acknowledge that and somehow blame it on SQlite made me stop reading on the spot, and be very worried for whoever depends on their products.

New comment by nlehuen in "Boomloom: Think with your hands"

nlehuen — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 09:19:35 +0000

See also: writing a design doc before writing code :)

New comment by nlehuen in "Ghostmd: Ghostty but for Markdown Notes"

nlehuen — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 01:40:57 +0000

> Diary entries get a path: diary/2026/march/03/

Date paths should use at least a double digit numerical index so they are naturally ordered when sorted lexicographically. Numbers also give you i18n for free (assuming Gregorian calendar of course, but it seems that's what this non configurable tool does here).

New comment by nlehuen in "In praise of –dry-run"

nlehuen — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 09:56:50 +0000

And just like that, you find yourself implementing a compiler (specs to plan) and a virtual machine (plan to actions)!

New comment by nlehuen in "Show HN: 48-digit prime numbers every git commit"

nlehuen — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:07:08 +0000

Actually there are π(N) ~ N / ln(N) primes less than N per the Prime Number Theorem, so π(2 ^ 160) ~ 2 ^ 153.2 - this only drops 7 bits. So that does increase the odds of collision but much less than what I expected!

New comment by nlehuen in "Show HN: 48-digit prime numbers every git commit"

nlehuen — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:54:00 +0000

I came here to write that :-)

New comment by nlehuen in "Paris had a moving sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison film captured it (2020)"

nlehuen — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 22:47:21 +0000

There are at least some in the Paris subway, including one that went at 12 km/h but was decommissioned in 2011:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_walkway#Trottoir_roulan...

New comment by nlehuen in "My original Palm IIIx"

nlehuen — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 08:42:10 +0000

I initially thought that this space was encumbered with parents but Gemini Deep Research says the main patent expired in 2018: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GmWGZMe_cjszV5eEegeFiWXK...

New comment by nlehuen in "AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more"

nlehuen — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 23:00:26 +0000

China is west of the USA.

New comment by nlehuen in "Initialization in C++ is bonkers (2017)"

nlehuen — Thu, 15 May 2025 22:44:52 +0000

Not to worry, there is a 278 page book about initialization in C++!

https://leanpub.com/cppinitbook

(I don't know whether it's good or not, I just find it fascinating that it exists)