Hacker News: nophunphil

New comment by nophunphil in "Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI"

nophunphil — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:48:57 +0000

How would this be virtue signaling?

Anyway, I think we should want to build efficient things. Dismissing this doesn’t seem terribly productive.

New comment by nophunphil in "Dusklight – GC Twilight Princess Decompiled"

nophunphil — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:17:35 +0000

Sorry, the "re-implemented" wording might have been a bit strong in my last comment.

Take a look at this recent pull request into the TP decompilation repo: https://github.com/zeldaret/tp/pull/3155/changes

The changes are often symbol renames, casts, replacing hard-coded values with enum values, etc...The idea is to map the decompiled output to human-readable source.

New comment by nophunphil in "Dusklight – GC Twilight Princess Decompiled"

nophunphil — Sat, 30 May 2026 23:30:57 +0000

This project was made possible by the recent ZeldaRET decompilation project. To simplify, the goal of that project was to create a program whose inputs were the game assets (extracted from a ROM) and to produce ROM output that just happens to be an exact match of the source ROM. In other words, the decompilation project re-implemented all game logic.

Dusklight is a program based on the decompiled source code that requires game assets then runs the application natively. It’s highly specialized and would likely never be used to run any other game.

New comment by nophunphil in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

nophunphil — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:18:15 +0000

Fair points! Thanks for sharing the write-up as well - great read.

New comment by nophunphil in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

nophunphil — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:27:45 +0000

I guess the only difference between this and your example is the concrete efficiency gain from RTL and synthesis tools versus dubious applications of AI. I do agree with the second point about pushing people to explore new ways of doing things though.

New comment by nophunphil in "Agentic AI systems violate the implicit assumptions of database design"

nophunphil — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:02:07 +0000

1) Can you explain what demand and supply mean in this context?

2) In regards to having good backup hygiene, who is we?

New comment by nophunphil in "Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors"

nophunphil — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:53:55 +0000

Thank you. This is helpful.

New comment by nophunphil in "Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors"

nophunphil — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:08:15 +0000

Educate me then. The mental image I have from researching the topic seems contrary to what you’re saying.

New comment by nophunphil in "Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors"

nophunphil — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 04:27:00 +0000

I would have been interested in debating the content of your reply if your account had not been created 1 hour ago.

So what about protesting the Russian invasion of Ukraine seems objectionable to you?

> it is fair to say that Notepad++’s freedom to protest would depend on who and what they are protesting.

What? In the US, UK, and Australia, the right to protest (i.e. of speech) does not depend on what’s being protested in the way you’re implying.

New comment by nophunphil in "Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors"

nophunphil — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 03:50:57 +0000

I don’t see it as a waste of my time. I am not in the habit of seeing conflicts in which innocent people die as a “waste of my time”. The idea that my time is somehow more valuable than another person’s is narcissistic.

New comment by nophunphil in "Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors"

nophunphil — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 03:45:35 +0000

Not pertinent. My point is more in reference to the ancestor comment with respect to Ukraine and Taiwan:

> Yeah, Notepad++ is known for political messaging in their updates. Taiwan, Ukraine, etc.

If you’re calling Ukraine in particular a “separatist movement”, I don’t think we can have a productive conversation.

New comment by nophunphil in "Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors"

nophunphil — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 03:25:02 +0000

> I can't help but feel there must some better venue for such messaging.

I would argue that this has been an effective avenue for messaging/protest. You’re responding to it on this very board - that means you’re thinking about it.

Another angle: would such free protest be allowed if the developers of Notepad++ were based in China or Russia? I seriously doubt it.

New comment by nophunphil in "Microsoft's Azure Linux"

nophunphil — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 07:22:48 +0000

They referred to Microsoft’s known practice of embrace, extend, extinguish a “conspiracy theory” in a sibling thread, so they’ve essentially lost credibility. I don’t think genuine feedback is going anywhere useful.

New comment by nophunphil in "Microsoft's Azure Linux"

nophunphil — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 06:33:56 +0000

You shouldn’t be posting replies like this on a public forum if you’re actually a MS employee.

New comment by nophunphil in "Microsoft's Azure Linux"

nophunphil — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 06:20:37 +0000

“We” feels a little insincere when you’re speaking on behalf of such a large corporation. I’m sure the comment had more to do with weaknesses of Azure as a whole rather than your team’s piece.

New comment by nophunphil in "Django: what’s new in 6.0"

nophunphil — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:16:03 +0000

The best kind :)

New comment by nophunphil in "Django: what’s new in 6.0"

nophunphil — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 23:00:02 +0000

Pretty positive that was a joke/bait…

New comment by nophunphil in "I Want You to Understand Chicago"

nophunphil — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 18:04:37 +0000

Got it. Trolling.

New comment by nophunphil in "I Want You to Understand Chicago"

nophunphil — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 21:18:10 +0000

Care to cite a reputable source?

With an account created just before this comment, I’d assume this is just low-effort trolling.

New comment by nophunphil in "Do you know that there is an HTML tables API?"

nophunphil — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 15:20:36 +0000

I agree with many other replies here, specifically about accessibility. Once I learned how to use a screen reader, it was eye-opening. So many web applications are utterly broken for users with assistive technologies.

Tables built with flex and grid absolutely can be made accessible with WAI-ARIA, but native table elements are harder to mess up.