Hacker News: norskeld

New comment by norskeld in "A Claude Code skill that makes Claude talk like a caveman, cutting token use"

norskeld — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:26:11 +0000

APL for talking to LLM when? Also, this reminded me of that episode from The Office where Kevin started talking like a caveman to make communication efficient.

New comment by norskeld in "Cloudflare was down"

norskeld — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:24:01 +0000

Damn, I wish CloudFlare being down also affected local development, so I could take a break from doing frontend… :'(

New comment by norskeld in "Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem"

norskeld — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:09:54 +0000

I don't think this is the case with CloudFlare, but for every recent GitHub outage or performance issue... oh boy, I blame the clankers!

New comment by norskeld in "Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem"

norskeld — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:04:18 +0000

This wild `unwrap()` kinda took me aback as well. Someone really believed in themselves writing this. :)

New comment by norskeld in "Helium Browser"

norskeld — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 08:56:53 +0000

While I agree that monopolies suck, I _absolutely hate_ having to waste my time adjusting styles and writing workaround code just to make everything look and work consistently in a multitude of browsers. This is one of the reasons — among a hundred others — that I grew to somewhat hate front-end, doubly so with the rise of mobile devices. And the more rendering engines we have, the more developers will have to fight frustrating battles with inconsistencies and quirks.

New comment by norskeld in "Vibe coding cleanup as a service"

norskeld — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 08:37:15 +0000

Janitor Engineers [0] are already a thing? Damn. Also, all links in this article starting from the "Why AI code fails at scale" section are dead for some reason, even though it was written only 5 days ago. That raises some questions...

EDIT: Not trying to offend anyone with this [0], I've actually had the same half-joking retirement plan since the dawn of vibe coding, to become an "all-organic-code" consultant who untangles and cleans up AI-generated mess.

New comment by norskeld in "Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published"

norskeld — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 16:06:25 +0000

It also has catalogs feature for defining versions or version ranges as reusable constants that you can reference in workspace packages. It was almost the only reason (besides speed) I switched a year ago from npm and never looked back.

New comment by norskeld in "I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface"

norskeld — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 11:54:45 +0000

As a TypeScript developer experienced in type-level acrobatics, this looks just fine...

New comment by norskeld in "Don't animate height"

norskeld — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 18:40:20 +0000

Personally, I'd be annoyed by both the resource-consuming animations and the blurry GIFs/canvas. Infisical does use the latter (canvas) for icons in their UI, and I somewhat hate it. I'd rather look at crisp, but static icons.

New comment by norskeld in "No. The C++ mascot is not a diseased rat named Keith (2024)"

norskeld — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 10:48:16 +0000

Oh no, Keith was the only thing I liked about C++!

New comment by norskeld in "The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust"

norskeld — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 21:06:34 +0000

Very tangential, but I couldn't help but remember Crust [1]. This tsoding madlad even wrote a B compiler [2] using these... rules. Or lack thereof?

[1]: https://github.com/tsoding/Crust

[2]: https://github.com/tsoding/b

New comment by norskeld in "Strategies for Fast Lexers"

norskeld — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 09:58:14 +0000

Ah, yes, that's totally fair. In case of JS (in browsers) it's sort of a big deal, I suppose, even if scripts being loaded are not render-blocking: the faster you lex and parse source files, the faster page becomes interactive.

P.S. I absolutely loved "Crafting Interpreters" — thank you so much for writing it!

New comment by norskeld in "Reflections on OpenAI"

norskeld — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 06:53:43 +0000

You should believe in all of them. Just spray and pray!

New comment by norskeld in "Strategies for Fast Lexers"

norskeld — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 17:53:00 +0000

Is lexing ever a bottleneck though? Even if you push for lexing and parsing 10M lines/second [1], I'd argue that semantic analysis and codegen (for AOT-compiled languages) will dominate the timings.

That said, there's no reason not to squeeze every bit of performance out of it!

[1]: In this talk about the Carbon language, Chandler Carruth shows and explains some goals/challenges regarding performance: https://youtu.be/ZI198eFghJk?t=1462

New comment by norskeld in "Let's Learn x86-64 Assembly (2020)"

norskeld — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 08:04:19 +0000

Looking at the source code of the code-editor [1], it seems to be embedding https://onecompiler.com via the iframe and delegating code compilation and execution to it. So I guess it's a question to onecompiler, whether they sanitize input or not. :)

[1]: https://github.com/shikaan/shikaan.github.io/blob/main/_incl...

New comment by norskeld in "Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update"

norskeld — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 10:42:02 +0000

Well, many people have complained about this very issue, and it was actually from this [1] discussion that I learned that Firefox handles big PRs just fine. No amount of jumping through hoops, including creating a new profile, helped to make it work in Chrome.

[1]: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/39341

New comment by norskeld in "Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update"

norskeld — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 09:33:33 +0000

Speaking of 'works best in Firefox'... I mainly use Chrome (kinda have to), and it's practically impossible to use it for reviewing big GitHub PRs with many files changed (UI just freezes), but everything's perfectly fine in Firefox!

New comment by norskeld in "New Date("wtf") – How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?"

norskeld — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 19:48:17 +0000

Ha-ha, thanks, I couldn't help but chuckle a bit at that intro. As for them taking their time... Well, yes, it's all rather sad, but I personally came to terms long ago with the snail's pace of JS proposals rolling out. And after all, working with dates and time zones is a rather complex matter in itself, so no judgment here.

I've had to develop interfaces built entirely around date and time operations, and it was painful not so much because of the awful and broken date parsing in JS (although it definitely doesn't help), but rather because of the inherent complexity of how we represent calendar dates and times, and how we build abstractions around these representations. Definitely NOT looking forward to developing that booking system at work...

New comment by norskeld in "New Date("wtf") – How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?"

norskeld — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 10:46:44 +0000

Scored 17/28. Thank you, this is absolutely cursed! It's probably a good time to go and check out the Temporal stuff (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...).

New comment by norskeld in "Writing toy software is a joy"

norskeld — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 06:52:43 +0000

This. I was skeptical at first, but it is indeed good at searching and answering questions without! That said, I still have to double-check results for niche queries or about stuff that is relatively new. Sometimes, the "sources" for the answers are just someone's opinions — unsubstantiated by any facts — on an old Reddit post that's only tangentially related to the topic. And sometimes, you simply know that manual search and digging through SO answers yourself will yield better results. At this point I've developed a gut feeling that helps me decide whether to prompt Perplexity or just g**gle it.