Hacker News: on_the_train

New comment by on_the_train in "Germany goes from labour shortages to hiring freezes"

on_the_train — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:12:36 +0000

They do, literally and explicitly so. Yes, really.

New comment by on_the_train in "Modern C++ Programming: Busato"

on_the_train — Sun, 03 May 2026 03:05:02 +0000

Nothing did more damage to c++ code bases than people not understanding this. People hear "smart pointers are good" and use them for everything. Not understanding that it's just the lesser evil and still extremely rarely needed (vs just stack memory or variants)

New comment by on_the_train in "Bitmap and tilemap generation from a single example"

on_the_train — Sat, 02 May 2026 15:51:38 +0000

And one of my favorite examples how fancy names impact popularity. Also see Mersenne Twister.

New comment by on_the_train in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

on_the_train — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:59:25 +0000

Bingo. Ghcp is the only allowed llm solution at our big well known semiconductor corp. It'll take years to get approval for anything else. We're stuck with it and will pay whatever price we have to.

New comment by on_the_train in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

on_the_train — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:58:43 +0000

Because Copilot is the only thing allowed at our corp

New comment by on_the_train in "Introduction to Obsidian"

on_the_train — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 02:20:50 +0000

But I don't want to change vaults, I want to work in both. I want to search for something and get results from all vaults. Or rather: I want to select which folders to sync - that would effectively be the same for me.

New comment by on_the_train in "Introduction to Obsidian"

on_the_train — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:25:47 +0000

I'm just so bummed that multiple vaults are pretty much unusable. I can't sync my sensitive work notes. But I want to sync general programming notes between work and other PCs. But multiple vaults hardly work. The just open in a new window.

Other than that, I love so many things about the program. Just linking and graphs are weird and strangely overrated. Search and tags still rules over everything imo

New comment by on_the_train in "Anthropic is burning more and more dev goodwill"

on_the_train — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:39:18 +0000

Because it's a clickbait title

New comment by on_the_train in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

on_the_train — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:58:02 +0000

No they don't? You keep working for 2-10 months until you can leave whatever your contact says

New comment by on_the_train in "The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos"

on_the_train — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:10:27 +0000

Being German lol

New comment by on_the_train in "Windows native app development is a mess"

on_the_train — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:56:52 +0000

All my work experience with guis was mfc. And all modernizations were web based. The in betweens are usually not considered worthwhile.

But imgui is a breeze of fresh air for internal stuff

New comment by on_the_train in "German police probe student poster slur against Merz"

on_the_train — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:37:03 +0000

Politicians literally have their own paragraph with insane protections, it's §188. You don't ever want to say something negative about a politicians in Germany. The police will kick in your door within days.

New comment by on_the_train in "Libxml2 Enterprise Edition (AGPL, from the previous maintainer)"

on_the_train — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:39:13 +0000

"Enterprise edition" is usually a sign of parody projects. But this seems to be serious?

New comment by on_the_train in "Khamenei Dead"

on_the_train — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:26:34 +0000

Yeah NOW it's suddenly about the guidelines lmao

New comment by on_the_train in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

on_the_train — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:47:02 +0000

YouTube is completely broken with this shitty spark thing. Also yesterday I was greeted with an entire new sidebar. It's comical

New comment by on_the_train in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

on_the_train — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:45:53 +0000

It literally breaks YouTube

New comment by on_the_train in "ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030"

on_the_train — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 04:40:02 +0000

No you can't, or rather you only get a tiny amount in the correct wavelengths

New comment by on_the_train in "ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030"

on_the_train — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:43:35 +0000

It really is the specific wavelength. Higher or lower is easier. But euv has tricky properties which make it feasible for Lithography (although just barely it you have a look at the optics) but hard to produce with high intensities.

New comment by on_the_train in "ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030"

on_the_train — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:25:15 +0000

This is a steep increase of power to get out of a vacuum system that is highly sensitive to temperature changes.

New comment by on_the_train in "Canvas_ity: A tiny, single-header

on_the_train — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 17:42:04 +0000

I wrote a mildly popular header only library with exactly this pattern once. Then there came a guy adding cmake. I didn't really know it back then so I didn't stop him. The downloads went to literally zero lol. Cmake is an extremely vocal minority.

Hacker News: on_the_train

New comment by on_the_train in "Germany goes from labour shortages to hiring freezes"

New comment by on_the_train in "Modern C++ Programming: Busato"

New comment by on_the_train in "Bitmap and tilemap generation from a single example"

New comment by on_the_train in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

New comment by on_the_train in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

New comment by on_the_train in "Introduction to Obsidian"

New comment by on_the_train in "Introduction to Obsidian"

New comment by on_the_train in "Anthropic is burning more and more dev goodwill"

New comment by on_the_train in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

New comment by on_the_train in "The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos"

New comment by on_the_train in "Windows native app development is a mess"

New comment by on_the_train in "German police probe student poster slur against Merz"

New comment by on_the_train in "Libxml2 Enterprise Edition (AGPL, from the previous maintainer)"

New comment by on_the_train in "Khamenei Dead"

New comment by on_the_train in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

New comment by on_the_train in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

New comment by on_the_train in "ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030"

New comment by on_the_train in "ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030"

New comment by on_the_train in "ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030"

New comment by on_the_train in "Canvas_ity: A tiny, single-header -like 2D rasterizer for C++"

New comment by on_the_train in "Canvas_ity: A tiny, single-header