Hacker News: overhead4075

New comment by overhead4075 in "Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game"

overhead4075 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:27:57 +0000

Shattered Pixel Dungeon: https://github.com/00-Evan/shattered-pixel-dungeon/releases

New comment by overhead4075 in "I think WebRTC is better than SSH-ing for connecting to Mac terminal from iPhone"

overhead4075 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:18:56 +0000

I do rust dev (nvim) and other ssh/terminal tasks on my Android phone. I get 82 rows and 118 columns, so not too worried about long lines. Mostly for something to do during my commute or when I want to do some coding without having to carry a laptop around.

New comment by overhead4075 in "Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy"

overhead4075 — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:50:15 +0000

A paper doesn't necessarily mean the information is new, but that there is now some/more evidence to support it.

New comment by overhead4075 in "How I fell in love with Erlang"

overhead4075 — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 18:12:23 +0000

I explain "X equals X plus one" as though each variable has an implicit version that increases whenever it's written to or as time goes on, but we can only access the lastest version.

For example

    X = X + X

is really

    Xv2 = Xv1 + Xv1

New comment by overhead4075 in "Rustroid, a Rust IDE for Android"

overhead4075 — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 23:22:03 +0000

I code on my phone using termux, tmux, nvim, and Unexpected Keyboard (no physical keyboard) on an Android phone. Vim style modal editing is actually really well suited to this kind of development.

It lets me work on my hobbies while I commute, travel, or am otherwise idle and is a nice alternative to scrolling social media or consuming content.

With git, I can just sync my changes and work from a PC when I can/want to.

New comment by overhead4075 in "I built Foyer: a Rust hybrid cache that slashes S3 latency"

overhead4075 — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 16:05:42 +0000

The page loads a "subscribe to author" modal pretty quickly after the page loads. You may have partially blocked it, so you won't see the modal but it still prevents scroll.

New comment by overhead4075 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025)"

overhead4075 — Sat, 10 May 2025 16:43:51 +0000

> cover letter is very important, and please do not use chatgpt to write it (we have automated checkers in place)

Specifically this

> we have automated checkers in place

Do you have any reason to believe that your automated AI checker is accurate or reliable? If anything, you're biasing yourself against neurodivergent applicants or anyone applying using their non-native language.

New comment by overhead4075 in "CSS Hell"

overhead4075 — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 01:01:33 +0000

Guess I'll go back to coding on my phone :'(

New comment by overhead4075 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)"

overhead4075 — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 20:32:50 +0000

> Location: Remote

Descriptions: [ Staff Full Stack / Senior Backend ]

> This role will be a hybrid work format, with time split between working remotely and working onsite from our San Francisco, New York, or Seattle offices, 2-3 days a week as required by your manager.

New comment by overhead4075 in "Debugging: Indispensable rules for finding even the most elusive problems (2004)"

overhead4075 — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 15:46:34 +0000

This is also covered by "make it fail"

New comment by overhead4075 in "Ads chew through half of mobile data"

overhead4075 — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 19:29:33 +0000

This and Firefox on Android with uBlock Origin

New comment by overhead4075 in "Triangulation of a polyline with thickness (a.k.a. line strip)"

overhead4075 — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 22:10:14 +0000

Doing something pretty similar with u,v coordinates to project half-edge arrows onto triangle faces.

New comment by overhead4075 in "CLI tool to insert spacers when command output stops"

overhead4075 — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:23:27 +0000

A bit fancier than my awk version

  awk -W interactive 'BEGIN { t = systime(); } { u=systime(); if (u - t > 1) { printf("= %s %ds =========\n",strftime("%T"), u - t); }; print $0; t = u; }'

Or if you want to clear the screen too

  awk -W interactive 'BEGIN { t = systime(); } { u=systime(); if (u - t > 1) { printf("\033[2J\033[H= %s %ds =========\n",strftime("%T"), u - t); }; print $0; t = u; }'

New comment by overhead4075 in "Translating 10M lines of Java to Kotlin"

overhead4075 — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 06:16:08 +0000

Java 14 introduced switch expressions.

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/language/switch-ex...

New comment by overhead4075 in "Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI"

overhead4075 — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 23:02:43 +0000

Logically, it couldn't be 50% since that would imply that the other 50% would be open brackets and that would leave 0% room for macros.

New comment by overhead4075 in "Category Theory Illustrated: Logic (2021)"

overhead4075 — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 15:57:00 +0000

Circles in circles doesn't really scale well if the inner circles are always vertically centered.

New comment by overhead4075 in "Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?"

overhead4075 — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 03:48:05 +0000

It might be worth having a price estimate comparison calculator instead of just a table. E.g., enter the number of users, the number of docs per week/month to show estimated price.

New comment by overhead4075 in "A brief interview with Awk creator Dr. Brian Kernighan (2022)"

overhead4075 — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 18:54:43 +0000

It's an awk interview. "Awk creator" is relevant.

New comment by overhead4075 in "Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem"

overhead4075 — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 13:54:56 +0000

E.g., Unexpected Keyboard has modifier keys and I can use it to enter Ctrl+Z on Android.

And a lot of other shortcuts, too (cut, copy, paste, select all, home/end, etc).

New comment by overhead4075 in "Beyond Markdown (2018)"

overhead4075 — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 02:25:39 +0000

New rule needs ~ when * or _ is used inside words, so your example wouldn't need escaping. E.g.,

dis~/cuss/~ing