Hacker News: progre

New comment by progre in "VSCode rebrands as "The open source AI code editor""

progre — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 18:10:06 +0000

Emacs is not terminal based, though you can run emacs in a terminal if you want to.

New comment by progre in "A 9KB (3KB gzip) single HTML notebook, perfect for minimalists"

progre — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 19:31:08 +0000

Bug: If you put a space as the title, you can't edit the note later because the post is not clickable.

New comment by progre in "Red: A programming language inspired by REBOL"

progre — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 16:15:39 +0000

First version of Redis was written in Tcl.

New comment by progre in "July 5, 1687: When Newton explained why you don't float away"

progre — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 07:30:38 +0000

To me, the funniest part of why Principica was bankrolled by Edmund Halley is that is was supposed to be funded by the Royal Academy. Only, their previous publishing project "The history of fishes" had faceplanted and they had no money.

Also, when Principica was funded and Halley was himself short on cash, RA decided that they could not afford to actually pay him money (he was the RA secretary). Instead he would get copies of The History of fishes

New comment by progre in "Colombia seizes first unmanned narco-submarine with Starlink antenna"

progre — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 05:55:46 +0000

The wavelengths used in satelite communication are entirely absorbed by water. I think the sub would have to surface to use the antenna.

New comment by progre in "A simple 16x16 dot animation from simple math rules"

progre — Sat, 10 May 2025 19:51:52 +0000

Fire! https://tixy.land/?code=Math.sin%28%28y%2F3%5Ex%7Ci%29%2Bt%2...

New comment by progre in "When your last name is Null, nothing works"

progre — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 08:01:54 +0000

In YAML (the gift that keeps on giving, see the False/Norway debacle) the last name of Null would have to be quoted, otherwise it would signify the null value.

New comment by progre in "Lua is so underrated"

progre — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:41:20 +0000

Was the first version of Redis not in fact written in TCL?

New comment by progre in "Mechanically strong yet metabolizable plastic breaks down in seawater"

progre — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 11:07:23 +0000

> Plastics that can metabolize in oceans are highly sought for a sustainable future.

Really? I think that putting more nutrients in the water is almost as bad as having plastics floating around. The Baltic sea for example, have dead zones caused by agricultural runoff.

Surely, the best would be to not put more stuff in the water?

New comment by progre in "91% of polled Amazon staff unhappy with RTO, 3-in-4 want to jump ship"

progre — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:37:46 +0000

The french gentry very deliberately wanted a American style liberal revolution. But by the time the guillotine was rolled out, the revolution had turned into something they had 0 control over. Not to say it was in the hands of the peasants either of course.

New comment by progre in "How I won $2,750 using JavaScript, AI, and a can of WD-40"

progre — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 06:13:29 +0000

I love that smell. I wish there where WD-40 smelling deodorant.

New comment by progre in "Jake Seliger has died"

progre — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 17:17:34 +0000

Niklaus Wirth didn't get one

New comment by progre in "Test firing of a 3D-printed rocket engine designed through computational model"

progre — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 17:28:18 +0000

Which would rule out any cooling channels inside the bell.

New comment by progre in "Konrad Zuse's Homepage"

progre — Mon, 20 May 2024 11:27:19 +0000

I think there is no expectation of objectivity on a personal homepage

New comment by progre in "Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)"

progre — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 21:06:46 +0000

If you use VS Code REST Client is awesome https://github.com/Huachao/vscode-restclient

New comment by progre in "Oink: An API for PHP in a single file"

progre — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 07:40:13 +0000

Nice! Here is my own take on the same idea (single file PHP api)

https://github.com/prog-re/ugly/blob/main/docs/manual.md

Edit: I added links to Oink and Zaap from my readme.md. We could make a Single file PHP api framework webring!

New comment by progre in "'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant"

progre — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 08:16:07 +0000

They got me through some pretty bleak times, try track 4 "Coffin fodder".

New comment by progre in "Researchers demonstrate rapid 3D printing with liquid metal"

progre — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 22:20:40 +0000

Nice. But Cranktown did this 2 years ago, in his garage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7sv3HkDyok

New comment by progre in "Show HN: Tool to calculate how much milk is needed to make an amount of cheese"

progre — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 10:53:06 +0000

Good choice if you like intestinal worms

New comment by progre in "Fired comedian ordered to get day job back after jokes ruled 'simply funny'"

progre — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 16:01:20 +0000

Humor is not banned and nor should it be. But maybe, to avoid confusion we could make humourus posts have a * or someting? And maybe humor can live in a separate section of the site so it doesn't mix with the other content. But if it still doesn't work I think we all know of a final solution for humor.