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New comment by radiator in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

radiator — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:21:39 +0000

But I believe the point is: if you were writing HTML by hand, you would never have written the above.

New comment by radiator in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

radiator — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:12:34 +0000

I do think the professional players earn too much, including from gambling. Gambling and football go hand-in-hand. More than half the ads during the game advertise betting. This is obviously a huge part of their business. Politicians could not make it illegal, this is the whole point, because football has control over them.

New comment by radiator in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

radiator — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:25:39 +0000

OK I 've never been to the US, so I believe you. Then the problems are more widespread: not only soccer, but professional sports in general are harmful in my opinion.

New comment by radiator in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

radiator — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:40:42 +0000

I find it good that US is not better at soccer. Soccer or football has gained too much importance in Europe and South America. We have seen it encourage unprecedented levels of gambling, insane amount of efforts from the youth chasing the dream of professional football, fan violence inside and outside the stadiums, corruption where magnate owners of sports clubs use their popularity to influence politics, and more.

New comment by radiator in "Why Janet? (2023)"

radiator — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:25:15 +0000

Well, looking at the commits, he has been regularly contributing for the last ten years at least. I don't know if he had stopped for a while.

New comment by radiator in "Why Janet? (2023)"

radiator — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:34:23 +0000

Relevant issue #1457 VM instrumentation for third-party tools https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/issues/1457 was opened by Mike Pall as recently as three weeks ago.

I gather that some features will be added to 2.1 but others only to 3.0.

New comment by radiator in "Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in four months"

radiator — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:19:33 +0000

That used to be the normality. You want to spend company money, you need to justify it.

New comment by radiator in "EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products"

radiator — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:28:34 +0000

I don't understand how €200M can ever be considered a "penny slap".

New comment by radiator in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

radiator — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:55:15 +0000

Sounds somewhat defeatist. Besides, the teacher nevers wants to fail anyone. Teachers would be happy if all students performed well.

The Green Side of the Lua

radiator — Sun, 24 May 2026 23:44:58 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16670

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48262160

Points: 72

# Comments: 64

New comment by radiator in "Mastering Dyalog APL"

radiator — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:43:31 +0000

But why? Commercial APL implementations have existed since decades ago. They always had customers. They were always at least partly owned by employees. Dyalog was not created in a void, but continuing this tradition.

New comment by radiator in "Spanish court declines to fine NordVPN over LaLiga piracy blocking order"

radiator — Sat, 23 May 2026 09:51:54 +0000

What do you mean "if you can"? It has already happened in several democratic countries.

New comment by radiator in "Lisp in Web-Based Applications (2001)"

radiator — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:34:03 +0000

Great answer, with many thought-provoking parts and some gems ... I liked this thousand-juniors army of Jira ticket closers the best.

New comment by radiator in "Greek Alphabet Cards"

radiator — Mon, 18 May 2026 09:32:59 +0000

First time I see ς as part of the alphabet. Looks as if there were 25 letters.

New comment by radiator in "Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes"

radiator — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:43:47 +0000

One example of a UI being a result of research seems to be Windows 98. Much of the surface is gray, and a lot of the text is black. It might look boring, but that is how you get to use a little colour for things that need accent, and it will make a difference. Also in a factory, the walls are gray, but the fire extinguisher is red so that you can hardly miss it.

New comment by radiator in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

radiator — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:41:24 +0000

Start with the basics, perhaps? Languages, Mathematics, Geography, Economy, History.

New comment by radiator in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"

radiator — Sat, 09 May 2026 22:05:54 +0000

This seems too long and it does not even answer the question. The question was specific, and the answer could be only one word long.

New comment by radiator in "Alert-driven monitoring"

radiator — Sun, 03 May 2026 22:26:38 +0000

But it did not get the answer you expected. So a failed rhetorical question.

New comment by radiator in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

radiator — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:39:54 +0000

Maybe they could find another way to market it, e.g. Windows is free but with ads, and there is a subscription which makes ads go away. Or something else. Some creativity is needed.

New comment by radiator in "Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux"

radiator — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:55:58 +0000

Nowadays MSYS2, which does depend on cygwin under the hood, offers such a package manager (pacman of Arch Linux) and it is quite a user friendly to run native POSIX binaries on Windows without a linux VM.