Hacker News: randfur

New comment by randfur in "The Goose Programming Language"

randfur — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:25:21 +0000

I wish it was more clear about the memory layout of nested variable sized data structures. As far as I can work out the max capacity is decided at construction time which makes the whole thing a lot less intriguing.

New comment by randfur in "WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal"

randfur — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 10:54:29 +0000

I remember a couple of these from a few years ago. Long gone now of course but a fun demo of AI hallucinating the internet endlessly, generated pages from URLs that had more URLs in them to navigate to.

New comment by randfur in "The Future of CSS"

randfur — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 05:59:27 +0000

interpolate-size: allow-keywords holy shit, didn't know I'd see the day...

New comment by randfur in "Starcraft: Ashfall"

randfur — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 23:07:03 +0000

I've never played those mobile ad games and this scratched my curiosity. Now you're telling me they don't deliver and I'm curious again, how do they fail their delivery?

New comment by randfur in "Catch a Bird – I made it for my own sanity"

randfur — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:59:12 +0000

Feature request: Peek the text on hover.

New comment by randfur in "Recreational Programming"

randfur — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 07:55:07 +0000

It really needed prev/next buttons, using the scroll wheel with such a long debounce was laborious.

New comment by randfur in "21 years and counting of 'eight fallacies of distributed computing' (2025)"

randfur — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:14:14 +0000

Do people actually believe these dot points or are they just out of scope for most applications to tackle beyond letting the user try again?

Why Don't Computers Just Use One Type of Memory?

randfur — Sun, 31 May 2026 05:42:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfhL5kBiQVI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343327

Points: 4

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New comment by randfur in "AluminiumOS, by Google: Android Reimagined for the Desktop"

randfur — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:48:29 +0000

This is a parody website that was created long before the recent Googlebook announcement back when it was known by the code name Aluminium.

New comment by randfur in "Write some software, give it away for free"

randfur — Wed, 06 May 2026 02:41:40 +0000

It's easy to have that view when giving away something not that many people are interested in. Once you're a platform full of media, entertainment and social connection you have to find a way to keep serving billions of users.

New comment by randfur in "Ask.com has closed"

randfur — Sat, 02 May 2026 04:36:47 +0000

No shoutout to P.G. Wodehouse for the IP?

New comment by randfur in "Show HN: X86CSS – An x86 CPU emulator written in CSS"

randfur — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:29:02 +0000

Really looking forward to a how it works post. What is that READMEM_1??

New comment by randfur in "Show HN: X86CSS – An x86 CPU emulator written in CSS"

randfur — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:32:08 +0000

For what it's worth Firefox has a bug open to implement some of the core CSS features being used here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1950366

New comment by randfur in "D Programming Language"

randfur — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 06:24:40 +0000

I don't know D so I'm probably missing some basic syntax. If pointers cannot be copied how do you have multiple objects referencing the same shared object?

New comment by randfur in "The Singularity Is Always Near (2006)"

randfur — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:09:46 +0000

It's like how talking about the "hockey stick curve" in an exponential growth line is nonsensical. It's everywhere and the curve angles you see depend entirely on what scale you view it from.

New comment by randfur in "Go: Redefining For Loop Variable Semantics"

randfur — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 09:24:00 +0000

I remember learning about this gotcha around the time that Go was coming out. I was very disappointed that they were sticking to this behaviour around the same time that JavaScript was fixing it. As a new language they get less sympathy from me.

New comment by randfur in "The Next Chapter for Learning on YouTube"

randfur — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 02:15:10 +0000

Taxes.

New comment by randfur in "Learn PWA"

randfur — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 00:55:59 +0000

The browser updates monthly with security patches. Electron's engine lags many versions behind.

New comment by randfur in "Learn PWA"

randfur — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 00:53:42 +0000

It is built into Android. Go to twitter.com, log in and then accept the install prompt that appears. It integrates seamlessly with link sharing OS UI and jump lists.