Hacker News: ratstew

New comment by ratstew in "Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust"

ratstew — Tue, 05 May 2026 02:19:40 +0000

This feels more like a reaction to Zig's anti-LLM policy than anything. Anthropic would probably like to contribute something back to Zig at some point, but I doubt anyone would ever believe their PRs were not written by Claude.

New comment by ratstew in "Balloon framing is worse-is-better (2021)"

ratstew — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 06:41:46 +0000

New comment by ratstew in "Announcing the first SHA-1 collision"

ratstew — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 15:24:05 +0000

I got a chuckle out of the binary diff. :)

http://i.imgur.com/OmFHELl.png

New comment by ratstew in "St – A simple terminal implementation for X"

ratstew — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 08:05:51 +0000

Try looking for the actual font name with "fc-list | grep -i source", maybe it is not what you're expecting.

A few months ago I was having trouble with getting some TTF BIOS fonts recognized by urxvt and fc-list made me realize that I should've escaped a couple dashes in the font name.

New comment by ratstew in "Show HN: Céu, Structured Synchronous Reactive Programming"

ratstew — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 21:35:54 +0000

Since you're interested in the implementation of synchronous languages you could also take a look at Quartz [1]. Their book is a fantastic resource about the topic.

[1] http://www.averest.org

New comment by ratstew in "Show HN: Céu, Structured Synchronous Reactive Programming"

ratstew — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 19:31:16 +0000

The C integration aspect sounds really neat, especially for writing concurrent code on the Arduino!

Thanks for the detailed explanation.

New comment by ratstew in "Show HN: Céu, Structured Synchronous Reactive Programming"

ratstew — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 18:21:01 +0000

What are the advantages of Céu over other synchronous programming languages such as Esterel and Lustre?

New comment by ratstew in "Golang concepts from an OOP point of view"

ratstew — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 12:12:01 +0000

I just want to point out that embedding structs does not look like an afterthought at all, the Plan 9 C compilers had a feature akin to it for ages.

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/comp.html

New comment by ratstew in "Ask HN: What's on your RSS reader?"

ratstew — Sun, 31 Jul 2016 03:16:04 +0000

newsbeuter.

New comment by ratstew in "Chrome 51 Arrives on Android, Officially Kills Off “Merge Tabs and Apps”"

ratstew — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 08:27:32 +0000

That's precisely what I tried to describe in my previous post, but contrary to what you say, Chrome now adds it as a new tab.

New comment by ratstew in "Chrome 51 Arrives on Android, Officially Kills Off “Merge Tabs and Apps”"

ratstew — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 08:16:34 +0000

Indeed, but some browsers have the tab switch button at the bottom, which I find much more ergonomic. Another reason for me is that Chrome bookmarks page sucks, so I got used to adding them to a folder on my home screen instead. It worked surprisingly well with the Merge Apps and Tabs feature, but with that gone Chrome just stuffs newly opened links in a new tab instead of opening a new window.

New comment by ratstew in "Chrome 51 Arrives on Android, Officially Kills Off “Merge Tabs and Apps”"

ratstew — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 07:47:16 +0000

Chrome will start nagging you on almost every page load as soon as the next security update goes live, I doubt you will stand it for too long. Nonetheless, I also loved that feature and see little reason to stay with Chrome on Android now.

New comment by ratstew in "Google moves to replace Flash with HTML5"

ratstew — Fri, 20 May 2016 15:47:09 +0000

I guess folks with click-to-play enabled are seeing something like this: http://i.imgur.com/WLaqlXo.png

This was on Firefox by the way.

New comment by ratstew in "(l)uriel has passed away"

ratstew — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 08:25:24 +0000

This was his more recent account on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=luriel