Hacker News: rausr

New comment by rausr in "An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story"

rausr — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:51:02 +0000

heh, I know that username. I came to the same conclusion. (I hope all is well with you, Yannick)

New comment by rausr in "No leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026"

rausr — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:11:14 +0000

I remember that well (because my manager at the time was asking me afterwards "why were you up at 2 in the morning restarting services?" and didn't believe my answer :( )

New comment by rausr in "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI"

rausr — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:43:10 +0000

Yes, I re-read again, and I think you are correct. Thanks!

New comment by rausr in "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI"

rausr — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:35:43 +0000

I must admit to being somewhat confused by the article's claim that Rust and C++ emit bytecode. To my knowledge, neither do (unless they're both targeting WASM?) - is there something I'm missing or is the author just using the wrong words?

EDIT: bramhaag pointed out the error of my ways. Thanks bramhaag!

New comment by rausr in "Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code"

rausr — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:47:17 +0000

We've got Check Point Firewalls at work, and during updates I see lots of .tcl in the web UI.

New comment by rausr in "When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown"

rausr — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:45:59 +0000

> Is "clown GCP Host" a technical term I am unaware of, or is the author just voicing their discontent?

The term has been in use for quite some time; It is voicing sarcastic discontent with the hyperscaler platforms _and_ their users (the idea being that the platform is "someone else's computer" or - more up to date - "a landlord for your data"). I'm not sure if she coined it, but if she did then good on her!

Not everyone believes using "the cloud" is a good idea, and for those of us who have run their own infrastructure "on-premises" or co-located, the clown is considered suitably patronising. Just saying ;)

New comment by rausr in "Programming languages used for music"

rausr — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 09:26:45 +0000

I recently tripped over Dogalog (live-coding with prolog-like code), which could be an addition: https://danja.github.io/dogalog/

New comment by rausr in "The closer we look at time, the stranger it gets"

rausr — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 08:59:53 +0000

I'm only slightly disappointed that this is not the "Someone Else's Problem" version of SEP.

New comment by rausr in "Using an Array of Needles to Create Solid Knitted Shapes"

rausr — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 12:39:04 +0000

crochet, sir. croquet is a game with balls and mallets ;)

New comment by rausr in "The lost cause of the Lisp machines"

rausr — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 06:26:08 +0000

Although Portacle isn't being maintained any more (at least as far as the main developer was concerned last time I looked a few months ago).

New comment by rausr in "We put a coding agent in a while loop"

rausr — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 05:52:10 +0000

> the agent actually used pkill to terminate itself after realizing it was stuck in an infinite loop.

Did it just solve The Halting Problem? ;)

New comment by rausr in "Machine Code Isn't Scary"

rausr — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:00:29 +0000

I enjoyed having to reload everything from tape (compact cassette tape - ie the kind of thing you'd use with a home computer in the early eighties), after a crash due to my poor code. I think the term used then was "character building" ;)

New comment by rausr in ""Do you not like money?""

rausr — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 15:10:24 +0000

Money is more often than not an impediment to doing or achieving things (especially these days when the ultra rich are trying to hoover it all up themselves to enable power).

Imagine if money did not exist, and things were decided on actual merit? "Poor" people with good ideas might - dare I say it - do things that improved the world for everyone! ;)

There'd be many ways of achieving this, so I'll not bait people with C or S words.

New comment by rausr in "The Siren Song of Little Languages"

rausr — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 11:04:06 +0000

I work in the same building as Urban Mueller (creator of BF). He told me the point of BF was to implement a compiler ;)

New comment by rausr in "Show HN: TeaTime – distributed book library powered by SQLite, IPFS and GitHub"

rausr — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 12:50:13 +0000

I'm slightly disappointed that this is not the Tea-Time that formed the comms/sync protocol used in the Croquet VR system (on Squeak Smalltalk) some years back. :)

New comment by rausr in "Os.js – open-source JavaScript web desktop platform with a window manager"

rausr — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 08:28:15 +0000

All the text in the Desktop is in French for me. Is that because I'm in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, and it's somehow geo-locating incorrectly?