Hacker News: rbonvall

New comment by rbonvall in "Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore"

rbonvall — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:34:22 +0000

Yes, that's the smoking gun!

New comment by rbonvall in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

rbonvall — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:20:03 +0000

Socks are not getting lost; they are getting compacted to keep the context window small.

New comment by rbonvall in "Sagrada Família Lego set"

rbonvall — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:56:26 +0000

(It's Barcelona)

New comment by rbonvall in "I won a championship that doesn't exist"

rbonvall — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:09:49 +0000

In the soccer world, there is the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS), that decides several rankings and awards that are regularly cited in traditional media. For example, if a player from my not-quite-football-powerhouse country makes the "best 100 goalkeepers" list or whatever, it'll be on the news.

Turns out the IFFHS was just one guy in Germany during the 80s that leveraged his contacts in news agencies to establish his brand as a reputable source.

New comment by rbonvall in "GitHub's fake star economy"

rbonvall — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:37:36 +0000

Note that it's not a European thing. It's how most football leagues around the world work.

New comment by rbonvall in "Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy"

rbonvall — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:36:41 +0000

Of course. It's distributed.

New comment by rbonvall in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

rbonvall — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:52:55 +0000

Just like that place that's so crowded nobody goes there anymore.

New comment by rbonvall in "Privilege is bad grammar"

rbonvall — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:20:50 +0000

That doesn't explain the "punctuating with multiple cryface emojis".

New comment by rbonvall in "The unreasonable effectiveness of the Fourier transform"

rbonvall — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 23:21:57 +0000

Lies, Damned lies, and Unreasonable Effectiveness For Fun and Profit

New comment by rbonvall in "Awk Technical Notes (2023)"

rbonvall — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 20:44:51 +0000

Example of replacing grep+cut with a single awk invokation:

    $ echo token:abc:def | grep -E ^token | cut -d: -f2
    abc
    
    $ echo token:abc:def | awk -F: '/^token/ { print $2 }'
    abc

Conditions don't have to be regular expressions. For example:

    $ echo $CSV
    foo:24
    bar:15
    baz:49
    
    $ echo $CSV | awk -F: '$2 > 20 { print $1 }'
    foo
    baz

New comment by rbonvall in "Scripts I wrote that I use all the time"

rbonvall — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 22:14:21 +0000

I use dtrx, which also ensures that all files are extracted into a folder.

New comment by rbonvall in "Scripts I wrote that I use all the time"

rbonvall — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:27:58 +0000

Python also pretty-prints out of the box:

    $ echo '{ "hello": "world" }' | python3 -m json.tool
    {
        "hello": "world"
    }

New comment by rbonvall in "Users only care about 20% of your application"

rbonvall — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 21:38:04 +0000

> I have always wondered what would happen if someone had to invent spreadsheets from scratch, today.

This is exactly what Joel Spolsky did:

> What was I talking about? Oh yeah… most people just used Excel to make lists. Suddenly we understood why Lotus Improv, which was this fancy futuristic spreadsheet that was going to make Excel obsolete, had failed completely: because it was great at calculations, but terrible at creating tables, and everyone was using Excel for tables, not calculations.

... so he went on and created Trello.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2012/01/06/how-trello-is-diff...

New comment by rbonvall in "Rost – Rust Programming in German"

rbonvall — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:02:34 +0000

Reminds me when Scala was translated to German some time ago, at about the same time of the year:

https://scala-lang.org/blog/2017/04/01/announcing-skala.html

New comment by rbonvall in "GIMP 3.0 is on the way"

rbonvall — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 15:15:47 +0000

Since no other pedants have chimed in yet, I'm required to point out that 20 years is five olympiads, which is the timespan in between six Olympic games.

New comment by rbonvall in "Alonzo Church: Architect of computer intelligence"

rbonvall — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:01:12 +0000

Just like Niklaus Wirth's quote about how people used to call him, or the joke about there being 10 kinds of people.

Those are the ones that make me wish people knew just enough Computer Science to get them :)

New comment by rbonvall in "Techniques I use to create a great user experience for shell scripts"

rbonvall — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 00:54:21 +0000

In my opinion, shell scripting is the right tool when you need to do a lot of calling programs, piping, and redirecting. Such programs end up being cumbersome in "proper" languages.

New comment by rbonvall in "Why Haskell?"

rbonvall — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 01:52:59 +0000

The most important benefit is not that you CAN unwrap a value, but rather that you CANNOT NOT do it.

New comment by rbonvall in "Why Haskell?"

rbonvall — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 00:29:36 +0000

Sbt is too complex and powerful for its own good. I had a love-hate relationship with it, and now I try to avoid it if I can.

I like scala-cli a lot. It's very promising, but I think it's too new to be proclaimed best-in-class yet. Time will tell, and I'm rooting for it.

New comment by rbonvall in "Show HN: Defrag the Game"

rbonvall — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 12:06:30 +0000

If I was you I wouldn't bother. The cool thing is not the game itself, it's the fact that we "old folks" just know what to do right away :) If you need to read instructions, probably you'll find the game dull anyway.