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New comment by s3graham in "English: A vs. An"

s3graham — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 03:19:44 +0000

I think that's one regional. It'd be super weird to pronounce the h in homage in most of Canada ime.

New comment by s3graham in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

s3graham — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:56:37 +0000

gphoto-pull!! I've been downloading NN x 50G zips every two months like a caveman. Assuming I'm backing up in "Original", this manages to retrieve byte-identical backups?

New comment by s3graham in "QBE – Compiler Backend – 1.3"

s3graham — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:10:10 +0000

I'm guessing you mean dwarf, but I started on a pdb library that I'd planned to use along-side qbe eventually. (The code currently lives in a jitting-C compiler https://scot.tg/2023/05/02/debugging-with-pdbs/ that uses dynasm directly though.)

New comment by s3graham in "QBE – Compiler Backend – 1.3"

s3graham — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:06:46 +0000

IR (https://github.com/dstogov/ir) is worth a look in this vein too.

I personally went with QBE for my hobby project because of C-interop, but at least in my tests, I found IR much faster and better codegen than MIR. Neither of MIR or IR are friendly/easy though.

New comment by s3graham in "QBE – Compiler Backend – 1.3"

s3graham — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:59:54 +0000

Drew and team are pretty clear about being philosophically against that idea: https://harelang.org/documentation/faq.html#will-hare-suppor...

New comment by s3graham in "QBE – Compiler Backend – 1.3"

s3graham — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:57:12 +0000

Quentin took pity on me and let me upstream amd64_win with my lengthy variable names and including chatty comments. :)

SysV and Win x64 differ enough that the Windows code is mostly unrelated to/detached from the other backends, so it doesn't feel (too) awful for it to have its own idiosyncratic style.

New comment by s3graham in "Debug Project"

s3graham — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:37:37 +0000

(2017)

Unless there's been some new announcement that I don't obviously see here?

QBE 1.3 Released

s3graham — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:32:20 +0000

Article URL: https://c9x.me/compile/release/qbe-1.3.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359112

Points: 7

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New comment by s3graham in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

s3graham — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:51:16 +0000

creatinine != creatine

New comment by s3graham in "Canada in Technical Recession"

s3graham — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:44:55 +0000

We are of course still spinning, so I'm not overly confident we haven't just glanced off a guardrail on the way to the ditch (to belabour your analogy).

New comment by s3graham in "Wake up! 16b"

s3graham — Sun, 24 May 2026 20:10:50 +0000

Super cool!

I'm not sure if they did a writeup for m8trix (a predecessor) but I tried dissecting it around when it came out (2014): https://scot.tg/2014/05/31/amazing-code-density/

New comment by s3graham in "The beauty and terror of modding Windows"

s3graham — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:16:48 +0000

I used to be more of a fetishist, and still use cmd on Windows. My modding contribution from long ago: https://github.com/sgraham/cmdEx

New comment by s3graham in "Yes there is a right way to stack the dishwasher. Here are the 5 rules"

s3graham — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:03:56 +0000

Oof, that scraped up frying pan in #5 should have a trigger warning.

New comment by s3graham in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

s3graham — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:22:37 +0000

https://scot.tg/

New comment by s3graham in "Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups"

s3graham — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 22:39:44 +0000

It's also pretty challenging since they're not OS-level windows any more.

It's the same problem as video ad blockers and YouTube: the ads/sponsorships have just become embedded in the main stream so they're much more difficult to obviously delineate from the actual video.

New comment by s3graham in "Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS"

s3graham — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 05:46:27 +0000

I appreciate your point, but Python was invented in .nl which wouldn't be G7 strictly speaking.

New comment by s3graham in "Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles"

s3graham — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:06:22 +0000

FWIW, Sean and Alan's contribution to puzzle designs:

ref: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@nothings/115704420859870435 and: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@draknek/115704125102372454

New comment by s3graham in "Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable"

s3graham — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:35:09 +0000

And that Sonos is terrible to its users.

I had a houseful of overpriced speakers, some only 3 years old when they decided they were too old to support in their rewritten app, or some lazy crap like that.

For GP; I use some cheapo (sub $50) "100W mini amps" from Amazon. They seem fine to me.

New comment by s3graham in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

s3graham — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 23:20:42 +0000

I started playing a couple weeks ago (and got my Mum and one of her friends playing too).

I enjoy it, but I find the clues seem a bit too easy, and honestly I'm normally terrible at crosswords. Take that for what you will, totally understandable if you're aiming at "cozy/relaxing".

I appreciate the polish of the UI compared to a lot of the other janky word games out there anyway.

New comment by s3graham in "Nvidia Isn't Enron – So What Is It?"

s3graham — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 05:12:48 +0000

He rambles for "the humour bit" for a while, but I think the thrust of it is in the last two sections https://www.wheresyoured.at/nvidia-isnt-enron-so-what-is-it/... : Nvidia's valuation is dependent on an enormous amount of debt around the industry being funnelled to them, there doesn't seem to be a way to profit on this debt, so something is going to have to give.