Hacker News: srott

New comment by srott in "Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans"

srott — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:08:17 +0000

There is Fan Show Down on yt where people are trying to beat the original Noctua fan design:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHLn2U7i45M_EXIsnqUyI...

New comment by srott in "The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands"

srott — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:45:36 +0000

less or at least more?

New comment by srott in "Maxell MXCP-P100 – wireless cassette player"

srott — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:07:36 +0000

Not even worth reviewing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RTPcjRbIec

New comment by srott in "RISC-V Is Sloooow"

srott — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:01:35 +0000

Couldn’t be caused by a slower compiler? Fe. What would be a difference when cross compiling same code to aarch64 vs risc-v?

New comment by srott in "Liskell – Haskell Semantics with Lisp Syntax [pdf]"

srott — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 08:03:24 +0000

really, I did't realize there was no link

https://shen-language.github.io

New comment by srott in "Liskell – Haskell Semantics with Lisp Syntax [pdf]"

srott — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:54:36 +0000

How does it compare to Shen?

https://shenlanguage.org

New comment by srott in "Golang's big miss on memory arenas"

srott — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 11:51:24 +0000

What are the reasons why PyPy hasn't caught on? I know about PyPy for ages, but I still haven't given it a try, I still feel the aftertaste of anaconda...

New comment by srott in "A Look at Rust from 2012"

srott — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:41:14 +0000

> rest of the post is me trying to make sense of the tutorial on borrowing. It has fried my brain and negatively affected my skills in modern Rust, so be wary

I think that tutorial discouraged me from really getting into Rust

New comment by srott in ".NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser"

srott — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 10:30:23 +0000

What is the future for MAUI, anything changed in last months?

https://www.reddit.com/r/dotnetMAUI/comments/1l1xiib/entire_...

New comment by srott in "Abstract Syntax Tree: An Example in C"

srott — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 18:25:14 +0000

Oh no, such elegant and sweet c style util you ruined it at the end!

New comment by srott in "Servo v0.0.1"

srott — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 19:55:37 +0000

I wish I had a RSS reader to feed this to...

New comment by srott in "Red: A programming language inspired by REBOL"

srott — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 05:33:44 +0000

git commit -> git gui

New comment by srott in "Red: A programming language inspired by REBOL"

srott — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 17:18:13 +0000

Only way I know to remove a file from a commit is by using git commit.

I’m also most comfortable with gitk when reviewing branches

New comment by srott in "Elvish – Powerful scripting language and versatile interactive shell"

srott — Sun, 04 May 2025 14:30:15 +0000

Elvish was a bit slow to me, nush is nice but I found out I can do most of the tasks using yq and jc more intuitively.

New comment by srott in "I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022)"

srott — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 06:02:26 +0000

the building seems to have 4 floors only

https://www.google.com/maps/place/51+Franklin+St,+Boston,+MA...

New comment by srott in "A 10x Faster TypeScript"

srott — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 22:47:43 +0000

Funny, until now I always thought that TypeScript is JavaScript with some C# vibes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43320086

New comment by srott in "Seer: A GUI front end to GDB for Linux"

srott — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 19:20:10 +0000

Only seen on some minor embeded systems but it’s not a big deal to compile gdb with tui support enabled.

New comment by srott in "The Incredible Machine (1968) [video]"

srott — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 16:09:34 +0000

They had to develop Figmas precursor in order to make that video.

New comment by srott in "GraphicsMagick – a Swiss army knife of image processing"

srott — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 18:59:40 +0000

Yes, but Image magick offers more useful features, I prefer it if safety is not a concern.

http://im.snibgo.com/srchimgag.htm

New comment by srott in "Dasel: Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV"

srott — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 07:10:07 +0000

The “go” yq

https://github.com/mikefarah/yq

| yq is a portable command-line YAML, JSON, XML, CSV, TOML and properties processor