Hacker News: tester756

New comment by tester756 in "Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce"

tester756 — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 17:55:29 +0000

You get a choice to get probably huge pay-check, like between half of the year and year of salary to leave.

It's good trade off.

New comment by tester756 in "Anthropic S-1"

tester756 — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 13:27:35 +0000

Profit is not relevant

New comment by tester756 in "C# now beats Rust on WASM size"

tester756 — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:41:02 +0000

at least supply chain issues are less problematic if everyone depends on MS :)

New comment by tester756 in "Qualcomm Legally Proves Arm Breached Its License, Wins $2"

tester756 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:32:02 +0000

Of course this this whole thing is bigger than that, but that "$1"

figure appearing everywhere around this topic makes it look funny and cute and that's what I wanted to joke about

New comment by tester756 in "Qualcomm Legally Proves Arm Breached Its License, Wins $2"

tester756 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:16:35 +0000

Why people are not talking about the REAL winners?

How much lawyers made!

New comment by tester756 in "Making all divisions slower to fix a bug in 0.000000000000000000542% of cases"

tester756 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 11:13:43 +0000

That's the most frustrating thing about compiler engineering

You fix some feature, some workload, but performance regression appears in other which relied on some bullshit -

unwritten convention, ordering, function name, luck, alignment of the stars, whatever.

You spent 2 weeks fixing a thing and you still have to get back to it because someone is pissed off.

New comment by tester756 in "Do dentists know what they're doing?"

tester756 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 23:03:27 +0000

Same applies to cars, web development, etc.

New comment by tester756 in "How the Military Will Hack the Election"

tester756 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:10:41 +0000

Why title and comments under article act as if that was bad?

New comment by tester756 in "No portable way to detect string-to-float conversion errors in standard C"

tester756 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:44:38 +0000

"only" 2017? :P it's almost 10 years ago

Anyway C# has this:

var (_, _, population1960, _, population2010) = QueryPopulationDataForYears("New York City", 1960, 2010);

New comment by tester756 in "Ask HN: How can this be legal?"

tester756 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:53:23 +0000

It doesn't feel like legacy, bureaucratic dinosaur company

it feels like a scam

New comment by tester756 in "No portable way to detect string-to-float conversion errors in standard C"

tester756 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:04:27 +0000

Wut? C# besides all other ways to return Tuples, Results, NULLable, etc, etc.

Still had something as sane as:

if (double.TryParse("5.x5", out var val)) { Console.WriteLine(val); } else { Console.WriteLine("err"); }

New comment by tester756 in "WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 depending on the workload"

tester756 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 14:54:36 +0000

>You’re not supposed to work out of the /mnt/c.

Source?

New comment by tester756 in "Rust for C# and .NET developers guide by Microsoft"

tester756 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:44:11 +0000

Job opportunities

New comment by tester756 in "Rust for C# and .NET developers guide by Microsoft"

tester756 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 22:58:38 +0000

Why?

I'm C# Dev that'd want to learn Rust at some point and such guide makes it very helpful

New comment by tester756 in "Performance Improvements in .NET 11"

tester756 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:55:33 +0000

For some people LLM-spotting feels like a sport they need to compete in

New comment by tester756 in "America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster"

tester756 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:36:54 +0000

Or maybe something bigger should change

like why your driver license or even id should enable someone to do damage to your life?

especially that it isnt difficult to lose it and even needs to be shared with someone (e.g hotel)?

New comment by tester756 in "Java 27"

tester756 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:19:28 +0000

Consistent ecosystem with state of the art tooling (Visual Studio)

Majority of things provided from MS instead of having to rely on 3rd party, especially nowadays when supply-chain issues are huge concern

New comment by tester756 in "Volkswagen Just Built an EV That Can Go Nearly 900 Miles on a Charge"

tester756 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:55:15 +0000

Let's hope aerodynamics can save us from SUV disease

New comment by tester756 in "iPhone Duo"

tester756 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:32:19 +0000

But why paper's ratio is important?

New comment by tester756 in "iPhone Duo"

tester756 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:14:03 +0000

But what's the point?