Hacker News: throwaway2046

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed"

throwaway2046 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:03:23 +0000

Ninja is great and feels natural coming from Make. What it lacks in features it makes up for with speed, which is what ultimately matters.

Also worth mentioning is samurai[1], a pure C implementation of Ninja that's almost as fast yet easier to bootstrap needing only a C compiler.

[1] https://github.com/michaelforney/samurai

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

throwaway2046 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:11:31 +0000

> Stable ABI literally only benefits software where the user doesn’t have the source

Stable ABI benefits everyone. If I need to recompile a hundred packages with every OS update instead of doing real work then there's something seriously wrong with my OS.

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Windows native app development is a mess"

throwaway2046 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:02:39 +0000

wxWidgets is just a wrapper around existing UI libraries; win32 on Windows, and Gtk/Qt on *nix.

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste"

throwaway2046 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:39:10 +0000

These are beautiful, thank you for sharing. I really like the one with the triangles, was it inspired by Rule 30?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_30

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc"

throwaway2046 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:56:08 +0000

https://archive.ph/CFQBU

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)"

throwaway2046 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:12:49 +0000

I've almost never seen SFML used in the wild. Does it offer anything significant over SDL?

New comment by throwaway2046 in "How to talk to anyone and why you should"

throwaway2046 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 22:33:49 +0000

https://archive.ph/VrnI7

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Baby chicks pass the bouba-kiki test, challenging a theory of language evolution"

throwaway2046 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:20:14 +0000

https://archive.ph/QX0Oo

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube"

throwaway2046 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:24:35 +0000

> Seems like films mostly switched over to "modern" acting in the 70s

Can you elaborate on this point? I think I agree with you, I just don't know why.

New comment by throwaway2046 in "I write games in C (yes, C) (2016)"

throwaway2046 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 06:01:01 +0000

> that guy asked Stack Overflow how to make gcc compile his .png

Do you have a link to this? All the search results I'm getting are related to libpng.

New comment by throwaway2046 in "The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen"

throwaway2046 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:06:31 +0000

I'm guessing the pain of fighting the various build systems that insist on dynamic linking, sometimes against the user's explicit wishes.

New comment by throwaway2046 in "The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen"

throwaway2046 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:07:35 +0000

Linking against an older glibc means setting up an older distribution and accepting all the outdated toolchains and libraries that come with it. Need to upgrade? Get ready to compile everything from source and possibly bootstrap a toolchain. I wouldn't call this trivial.

The fact that you need to use a container/chroot on Linux in the first place makes the process non trivial, when all you have to do on Windows is click a button or two.

New comment by throwaway2046 in "The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen"

throwaway2046 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:13:42 +0000

Libraries already break their ABI so often that continuously rebuilding/relinking everything is inevitable.

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Wine 11.0"

throwaway2046 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 06:35:32 +0000

Yes, as of Wine 10.16 (the version number is a lucky coincidence!) 16-bit Windows applications can run on 64-bit Linux without any special libraries.

New comment by throwaway2046 in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"

throwaway2046 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:43:27 +0000

From the original post:

    We reserve the right to remove any music on suspicion of being AI generated.

Sounds completely subjective if you ask me.

New comment by throwaway2046 in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"

throwaway2046 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:01:24 +0000

I've encountered a few artists who partially used AI in their music making process and the results have been incredible, I would hate to see them banned when grouped with people making completely AI-generated slop... Perhaps a middle ground could be reached? Allow AI generated audio as long as it undergoes significant processing by humans, for example.

New comment by throwaway2046 in "I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great"

throwaway2046 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:05:08 +0000

It should be a choice, not a requirement. With Windows you can get your work done without knowing much about Windows itself, but with Linux you're forced to understand every level of the entire OS so you can debug it first and then maybe get your work done. For an OS built around user freedom Linux sure doesn't give its users much choice on how to use it.

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Creating Embroidered Charts with R and ImageMagick"

throwaway2046 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 16:12:33 +0000

That's quite an authentic looking effect! Using it for charts is definitely not the first thing that comes to mind, but it does make them more appealing in a way.

New comment by throwaway2046 in "During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website"

throwaway2046 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 10:13:46 +0000

I'm guessing it could be even smaller if it was designed as a SVG file. Although the glow effect with the fading colors would probably need to be simplified.

New comment by throwaway2046 in "From silicon to Darude – Sandstorm: breaking famous synthesizer DSPs [video]"

throwaway2046 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 14:26:45 +0000

It's amazing to see the incredible effort it takes to reverse engineer a synth. While much of the process described in the video went over my head I still found it very interesting to watch. Kudos to the Usual Suspects for not only putting in all that effort but also releasing their findings completely for free.

Side note: does anyone know what the song played at 4:30 is called? It sounds very familiar but I can't remember its name at all.

Edit: I found it, it's "Barthezz - On The Move" but played at a slower BPM.