Hacker News: treadmill

New comment by treadmill in "FreeBSD Device Drivers Book"

treadmill — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:31:49 +0000

I am unsure which part of the quoted content you disagree with .

New comment by treadmill in "Protein-maxxing, GLP-1s have US farmers betting on peas and lentils"

treadmill — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:58:06 +0000

> a social media-fueled protein craze

I may be out of the loop here, can someone fill me in on the context?

New comment by treadmill in "Ask HN: How do you find the "why" behind old code decisions?"

treadmill — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:35:58 +0000

Read the BDD style acceptance tests that were written during development. This is the one chance you get to preserve that knowledge when it fresh and correct. Asking someone three years later (even the original dev) is no substitute. Oh, and you can also run the tests to ensure correctnes.

New comment by treadmill in "Microsoft denies rewriting Windows 11 in Rust using AI"

treadmill — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 09:00:40 +0000

Talk is cheap. Remind me of this, if/when the "will build" has changed to "has built".

New comment by treadmill in "Heart Association Revives Theory That Light Drinking May Be Good for You"

treadmill — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 20:43:26 +0000

You should know, that by removing all alcohol, caffeine and sugar, red meat, bacon, eggs and sausages from your diet, you can get rid of what joy you have left in your life.

New comment by treadmill in "Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies"

treadmill — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 18:26:36 +0000

Death and hatred to mankind

Poisoning their brainwashed minds

New comment by treadmill in "30 Years Ago Windows 95 Changed Everything"

treadmill — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 21:52:13 +0000

It is mentioned in the first footnote.

New comment by treadmill in "It's cheaper to buy a new printer every month"

treadmill — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:22:39 +0000

There is probably a lot less ink in the included cartridges. They always get you. Don't print.

New comment by treadmill in "Flush door handles are the car industry's latest safety problem"

treadmill — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 06:19:22 +0000

Share the details of your calculations with us, please.

New comment by treadmill in "Formatting code should be unnecessary"

treadmill — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 05:41:40 +0000

You're misunderstanding the idea I think.

You would use the format on disk for the grep. "Your format" only exists displayed in your editor.

New comment by treadmill in "We built a simple text-to-image AI. Curious what HN thinks about it"

treadmill — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 12:47:15 +0000

Requires login to try it out :(

New comment by treadmill in "Gtk3-classic: Patches to bring back a traditional experience for GTK+3"

treadmill — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 08:17:15 +0000

Brilliant that somebody did this, have to give it a try!

New comment by treadmill in "Conventional Commit Messages"

treadmill — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 06:59:40 +0000

This is overcomplicating something simple for dubious benefit. Just write a concise subject line for the change and short description or a list of bullet points what you changed/added/removed and why.

Not everything has to have rules for some regular format.

New comment by treadmill in "Making the Python back end for my new webapp"

treadmill — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 05:54:24 +0000

> where multiple teams will work in the same codebase / repo

This is a bad idea in general and leads to all sorts of problems.

New comment by treadmill in "A Journey from Linux to FreeBSD"

treadmill — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 09:45:10 +0000

If I recall correctly, a certain amount of CPU, memory and processes has been reserved for root for a long time on FreeBSD. This would prevent the from bomb from exhausting all resources.

New comment by treadmill in "Zig-style generics are not well-suited for most languages (2022)"

treadmill — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 20:04:04 +0000

Can you expand on why?

New comment by treadmill in "A Scientist Says He Has the Evidence That We Live in a Simulation"

treadmill — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 05:29:57 +0000

Just some hand wavy arguments.

New comment by treadmill in "An Exploration of SBCL Internals (2020)"

treadmill — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 08:15:06 +0000

Try neovim + vlime!

New comment by treadmill in "An Exploration of SBCL Internals (2020)"

treadmill — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 04:43:33 +0000

Source?

New comment by treadmill in "Smoking bans are coming: what does the evidence say?"

treadmill — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 20:05:00 +0000

> died after an arrest

This is such a weird way to phrase it. He was murdered by a police officer who choked him to death.