Hacker News: wild_pointer

New comment by wild_pointer in "GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry"

wild_pointer — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:37:55 +0000

pseudoanonymous, meaning not anonymous? lol

New comment by wild_pointer in "Show HN: I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++"

wild_pointer — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:32:13 +0000

What about cmkr?

https://cmkr.build/

New comment by wild_pointer in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

wild_pointer — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:57:48 +0000

Looking at the title, I was confused why a recommendation of some random PC gamer is interesting. Capitalization is important.

New comment by wild_pointer in "Hostile Volume – A game about adjusting volume with intentionally bad UI"

wild_pointer — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 21:24:07 +0000

Hilarious, some of them are easy with the keyboard

New comment by wild_pointer in "XML Is a Cheap DSL"

wild_pointer — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:49:53 +0000

It's not so cheap, in terms of maintenance and mental load

The beauty and terror of modding Windows

wild_pointer — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 10:49:05 +0000

Article URL: https://windowsread.me/p/windhawk-explained

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47230663

Points: 123

# Comments: 104

Lance table format explained with simple animations

wild_pointer — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:26:52 +0000

Article URL: https://tontinton.com/posts/lance/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939200

Points: 30

# Comments: 2

New comment by wild_pointer in "Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly"

wild_pointer — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:02:00 +0000

* The tool is truly amazing. Both for simple usage, and the advanced queries that it accepts. Very powerful, like a command line tool.

* As another comment says, v1.5 alpha has many advantages. Despite the alpha label, I find it to be very stable.

* Several software integrations exist: https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6326, I mostly like being able to see folder sizes instantly in explorer. I used xplorer2 in the past, which has a plugin, but I went back to native explorer, which has a Windhawk mod, feels like what Microsoft should have done: https://windhawk.net/mods/explorer-details-better-file-sizes

New comment by wild_pointer in "A simulation where life unfolds in real time"

wild_pointer — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:36:11 +0000

Hey, I remember this Black Mirror episode!

New comment by wild_pointer in "Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms"

wild_pointer — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:20:39 +0000

Listen team lead and the whole team, make this button red.

Making Sense of the AI Era

wild_pointer — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:55:11 +0000

Article URL: https://guywaldman.com/posts/making-sense-of-the-ai-era

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46698248

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by wild_pointer in "Vietnam bans unskippable ads"

wild_pointer — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 20:25:06 +0000

ubiquitous? "Vienam" (with quotes) shows this page as the first result.

New comment by wild_pointer in "Show HN: Picknplace.js, an alternative to drag-and-drop"

wild_pointer — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 15:18:58 +0000

OK.

New comment by wild_pointer in "Gemini 3 Pro vs. 2.5 Pro in Pokemon Crystal"

wild_pointer — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 15:18:49 +0000

I wonder how much of it is due to the model being familiar with the game or parts of it, be it due to training of the game itself, or reading/watching walkthroughs online.

New comment by wild_pointer in "Show HN: Picknplace.js, an alternative to drag-and-drop"

wild_pointer — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 03:06:20 +0000

9/10 for originality. 2/10 for usefulness.

Not bashing, that's how good ideas are found. But not this time IMO :)

New comment by wild_pointer in "Constructing the Word's First JPEG XL MD5 Hash Quine"

wild_pointer — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:18:57 +0000

In the era of LLM-generated content, such a high-quality writeup is a breath of fresh air. Well done!

New comment by wild_pointer in "Checked-size array parameters in C"

wild_pointer — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 23:12:53 +0000

This guy is doing something else completely. In his words:

> In my testing, it's between 1.2x and 4x slower than Yolo-C. It uses between 2x and 3x more memory. Others have observed higher overheads in certain tests (I've heard of some things being 8x slower). How much this matters depends on your perspective. Imagine running your desktop environment on a 4x slower computer with 3x less memory. You've probably done exactly this and you probably survived the experience. So the catch is: Fil-C is for folks who want the security benefits badly enough.

(from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46090332)

We're talking about a lack of fat pointers here, and switching to GC and having a 4x slower computer experience is not required for that.

New comment by wild_pointer in "Hardening the C++ Standard Library at scale"

wild_pointer — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 19:31:02 +0000

You didn't read this, did you? https://alexgaynor.net/2019/apr/21/modern-c++-wont-save-us/

It's not a pointer.

New comment by wild_pointer in "Exploring the limits of large language models as quant traders"

wild_pointer — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 09:24:51 +0000

Hey! That wasn't easy!

New comment by wild_pointer in "Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11"

wild_pointer — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 11:44:17 +0000

This is malware, the project is on github