Hacker News: yyx

New comment by yyx in "Orthodox C++ (2016)"

yyx — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:19:44 +0000

At this point, if you want better C, just use Zig.

New comment by yyx in "New YC homepage"

yyx — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 10:13:18 +0000

No dark mode. Classic.

New comment by yyx in "John Simpson: 'I've reported on 40 wars but I've never seen a year like 2025'"

yyx — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 06:30:24 +0000

Ukraine is Europe. And what does US do? Threatens Ukraine into giving away land.

"Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed"

New comment by yyx in "Building a Durable Execution Engine with SQLite"

yyx — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 21:27:01 +0000

Sounds like a Celery with SQLAlchemy backend.

New comment by yyx in "The Uselessness of "Fast" and "Slow" in Programming"

yyx — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:25:21 +0000

Agreed, some languages and frameworks have trouble scaling https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45950542

New comment by yyx in "Obsidian Note Codes"

yyx — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 06:17:06 +0000

Oh, I thought it meant written in the Notes app. I guess it's nice for those, who don't use johnny decimal system.

New comment by yyx in "Obsidian Note Codes"

yyx — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 05:26:47 +0000

Why? You can already link notes: obsidian://open?vault=Documents&file=Ideas

New comment by yyx in "When the job search becomes impossible"

yyx — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 03:31:18 +0000

Obsidian app with it's latest "bases" feature (or Dataview plugin) would work nicely for this.

New comment by yyx in "Becoming the person who does the thing"

yyx — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 13:05:38 +0000

Mindlessness is a positive thing here. You don't have to think, just follow the moves, hit your goals and the numbers will naturally go up over time.

New comment by yyx in "Why I Use a Dumbphone in 2025 (and Why You Should Too)"

yyx — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:32:57 +0000

One simple solution is to buy a cheap used phone. Every app is made for flagships now. You'll still be able to use the apps, but everything will lag.

New comment by yyx in "Why I Use a Dumbphone in 2025 (and Why You Should Too)"

yyx — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:22:08 +0000

Damn, I guess I skimmed the article with my short attention span :). He's right, but the title is clickbaity.

New comment by yyx in "Why I Use a Dumbphone in 2025 (and Why You Should Too)"

yyx — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:12:28 +0000

> TikTok, Instagram Shorts, YouTube Reels

Just don't install these apps? There are tons of useful apps that don't require your constant attention.

New comment by yyx in "Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp"

yyx — Mon, 26 May 2025 18:34:58 +0000

uBlock origin filter:

    ! Hacker News dark mode
    news.ycombinator.com##html:style(filter:invert(90%) hue-rotate(180deg))
    news.ycombinator.com##body:style(background: white)

New comment by yyx in "Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua"

yyx — Fri, 16 May 2025 09:31:17 +0000

I'm getting `TypeError: e is null` by opening this website in a new tab.

Firefox 138.0.1

New comment by yyx in "Ereader Easy Swedish. Tool I Made for Myself to Learn a Language"

yyx — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 08:21:32 +0000

Is it better than DeepL own extension?

Edit: it is.

New comment by yyx in "Bad Moon Rising"

yyx — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 16:36:04 +0000

You can look up Ellen Pao and her time as interim CEO of Reddit for recent example.

New comment by yyx in "Generate video sprites using just FFmpeg"

yyx — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 07:10:14 +0000

You can make a playlist with start-time and stop-time.

https://scriptun.com/tools/video/m3u-playlist-generator

That would be a great way to create smyths (streamlined mythbusters).

New comment by yyx in "INNER JOIN ON vs WHERE clause (2009)"

yyx — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 10:05:44 +0000

Wonder what's the difference in PRQL...

New comment by yyx in "Lab Leak 2.0?"

yyx — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 04:00:10 +0000

It took 4 billion years to get to this point. Plenty of time.

New comment by yyx in "More Casio Watch Mods"

yyx — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 06:10:36 +0000

Or this one: https://github.com/joeycastillo/Sensor-Watch