<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: z92</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=z92</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:24:11 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=z92" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by z92 in "Zig, parser combinators, and why they're awesome"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Checked Zig. Doesn't have a memory manager. It's "free all at program termination" or manually manage memory like C.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2021 01:06:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26418834</link><dc:creator>z92</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26418834</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26418834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by z92 in "Food Prices Are Soaring Faster Than Inflation and Incomes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't get how food consumption can increase in a pandemic. Should be constant in or outside a pandemic situation. Possibly somewhere crops are getting rotten because of newly imposed export restrictions, or for some other things.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2021 09:37:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26383789</link><dc:creator>z92</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26383789</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26383789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by z92 in "The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Google Allo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Too large a company. Their cross-team is like other's cross-company.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2021 06:51:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26382910</link><dc:creator>z92</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26382910</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26382910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by z92 in "Show HN: Pakhi – Bangla Programming Language"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Consider keywords :<p>ফেরত -> উত্তর<p>ফাং -> কাজ<p>For hashmap indexes, consider<p>name["key"]-> name.key<p>And while initializing<p>"name" -> "value"<p>consider syntax<p>name : "value"<p>Less typing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2021 20:08:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26370134</link><dc:creator>z92</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26370134</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26370134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by z92 in "Speed Is the Killer Feature"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anybody else remember the speedup loop.<p><a href="https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Speedup-Loop" rel="nofollow">https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Speedup-Loop</a><p>tl;dr : programmer inserts a large empty loop in a UI, so that in weeks when he achieves nothing, he removes a single zero from the end of the loop counter to speed up things a bit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2021 12:36:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26314649</link><dc:creator>z92</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26314649</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26314649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by z92 in "Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Gab is like Facebook. Parler like twitter.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2021 06:23:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26312425</link><dc:creator>z92</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26312425</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26312425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by z92 in "Generate Flowcharts from Text"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do it for all the selected lines, when multiple lines have been selected and tab pressed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2021 16:56:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26304840</link><dc:creator>z92</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26304840</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26304840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by z92 in "How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Also note that the way he fixed it, strlen only caches the last call and returns quickly on an immediate second call with the same string.<p>Another reason why C styled null terminated strings suck. Use a class or structure and store both the string pointer and its length.<p>I have seen other programs where strlen was gobbling up 95% of execution time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2021 20:55:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296975</link><dc:creator>z92</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296975</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by z92 in "Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Parse your server's access log file. The way it had been done for decades. "Analog" was popular then, Should be better options now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2021 16:07:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26264324</link><dc:creator>z92</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26264324</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26264324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by z92 in "DigitalOcean S-1"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Right! Linode was $20/month at least and more focused to businesses. Not the then unbelievable $5/month for SSH ssh accessible virtual box with root access that DO started. Plus the SSD. Other hosting providers later caught on with DO.<p>But the thing I liked best was their "no hidden cost". You pay what you agreed before to pay. No surprise. No upsell, trick sell which were common with all hosting at that time.<p>DO still maintains that honesty. Not sure what will happen after their IPO.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2021 15:36:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26263868</link><dc:creator>z92</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26263868</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26263868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by z92 in "The Evolution of Developer Salaries: Looking Back 20 Years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>His conclusion :<p>> In the years to come, industry experts expect low-level coding and programming jobs to become obsolete with the development of new tools that remove the need to code completely.<p>Me wondering how much of it shall we see.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2021 10:57:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26261698</link><dc:creator>z92</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26261698</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26261698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by z92 in "Build an SMS Forwarder with Raspberry Pi Zero W and Waveshare SIM7000E Hat"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you can't purchase the GNSS HAT, use an old Android phone and install Termux on it. Then run some bash scripts on the phone that will do the job.<p>The phone will communicate with your network over wifi, and replaces both the Raspberry PI and the HAT.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2021 17:11:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26215155</link><dc:creator>z92</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26215155</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26215155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by z92 in "Australian Facebook News Ban Isn’t About Democracy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> continued dominance of facebook in a lot of countries is a bit of an anomaly.<p>Scaling for cheap is the winning strategy here. Google had its social network before facebook too. Orkut. Didn't scale cheaply. Invite only to limit load.<p>Facebook could do it. Fast loading pages serving billions. I was trying gab.com recently. Too slow. Too much non responsive. Even after they are trying their best. And even though they make money from premium membership.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2021 07:41:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26211648</link><dc:creator>z92</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26211648</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26211648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by z92 in "Ask HN: Why aren't you coding?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Prototyping takes less time than writing up the requirement in paper. And customers can give more accurate feedback watching the prototype than reading the docs.<p>It rarely happens that once a prototype is written, the developer finds out it was all a wastage and the customer wanted something quite different.<p>Think of the prototype as a Photoshop mock, but interactive like the real application.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2021 05:57:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26121737</link><dc:creator>z92</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26121737</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26121737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by z92 in "Aerobics instructor appears to capture Myanmar coup in dance video"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Coup news takes time to reach the media. If this is not fake more likely this video is from the previous day afternoon, when they raided the parliament.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2021 13:08:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26000512</link><dc:creator>z92</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26000512</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26000512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by z92 in "Aerobics instructor appears to capture Myanmar coup in dance video"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Otherwise she had to place the camera on the road. And road views are fine specially when the background is the White House or the parliament building in this case.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2021 13:06:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26000501</link><dc:creator>z92</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26000501</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26000501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by z92 in "This is How Google will Collapse (2017)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The site has collapsed, instead.<p>"Resource Limit Is Reached"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2021 06:19:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25986124</link><dc:creator>z92</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25986124</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25986124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by z92 in "The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This post says how unpredictable it is.<p>Come on, you can run a linux distribution on a non-apple hardware and not even worry if any of those software will run on it. Plus any of the 40 other top TIOBE tools.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2021 19:05:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25718271</link><dc:creator>z92</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25718271</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25718271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by z92 in "Termux no longer updated on Google Play"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Google play version was crippled beyond being practical anyway. Can't SMS, can't GPS, no access to address book.<p>The usable version is from F-Droid. And I had to install that one just to install Termux. No need to root your phone. Simply install F-Droid app store, and install from there.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2021 14:08:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25645618</link><dc:creator>z92</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25645618</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25645618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by z92 in "Give your Mac imaginary unlimited storage thanks to Disk Utility’s bug"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So does Fedora's latest release. zram0 partition. zipped RAM drive. And measuring speed of my /tmp directory, have a feeling it resides on RAM.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2020 07:55:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25549591</link><dc:creator>z92</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25549591</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25549591</guid></item></channel></rss>