Hacker News: zvr

New comment by zvr in "The Rise of the Em-Dash in Hacker News Comments"

zvr — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:44:20 +0000

One of the minor but very welcome latest updates of Microsoft Windows was the addition of the capability to type Win+- to get an en-dash (–) and Shift+Win+- to get an em dash (—).

New comment by zvr in "New Modern Greek"

zvr — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:41:15 +0000

Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Grik-spiking werld.

New comment by zvr in "Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate"

zvr — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:00:10 +0000

You can still start such a company now. The tricky part is to gain the trust of customers.

New comment by zvr in "Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read"

zvr — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:27:33 +0000

Well, if it's AI-generated, it's not really copyrighted by you and you cannot license it under GPL, since you did not write it.

Nice work, nevertheless, and useful!

New comment by zvr in "Solar panels at Lidl? Plug-in versions set to appear in shops"

zvr — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:15:21 +0000

I believe the major hurdle would be from the "renter" part.

Usually such installations are only allowed to be done by the owners, not tenants.

New comment by zvr in "Gonon: Building a Clock with No Numerals"

zvr — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:27:57 +0000

Interesting, but some of the information is conflicting: the design was about "No assumed orientation. Something that works in a mirror" but then the 24-hour arc talks about "(top, 12 o'clock position) clockwise".

Placing midnight on top forces an orientation, while specifying clockwise makes mirroring impossible.

But this is only on the text description, the actual clock would work anyway.

New comment by zvr in "How A Spartan Revolutionized Baseball"

zvr — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:21:30 +0000

People are still be born in Sparta, Greece; no time travel needed.

New comment by zvr in "My son pleasured himself on Gemini Live. Entire family's Google accounts banned"

zvr — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:19:54 +0000

It's pretty straightforward to sync the contacts on the phone with the contacts on Fastmail via CardDAV, using DAVx5 for example.

New comment by zvr in "Sed, a powerfull mini-language from the 70s"

zvr — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:15:28 +0000

Right! ed was the first one, and its ideas and commands influenced sed (a "streams" ed), and ex (an "extended" editor, which also had a "vi"sual mode).

New comment by zvr in "Diels-grabsch2: Self Hashing C Program (2019)"

zvr — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:27:57 +0000

It's even easier to exec a hash of argv[0] and print it.

New comment by zvr in "Review of Microsoft's ClearType Font Collection (2005)"

zvr — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:14:34 +0000

Of all the C-named fonts introduced by Microsoft at that moment in time, I think Consolas was the one which made the greatest difference from what was available already.

Let's see whether it will also be the one with the most lasting impact.

New comment by zvr in "Excel incorrectly assumes that the year 1900 is a leap year"

zvr — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:48:44 +0000

IIRC, it will never stop because now it has been "standardized". The OOXML specification explicitly mentions that the conversions of dates and their attributes (like whether a year is a leap one) has to follow the Excel implementation.

Michael Twyman, 1934–2025

zvr — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:37:43 +0000

Article URL: https://gerryleonidas.substack.com/p/michael-twyman-19342025

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47375624

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by zvr in "Package managers need to cool down"

zvr — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:25:51 +0000

Most (all?) of the solutions offered are not providing a "code review service" but rather a "curated registry" one: download from us and we guarantee some things.

It's definitely more widely known/used for container images than individual software packages.

New comment by zvr in "Package managers need to cool down"

zvr — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:22:24 +0000

The complexity (and therefore the effort) of implementing such a setup varies greatly, depending on the ecosystem you're working on: Java, Python, Rust, Go, Node, ...

The Controllability Trap: A Governance Framework for Military AI Agents

zvr — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:54:22 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03515

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362740

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by zvr in "Intel Demos Chip to Compute with Encrypted Data"

zvr — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:05:02 +0000

For anyone interested, the corresponding software has been released under an Open Source license: https://github.com/IntelLabs/encrypted-computing-sdk

New comment by zvr in "70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023)"

zvr — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 10:01:14 +0000

I also regularly visit the 3-4 that are within 10 minutes walking distance from my place. It's fun to see that they have slowly become more "specialized"; for example, English books typically appear in only one of them.

New comment by zvr in "Game about Data of America"

zvr — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 09:51:36 +0000

Even better would be an advanced user setting, allowing to set the difference percentage. I find it illuminating to answer questions with 100% (or more), when one answer is at least double the other -- and still make mistakes.

New comment by zvr in "GPL upgrades via section 14 proxy delegation"

zvr — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:58:25 +0000

The main advantage for using "or later" is not really to be OK when a new version of the license is published, as this happens rarely.

What you gain is the possibility of combining this code with any other code that is under a later version of the license. If there is code X under GPL-2.0-only and code Y under GPL-3.0-only, these cannot be combined, since each license declares that any derivative work has to be under the same license. If code X were under GPL-2.0-or-later, the combination would be compliant.