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r1chardnl commented on Teletext in North America   computer.rip/2025-08-25-t... · Posted by u/susam
r1chardnl · 15 hours ago
Some developers working at the NOS (Dutch Broadcasting Foundation) as hobby project made it possible recently to view teletext through SSH.

ssh teletekst.nl

r1chardnl commented on     · Posted by u/doener
r1chardnl · 2 months ago
I didn't expect to see "Toeslagenaffaire" on HN. Does this even belong on HN?
r1chardnl commented on Slack's 57MB 404 page   a.slack.com/archives/b/c... · Posted by u/lecarore
r1chardnl · 2 months ago
54 requests

57.54 MB / 11.83 MB transferred

There's only 11.83 MB transferred, but that doesn't excuse it.

r1chardnl commented on Valve conquered PC gaming – what comes next?   ft.com/content/f4a13716-8... · Posted by u/HelloUsername
0xTJ · 2 months ago
I do have some concerns that other companies will manage to take legal actions that harm Valve's user experience without actually helping consumers.

They have a near-monopoly on PC gaming, which sounds bad at face value. But the only reason for that is that they've continually developed an excellent platform that helps connect people with games that they want to play, and then be able to play them. There are very few marketplaces that strike the right balance of presenting you with options you want, while not artificially getting in your way. (In other words, it's not very enshittified.)

There's nothing stopping someone from never buying another game on Steam, and moving to another marketplace on PC, unlike the store monopolies on consoles and mobile devices.

r1chardnl · 2 months ago

  There's nothing stopping someone from never buying another game on Steam, and moving to another marketplace on PC, unlike the store monopolies on consoles and mobile devices.
Except for the (large) Steam library of games you already have on Steam.

r1chardnl commented on Parameterized types in C using the new tag compatibility rule   nullprogram.com/blog/2025... · Posted by u/ingve
rwmj · 2 months ago
Slighty off-topic, why is he using ptrdiff_t (instead of size_t) for the cap & len types?
r1chardnl · 2 months ago
From one of his other blogposts. "Guidelines for computing sizes and subscripts"

  Never mix unsigned and signed operands. Prefer signed. If you need to convert an operand, see (2).
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2024/05/24/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvtFGa6XJDU

r1chardnl commented on China's Huawei Develops New AI Chip, Seeking to Match Nvidia   wsj.com/tech/chinas-huawe... · Posted by u/impish9208
r1chardnl · 4 months ago
If AMD and Intel can't match NVIDIA then how can Huawei?
r1chardnl commented on Understand Your Dependencies   deps.dev/... · Posted by u/dedalus
r1chardnl · 4 months ago
I don't know how well this makes you understand your dependencies. As for C/C++ a lot of people probably depend on stb single header files libraries. There's stb_truetype but it specifically mentions not to use it on any untrusted/outside .ttf files which I do like but you have to keep in mind to bake to bitmaps or only use your own .ttf provided files, thus I would put this dependency in another place like tooling. Is there a way to do this in other languages like JS and NPM? Maybe carefully choosing which dependencies you include is better?

https://github.com/nothings/stb/blob/master/stb_truetype.h#L...

u/r1chardnl

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