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candleknight

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    Comment #45355279

    kitty is great, but I stopped using it because iTerm's terminal search feature - which I use almost daily - is much more ergonomic. The existing solution in kitty (pipe scrollback …

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    Comment #41899593

    I have a repository where I make classic programs (game of life, sudoku solver, brainfuck interpreter, etc) but entirely within Typescript's type system https://github.com/ruyili/c…

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    Comment #41791050

    > First of all, there are no otters here. I'm utterly sorry about that. incredibly important suggestion: replace "utterly" with "otterly"

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    Comment #41584226

    Awesome work on this, it looks like a game changer! From my (admittedly limited) knowledge on this space, it seems like this is a straight upgrade over WASM, with the only limiting…

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    Comment #41315161

    but that'll be at runtime

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    Comment #40950247

    Starting off with "In the realm of..." instantly gave it away

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    Comment #40806467

    the combat is intense, it really felt like i was slowly getting pickaxed to death

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    Comment #40348550

    this gives me an idea for a new typescript type level project

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    Show HN: A Type-Level Brainfuck Interpreter

    TS Playground: https://tsplay.dev/brainfuck Scroll down to the "test cases" section and hover over the type names to see the output.

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    Comment #39810158

    This is hilarious, I'm changing all my websites to have "Made with cold indifference by $NAME" in the footer now

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    Comment #39701723

    The last time I tried, it was pretty slow to fire up, especially when I tried to run multiple submissions at once. It's also even more overkill for my use case; I currently use iso…

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    Comment #39700803

    Would unikernels be feasible for online judge platforms (e.g. codeforces, leetcode)? I was thinking something along the lines of: spawning a unikernel for each submission -> runnin…

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    Show HN: A Sudoku solver in TypeScript's type system

    GitHub: https://github.com/RuyiLi/cursed-typescript/blob/master/rand... Hi HN! I wrote a small file that solves sudoku puzzles at the type level - that is, entirely within TypeScri…

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    Comment #37963277

    I got the following error when I opened up a game page in my library (Hyper Light Drifter, if it matters): Check failed: g.steam_receive_prefix_bytes[1] == 0x31305456 File: client_…

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    Comment #37441680

    the power of tail call optimization :)

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    Show HN: Conway's Game of Life in TypeScript's type system

    TypeScript playground: https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?#code/KYDwDg9gTgLgBDAnmY...

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    Comment #37212738

    university of waterloo as well, although thankfully classes start in two weeks for us

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    Comment #36929062

    awesome game, i thoroughly enjoyed flinging pieces off the board at mach 30 for 30 minutes straight

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    Comment #36547506

    This was so well edited, I could only tell that it was fake since the sofa didn't have a reflection

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    Comment #36028291

    > Are there any practical applications for this app? > Nope! > It's really hard to use! > Yup! lol appreciate the honesty, this is crazy though. Mad respect

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    Show HN: Access long URLs with short, easy-to-remember names

    Hi HN! I made a browser extension (Firefox, Chrome, Edge) that lets you navigate to websites you frequent using a nice, memorable name you can set yourself. If you're familiar with…

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    Comment #35555912

    > I've seen excellent competitive programmers end up being mediocre engineers I've seen the opposite. I know many extremely talented competitive programmers (IOI, CCO, USACO platin…

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    Comment #35261558

    Looks awesome! A filter for internships would be really helpful