Hacker News: CarVac

New comment by CarVac in "Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI"

CarVac — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 14:32:49 +0000

In this case LGPL would be a more expected license for UI libraries, at least.

But that wouldn't work for a straight derivative of a GPL project.

New comment by CarVac in "France needs to read my paper"

CarVac — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:51:11 +0000

At the same time, it's a tax policy that would improve the housing supply in desirable locations.

New comment by CarVac in "France needs to read my paper"

CarVac — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 10:50:34 +0000

Tax policy was never about "freedom and liberty", it's about collecting revenue for government and guiding economic development.

New comment by CarVac in "RepRapMicron"

CarVac — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 14:20:04 +0000

And the channel's preceding few videos covering the development of the prerequisite technologies.

New comment by CarVac in "Tesla Roadster"

CarVac — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:59:04 +0000

> kept all the pieces 0.2mm apart

You can add glass microspheres to adhesives to guarantee bondline thickness. It's often done nowadays whenever you have different metals meeting with a glue bond because it keeps them electrically isolated, preventing galvanic corrosion.

New comment by CarVac in "Tesla Roadster"

CarVac — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:48:16 +0000

It's compressed air.

New comment by CarVac in "Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields"

CarVac — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:33:19 +0000

It used pairs of holes in a very different way than I did.

New comment by CarVac in "Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles"

CarVac — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:19:37 +0000

They do have a backup camera.

New comment by CarVac in "Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test"

CarVac — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 15:47:44 +0000

Polygonal aperture openings are not the cause of soap-bubble bokeh, it's the cause of polygonal stopped-down bokeh.

Heavily ringed bokeh just comes from the optics.

New comment by CarVac in "It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis"

CarVac — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 21:33:02 +0000

PoW was originally anti-spam technology.

New comment by CarVac in "I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked"

CarVac — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:10:19 +0000

The bold text use make me think it was largely LLM-written. Maybe even LLM-researched.

New comment by CarVac in "“I just chose words carefully”"

CarVac — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:26:47 +0000

Row/col works but width/height doesn't, alas.

New comment by CarVac in "“I just chose words carefully”"

CarVac — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:18:07 +0000

My dad told a story of a classmate in high school going through the effort of manually justifying text in a paper he wrote and being rewarded with a plagiarism accusation.

That was done by typing the whole paper twice, with added spaces the second time.

New comment by CarVac in "Ask HN: What's your daily driver keyboard?"

CarVac — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 21:27:55 +0000

Mitosis Anaphase, a handwired sandwich design based on the Mitosis keyboard.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/8wip5j...

I type with the keyboard on my lap so a split design didn't work for me, hence creating this handwired contraption.

I use the Dvorak layout and have two alternate layers. In the number layer, the top row is punctuation, home row is numbers, and bottom row spilling into the thumb cluster is F keys). The other utility layer has mouse keys and media control.

Keyswitches: Box Navy

Caps: Polycarbonate DCS alphas R1-R3-R4, DSA R3 for the tall thumb caps, G20 for the low thumb caps.

Button layout: https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/blob/50a4b3510bdfe5e8c93...

New comment by CarVac in "Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)"

CarVac — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:19:06 +0000

They tried too hard after the success of Hardy Heron and its awesome wallpaper.

New comment by CarVac in "Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)"

CarVac — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:40:04 +0000

I think there's a distinction between creating generic info-gathering technology that helps them gather their own data from their own users, and you gathering data that the government can then ask (force) you to hand over.

New comment by CarVac in "Show HN: Automatically detect and patch walking-dead states in Sierra games"

CarVac — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 11:34:15 +0000

As soon as I saw bold text, I knew. Humans never bold things.

New comment by CarVac in "Gakutensoku"

CarVac — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:36:23 +0000

I've mostly seen it on the right side of vehicle livery.

New comment by CarVac in "What Happened to Talenti?"

CarVac — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:12:50 +0000

They mention Jeni's. Now that is premium ice cream. Their "darkest chocolate" and "milkiest chocolate" flavors are the only chocolate ice creams I like, because they actually taste liko eating chocolate.

New comment by CarVac in "The simple elegance of the integrated timing belt loopback fastener"

CarVac — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:55:43 +0000

Printed teeth are weaker than the belt's own teeth.

Conversely, with this design the center pin could break loose and the belt would still hold, because the pin just has to stop the loop from fitting through the slot.