Hacker News: Chazprimehttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ChazprimeHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:21:08 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by Chazprime in "Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of 1980s-era Mac OS"]]>Hell, I’d go straight for Beyond Dark Castle… it really took the series to a whole different level.

]]>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:23:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733259Chazprimehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733259https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733259<![CDATA[New comment by Chazprime in "Programming foundations in Python (state, control flow, mutability)"]]>You might want to check your file names for errors.

]]>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:36:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46883153Chazprimehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46883153https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46883153<![CDATA[New comment by Chazprime in "Director Gore Verbinski: Unreal Engine is the greatest slip backwards for movie"]]>Is anyone out there using Unreal for in-camera character/creature animation? My production experience with Unreal has been solely limited to background and lighting support, for which it is excellent.

]]>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 09:55:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46703349Chazprimehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46703349https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46703349<![CDATA[New comment by Chazprime in "I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'"]]>> "legitimate" blockchain company

This would have set off the spidey sensors with me.

]]>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 04:52:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45601577Chazprimehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45601577https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45601577<![CDATA[New comment by Chazprime in "SGI demos from long ago in the browser via WASM"]]>Didn’t Jurassic Park have a similar interface running on the workstations?

]]>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 21:13:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45352828Chazprimehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45352828https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45352828<![CDATA[New comment by Chazprime in "Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor"]]>Pink News is often not a reliable source; they’re prone to hyperbole.

]]>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 00:43:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44907430Chazprimehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44907430https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44907430<![CDATA[New comment by Chazprime in "What even is 'adult' content? [NSFW]"]]>Try reloading the page, it didn’t work for me either the first time.

]]>Fri, 25 Jul 2025 12:29:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44682376Chazprimehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44682376https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44682376<![CDATA[New comment by Chazprime in "The weird afterlife of Xbox Kinect"]]>I worked on the VFX of a movie in 2012 where we actually used a Kinect as a cheap Lidar replacement for mapping set geometry. Such a useful little device.

]]>Mon, 03 Mar 2025 18:45:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43245229Chazprimehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43245229https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43245229<![CDATA[New comment by Chazprime in "How I got promoted to staff engineer twice"]]>Goodness, this guy certainly seems to think highly of himself!

]]>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 10:12:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42565111Chazprimehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42565111https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42565111<![CDATA[New comment by Chazprime in "Cybertruck's Many Recalls"]]>…And it’s horribly ugly to boot.

]]>Tue, 26 Nov 2024 08:30:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42243639Chazprimehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42243639https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42243639<![CDATA[New comment by Chazprime in "Microsoft confident Windows on Arm could beat Apple with Snapdragon X Elite"]]>Are they magically reverting to Windows NT 4.0 for this build?

]]>Mon, 08 Apr 2024 21:52:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39974120Chazprimehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39974120https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39974120<![CDATA[New comment by Chazprime in "Blockchain-enabled, AI powered fashion startup mmERCH announces $6.4M seed round"]]>It’s still early days…

/s

]]>Sun, 17 Mar 2024 09:52:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39733171Chazprimehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39733171https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39733171<![CDATA[New comment by Chazprime in "Lawsuit proceeds over Amazon revoking "purchased" digital movie content"]]>I don’t understand why the terms of “purchasing” digital content can’t specify a way to access content in the event that a vendor has to stop offering it.

Surely if the content creator is offering it for sale, it should be illegal to disallow use of it after being purchased.

]]>Sat, 16 Mar 2024 22:23:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39730016Chazprimehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39730016https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39730016<![CDATA[New comment by Chazprime in "Show HN: I made a free animator. Think Adobe Illustrator but for animation"]]>This is one of them that I remember from 2016:

https://www.theguardian.com/media-network/2016/dec/02/battle...

I don’t see how even Facebook could have an issue with “telegram” being used commercially, but I wouldn’t be totally surprised if they did.

]]>Tue, 12 Mar 2024 10:02:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39677789Chazprimehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39677789https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39677789<![CDATA[New comment by Chazprime in "AI Companies Are Getting the Culture War They Deserve"]]>Or Better Off Ted. The episode about racially insensitive security cameras is comedy gold.

]]>Thu, 22 Feb 2024 20:05:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39472364Chazprimehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39472364https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39472364<![CDATA[A Flesh-Eating Bacterium Is Creeping North as Oceans Warm]]>Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/a-flesh-eating-bacterium-is-creeping-north-as-oceans-warm/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37636939

Points: 46

# Comments: 4

]]>Sun, 24 Sep 2023 20:38:08 +0000https://www.wired.com/story/a-flesh-eating-bacterium-is-creeping-north-as-oceans-warm/Chazprimehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37636939https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37636939<![CDATA[New comment by Chazprime in "LogoScale – A method for vectorizing small, crappy logos"]]>I was excited for this as well, but it’s understandable because even the best raster -> vector conversion apps usually need a fair bit of cleanup.

]]>Sat, 09 Sep 2023 11:46:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37444280Chazprimehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37444280https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37444280<![CDATA[Unity Weta Tools]]>Article URL: https://unity.com/solutions/unity-weta-tools

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37055989

Points: 106

# Comments: 68

]]>Tue, 08 Aug 2023 21:57:10 +0000https://unity.com/solutions/unity-weta-toolsChazprimehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37055989https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37055989<![CDATA[New comment by Chazprime in "Canadians will no longer have access to news content on Facebook and Instagram"]]>Awesome.

Now do America.

]]>Thu, 22 Jun 2023 23:43:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36440792Chazprimehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36440792https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36440792<![CDATA[New comment by Chazprime in "Hippo Meat Nearly Became an American Food Staple"]]>Sounds a bit like Okja!

]]>Mon, 15 May 2023 12:41:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35947247Chazprimehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35947247https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35947247