Hacker News: JohnHammersley

CERN to host a new phase of Open Research Europe

JohnHammersley — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:30:35 +0000

Article URL: https://home.cern/news/news/cern/cern-host-europes-flagship-open-access-publishing-platform

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47534629

Points: 255

# Comments: 25

New comment by JohnHammersley in "Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986"

JohnHammersley — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:10:02 +0000

This is such a well written story, and congratulations Ben, it sounds like it's been a lot of hard but ultimately successful work!

I know you'll deservedly get a lot of credit for all your work in remastering the game, but you should also get credit for how you've woven this narrative together, it's a lovely read. Thank you for taking the time to write it up, and good luck with the Steam release, and whatever project you take on next! :)

OpenAI makes $1B deal to bring Disney characters to ChatGPT and Sora

JohnHammersley — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 01:36:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ydp1gdqwqo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46239870

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by JohnHammersley in "Spatial intelligence is AI’s next frontier"

JohnHammersley — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 23:36:51 +0000

Thanks for sharing, I'm interested to know more about how you did this if you have a longer write up somewhere? (or are considering writing one!)

Episteme: A New System for Science

JohnHammersley — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 22:00:46 +0000

Article URL: https://epistemescience.substack.com/p/introducing-episteme

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45881518

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by JohnHammersley in "When stick figures fought"

JohnHammersley — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 09:52:39 +0000

Yes when I saw stick figures mentioned on HN I immediately thought of his "Animator vs Animation" [1] (to which I've just rediscovered the title!)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npTC6b5-yvM

Google Pacman – Halloween 2025

JohnHammersley — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 01:31:54 +0000

Article URL: https://searchplayground.google/intl/en/pacman/halloween/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45755410

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

The Unknotting Number Is Not Additive

JohnHammersley — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 06:39:30 +0000

Article URL: https://divisbyzero.com/2025/10/08/the-unknotting-number-is-not-additive/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45524293

Points: 178

# Comments: 78

Great North Run medals show wrong city and river

JohnHammersley — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 21:42:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gq2gdlnygo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45174406

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

David Bowie's final project discovered locked in his study

JohnHammersley — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 23:48:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3dpdpvj083o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45133538

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

OpenAI's new open weight (Apache 2) models are good

JohnHammersley — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 21:42:29 +0000

Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/5/gpt-oss/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44804761

Points: 69

# Comments: 5

New comment by JohnHammersley in "Mapping the University of Chicago's 135-year expansion into Hyde Park and beyond"

JohnHammersley — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 07:59:41 +0000

Thanks for the quick reply -- yes, I imagine there is some prior art for this, although I'm often amazed at how hard it still is to print (even just to print to save a pdf) from many websites!

New comment by JohnHammersley in "Mapping the University of Chicago's 135-year expansion into Hyde Park and beyond"

JohnHammersley — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 23:53:49 +0000

Thank you for working on and sharing this project, it's a wonderful example of how maps help tell / connect the stories through the years. It was also nice to see the piece you drew inspiration from that you linked to in another comment.

I'm curious -- each section (after the transitional animation) seems like it translates quite well to being a fixed page, and I'm wondering if you've looked at there being an easy way to generate a version that could be printed?

The reason I ask is that I'm working on a family history project which involves various locations, maps, newspaper stories and old photographs, and whilst something interactive feels like it would be an engaging way to do it, for the long term it's always good to have a printed copy of anything :)

I could imagine if there was an easy way to generate a print version of your articles, some people would pay for a copy (that was printed professionally in a suitable photobook-style format).

Apologies if there is a simple way to generate this and I've missed it in my cursory glance around the code :)

£1.68B accounts trick inflated water firm's books

JohnHammersley — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 22:36:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd75nqwdpj7o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42371311

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

Atlas of cells transforms understanding of human body

JohnHammersley — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 20:59:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c23829l8kzro

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42198053

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

Making the Mandelbrot Set with Excel

JohnHammersley — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 22:59:44 +0000

Article URL: https://divisbyzero.com/2024/11/13/making-the-mandelbrot-set-with-excel/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42131161

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by JohnHammersley in "Quantized Llama models with increased speed and a reduced memory footprint"

JohnHammersley — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 21:42:28 +0000

> For example, they seem to not care about instructions to only write a response and no explanation, thus making it impossible to use them in a pipeline

I was doing some local tidying up of recording transcripts, using a fairly long system prompt, and I saw the same behaviour you mention if the transcript I was passing in was too long -- batching it up to make sure to be under the max length prevented this.

Might not be what's happening in your case, but I mention it because it wasn't immediately obvious to me when I first saw the behaviour.

2001: Apple Introduces the iPod

JohnHammersley — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 00:03:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/videos/cg4q4egyyv5o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41930494

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by JohnHammersley in "Llama 3.2: Revolutionizing edge AI and vision with open, customizable models"

Hacker News: JohnHammersley

CERN to host a new phase of Open Research Europe

New comment by JohnHammersley in "Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986"

OpenAI makes $1B deal to bring Disney characters to ChatGPT and Sora

New comment by JohnHammersley in "Spatial intelligence is AI’s next frontier"

Episteme: A New System for Science

New comment by JohnHammersley in "When stick figures fought"

Google Pacman – Halloween 2025

The Unknotting Number Is Not Additive

Great North Run medals show wrong city and river

David Bowie's final project discovered locked in his study

OpenAI's new open weight (Apache 2) models are good

New comment by JohnHammersley in "Mapping the University of Chicago's 135-year expansion into Hyde Park and beyond"

New comment by JohnHammersley in "Mapping the University of Chicago's 135-year expansion into Hyde Park and beyond"

£1.68B accounts trick inflated water firm's books

Atlas of cells transforms understanding of human body

Making the Mandelbrot Set with Excel

New comment by JohnHammersley in "Quantized Llama models with increased speed and a reduced memory footprint"

2001: Apple Introduces the iPod

New comment by JohnHammersley in "Llama 3.2: Revolutionizing edge AI and vision with open, customizable models"

New comment by JohnHammersley in "Low Cost Mini PCs"