Hacker News: Luff

New comment by Luff in "Every Byte Matters"

Luff — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:33:30 +0000

Yes we should end the hateful rhetoric of most and least significant bytes. Every Byte Matters.

New comment by Luff in "Terms of Service; Didn’t Read"

Luff — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 15:43:08 +0000

Here's a graph showing how long it would take to read the ToS of some prominent companies: https://i.redd.it/j6cd57dbrga61.png

New comment by Luff in "I Know What You Download on BitTorrent"

Luff — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 06:17:48 +0000

EU: According to a directive passed 2006, a minimum of six months and at most 24 months. But that directive was ruled invalid and anulled in 2014. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive

New comment by Luff in "A tiny static full-text search engine using Rust and WebAssembly (2019)"

Luff — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 05:10:18 +0000

How does it compare with flexsearch? It claims to be the fastest, smallest, prettiest search library in town. https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch

New comment by Luff in "MSPaint in JavaScript"

Luff — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 19:58:34 +0000

It works if the page is a PWA with offline support. But no, JSPaint doesn't seem to be one :/

You could probably use a local caching proxy if your love for MSPaint is true and pure.

New comment by Luff in "MSPaint in JavaScript"

Luff — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 19:44:33 +0000

Download and unzip NW.js, create a file called package.json with the following text:

  { "name": "JSPaint", "main": "https://jspaint.app/" }

Place it in the extracted folder, then start nw.

Very Serious Business

Luff — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 21:04:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROaj3bCpZEM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21109626

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Luff in "The hypersane are among us, if only we are prepared to look"

Luff — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 12:54:51 +0000

Hypersane sounds a little smug, but it feels close to something.

Like, there seems to be a difference between how smart a person is, and being [effective? rational? non-reactive? introspective?].

It feels like there's a spectrum of to which extent people are programmed by, and are reacting to, their environment. A spectrum that might be separate from how smart they are. Give them a text-book or an IQ-test and they'll do great, give them the news and they'll ineffectually berate and hate each-other, and so on.

So while a sane person might have a common social programming, an insane persons programming would be corrupted/deviant.

And a "hypersane" person would be someone who is more able to see their own (and others) programming, and to a greater extent be able to opt-out of some of it?

Maybe there are better words for it.

New comment by Luff in "Terminating Service for 8Chan"

Luff — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 12:40:49 +0000

"We can't get rid of guns, so lets get rid of free speech instead"?

New comment by Luff in "Peace for Triple Piano"

Luff — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 08:59:50 +0000

The effect when watching it on your phone (with headphones) in the YouTube app is really neat, with the 3D audio and orientation tracking.

New comment by Luff in "Why I left Google to join Grab"

Luff — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 16:30:32 +0000

You can't earn money by making things for people that have no money. We need to solve that first.

New comment by Luff in "This VR cycle is dead"

Luff — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 11:37:24 +0000

Wheelchair Deathmatch. Sounds fun, I would totally play that in VR.

New comment by Luff in "Ask HN: Who are the most controversial (yet still popular) HNers?"

Luff — Tue, 04 Jul 2017 10:20:39 +0000

An interesting and fun introduction to Terry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcqWok8AubE

New comment by Luff in "Russia threatens to block Telegram"

Luff — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 12:43:35 +0000

"Probably the best-known test to see if someone was a witch was the swimming test Basically, if you found someone you suspected of being an old crone, you’d drag them to a pond and chuck them in. If they sank, they’re were innocent (and probably dead) but if they floated they were guilty…and quickly executed."

New comment by Luff in "Efficient music players remain elusive"

Luff — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 08:46:27 +0000

Winamp still has a lite version that looks and behaves like the 2.x player.

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=373755

New comment by Luff in "How Finland plans to implement the first nation-wide basic income in the EU"

Luff — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 13:50:24 +0000

I think you will probably see lower rents, when they remove the housing benefits. At least if housing benefits are implemented the same way as in Sweden. When I was a student, the state payed for the part of the rent that was between €300-€450. So when I chose which apartment I wanted, I obviously chose the more expensive one, since I had no incentive to do otherwise. The people to owned the student apartments eventually caught on, and raised the price of all student apartments to around €440. (not the exact numbers, just to illustrate the point)

New comment by Luff in "“The following surprisingly difficult problem was given to my son's Math Circle”"

Luff — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 15:43:32 +0000

My math skills are not good enough solve this, I realized after trying for 30 min. I was happy I managed to solve it with good at least! Here is a JavaScript brute-force solution: http://jsfiddle.net/e88xy75f/15/

A Song About The New Airbnb Logo

Luff — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 15:39:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DNEphxMx1o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8048107

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Luff in "We have the potential to solve the biggest problems of today"

Luff — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 21:09:55 +0000

There are significantly bigger problems than those, but if you want to make money you have to solve problems that rich[0] people have, which mainly seems to be boredom.

The people with the biggest problems are the people with the least money. You can't save them with apps, but you could help them with money made by making apps. Not that most will though, if they ever make it big.

[0] Rich is a relative term. Got enough to eat and access to the internet? Compared to most humans, you're relatively rich.

New comment by Luff in "Burn the Fucking System to the Ground"

Luff — Wed, 01 Jan 2014 17:20:07 +0000

Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:PVM0SXo...