Hacker News: LukeB42

New comment by LukeB42 in "The case for MUDs in modern times"

LukeB42 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:23:29 +0000

I three MUDs in one as a channel mode for my IRCD the other month: https://github.com/float64co/psyrcd/blob/master/plugins/mud....

New comment by LukeB42 in "Introduction to Computer Music (2009) [pdf]"

LukeB42 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:07:45 +0000

Both of these things. The timbres can be explained through evolutionary biology. The same brain centers used for processing movement in 3d space also start firing up to start predicting where any given piece of music will go.

An interesting note has a fundamental and harmonics and allows analogies to be drawn in RF engineering and quantum mechanics: https://www.google.com/search?q=any+good+parallels+between+i...

New comment by LukeB42 in "Spanish legislation as a Git repo"

LukeB42 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:06:44 +0000

law.py — A Distributed Legislature: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/float64co/deb887691f13dee...

New comment by LukeB42 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

LukeB42 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:51:17 +0000

In the past couple of months I've

Built a Cythonized Icecast2 implementation I've wanted for years: https://github.com/lukeb42/cycast

Built a p2p Kanban board that fits in a single .html file and uses only the Python stdlib for LAN discovery https://github.com/lukeb42/kanban_p2p

Developed a p2p legislature that scales from a small team of 3 users to countries of tens of millions of people: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/LukeB42/deb887691f13dee9c...

Developed a small SPA framework inspired by React, Ractive-Load and hn.js: https://lukeb42.github.io/vertex-manual.html

Updated a news archival service for Python 3.x: https://github.com/lukeb42/harvest

Made a scriptable IRC client inspired by irssi and mIRC: https://github.com/lukeb42/scroll

and worked on a couple of my company's products.

New comment by LukeB42 in "Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework"

LukeB42 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:21:01 +0000

Thanks for this. I stopped writing JS for awhile just as ES6 was coming around the corner / coming into use. This will be in 0.0.2.

New comment by LukeB42 in "Show HN: OpenGraviton – Run 500B+ parameter models on a consumer Mac Mini"

LukeB42 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 09:24:58 +0000

Had to fix hardware detection myself only to find engine.generate()'s not implemented and yields "".

Maybe the author could get a large param model to help him get this done though.

New comment by LukeB42 in "Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework"

LukeB42 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:38:44 +0000

Would you prefer to see ESM or neither?

New comment by LukeB42 in "Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework"

LukeB42 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:26:36 +0000

Thanks for the valuable feedback. I've added a mediaquery for your use case. This should be more legible now: https://lukeb42.github.io/vertex-manual.html

Send me a screenshot via https://catbox.moe if it's unreadable and I'll get this done and dusted before leaving the thread. Thanks.

New comment by LukeB42 in "Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework"

LukeB42 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:49:08 +0000

React components might eventually be removed in favor of making the templating system as fast and as elegant as possible but for the time being they provide flexibility.

You can read https://lukeb42.github.io/vertex-interop.html for more info.

New comment by LukeB42 in "Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework"

LukeB42 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:38:22 +0000

Thank you but the predominant monitor's probably a smartphone. The average professional is probably using a 4k monitor at the moment.

Everything in the free documentation I've provided you out of my own time and money that you're referring to exists in relation to the other elements in that page, so to get the experience you're after simply ctrl+scroll and change the CSS zoom level like the riot at parties that you could be or catch up with circa 2013-2014 and invest in a 4k display please.

New comment by LukeB42 in "Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework"

LukeB42 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:31:58 +0000

9kb (minifier+brotli)

We could remove 3kb by removing the router but that's not gonna happen. You're more than welcome to minify+brotli it yourself if you use vertex.js in production.

New comment by LukeB42 in "Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework"

LukeB42 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:55:29 +0000

Beauty /is/ in the eye of the beholder. The rationale /here/ is that the more text in a page the more code you'll fit in your head the more you'll get done, the more confidence you'll have and again the more you'll achieve.

Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework

LukeB42 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 11:05:28 +0000

Vertex is a 1kloc SPA framework containing everything you need from React, Ractive-Load and jQuery while still being jQuery-compatible.

vertex.js is a single, self-contained file with no build step and no dependencies.

Also exhibits the curious quality of being faster than over a decade of engineering at Facebook in some cases: https://files.catbox.moe/sqei0d.png

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47205659

Points: 46

# Comments: 26

Show HN: Kanban_P2P – A P2P Kanban board contained in a single HTML file

LukeB42 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:52:33 +0000

A Kanban board with p2p sync contained in a single HTML file. A Python stdlib sync server is included for LAN discovery.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47048850

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Cycast – High-performance radio streaming server written in Python

LukeB42 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:47:46 +0000

A high-performance internet radio streaming server written in Python with Cython optimizations.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47048790

Points: 22

# Comments: 2

New comment by LukeB42 in "Why does Britain feel so poor?"

LukeB42 — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 14:10:41 +0000

Agitation by community-based agents leading to honest people dropping out and wicked people doubling down.

New comment by LukeB42 in "SiFive Rolls Out RISC-V Cores Aimed at Generative AI and ML"

LukeB42 — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 08:14:51 +0000

>you'd need a pretty custom toolchain

Just port/extend pytorch to make it easy to utilize fused ops.

New comment by LukeB42 in "Helplessness is not learned (2022)"

LukeB42 — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 11:56:30 +0000

Everything in an organism is learned.

If you think it isn't then you're not observing the right timescale.

New comment by LukeB42 in "A GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy"

LukeB42 — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 17:27:42 +0000

Is this because you don't know how to implement the weight updates in NumPy yourself?

New comment by LukeB42 in "A GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy"

LukeB42 — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 17:13:42 +0000

Terrible joke and COMPLETELY missing the point.