Hacker News: Rendello

New comment by Rendello in "Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat"

Rendello — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:19:07 +0000

Another comment pointed out that a at least one de-mining expert is skeptical:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680882

New comment by Rendello in "Isseven"

Rendello — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:30:46 +0000

I should mention that unicode.org has a "Unicode Set" query tool so no one gets swindled by a similar service ;)

https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/list-unicodeset.jsp?a=%...

New comment by Rendello in "Ask HN: How Do You Relax?"

Rendello — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:07:40 +0000

I like running, it's the thing that makes me feel the most "right".

New comment by Rendello in "No One at Waffle House Remembers FEMA Official Who Says He Teleported In"

Rendello — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:00:58 +0000

I only (rarely) get it in the morning, right before I'm about to fully wake up. I always panic because I'm desperate to move on my own, even though I know I shouldn't. But I've never seen a demon or anything, just my room – though it's an imagined version because my eyes aren't actually open yet, and usually when I wake up the room and lighting look quite different.

New comment by Rendello in "Isseven"

Rendello — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 04:10:26 +0000

Doesn't work for the other 125 encoded characters that are numerically seven, as defined in the Unicode Character Database:

https://www.unicode.org/Public/17.0.0/ucd/extracted/DerivedN...

(Viewable / copy-able version: https://pastebin.com/fNRv3wD6)

New comment by Rendello in "Ask HN: What music are you currently working to?"

Rendello — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:19:19 +0000

Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85-92. I love his music but could never get into the older or more ambient stuff, but now I'm enjoying it. I love his crazy stuff more but it's difficult to concentrate with, although I usually have the music off when I'm concentrating and only put it on when my mind is half-wandering off somewhere.

New comment by Rendello in "A Love Letter to 'Girl Games'"

Rendello — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:55:36 +0000

> Games are doomed by femininity. Across media, genres marketed toward women are deemed lesser than their masculine counterparts: romance novels are trashy, chick flicks are shallow, and pop idols are embarrassing.

I was excited to read the love letter to girl games, but this article is more of a disparagement, as if everything that appeals to women is regarded as trash. There are plenty of things made by women for women that are universally loved. There are shallow chick flicks, yes, and they're not trying to be anything more than they are (I love a lot of them). It seems that the author is the one framing all these things as worthless. Is a game worthless because it never hit the (very competitive) mainstream?

The game mentioned in the article, Consume Me, has 922 written reviews, the majority of which are very positive. It has the description: Consume Me is a semi-autobiographical game that depicts dieting, disordered eating, and fatphobia. In my opinion, the art looks cool and the game looks fun enough, but I don't get the impression it was aiming for mainstream appeal. Why should it? Mainstream games are often addiction traps meant to separate players from their money continuously.

This article needs more love and less disparagement.

New comment by Rendello in "Ask HN: What's your favorite number, and why?"

Rendello — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:46:39 +0000

Plus, 2+2 = 2*2 = 2² = 2↑↑2 = 2↑↑↑2

I only knew the basic ones from this meme, but the hyperoperations are explained in the explanation video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEQOv61Gveg

New comment by Rendello in "Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)"

Rendello — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:18:36 +0000

Then, on the rare occasion where you do use it, you end up with a single finger smudge that lasts until you find the will to clean it.

New comment by Rendello in "The Oxford Comma – Why and Why Not (2024)"

Rendello — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 03:11:19 +0000

You could make it a compile error like Zig (previously) did with tabs!

New comment by Rendello in "How much precision can you squeeze out of a table?"

Rendello — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 03:00:59 +0000

The typography and design inside the book is beautiful but the cover looks like an old bargain-store flyer. There's an expression about that, something about judging a book by its cover? I can't remember exactly.

New comment by Rendello in "Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y"

Rendello — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 01:40:22 +0000

Which dog bite statistics are you referring to? I would be interested to see data that contradicts these findings:

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Characteristics of 1616 Consecutive Dog Bite Injuries at a Single Institution

> Pit bull bites were implicated in half of all surgeries performed and over 2.5 times as likely to bite in multiple anatomic locations as compared to other breeds.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27400935/

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Characteristics of Dog Bites in Arkansas

> family dogs represent a more significant threat than often is realized and that, among the breeds identified, pit bulls are proportionally linked with more severe bite injuries

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30075476/

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Morbidity of pediatric dog bites: a case series at a level one pediatric trauma center

> Pediatric dog bites span a wide range of ages, frequently require operative intervention, and can cause severe morbidity. Dog familiarity did not confer safety, and in this series, Pit bulls were most frequently responsible.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25638634/

New comment by Rendello in "Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y"

Rendello — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 06:33:30 +0000

The ban isn't meaningfully enforced in much of the province [1], I see them a lot. I used to live in Ottawa, and their official site directly states "The City of Ottawa does not enforce the provincial ban on pit bulls" [2]. For those (legitimately) interested in a Canadian perspective on breed-specific legislation, there's a documentary by CBC's Fifth Estate on the subject [3].

1. https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/five-things-to-know-abou...

2. https://ottawa.ca/en/living-ottawa/animals-and-pets/dogs/dog...

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFa8HOdegZA

New comment by Rendello in "Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y"

Rendello — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 05:52:03 +0000

"Should", maybe, but I've seen a pretty disturbing video where a pit bull took a lot more than one hit... it was multiple minutes of hits. And it only let go after it died, I've never seen anything like it.

New comment by Rendello in "Ball Pit"

Rendello — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 01:05:12 +0000

I see, it looks like he's the one behind ThreeJS. Well, he had to make ThreeJS before he could make this, and that must have been a learning experience, right? :D

New comment by Rendello in "Ball Pit"

Rendello — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:54:17 +0000

Beautiful, this must have been an excellent learning experience to make.

I've done some very basic rendering code in C from a rendering internals course, and at the same time I'm learning about perspective from the drawing/art side. I wonder how much learning one would help the other, in a practical way.

New comment by Rendello in "The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon"

Rendello — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 02:16:47 +0000

I learned these low-level bit tricks by reading TempleOS' HolyC source code. I remember feeling like a genius when I worked out what this line does:

dc->color=c++&15;

Hint: it's from this "Lines" demo program, whose source is here: https://web.archive.org/web/20180906060723/https://templeos....

And this is what it looks like when it runs (ignore the fact it's running in Minecraft): https://youtu.be/pAN_Fza6Vy8?t=38

Lightweight Compression in DuckDB

Rendello — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:52:50 +0000

Article URL: https://duckdb.org/2022/10/28/lightweight-compression

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47473224

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Rendello in "Why Some Men Struggle to Keep Up with Friendships"

Rendello — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:52:17 +0000

There's an element of competitiveness, too. I worked in a hotel, mostly with women. My supervisor, a woman in her 60s, praised me and the other male workers, saying that the women were jealous, rivalrous, and always fighting amongst each other. "Men are easy!"

Meanwhile, I had no problem working with any of the women (although it's true, they were cruel among themselves), but when I had to interact with men in other departments, it felt like some macho standoff. It's like when you go to shake a guy's hand, and he pulls your arm and crushes your hand, but baked into every interaction.

New comment by Rendello in "I haven't used a mouse for 14 years"

Rendello — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:50:01 +0000

I've always hated trackpads, they always made my fingers extremely sore and I didn't find they worked well. Someone told me "you're just not used to it", like I hadn't been already trying for 20 years!

The Mac trackpad, however, is wonderful. I enjoy using it.