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Show HN: HW Synth with No Money

ThJ — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:43:18 +0000

This is a project I have been working on for a while.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50197817

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New comment by ThJ in "Feynman Hamster"

ThJ — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:26:40 +0000

Scientific paper? Not entirely sure. Go at it, hackers!

Forskningspapir? Ikke helt sikker. Kjør på, hackere!

Feynman Hamster

ThJ — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:23:46 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Thorwegian/hamster.js

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022930

Points: 1

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A Brief History of the Internet: Why We Never Had a Chance

ThJ — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 17:27:41 +0000

Article URL: https://viktorwinterberg.substack.com/p/a-brief-history-the-internet

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29462714

Points: 4

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Our Descent: The Story of the Rise and Fall of Western Culture

ThJ — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 07:22:19 +0000

Article URL: https://viktorwinterberg.substack.com/p/our-descent

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29274668

Points: 3

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New comment by ThJ in "The Singularity is Here: A.I. advertising technology is poisoning our societies"

ThJ — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 05:17:18 +0000

The writing is great.

New comment by ThJ in "Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin"

ThJ — Fri, 14 May 2021 00:28:29 +0000

this.

New comment by ThJ in "Sennheiser’s headphone business bought by hearing aid manufacturer Sonova"

ThJ — Sat, 08 May 2021 00:14:48 +0000

I don't know how widely known this is among the HN crowd, but: Sennheiser did professional audio equipment for many decades before they entered the consumer market. To me, it sounds like they're returning to their core business.

New comment by ThJ in "Julia receives DARPA award to accelerate electronics simulation"

ThJ — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 17:27:08 +0000

many sims use some variety of SPICE and some convergence algorithm a-la Newton's method to discover the voltages and currents at the nodes. simulating a system where every single component runs in parallel with every other component isn't easy.

New comment by ThJ in "Julia receives DARPA award to accelerate electronics simulation"

ThJ — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 17:25:00 +0000

speaker frequency response simulations will sometimes use an equivalent electronic circuit. it could help design better speakers. any time you interface digital circuitry with the real world, hybrid circuitry is used. also, with this increased processing capacity, you could be looking at simulating the parasitic properties of components, not just ideal versions of them.

New comment by ThJ in "Julia receives DARPA award to accelerate electronics simulation"

ThJ — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 17:22:14 +0000

i've had a lot trouble with analog simulations in SPICE. they often fail to converge or run incredibly slowly. i do a lot of audio circuitry. the speedups addressed here could potentially make it possible to simulate audio circuits in real time. suppose you feed a signal in via an audio interface, pass it through your analog processing circuitry and play it back in real time. the design cycle would be so much faster.

New comment by ThJ in "Why do I care the open web is dying?"

ThJ — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 12:59:17 +0000

but the movie portrayed him as a dick...

New comment by ThJ in "A New Study About Color Tries to Decode ‘The Brain’s Pantone’"

ThJ — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 13:06:08 +0000

the article seems to skip over the entire field of colour science. there is a colour space for the human eye. it's called LMS. there is also a colour space, derived from it, called CIEXYZ. it's the colour space that all ICC profiles are specified in. they are RGB-like in nature and correspond to the three types of cone cells in the human eye. there are other colour spaces that derive from it, such as CIELab and CIELuv, which are luma-chroma versions of XYZ.

New comment by ThJ in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2020)"

ThJ — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 05:03:20 +0000

Looking for: Contract jobs

Location: Oslo, Norway

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C, digital signal processing, electrical engineering, embedded, ESnext (vanilla, vue.js, node.js), hybrid circuits, Java, multimedia programming, OpenGL, PCB design, POSIX, Python, SoC

Email: thj@thj.no

New comment by ThJ in "Norway to hit those breaking quarantine with $2k fines"

ThJ — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 09:43:30 +0000

More like cabins in the wild than country cottages, some of them not accessible by car. Calling them country cottages makes them seem like they’re houses, but they’re more like cabins, often without water and electricity, because they’re not near population centres, so the infrastructure doesn’t exist. The entire point of a Norwegian cabin is to escape the urban life for a little while and go back to basics.

New comment by ThJ in "HSLuv, a developer friendly perceptual color space"

ThJ — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 06:47:52 +0000

It helps to use linear gamma when manipulating RGB values. Linear gamma fixes most issues with interpolating and mixing RGB values and that’s also why most modern CG pipelines use it. It produces the most natural results.

New comment by ThJ in "$194 for hand sanitizer? You must be joking"

ThJ — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 16:32:13 +0000

This is what futures contracts are for. They are settled with a physical delivery or in cash, depending on the contract.

Futures trading is a prediction market. If you produce a commodity, you could, for example, place a sell order that is settled on a certain date in the future, and if you’re lucky, the market price will be below that of the price set in the order.

The buyer of the future will then purchase the commodity from you at the agreed price, or for cash settled futures, he’ll pay you the difference.

If the market price is higher, the difference is paid to the buyer, if the future is cash settled.

New comment by ThJ in "If your cipher were secure, this image wouldn't have repeating patterns (2015)"

ThJ — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 01:31:25 +0000

Dunning-Kruger effect

New comment by ThJ in "NYC 1911, 60fps, 4k, colorized"

ThJ — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 07:18:02 +0000

I think all those trains, cars, carriages and people would’ve made a lot more noise than the audio mix suggests. The trains and cars especially should be drowning out everything else as they pass near the camera. This sounds more like the audio track of a feature film than anything captured with a microphone in the field.

New comment by ThJ in "Modern, functional Common Lisp: myths and best practices"

ThJ — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 20:06:23 +0000

They’re not? Take a look at at a Final Cut Pro.