Hacker News: Tommix11

New comment by Tommix11 in "Firewood Splitting Simulator"

Tommix11 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:16:52 +0000

It seems they chose the Fiskars Axe, good choice I own five of them.

New comment by Tommix11 in "Earthion: A New Mega Drive-Style Shoot-Em-Up"

Tommix11 — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:07:35 +0000

It is also an actual Mega Drive game

New comment by Tommix11 in "Perceptual Image Codec: What Matters in Practical Learned Image Compression"

Tommix11 — Mon, 25 May 2026 03:21:00 +0000

What if someone gets convicted of a crime based on generated details in an image.

New comment by Tommix11 in "Playing Atari ST Music on the Amiga with Zero CPU"

Tommix11 — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:16:29 +0000

I began my career as a graphic designer on the Amiga and Deluxe Paint series.

New comment by Tommix11 in "Inkscape 1.4.4"

Tommix11 — Thu, 07 May 2026 08:01:09 +0000

I use 0.92 for extracting HPGL data from cutting machine software and converting it to better vector formats sometimes. I use that version because I think HPGL support was removed in newer versions. Inkscape is a great program, keep up the good work. Kind Regards A user

New comment by Tommix11 in "Craig Venter has died"

Tommix11 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:46:09 +0000

I attended a lecture of his once. One of the topics was emailing biological viruses. Svante Pääbo was there too.

New comment by Tommix11 in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

Tommix11 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 04:51:32 +0000

The tar ointment I bought in Mariehamn is fantastic for healing small infected cuts and bruises. Highly recommend.

New comment by Tommix11 in "Digitizing photos from the 1998 Game Boy Camera"

Tommix11 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:39:09 +0000

Great work! I have a GB camera (and printer) in my collection

New comment by Tommix11 in "My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary"

Tommix11 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:24:57 +0000

I loved that they changed the ending. I did not like the ending in the book.

New comment by Tommix11 in "Learnings from training a font recognition model from scratch"

Tommix11 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:59:01 +0000

Graphic designer here. A font recognition ai is sorley needed. Gemini and its competitors flat out lie when asked and Adobe Illustrators Retype is laughably bad. The problem I face almost every day is not to find a close match but to find the actual font in use, commercial or not.

New comment by Tommix11 in "Monkey Island for Commodore 64 Ground Up"

Tommix11 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:09:52 +0000

There are great CRT-shaders these day that would remedy this.

New comment by Tommix11 in "VTT Test Donut Lab Battery Reaches 80% Charge in Under 10 Minutes [pdf]"

Tommix11 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 13:40:56 +0000

As understand it the battery is 26 Ah and looks to be the size of my 20 mAh powerpack at home.

New comment by Tommix11 in "Gradient.horse"

Tommix11 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 06:37:28 +0000

I saw a xenomorph, who drew that one?

New comment by Tommix11 in "Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code"

Tommix11 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 09:40:05 +0000

I would like WOPR's voice from Wargames.

New comment by Tommix11 in "Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars"

Tommix11 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 06:28:30 +0000

My Outlander rarely needed repairs and I always plugged it in. The car even complained about me needing to use the gazoline in the tank because it risked getting old in the tank and needed to be replaced. That was a great car. My new EV, a Subaru Solterra is great too though.

New comment by Tommix11 in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

Tommix11 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 14:52:34 +0000

The German philosophy is also very much prevalent in Sweden.

Have Anna's Archive Spotify scrape songs that have been pulled?

Tommix11 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 17:47:59 +0000

I'm looking for one that was taken down by the label.

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New comment by Tommix11 in "Ozzy Osbourne has died"

Tommix11 — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 18:30:53 +0000

One of the great ones are gone. RIP Ozzy.

New comment by Tommix11 in "More than 1,500 new fonts – including all-time favorites – come to Adobe Fonts"

Tommix11 — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 05:28:00 +0000

I think Steve Jobs said it best. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo8zdPNMRdY

New comment by Tommix11 in "Pinball Brothers – A Swedish-Italian Pinball Company"

Tommix11 — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 05:29:59 +0000

I had no idea they existed until this morning. They are sadly being hit hard by tariffs as reported by Swedish media.