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New comment by agys in "Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs"

agys — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 08:54:31 +0000

Thumb + index?

New comment by agys in "Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs"

agys — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 08:31:08 +0000

When I switched from Win to Mac 20+ years ago I immediately noticed how much more ergonomic cmd-C was versus ctrl-C… for the latter the thumb has to fold under the palm of hand.

Not even mentioning the general well thought out and more logical key-combinations.

The strangest key for the switch was return for file rename… I now miss it on every other system that hasn't mapped it like this.

New comment by agys in "Show HN: Laser Graffiti"

agys — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:22:35 +0000

What made GRL’s project really unique was the -scale-!

Being able to paint the facade of a 20-story building must have felt ultra powerful.

New comment by agys in "A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]"

agys — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:43:35 +0000

A couple of years ago I wrote extensive benchmarks on three browser-based rendering techniques: text in the DOM, 2D canvas, and WebGL canvas. The DOM approach is the purest, as it uses a font, and it can achieve very good performance. The only noticeable slowdown at 60 FPS occurs when the character color changes frequently within each line: each new character needs to be wrapped in a span. 2D canvas is a bit more flexible but not necessarily faster. WebGL is obviously the fastest, at 1000+ FPS, and pixel fonts can be rendered ultra-crisp as well.

Below is the DOM test for frequent vertical color changes. Press and hold the cursor over the ASCII output to change the orientation (notice the FPS drop at the top left).

https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz/#/src/basics/performance_test

New comment by agys in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

agys — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:45:32 +0000

Side note: a half an hour call on a commute train (or in public spaces) is considered extremely rude in many parts of the world.

New comment by agys in "Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the browser, client-side"

agys — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 13:57:15 +0000

A nice feature to add could be a synchronized transform: when rotating one viewport the other two rotate along (optional).

New comment by agys in "Franken.domains: Stitched-Together Domains, Because Every .com Is Taken"

agys — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 18:54:25 +0000

I went with

https://meltd.ooo/wn

for my little NFT project

New comment by agys in "Building a Tiny 3D Renderer for a Tiny Handheld"

agys — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:23:06 +0000

LCD 1 (2022) is an ASCII art project on the same display (by Sharp) of the PlayDate.

https://lcd.ertdfgcvb.xyz

New comment by agys in "Xiaomi-Robotics-1"

agys — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:34:28 +0000

Personally I’d love to see a general purpose machine, able to do all works demanded. This kind of vision doesn’t require any imagination: it’s easy to envision a world where you just replace humans by a human-shaped machines with perfect dexterity doing all sort of tasks. Voilà and welcome to the future!

But I still need to see a convincing humanoid doing even the simplest actions like grabbing a soda can from the fridge (from behind the cake), open it, and pour it into a glass and bring it to my desk, possibly in less than 60 minutes. It doesn't matter if it costs 30k if it can’t do anything useful for now. The gap is still too wide and far far away. Hence the missing “proof”.

Delivery robots in the hotels in China have the shape of a bin, not of a maid.

New comment by agys in "Text art tools"

agys — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:01:58 +0000

Couldn't agree more. The issue here is that it doesn't feel experimental or innovative at all. It just follows some weak design trends.

New comment by agys in "Xiaomi-Robotics-1"

agys — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:58:21 +0000

It’s not demonstrated yet as we still have to see a robot (humanoid or not) doing mundane tasks in full autonomy, efficiently and convincingly.

It still looks inefficient to have a humanoid robot vacuum a house by using an ergonomic tool designed around the human body.

New comment by agys in "Xiaomi-Robotics-1"

agys — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:36:11 +0000

Designing a non humanoid robot is the way to go. The design of new tools and appliances for hybrid human/robot use will eventually follow: the zip line for the shoe bag required way too much precision work.

New comment by agys in "Text art tools"

agys — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:20:42 +0000

The layout of the publication is almost unbearable… Considering that it’s a magazine a bout (graphic-) design I’d say they failed miserably.

New comment by agys in "Text art tools"

agys — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 08:03:45 +0000

The ASCII playground is missing:

https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz

New comment by agys in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

agys — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 14:36:06 +0000

São Paulo: Cidade Limpa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cidade_Limpa

New comment by agys in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

agys — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:53:46 +0000

Preview has it too… And it works extremely well.

New comment by agys in "Click (2016)"

agys — Tue, 19 May 2026 07:50:05 +0000

This is another gem by Amsterdam based Studio Moniker, the guys behind “Radio Garden”.

Some of my favorite projects:

https://studiomoniker.com/projects/radio-garden

https://studiomoniker.com/projects/do-not-touch

https://studiomoniker.com/projects/do-not-draw-a-penis

New comment by agys in "Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS"

agys — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:38:15 +0000

I buy mostly music on Bandcamp and iTunes/Music is my sole driver for my 30k local song files. It's unfortunate that it has been neglected over so many years. There is a plethora of well known bugs and the sync with iPhone works most of the times, but not always and is in general quite cumbersome. The UI has become ridiculous over time (for example: it features two search/filter fields). It would be an easy mark to simply fix and polish it a bit. Sad.

New comment by agys in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"

agys — Sat, 16 May 2026 08:26:29 +0000

Ess two is less than less than three, but also a classic.

s2 < <3

New comment by agys in "Picasso’s Guernica (Gigapixel)"

agys — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:59:33 +0000

It’s a strange feeling to zoom in until the cracks of the paint fill the screen.