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New comment by akkartik in "Conway's Game of Life, in real life"

akkartik — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:21:05 +0000

At 8 bpp the effect is only colors moving vertically, up and down. After a while digging into it I realize why: most colors are too dark to be visible, we only see the most significant bits in each channel. And when those bits influence left or right the consequences are not visible.

Maybe I should try 2bpp. Or some HSL where I can clamp L.

Edit: Oh yes, it's interesting at 2bpp!

New comment by akkartik in "Conway's Game of Life, in real life"

akkartik — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:34:26 +0000

How many bits per pixel are you assuming, and are you imagining the red pixels are vertical neighbors with corresponding red pixels above and below, etc.?

Should be easy to do on my phone: https://itch.io/post/15723528

New comment by akkartik in "Give Django your time and money, not your tokens"

akkartik — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:50:18 +0000

Very well said.

New comment by akkartik in "The “small web” is bigger than you might think"

akkartik — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:38:38 +0000

Yeah, CSS is Turing Complete: https://lyra.horse/x86css

New comment by akkartik in "Show HN: GDSL – 800 line kernel: Lisp subset in 500, C subset in 1300"

akkartik — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:52:36 +0000

You made my day with your kind words! I don't know if we've spoken before, but feel free to hit me up offline if you'd like to chat more about stuff like this.

New comment by akkartik in "Show HN: GDSL – 800 line kernel: Lisp subset in 500, C subset in 1300"

akkartik — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:52:29 +0000

Looks interesting. The next step may be to show some little fun examples built with it.

Here's my similar project from a few years ago, in case you want to compare notes:

https://github.com/akkartik/mu

https://akkartik.name/akkartik-convivial-20200607.pdf

Datahäxan

akkartik — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:48:02 +0000

Article URL: https://0dd.company/galleries/witches/7.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47310617

Points: 126

# Comments: 11

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

akkartik — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 02:13:52 +0000

Yeah it's a nice project. Maybe it was an accidental click by somebody. I tried to compensate for it.

New comment by akkartik in "Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship"

akkartik — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 03:43:46 +0000

Well he hasn't played a classical game in a year or so.

New comment by akkartik in "Evolving Git for the Next Decade"

akkartik — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 06:53:22 +0000

And also: why should he or git care?

New comment by akkartik in "1D Cellular Automata Playground"

akkartik — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 03:53:56 +0000

Ah, fond memories: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/702311/all-the-1-d-...

https://akkartik.name/post/2024-04-24-devlog

Only benefit over OP: pinch-zoom on a multi-touch screen.

New comment by akkartik in "What Is Ruliology?"

akkartik — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 18:56:14 +0000

This is some pompous shit.

I kinda liked some of his previous articles, but come on. A picture of a plaque for a department is pretty much a guarantee it won't happen.

Not to mention: departments?! Anybody still desiring to create new departments in the bureaucracy of our modern educational institutions has a stunted imagination. The appropriate attitude with which to approach creating a new department is while holding one's nose.

Visual Family Cosmos

akkartik — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:48:42 +0000

Article URL: https://rosano.ca/blog/visual-family-cosmos

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46811757

Points: 13

# Comments: 2

New comment by akkartik in "Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone"

akkartik — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:07:50 +0000

Anybody here have this phone? I'm curious to hear how well it runs https://love2d.org. There's an apk on that page that you can download and install.

(And then if you could try out my https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel and report back, that would be even more helpful.)

Edit 20 minutes later: After I posted this I remembered I have access to a https://www.walmart.com/ip/AT-T-Maestro-3-32GB-Ocean-Green-P.... And both LÖVE and my Carousel work great on it! Much less laggy than any other app on that phone. Including the browser.

New comment by akkartik in "Locked out: How a gift card purchase destroyed an Apple account"

akkartik — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 04:29:10 +0000

Ah cool. Did you go into a store?

New comment by akkartik in "Factor 0.101 now available"

akkartik — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 04:13:09 +0000

Ah, yes that's exactly the sort of things I was looking for. Are any of those still around and runnable?

New comment by akkartik in "Locked out: How a gift card purchase destroyed an Apple account"

akkartik — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 03:59:13 +0000

This year I don't even get to the point of making a password. It's possible something about my attempt 10 years ago has polluted my phone number. So it goes.

Notice, too, that my story is about the utter lack of support like in OP.

New comment by akkartik in "Locked out: How a gift card purchase destroyed an Apple account"

akkartik — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 03:11:44 +0000

The best answer I have is: for those of us who start life with some level of privilege, it's important to make good decisions and manage your risk exposure. Life is geopolitics.

But yeah, I'm not looking forward to the day I need to show a Google or Facebook account to receive government services. US Visa applications are already going in that direction.

New comment by akkartik in "Locked out: How a gift card purchase destroyed an Apple account"

akkartik — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 02:37:17 +0000

Funny story: I can't get an Apple ID.

I tried around 10 years ago, repeatedly would provide a password, get a notification, click on it, get asked to type my new password.. and get told the password was invalid.

Anyways, I moved on with my life. I was only reminded of it this year when I got referred for a job at Apple.. and guess what, I still can't make an Apple ID. So now I can't ever get a job at Apple :) Oh well, first world problems.

New comment by akkartik in "Factor 0.101 now available"

akkartik — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:02:28 +0000

Does anyone know of larger apps built using Factor? The closest I found is examples at https://www.concatenative.org/wiki/view/Factor

Are there non-trivial projects using the graphics? Games?

Is there a collection of awesome things built using Factor somewhere?