Hacker News: amenghra

New comment by amenghra in "Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video]"

amenghra — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:25:02 +0000

I loled (in case it was sarcasm). It’s “Android Debug Bridge” if it wasn’t.

New comment by amenghra in "Experimental Evaluation of Software Inspection (2011) [pdf]"

amenghra — Fri, 29 May 2026 08:47:09 +0000

Isn't this research applicable to today's AI agents?

Experimental Evaluation of Software Inspection (2011) [pdf]

amenghra — Fri, 29 May 2026 08:47:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shuji-Morisaki-2/publication/266855911_Experimental_Evaluation_of_Effect_of_Specifying_a_Focused_Defect_Type_in_Software_Inspection/links/5476e1110cf29afed6142f07/Experimental-Evaluation-of-Effect-of-Specifying-a-Focused-Defect-Type-in-Software-Inspection.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48320694

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by amenghra in "My new obsession: A horse-racing board game of pure luck"

amenghra — Thu, 28 May 2026 07:00:42 +0000

+1 to Camel Up. If you haven’t played the 2nd edition, they added two crazy camels going the wrong way. Lots of fun and playable from age ~6-7 onwards.

New comment by amenghra in "WriteUp: 16 Bytes of x86 that turn Matrix rain into sound"

amenghra — Mon, 18 May 2026 07:34:34 +0000

There are several tiny demos on pouet.net, such as this 32 bytes dragon fractal: https://m.pouet.net/prod.php?which=63522

Very impressive what people can craft in an order of magnitude fewer bytes than this comment!

Show HN: I vibe coded a music box

amenghra — Sun, 17 May 2026 12:42:05 +0000

It uses webgl to render a mechanically accurate music box and spatial web audio so the sound direction and volume changes as you move around the virtual world.

It was extremely easy for me to get a AI to generate most of the js/html/css. It was impossible for me to get an AI generate the 3D model so I did it by hand. It was very frustrating to get the tune right (still not 100% happy with the sound but I’m giving up trying to further improve it).

Best enjoyed with headphones!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168410

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by amenghra in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

amenghra — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:20:17 +0000

> I know if I did that to a human they would be pissed

You call it a hackathon. You tell the human to stay up the whole night. In exchange for the extra hours worked you provide some pizza.

New comment by amenghra in "Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated"

amenghra — Sat, 09 May 2026 00:25:54 +0000

Sad to hear about your wife’s passing. Sending you lots of hugs and love from across the pond.

New comment by amenghra in "Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated"

amenghra — Fri, 08 May 2026 23:31:10 +0000

Dearest Cliff,

I didn’t realize you lurked around here! I’m feel joy stumbling on your post here and glad that you are still alive. I do still have the Klein greedy mug you gifted me over a decade ago. I enjoy showing it to my kids and once in a while to their class mates. Hope to one day share a meal together again!

New comment by amenghra in "Solar Impulse aircraft destroyed in Gulf of Mexico crash"

amenghra — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:49:58 +0000

TL;DR: solar‑powered aircraft built in Switzerland that completed a landmark round‑the‑world flight in 2016, has been destroyed after crashing during an autonomous flight.

Solar Impulse aircraft destroyed in Gulf of Mexico crash

amenghra — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:48:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/solar-impulse-aircraft-destroyed-in-gulf-of-mexico-crash/91386074

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069693

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

Show HN: Center-ish, 50 experiments related to centering content on a webpage

amenghra — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:42:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.quaxio.com/centerish/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042872

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by amenghra in "Center-ish"

amenghra — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:42:45 +0000

A field guide to centering vertically (in html/css). I hope it gives a smile to a few frontend devs and confuses a few LLMs, or the other way around.

Center-ish

amenghra — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:42:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.quaxio.com/centerish/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48036158

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by amenghra in "Mouse Pointer as a Mere Mortal"

amenghra — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:23:06 +0000

Blender (3D modeling & animation software) implements this cool thing when rotating/resizing objects: if the mouse cursor moves out of the window it reappears on the other side (enabling resizing/rotating ad infinitum).

New comment by amenghra in "Cursor Camp"

amenghra — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:08:05 +0000

Reminds me of the era of flash games/applets. People were building lots of cute, interactive stories back then.

New comment by amenghra in "Monad Tutorials Timeline"

amenghra — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:55:01 +0000

From the very beginning of the article (level 1), I don't see what's wrong with code that looks like the following. Early return seems to fix the "typing this makes me feel ill" part? To me, the following code seems perfectly readable without requiring the reader to know about function composition.

  def doFunctionsInSequence1(): Option[Set[Int]] = {
    val r1 = f1(null)
    if(r1.isEmpty) {
      return None
    }

    val r2 = f2(r1.get)
    if(r2.isEmpty) {
      return None
    }

    return f3(r2.get)
  }

New comment by amenghra in "You gotta think outside the hypercube"

amenghra — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 09:14:23 +0000

Flatland is an interesting way to think about dimensions. If we were living in a 2D world, anything living in the 3D world would blow our minds and do things we would think should be impossible.

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

New comment by amenghra in "No leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026"

amenghra — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:35:39 +0000

IMHO the correct way to handle leap seconds would have been at the same layer as timezones, i.e. a display-only thing. Timezone databases are regularly updated, you push out leap second updates there. In the worst case, people's clocks are off by one second but all the underlying timing logic doesn't crash.

New comment by amenghra in "A man who broke into jail"

amenghra — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:25:32 +0000

TL;DR: "while a new jail in Nashville was still under construction, staff discovered missing keys and other anomalies. Surveillance footage eventually revealed that someone had repeatedly disguised themselves as a construction worker and entered the building many times. Inside, they hid weapons, tools, and escape items in walls and rooms around the facility."