Hacker News: ant6n

New comment by ant6n in "Building a Tiny 3D Renderer for a Tiny Handheld"

ant6n — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:20:39 +0000

Given the 168MHz ARM, the real innovation here is the way stable dithering and a cell shading look was used to make the graphics good looking. Very well done!

New comment by ant6n in "Shinjuku Station in 3D"

ant6n — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:15:28 +0000

Escalators. The distances between the levels are exaggerated, to make it easier to see what's going on.

New comment by ant6n in "Dumber Mini: A Nokia-Style Phone with WhatsApp and Maps"

ant6n — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:26:46 +0000

It has App Store though - doesn’t it mean you can install whatever App and just doom scroll away?

New comment by ant6n in "First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star"

ant6n — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:42:03 +0000

It’s basically imaging one exoplanet per satellite. Would be good to figure out a way to slow down at 500 AU. In order to maximize the time for observation.

New comment by ant6n in "First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star"

ant6n — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:49:06 +0000

Why would it be necessary for life to depend on breathing atmosphere? The atmosphere could just help in keeping the temperature even and provide some nice pressure, maybe that’s favorable over vacuum.

New comment by ant6n in "OpenAI loses trademark dispute at EU court"

ant6n — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:58:20 +0000

I thought the trademark is to prevent costumers from accidentally buying “open AI” from some company other than openAI, while thinking they’re buying from openAI.

New comment by ant6n in "Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK"

ant6n — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:56:34 +0000

For 300 tests, it seems reasonable to report with some more precision on the median.

New comment by ant6n in "LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders"

ant6n — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 02:49:52 +0000

It also turns the joke into a single-entendre, which is no fun at all.

New comment by ant6n in "LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders"

ant6n — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 21:10:16 +0000

What I wonder is what LARP stands for. something like “looped/linked annual revenue platform”? (Don’t answer with something about role playing, it’s definitely not that)

New comment by ant6n in "Understanding the Odin programming language"

ant6n — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:14:24 +0000

Kinda wanna know why I should learn this language. Unfortunately there’s no wiki entry (deleted with some controversy abut notability), so it’s hard to get the gist of it.

New comment by ant6n in "Sixteen Failed Attempts to Write a Eulogy for My Father (2024)"

ant6n — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 14:15:15 +0000

The worst part isn’t the physical decay. It’s the bleak darkness of the characters.

New comment by ant6n in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

ant6n — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 02:59:07 +0000

Can you use a pole.

New comment by ant6n in "Copy That Floppy – Cambridge guide for preserving data from fragile floppy disks"

ant6n — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:27:53 +0000

Dropbox has been around for a while (cue that old hacker news comment)

New comment by ant6n in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

ant6n — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:18:58 +0000

I thought that’s what they say about Berlin

New comment by ant6n in "Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network"

ant6n — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:39:34 +0000

Now do cars!

Every car that doesn't use any subsidies. Every car that's lifecyle CO2-neutral. Etc.

New comment by ant6n in "Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network"

ant6n — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:59:40 +0000

Hey wait a minute, there isn't any train on any of these maps!

New comment by ant6n in "FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder"

ant6n — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:11:26 +0000

Opus also does everything in “48KHz”. But apparently doing some upsampling will implode the whole signal… more so than the compression itself… which indeed is actually processing and storing data in the frequency domain (MDCT).

New comment by ant6n in "FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder"

ant6n — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 06:47:40 +0000

It's not cynical. It's dismissive. Especially given that these codecs work in the frequency domain anyway.

>>...use 48Khz if you want the best quality.

>Yet most of the worlds audio is 44KHz...

New comment by ant6n in "FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder"

ant6n — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:48:18 +0000

The table and comparison uses “Google's new Zimtohrli, ViSQOL, and my own hearing”

New comment by ant6n in "FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder"

ant6n — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:21:37 +0000

This is truly a representative of the old internet: somebody codes up the best AAC encoder ever, and the first response comes from some admin, and it's some bickering about 48Khz vs 44Khz.