Hacker News: ape4

New comment by ape4 in "Should you wash your solar panels?"

ape4 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:17:15 +0000

I imagine rain will clean them. In most places it rains every so often.

New comment by ape4 in "Frame – Linux X server in Assembly"

ape4 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:24:29 +0000

I wrote my own.... symphony, novel, programming language, etc

New comment by ape4 in "Show HN: DOM-docx – HTML to native, editable Word docs (MIT)"

ape4 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:19:53 +0000

Just adding, since I don't see it mentioned in the readme, that its written in Typescript. That's what makes this interesting. I imagine Pandoc can do this but its not Typescript (its Haskell).

New comment by ape4 in "Handsum: An LQIP Image File Format"

ape4 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:30:13 +0000

It would be nice if the low quality image also provided a headstart for the full quality image.

New comment by ape4 in "Late Bronze Age Collapse"

ape4 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:51:21 +0000

I think it's a popular topic because so many people are wondering when our civilization will fall.

New comment by ape4 in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

ape4 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:00:02 +0000

Yeah, its a bit of a cheat. The best obfuscated C programs have the source looking like a Christmas tree (or something) and then play an xmas song (or whatever)

New comment by ape4 in "Using precision editing to study human embryo development shows master gene"

ape4 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:03:00 +0000

I wonder what the regulations are for this sort of work

New comment by ape4 in "Google copybara: moving code between repositories"

ape4 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:58:51 +0000

Why doesn't it have a capybara as its logo!

New comment by ape4 in "So You Want to Define a Well-Known URI"

ape4 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:39:30 +0000

Why not call it .junk-drawer instead ;)

New comment by ape4 in "Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache"

ape4 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:50:33 +0000

So its not a cache for my record collection ;(

New comment by ape4 in "Ported my C game to WASM, here's everybug that I hit"

ape4 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:37:49 +0000

64 bit was added in WebAssembly 2.0 (finished in 2022 according to Wikipedia). I know what doesn't answer any it wasn't there in the first place.

New comment by ape4 in "Amazon Says Its Data Centers Use 2.5B Gallons of Water"

ape4 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:41:28 +0000

Couldn't they reuse the water - after it cooled down.

New comment by ape4 in "ESP32-S31"

ape4 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:22:47 +0000

Its good you can do that but the command doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.

New comment by ape4 in "Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding"

ape4 — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:57:17 +0000

Comparing a number to zero is something that's done a lot

New comment by ape4 in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

ape4 — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:16:04 +0000

Does google have a option to avoid AI summaries?

New comment by ape4 in "Myths about /dev/urandom (2014)"

ape4 — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:07:49 +0000

Ah, I wonder what's change since then.

New comment by ape4 in "A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking"

ape4 — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:15:12 +0000

Yeah the exact kind shouldn't matter - just the WebGL capabilities.

New comment by ape4 in "Your hex editor should color-code bytes"

ape4 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:27:31 +0000

As a next level beyond coloring... how about adding some interactivity? How about a slider to control the brightness of each type of byte. Turn everything but text to 10% when when you're looking for some words in a binary file.

New comment by ape4 in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

ape4 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:36:49 +0000

As a non-European I want to say: thanks EU

New comment by ape4 in "Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language"

ape4 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:05:54 +0000

Can it only make compilers for Lisp-like languages