Hacker News: bartwe

New comment by bartwe in ".NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types"

bartwe — Sat, 23 May 2026 23:23:29 +0000

As a big user and fan of c# but this is a miss, as it always boxes value types.

New comment by bartwe in "LLMs encode how difficult problems are"

bartwe — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 22:07:07 +0000

Sound a lot like Kolmogorov complexity

New comment by bartwe in "Tinnitus Neuromodulator"

bartwe — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 12:43:24 +0000

I assumed everyone has that.. and that its the last output of a receptor dying.

New comment by bartwe in "A new PNG spec"

bartwe — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 10:36:42 +0000

I'm worried that by supporting too many encodings and color spaces this will hamper adoption and unexpected unsupported files. Perhaps this is more of an encoder/decoder library issue, which hopefully will give us rec2020 rgb32/rgb10a2 encode/decode apis so we can simply use them without having to know so many details.

New comment by bartwe in "IBM's CEO doesn't think AI will replace programmers anytime soon"

bartwe — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 13:21:13 +0000

Physics system for soap bubbles in a gamejam game

New comment by bartwe in "SDL3 new GPU API merged"

bartwe — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 08:13:29 +0000

No committee and motivated devs that need the result for their projects. Especially the FNA folks.

New comment by bartwe in "SDL3 new GPU API merged"

bartwe — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 07:34:24 +0000

Glad to have contributed to the dx12 part :)

New comment by bartwe in "What I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code"

bartwe — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 19:37:54 +0000

We used Lua in the past, but mostly because doing quick iterations in c++ in that project was unrealistic due to 10+ minute build times.

New comment by bartwe in "S3 is files, but not a filesystem"

bartwe — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 13:43:35 +0000

This screwdriver makes for a horrible hammer.

New comment by bartwe in "Tailwind color palette generator"

bartwe — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 20:16:37 +0000

could use oklab color space support

New comment by bartwe in "What it takes to pass a file path to a Windows API in C++"

bartwe — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 13:49:56 +0000

linux uses utf8 for display of filenames but, the paths themselves allow non-utf8 byte sequences.

New comment by bartwe in "‘Less than half’ fresh produce sold globally makes any profit"

bartwe — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 21:47:29 +0000

Farming for an ever growing population.

New comment by bartwe in "High-altitude heist – 500 dollars stolen"

bartwe — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 17:02:43 +0000

The ending of the article is weirdly anti-cash

New comment by bartwe in "The Quite OK Audio Format for Fast, Lossy Compression"

bartwe — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 18:55:51 +0000

Hopefully a movie format

New comment by bartwe in "A self-driving Uber killed a woman. The backup driver pleaded guilty"

bartwe — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 08:10:41 +0000

The video quality makes it seem like even at full attention you would see it too late, but most eyes see a lot better than that. Ofc the driver here is paying near 0 attention.

New comment by bartwe in "Amazon requires services on Fire TV to give it 30% of ad impressions or revenue"

bartwe — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 18:01:27 +0000

There is a reason they try and push folks to the Store....

New comment by bartwe in "Study finds 90% of Australian teachers can't afford to live where they teach"

bartwe — Sun, 21 May 2023 14:25:21 +0000

Society doesn't want personalized tutoring, they want cultural harmonization and daycare so the parents can work and society can remain stable.

New comment by bartwe in "Choose Your Weapon: Survival Strategies for Depressed AI Academics"

bartwe — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 08:37:42 +0000

That hasn't been true for optimizing compilers either.

New comment by bartwe in "Near-lossless image formats using ultra-fast LZ codecs"

bartwe — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 23:00:13 +0000

Sounds like a low cpu overhead compression approach would have helped here, something like lossy lz4 :)

New comment by bartwe in "Why did 250k Britons die sooner than expected?"

bartwe — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 01:20:08 +0000

Nitrogen pollution laws will soon change the numbers for the Netherlands significantly