Hacker News: betimsl

New comment by betimsl in "µcad: New open source programming language that can generate 2D sketches and 3D"

betimsl — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 09:44:43 +0000

Could you please make the book into a PDF?

New comment by betimsl in "The game theory of how algorithms can drive up prices"

betimsl — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:25:16 +0000

Who wrote the algorithm?

New comment by betimsl in "Casey Muratori: I can always tell a good programmer in an interview"

betimsl — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:23:50 +0000

More important that if it is a good programmer or not, is to be able to spot if the guy can get the job DONE.

New comment by betimsl in "UTF-8 is a brilliant design"

betimsl — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 07:22:36 +0000

The story is that Ken and Rob were at a diner when Ken gave structure to it and wrote the initial encode/decode functions on napkins. UTF-8 is so simple yet it required a complex mind to do it.

New comment by betimsl in "Intel Arc Pro B50 GPU Launched at $349 for Compact Workstations"

betimsl — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 12:27:31 +0000

Right, but Intel is in no position to do that. So, they could play and put 32GB VRAM and also, why not produce one with 64GB just for kicks?

New comment by betimsl in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)"

betimsl — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 10:37:42 +0000

Dream phone: Underclocked Samsung25 internals, iPhone SE design/dimensions, at least 90hz OLED panel, 1 back decent camera, 1 front too. 3A battery. Preferably an extenal SD card slot.

New comment by betimsl in "Caltrain official lived in secret apartment built illegally inside train station"

betimsl — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 09:31:29 +0000

Awesome.

New comment by betimsl in "Show HN: My self-written hobby OS is finally running on my vintage IBM ThinkPad"

betimsl — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 20:53:26 +0000

I think you could easily give the UI a refresh, modernize it a bit :)

New comment by betimsl in "Thieves took their iPhones. Apple won't give their digital lives back"

betimsl — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 21:48:01 +0000

It's simply not Apple's responsibility. Person's data, their responsibility. Any other way and people lose trust in Apple which BTW they protect it by any means. Trust.

Instead of wanting something impossible, accept the reality.

New comment by betimsl in "Thieves took their iPhones. Apple won't give their digital lives back"

betimsl — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 21:29:01 +0000

Apple’s encryption, is designed with end-to-end encryption for many types of data.

Some facts:

    Only the user's devices hold the keys to decrypt the data.

    Apple cannot decrypt it, even if served a subpoena.

Apple chose privacy over convenience. Sue all you want, you're going to lose.

New comment by betimsl in "InitWare, a portable systemd fork running on BSDs and Linux"

betimsl — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 19:58:55 +0000

Uhoh! -- The virus just spread a litl more!

New comment by betimsl in "Launch HN: Continue (YC S23) – Create custom AI code assistants"

betimsl — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 17:06:17 +0000

Check out NVIDIAs latest releases. Paying for tokens is going to be a history in about 6 months. You run the model on your laptop.

Maybe you're right about the confusion...but given the velocity, that's going to be fixed also.

All the knowledge about the field of programming is digitized, one could argue that having a model that digested all that information in a right way, is better than separate.

Just a thought. I don't care all that much.

New comment by betimsl in "How the American Medical Association Screws Doctors"

betimsl — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 16:58:03 +0000

They probably screw the patients too.

New comment by betimsl in "Launch HN: Continue (YC S23) – Create custom AI code assistants"

betimsl — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 16:38:01 +0000

Why separate? It's not like there's limited capacity...you can have an assistant knowing all the languages at once.

New comment by betimsl in "Rost – Rust Programming in German"

betimsl — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:32:38 +0000

You have a typo in the snippet on README.md: SchlüsselWert should be Schlüsselwert.

New comment by betimsl in "AI Is Making Developers Dumb"

betimsl — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 21:56:27 +0000

> [...] This is to the point where is starts to become hard for you to work without one.

Why would one work without one?

New comment by betimsl in "Unix Needs a True Integrated Environment: CASE Closed (1989) [pdf]"

betimsl — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:08:40 +0000

> Why?

Huge interest in the field. Schools unable to teach the craft properly.

New comment by betimsl in "Matters Computational (2010) [pdf]"

betimsl — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 12:43:33 +0000

Glad that I'm not the only one doing just that.

New comment by betimsl in "Automatically tagging politician when they use their phone on the livestreams"

betimsl — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:48:46 +0000

Any chance open sourcing it? :)

New comment by betimsl in "Why it's so hard to build a jet engine"

betimsl — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 11:17:42 +0000

Material tolerances.