Hacker News: bsimpson

New comment by bsimpson in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

bsimpson — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:38:16 +0000

This was 15 years ago. Maybe it was less developed then, or maybe my memory conflated that drive with another part of that trip.

New comment by bsimpson in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

bsimpson — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:49:01 +0000

I'm from Nevada. Very aware that California has more regulation (and hence more cost than us), but know little about the regional cost differences between Maine and Massachusetts.

New comment by bsimpson in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

bsimpson — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:37:34 +0000

I'm from Nevada, another state that people presume is all desert. (Really, it's all mountains.)

The only part of Texas I've driven is between Austin and S Antonio. It was perhaps the least-beautiful wilderness I've driven through. It really did just feel like desert and billboards - like if Walmart was a highway.

But I also presume Texas marketing itself as a less-regulated alternative (e.g. to California) is why it's easy to imagine Texas wanting infrastructure that Maine might not.

New comment by bsimpson in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

bsimpson — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:30:00 +0000

I know little about this region. Why would it be unreasonably more expensive to build on one side of the state line than another?

New comment by bsimpson in "The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy"

bsimpson — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:31:26 +0000

I know that Hacker News can be for anything "hackers find interesting," but I really hope it doesn't become yet another political doomland. There are so many other places to go to raise your anxiety - I'd rather this remain a space for things that are positively interesting.

New comment by bsimpson in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

bsimpson — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:19:24 +0000

Blogspam about this Quora post from the founding engineer's wife: http://www.quora.com/Apple-Inc-2/How-does-Apple-keep-secrets...

New comment by bsimpson in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

bsimpson — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:06:37 +0000

This is excellent.

YUV appears to be a PAL-specific color space. I wonder how off an NTSC Wii would be. Presumably it would have the wrong color space until an equivalent conversion scheme was devised for NTSC.

I was surprised to see regional color spaces leak into the project, but I presume that Nintendo's iOS (the coincidentally-named system this is replacing) could handle that abstraction for game developers.

New comment by bsimpson in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

bsimpson — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:50:24 +0000

> Readers with a keen eye might notice some issues:

> - Everything is magenta.

was fun too

New comment by bsimpson in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

bsimpson — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:38:54 +0000

The Android and Xbox PC versions look more like forks for a shared codebase. Most of the platform-specific code is abstracted to a bridge, but even the bridges aren't consistent across the codebases. (Android's save system uses different methods than Xbox 's.)

New comment by bsimpson in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

bsimpson — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:27:13 +0000

I'm really curious how they do version control.

The Steam version was created by one guy, but the platform ports have a couple different authors. The Google Play and Xbox PC versions, for instance, have divergences.

I wonder how the ports influence the upstream and each other. How do they keep the codebases in sync, while also accounting for platform differences?

New comment by bsimpson in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

bsimpson — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:22:22 +0000

Dispatch too. If your odds are above a certain threshold, the mission is a gimme.

New comment by bsimpson in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

bsimpson — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:17:09 +0000

In case you're curious, here's a Nix derivation to make Balatro for any other system playable on Linux:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/by-name/ba...

I wrote half a blog post when I did the derivation. One day, I should finish it and post it here.

New comment by bsimpson in "iNaturalist"

bsimpson — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:01:27 +0000

I expected fewer butterflies and more asses.

New comment by bsimpson in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

bsimpson — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:54:41 +0000

Since moving to NYC, I'm surprisingly close to cashflow neutral. The cost of living is crazy expensive here.

I'm for sure timing my exit based on the vesting schedule.

New comment by bsimpson in "Android Developer Verification"

bsimpson — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 02:31:50 +0000

Have you seen those YouTube videos of people punking scammers? Scammers will convince people to drive to Target, buy gift cards, and read the credentials out over the phone. Those same people can surely talk you through tapping out a dialog flow.

That's presumably why there's a lockout period - it keeps a scammer from reasonably holding the line until they can pressure you to finish it.

New comment by bsimpson in "Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed"

bsimpson — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:18:41 +0000

Evan Martin (evmar) started Ninja when he was working on Chrome at Google:

https://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2011/02/ninja....

Hence, it's used in a lot of Google projects.

New comment by bsimpson in "New Apple Silicon M4 and M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays"

bsimpson — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 03:00:38 +0000

Wouldn't HiDPI be 1080p@2x? Is that still available?

New comment by bsimpson in "I decompiled the White House's new app"

bsimpson — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 18:36:31 +0000

Some states have them. California has a similar one "Don't Sell My Personal Information."

New comment by bsimpson in "Using FireWire on a Raspberry Pi"

bsimpson — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:52:15 +0000

Real question though: who's gonna run a CI farm of old hardware? That sounds not-cheap and commercially untenable.

New comment by bsimpson in "Using FireWire on a Raspberry Pi"

bsimpson — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:53:14 +0000

TIL Linux does eventually drop support for old hardware.