Hacker News: bthallplz

New comment by bthallplz in "Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled"

bthallplz — Sat, 30 May 2026 01:18:01 +0000

Any idea if there's a place where we can request games for decompilation?

I see that one for Burnout Paradise is in the works, but I would love one for Burnout Revenge.

New comment by bthallplz in "Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS"

bthallplz — Sat, 16 May 2026 19:23:19 +0000

> I almost feel like she writes to share things with people she loves, even though she doesn't know them directly.

Thank you for articulating this!

I'm not Julia, but I'd just like to put down here that this is pretty much my philosophy for public speaking/giving presentations, and I have been trying to instill it in some coworkers who struggle with presentations. It's a great privilege to be able to convey to one's peers and loved ones things that you're (likely) a bit more familiar with than they are and which may help them with some matter.

New comment by bthallplz in "An AI coding agent, used to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs"

bthallplz — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:54:16 +0000

Is this the talk? https://youtu.be/YBZ6JFrfuiM?si=6ZdZph8GxOy-OLHZ I'm curious to see it!

New comment by bthallplz in "YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken"

bthallplz — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:03:57 +0000

Any idea if there's a way to get the Shorts-only feed?

Compare Every Design Tool – Designtools.fyi

bthallplz — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 08:44:28 +0000

Article URL: https://designtools.fyi

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822793

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by bthallplz in "Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data"

bthallplz — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:40:37 +0000

I was curious to see them, too, so I uploaded the HTML examples here: https://tacticaltypos-tools.pgs.sh/mdv/examples/out/

Excel2r – R package that migrates Excel workbooks to standalone R scripts

bthallplz — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:57:06 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/emantzoo/excel2r

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570527

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by bthallplz in "Cuts in publishing and book reviewing imperil the future of narrative nonfiction"

bthallplz — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:13:44 +0000

From what I've heard through self-publishing media, nowadays, traditional publishing isn't even particularly disposed towards pushing back on things like these. They might even be all for publishing works based on outright lies if there's an existing customer base with open wallets.

Supposedly traditional publishing has become more and more conservative (not necessarily politically) with the risks they take on things they publish, so they'd be less likely to push back against widely-held ideas that are outright wrong. They'll really only publish authors with an established following or works that have a large base of interested consumers.

Edit: I just wanted to add that since I've heard these things so much, going to a bookstore like Barnes & Noble feels super weird. The books look nice, but they're all expensive and I have no sense that the selection has been curated for genuine quality or informational content. It's just what happens to being published now.

I greatly prefer the experience of going to thrift stores like Goodwill where the selection is chaotic, there's no real expectation of curation aside from maybe broad categories, and the books are gloriously cheap. You can find great stuff there!

New comment by bthallplz in "[dead]"

bthallplz — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 02:49:04 +0000

Yeah, Iran (at least) is having its own 9/11 moment, and it's all thanks to Trump.

New comment by bthallplz in "Kangina"

bthallplz — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:42:05 +0000

> The containers are, however, heavy, unwieldy, and prone to absorbing moisture.

Sounds like they'd only really make sense for surviving in dry environments. But still quite neat!

New comment by bthallplz in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

bthallplz — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:43:38 +0000

> I've been living in Finland for 10+ years, and this whole story was super surprising for me to learn because the prevailing notion among people here is that Finland is the land of law, and everything is done correctly and legally, always, and we can and should trust the authorities.

I'd pretty much grown up believing that that's how the US worked post-slavery (aside from occasional deviances from the rule). Since the start of the pandemic, I've had quite the awakening.

New comment by bthallplz in "Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon"

bthallplz — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 13:21:19 +0000

I wasn't aware that there are people who want it to crash. I've just been getting the feeling that no one understands why it isn't crashing or hasn't crashed yet amidst a bunch of really destabilizing policies.

The corporate enablers of the ICE crackdown

bthallplz — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:39:23 +0000

Article URL: https://popular.info/p/the-corporate-enablers-of-the-ice

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46772633

Points: 13

# Comments: 1

New comment by bthallplz in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

bthallplz — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:59:59 +0000

This tool called Quartz, it's pretty neat: https://quartz.jzhao.xyz

I like that it allows us to set different depth levels for the full graph view and the individual note's view.

New comment by bthallplz in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

bthallplz — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:24:33 +0000

https://tacticaltypos.net - My digital garden/website/blog

Peter Girnus: "Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4k employees."

bthallplz — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:42:38 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/1999124665801880032

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46614931

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by bthallplz in "Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering"

bthallplz — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 05:05:50 +0000

Yes! I was looking at it and hoping they had that feature already. I so want an Obsidian alternative to exist just in case.

Thanks for posting the GitHub issue!

New comment by bthallplz in "Show HN: Frockly – A visual editor for understanding complex Excel formulas"

bthallplz — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 21:40:29 +0000

I haven't been able to try out the OP's link yet (I'm also on mobile right now), but for your current usage of splitting formulas across lines, I've used this tool a bunch to do that for me: https://www.excelformulabeautifier.com

New comment by bthallplz in "Calendar"

bthallplz — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 13:54:24 +0000

Neat! I think I've done a similar thing in Jujutsu VCS, which enables you to start a new commit and add a message (description) to it well before you make any actual changes. As you described, it's a really useful way of keeping on track.

Scamp (Suite for Computer-Assisted Music in Python)

bthallplz — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 06:14:03 +0000

Article URL: https://scamp.marcevanstein.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46362895

Points: 10

# Comments: 0