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New comment by cristoperb in "Ti-84 Evo"

cristoperb — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:13:09 +0000

Apparently just a TI-84 Evo emulator(?) that you can run in a browser for $20/year:

https://education.ti.com/en/products/calculators/graphing-ca...

New comment by cristoperb in "Ti-84 Evo"

cristoperb — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:11:10 +0000

I still use my TI-89 from high school, but I'm interested to find if there are any open hardware/firmware calculator projects with basic engineering tools and a CAS.

New comment by cristoperb in "KV Cache Compression 900000x Beyond TurboQuant and Per-Vector Shannon Limit"

cristoperb — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 03:09:15 +0000

I can't speak for the person you're replying too, but I use -- for emdash for two reasons: I never remember how to type an actual emdash in linux/X11, and more importantly, I do most of my writing in Asciidoc which converts -- to an emdash automatically. It's nothing to do with bot detection or whatever.

But it does get me confused sometimes because in LaTeX (and other markup languages) -- gets converted to an endash whereas it takes three hyphens --- to make an emdash.

New comment by cristoperb in "Swiss AI Initiative (2023)"

cristoperb — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:22:38 +0000

I haven't tried it for anything myself yet. The paper provides several benchmarks. The emphasis during training was on multi-language support (over 1800 languages are represented in its pre-training data, which is 40% non-English) and non-copyrighted training data... and the benchmarks seem to suffer for it.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14233

New comment by cristoperb in "Swiss AI Initiative (2023)"

cristoperb — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:36:42 +0000

Apertus is the open source 8b and 70b LLM from swiss-ai. They've published both the base and the instruct sft models. Very cool that projects like this exist.

https://apertvs.ai/pages/documentation/

New comment by cristoperb in "Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975"

cristoperb — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:59:30 +0000

It looks like the ia's collection of Compute! is complete:

https://archive.org/details/compute-magazine?page=2&sort=dat...

Also Compute!' Gazette:

https://archive.org/details/computes.gazette/Compute_Gazette...

New comment by cristoperb in "Minimal Viable Programs (2014)"

cristoperb — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:44:41 +0000

Though see the Plain Text Accounting[0] movement for something maybe more unixy than Gnucash. I download .csv files from my bank and credit card issuers and import to hledger[1]. hledger has its own rules engine for filtering/transforming imported entries, but you could also preprocess the files using any unix tool before importing if you needed to.

0: https://plaintextaccounting.org/

1: https://hledger.org/

New comment by cristoperb in "What is a property?"

cristoperb — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:05:24 +0000

I missed the "a" in the title and expected something about Proudhon

New comment by cristoperb in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

cristoperb — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:35:39 +0000

> We all know Meta can still read E2EE chats

That can't be true, otherwise in what sense is it E2EE?

New comment by cristoperb in "Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB"

cristoperb — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:22:17 +0000

Thanks, your install script worked for me.

In case it helps anyone else, the first time I tried to run purr I got "OSError: PortAudio library not found". Installing libportaudio (apt install libportaudio2) got it running.

New comment by cristoperb in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

cristoperb — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:24:08 +0000

Yes. Here's an AP article:

https://apnews.com/article/afroman-police-raid-lawsuit-ohio-...

New comment by cristoperb in "The “small web” is bigger than you might think"

cristoperb — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:36:12 +0000

You could do signatures/MAC without encryption to guarantee that the message was not modified

New comment by cristoperb in "Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language"

cristoperb — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:02:07 +0000

Thanks for sharing, and congratulations!

Interesting that you didn't use dead reckoning at all to return to the nest. I didn't think I could get away with that. And somehow using a second channel to extend the trails never occurred to me.

New comment by cristoperb in "Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language"

cristoperb — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:31:48 +0000

I just came back to check if anyone else was discussing their entry, so thanks for posting your write up!

I wrote mine by hand just testing it using the in-browser simulator. I initially used subroutines to try to keep things structured but then resorted to inlining most things (and flattening as much state as I could to bare registers) to try to speed things up, though i never quite got my ants to always move within the 64 op step.

My best score on the official test set was 654 (43rd place). I put my code and a little write up here: https://github.com/cristoper/brain.ant

New comment by cristoperb in "Using Thunderbird for RSS"

cristoperb — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:35:29 +0000

> Thunderbird delivers RSS feed items the same way as email, so you can apply filters to mark them as "read"

This is a good idea. I use Thunderbird only for a small number of feeds I want to read every post from. I used to also use a separate feed reader for my "river of news", but eventually I stopped looking at that and just loadded hackernews or reddit when I wanted a distraction. But I might try Thunderbird for more feeds and just auto-mark most of them as read so I can browse at my leisure.

New comment by cristoperb in "“It turns out” (2010)"

cristoperb — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:29:08 +0000

I guess it's not prefatory remarks or disclaimers that I find so grating, but the explicit "I'll explain" (or worse, faux conversational "May I explain?" "Let me explain") followed immediately by the explanation.

New comment by cristoperb in "“It turns out” (2010)"

cristoperb — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:20:56 +0000

This is a nitpick, but since this essay is over 15 years old now I don't think the author will mind. This phrase always rankles me:

> Let me explain what I mean.

It turns out that if you're writing an essay or a youtube script you don't have to tell me that you're going to explain something to me before you explain it to me. I guess it acts as a "hack" to try to impart some gravity to what follows without actually having to write a convincing introduction, but unlike "it turns out" it can almost always just be deleted to improve the flow.

Experimenting a New Syntax to Write SVG (2022)

cristoperb — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 02:00:53 +0000

Article URL: https://yuanchuan.dev/experimenting-a-new-syntax-to-write-svg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107336

Points: 3

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New comment by cristoperb in "Lichess Puzzle Timer: A browser extension to help you do chess puzzles slower"

cristoperb — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:53:45 +0000

This is my project/writeup. I think it is too simple for a Show HN, but if anyone actually tries it out and finds it useful I'd love to know!

source code: https://github.com/cristoper/lichess-puzzle-timer/

Lichess Puzzle Timer: A browser extension to help you do chess puzzles slower

cristoperb — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:53:27 +0000

Article URL: https://catswhisker.xyz/log/2026/2/21/lichess_puzzle_timer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47102429

Points: 1

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