Hacker News: davidjhall

New comment by davidjhall in "A QBasic Text Adventure Still Expanding in 2025"

davidjhall — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 11:39:26 +0000

Yes! According to this post, someone tried to find the max rooms in Inform 7 and stopped at tens of thousands. Took long to compile (not run) and used a lot of memory, but not an issue. https://intfiction.org/t/i7-realistic-max-number-of-rooms/99...

New comment by davidjhall in "Harvey Mudd Miniature Machine"

davidjhall — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 21:48:23 +0000

Excited at first ... until he sold you the hMMM machine, took your credits and flew away, only for you to discover that this machine only programs in little endian brainf*ck!

New comment by davidjhall in "Hungry Hungry Hippos Autoplay (2017)"

davidjhall — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 12:09:48 +0000

Quick warning to not play the video in the room with an Echo. Now I have Alexa telling everyone in the house that green hippo is hungry!!

Which begs the question, how do they broadcast "Alexa, ..." on TV shows so that it doesn't set my Echo off?

New comment by davidjhall in "Ozzy Osbourne has died"

davidjhall — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 19:41:56 +0000

Legend has it that he was handed a live bat at a concert and thought it was a prop -- was almost more surprised than the bat.

Also - animal rights were still gaining traction re: the arts. It was only in 1972 that the first "No animals were harmed in this film" was aired.

New comment by davidjhall in "Human Stigmergy: The world is my task list"

davidjhall — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 20:49:36 +0000

SDAM (Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory) is awful; we tend to just have blocks of a few years of memories.

The only benefit is you can't be gas-lit intentionally because you are always gas-lit, so you believe nothing. :-)

New comment by davidjhall in "HN Slop: AI startup ideas generated from Hacker News"

davidjhall — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 12:25:57 +0000

Very cute but wish there was a filter for the flavor of the week ... I feel 60% of them will have LLM because of this bias. Last month would've been "powered by rust."

New comment by davidjhall in "The Wisconsin cartographer who mapped Tolkien's fantasy world"

davidjhall — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 19:23:47 +0000

A wonderful atlas -- my favorite are her trail maps where she depicts a character's daily journey in the book.

The article (almost) footnotes her other work which was equally impressive:

* She also created atlases for the worlds of fantasy authors Anne McCaffrey, creator of the “Dragonriders of Pern” series, and Stephen R. Donaldson, who wrote “The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant” series.

New comment by davidjhall in "Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic"

davidjhall — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:00:26 +0000

Congratulations! What was the stack/language you used to make this [ didn't see it in your original post ]?

New comment by davidjhall in "3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation"

davidjhall — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:41:22 +0000

Are there any other copies of this video out there? Since it's a bogus claim, the video should be able to be posted elsewhere --- YouTube can't be the only source of record.

New comment by davidjhall in "Ask HN: Recommend subs/products for hacker/developer? (Proton Mail, Kagi etc.)"

davidjhall — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 16:44:04 +0000

*Fair warning -- I LOVE Obsidian.md ; not an evangelist, per se, but it's a great tool.

Free and practically future-proof ( all markdown; some extra flavor markdown but that's optional, extensions anyone can build in javascript )

Macros that help me do redundant things with a keystroke, a calendar that automatically populates with my custom template when I click on the date ( could set it to do it when I log in every day but not always in My-Day mode.)

I pay for replication because it supports the devs -- you can customize replication yourself with existent tools --- dropbox, syncthing, etc.

If you're an author, there are tools that make it more Scrivener-like. If you're a TTRPG player, there's tutorials on importing rules, rolling dice and autogenerating from tables, etc.

Anyway, I thoroughly recommend

New comment by davidjhall in "Ask HN: How to Resurrect a Site from Archive.org?"

davidjhall — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 21:46:13 +0000

I have a similar one -- site just sent down a few days ago. A special library....

New comment by davidjhall in "Nurdle Patrol"

davidjhall — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 13:24:28 +0000

I think they meant "not unlike" as - we didn't think asbestos was bad, then we thought it could be bad, then yes, after studies, this is really awful. Similarly, we might find that ingested plastics cause more damage than we realize now.

New comment by davidjhall in "Show HN: Wadzilla. Play DOOM in Zork"

davidjhall — Fri, 31 May 2024 12:25:23 +0000

Yes! We have it in Call of Duty : Black Ops https://youtu.be/QOgK0sV6RLU?si=5YdNNwbigBEvm9f6

New comment by davidjhall in "Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation"

davidjhall — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 13:54:35 +0000

Great work!

Noone's asked yet? What was your dev stack?

New comment by davidjhall in "Computing the Eclipse"

davidjhall — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 23:31:31 +0000

I wonder if it would be easy to figure out, given a set of coordinates, if there would be a totality in the next 100 years there and when. I cant figure it from the examples but that would be a neat website.

New comment by davidjhall in "M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake"

davidjhall — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 15:05:26 +0000

In Connecticut - rattled the windows and shook books off the bookcase.

New comment by davidjhall in "Poor Charlie's Almanack"

davidjhall — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 22:49:57 +0000

What are your opinions on the book? I started it, expecting a modern day Poor Richards, and couldn't shake the feeling it was a wealthy person giving advice from a vaulted position --- like "life tips from Bill Gates." CMO.

New comment by davidjhall in "Chosic.com – Discover New Music"

davidjhall — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 21:44:56 +0000

With Spotify Wrapped, it identified genres for me that I'd never heard of. A quick search found this site which will analyze your Spotify lists more deeply and make recommendations and new playlists.

Chosic.com – Discover New Music

davidjhall — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 21:43:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.chosic.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38479622

Points: 1

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New comment by davidjhall in "The official website of Charles Atlas"

davidjhall — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 18:52:41 +0000

It's in What the--? Vol 1, Issue 3 -- last page (36) edit: Here's a partial image : https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Sandman_(Earth-9047)