Hacker News: dktbs

New comment by dktbs in "Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron Sued in US over Memory Price Fixing"

dktbs — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:34:23 +0000

Not sure I understand this statement. Apple is affected by DRAM price fixing the same as any other PC manufacturer.

New comment by dktbs in "It's unlikely that there will be any further releases of mt32-pi"

dktbs — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 16:34:06 +0000

I've found the MiSTer community to generally be pretty helpful, but there are definitely exceptions. The fact that its a project that aims to perfectly match the behavior of the original hardware leads to some strange arguments.

New comment by dktbs in "Building a DIY Pen Plotter"

dktbs — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 01:16:20 +0000

There are a lot of options for this but the two I really like are https://github.com/SonarSonic/DrawingBotV3 and https://mitxela.com/plotterfun/

Also, vpype (https://github.com/abey79/vpype) isn't specifically a tool for vectorizing images, but its incredibly useful for preparing vector files for plotting.

New comment by dktbs in "Tetr.io"

dktbs — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 05:12:09 +0000

This game plays so well, I really like it. I've sucked at TGM and nullpomino for years and I'm looking forward to sucking at this now. Thanks for posting the video, it can be hard to believe how good some people are at tetris.

New comment by dktbs in "NFT's aren't the answer to the problems of digital art"

dktbs — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 15:32:10 +0000

I'm assuming you're talking about this person: https://twitter.com/calvinbecerra/status/1454328591202721796

It was funny to see how they responded to losing their NFTs by being tricked on discord: they contacted the centralized storefronts (rarible, opensea) to have them marked as stolen.

New comment by dktbs in "Commodore Back in Germany"

dktbs — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 16:24:41 +0000

yeah, the fact that they have SID chips for sale was surprising to me. And they are 8580s!

New comment by dktbs in "How to fend off a jerk"

dktbs — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 18:33:18 +0000

This seems like a good example of this article posted yesterday: https://pchiusano.github.io/2014-10-11/defensive-writing.htm...

New comment by dktbs in "Linux has matured into a robust desktop operating system"

dktbs — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 14:15:48 +0000

You address every issue I have with desktop linux at the moment.

The lack of hybrid graphics support is especially annoying. The bumblebee project was working on solving this, but there hasn't been an update on that project since 2013.

New comment by dktbs in "Christopher Poole Reveals Why He Walked Away from 4Chan"

dktbs — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 13:47:25 +0000

> The Something Awful forums (where 4chan was born, after all)

Would you mind explaining this? I have read that moot was originally an SA user and posted on there to announce when he first launched 4chan. Is there any connection beyond that?

New comment by dktbs in "All the steps needed to create deep dream animations on EC2"

dktbs — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 19:51:50 +0000

Thanks for updating and organizing all of this. I got a working EC2 instance with CUDA and CUDNN working yesterday but it took some time. Having all of this is one place is excellent.

New comment by dktbs in "All the steps needed to create deep dream animations on EC2"

dktbs — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 19:49:02 +0000

That is definitely the more convenient option for running the defaults, but I think this is for a different usecase. If someone wanted faster results and full access to edit the python code and caffe models, this would be the better option.

New comment by dktbs in "Show HN: Deepdreamr – create dreamified images online"

dktbs — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 17:07:09 +0000

nice project. I'm curious what hardware you have running caffe and the deepdream code for this? And which layer is being used?

New comment by dktbs in "Ask HN: At what proficiency do you consider 'knowing' a language?"

dktbs — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 14:26:42 +0000

I assume (perhaps wrongly) that the interviewer is less interested in your opinions of the language and more interested in your ability to talk competently about the language for a few minutes.

New comment by dktbs in "Show HN: Small C Program to Convert Photos to Audio"

dktbs — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 17:10:16 +0000

This isn't exactly related (as it doesn't produce a spectrogram), but the software pixivisor plays around with this idea: http://warmplace.ru/soft/pixivisor/

The software can act as a transmitter or receiver. In trasmitter mode, you can provide it a static image or animated gif, which it will convert into audio which plays continuously. In receiver mode, pixivisor listens via the mic or line-in (depending on hardware platform and whats attached) and reconstructs the image from the audio. You can then manipulate the audio however you want.

This demo uses a korg monotron's low pass filter and LFOs to mangle an animated gif of a cat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=63&v=g2W1W4fwEkg

Its really interesting to me to see how the audio modulation is represented in the receiver's output.

New comment by dktbs in "Welcome to America: Here's Your Linux Computer"

dktbs — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 06:56:00 +0000

Its good you posted this, otherwise the article might have been completely indecipherable.

New comment by dktbs in "Show HN: The first websynth that's 100% mappable to a MIDI controller"

dktbs — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 18:25:20 +0000

On a real Juno, half of the voice cards would be dead. :)

New comment by dktbs in "Seriously, we need multi-column editors"

dktbs — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 17:01:36 +0000

Just curious, why is emacs not an acceptable solution?

New comment by dktbs in "Seriously, we need multi-column editors"

dktbs — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 15:53:06 +0000

Emacs provides this with Follow Mode:

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Fol...

New comment by dktbs in "Slippery chicken: Open-source algorithmic music composition environment"

dktbs — Sat, 16 Aug 2014 22:58:53 +0000

I really like this idea, and the precompiled lisp images made it simple to have this up and running instantly to play around with.

New comment by dktbs in "The Linux kernel, how it is developed, and how we stay sane doing it"

dktbs — Fri, 16 May 2014 21:08:33 +0000

I think most people would expect for an audio player to have volume control. I can't think of another web audio player that doesn't offer it.