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New comment by doctorhandshake in "Music for Programming"

doctorhandshake — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:52:27 +0000

Agreed datasette is critically slept on

Some US car buyers envy what they cannot have – affordable Chinese EVs

doctorhandshake — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:39:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/some-us-car-buyers-envy-what-they-cannot-have-affordable-chinese-evs-2026-03-23/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47488650

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by doctorhandshake in "3D-Knitting: The Ultimate Guide"

doctorhandshake — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:36:14 +0000

I think this is an uncharitable view of the information on offer. The linked page similarly brands the technique with a trademarked WHOLEGARMENT label, claiming it’s a world first, so it doesn’t seem a stretch to see how these folks got to claiming it’s novel and making a bit of a todo about how it’s different. It also seems to have some business model implications that on first approximation look less than favorable, so I think that helps to justify the need for a position paper like this.

New comment by doctorhandshake in "Show HN: I Was Here – Draw on street view, others can find your drawings"

doctorhandshake — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:19:22 +0000

It is my belief that a time may come when we can all ‘write’ on, or link information to, any person, place, or thing, based on a melange of semantic anchors, and in that world there will be fewer secrets and more experts.

New comment by doctorhandshake in "Why it takes you and an elephant the same amount of time to poop (2017)"

doctorhandshake — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:16:49 +0000

As part of a speculative fiction project I have imagined this scenario playing out many times over as people who wear AR-style displays have, eg, melanomas pointed out to them on bodies of people who don’t wear and are unsure if they should say something.

New comment by doctorhandshake in "Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)"

doctorhandshake — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:18:52 +0000

Well I’m not anti ;) … I just mean if your goal is to make the thing and you’re sure you need a tool to do it, watch out for the temptation to make the tool that makes the tool, which is the LONG way around, as OP was saying

New comment by doctorhandshake in "Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)"

doctorhandshake — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:59:21 +0000

The way I phrase this to myself is ‘make the tool, don’t make the tool that makes the tool.’

New comment by doctorhandshake in "Fix your tools"

doctorhandshake — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 19:26:58 +0000

My version of this is ‘always be toolin’, but then of course one must use judgement lest it be better to just get on with it.

New comment by doctorhandshake in "Where did all the starships go?"

doctorhandshake — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 16:01:35 +0000

In the programming sense one might say it is an ‘overloaded’ term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurist

New comment by doctorhandshake in "Where did all the starships go?"

doctorhandshake — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 12:34:49 +0000

My theory about this aligns with my theory about the disappearance of ‘futurists’ from the popular conversation - we’re living in science fiction. The future is arriving every day. It no longer feels necessary to speculate about a changed world - you need only look out the door.

I say this as someone that still loves (and writes a little) speculative fiction. Just a guess as to what’s happening.

New comment by doctorhandshake in "Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13"

doctorhandshake — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:53:31 +0000

This visually resembles Falling Bough by Walton Ford

https://www.kasmingallery.com/artworks/4717-walton-ford-fall...

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

doctorhandshake — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:21:55 +0000

https://belief.horse

New comment by doctorhandshake in "If you don't design your career, someone else will (2014)"

doctorhandshake — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 12:35:12 +0000

“The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one’s main purpose to serve a job here and there.”

As a former career contractor who took probably 7 commercial jobs I didn’t care about for every 1 creative job I wanted to do but for which I was underpaid, this feels deeply true.

New comment by doctorhandshake in "Ireland’s Diarmuid Early wins world Microsoft Excel title"

doctorhandshake — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 10:36:18 +0000

Thanks! It was called Cut&Paste

New comment by doctorhandshake in "Ireland’s Diarmuid Early wins world Microsoft Excel title"

doctorhandshake — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 21:15:52 +0000

I used to work as technical director for a touring live graphic design, 3D modeling, and animation tournament. It was kind of like iron chef for designers. They worked live in timed rounds with their screens projected overhead. It was sponsored by Adobe, Autodesk, and Wacom. It was pretty impressive to see how power users did their thing for sure.

New comment by doctorhandshake in "A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z"

doctorhandshake — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 14:11:06 +0000

Not sure if the substitution of ‘tale’ for ‘tail’ was intentional but regardless it’s apropos

New comment by doctorhandshake in "Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker"

doctorhandshake — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 10:40:06 +0000

Big +1 for Tiller after trying several other options including YNAB. Your data in a spreadsheet - go nuts, use our templates, make your own, etc.

New comment by doctorhandshake in "TouchDesigner 2025 Update"

doctorhandshake — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 12:05:23 +0000

Major major TD release, long awaited - highlights include:

* release of the new POP operator family * new DMX workflows * laser updates * serious and likely underappreciated (IMO) color space workflow overhaul * ST2110 support * TDI library for VSCode (finally, autocomplete) * Thread Manager * Python Environment Manager (tdPyEnvManager) * Logger overhaul * Render Simple TOP, Layer Mix TOP, Serial Devices DAT * ZED camera SDK update to 5.0.4 and op family overhaul * Many data in/out improvements and new features * Nvidia 50-series GPU support

TouchDesigner 2025 Update

doctorhandshake — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 12:01:45 +0000

Article URL: https://derivative.ca/community-post/2025-official-update/73153

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45759084

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by doctorhandshake in "Harnessing America's heat pump moment"

doctorhandshake — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 13:49:20 +0000

Yeah in case it wasn’t clear - I wasn’t asking a million vendors to price the job, I was asking them to do a manual J so they could price the job. It took 12 to get 4 to do the manual J. The other 8 came on-site and then refused to do the calcs even though I told them before coming out that it was a prerequisite for me to consider their quote.

I got a variety of explanations for why they weren’t going to do it, most of them along the lines of ‘I’ve been doing this forever - I know what I’m doing,’ but a few disappointingly ‘I don’t know what a manual J is.’ Again, this was AFTER my telling them over the phone that I wouldn’t consider a quote that wasn’t based on the calcs.