Hacker News: donpdonp

New comment by donpdonp in "Triple-A Minesweeper"

donpdonp — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 01:37:31 +0000

And I don't think my accomplishments are being recorded!

New comment by donpdonp in "OpenArm: An open-source 7DOF humanoid arm"

donpdonp — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:33:02 +0000

$6,500 for OpenArm v2. Incredibly smooth movement, 4kg of load per arm. Its unclear how far the level of autonomous control has come so far. The video shows mostly tele-operated operation. I have to agree with other comments here that folding laundry is the killer app.

New comment by donpdonp in "Nostr is an inclusive communication commons"

donpdonp — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:07:13 +0000

for those simply looking to try nostr for the first time, https://iris.to is a great way to get started.

New comment by donpdonp in "Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network"

donpdonp — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 02:21:23 +0000

it'd be nice to see a comparison to rayfish.xyz

New comment by donpdonp in "Show HN: Voice driven murder mystery, Interview AI suspects with your voice"

donpdonp — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:25:32 +0000

even without trying it, its so cool this exists. I think this kind of voice interaction has been a dream of adventure game creators for so long, and now its possible. there was a game many years ago (in the days of messengers like trillium being popular), I forget the name, where one of the characters would make a landline phone call to you. The voice acting was great and it felt novel and exciting to see it work.

New comment by donpdonp in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

donpdonp — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:37:51 +0000

"How much of each payout was your own money handed back." very interesting premise but the site needs more explanation of what that means and how it computes those numbers.

New comment by donpdonp in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

donpdonp — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:14:56 +0000

great looking website - the alphabet portion is fantastic.

I published a project this week to be a thai to english dictionary. Translation is easy to come by but I want a page to paste a paragraph of thai and have it break down every word. That helps me learn. The site uses Wiktionary data. https://thaikam.app/

New comment by donpdonp in "A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events"

donpdonp — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 02:07:33 +0000

This was fun to play...for about 2 minutes before all the manual work of moving processes around got very tedious, which may be the point of the game. What I would like is a little code edit window where i could code simple routines to handle the scheduling, then be able to watch the result.

New comment by donpdonp in "CrankGPT"

donpdonp — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:51:01 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits

New comment by donpdonp in "Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video]"

donpdonp — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:42:34 +0000

for those who aren't familitar with Meta's product line: "Meta Portal (also known as Portal) is a discontinued brand of smart displays and videophones released in 2018 by Meta." a tablet with feet, focused on video-calls.

New comment by donpdonp in "Zig ELF Linker Improvements Devlog"

donpdonp — Sun, 31 May 2026 05:51:11 +0000

I used to think Zig was the new C, but its different enough to be its own category, imho. For an actually "new" C, try https://c3-lang.org/.

New comment by donpdonp in "Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice"

donpdonp — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 03:05:26 +0000

for example, How much disk is needed? I started the uvx command and it started to download hundreds of megabytes. How much cpu ram is necessary and how much gpu ram is necessary? will an integrated intel gpu work? some ARM boards have a dedicated AI processor, are any of those supported?

New comment by donpdonp in "Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice"

donpdonp — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 06:35:18 +0000

it'd be nice to get some idea of what kind of hardware a laptop needs to be able to run this voice model.

New comment by donpdonp in "Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig"

donpdonp — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 03:11:14 +0000

I'm hoping they go with phoenix11 #seewhatididthere

New comment by donpdonp in "Acme, a brief history of one of the protocols which has changed the Internet"

donpdonp — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 03:57:27 +0000

it seems like all this infrastructure could be replaced by a DNS TXT record with a public key that browsers could use to check the cert sent from the web server. A web server would load a self-signed cert (or whatever cert they wanted), and put the cert's public key into a DNS record for that hostname. Every visit to a website would need two lookups, one for address and one for key. It puts control back into the hands of the domain owners and eliminates the need for letsencrypt.

New comment by donpdonp in "From VS Code to Helix"

donpdonp — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 14:52:46 +0000

The best part of this article for me is the link to these well made 3rd party docs for helix.

https://helix-nikita-revencos-projects.vercel.app/start-here...

New comment by donpdonp in "Introduction to AT Protocol"

donpdonp — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 01:51:12 +0000

ATDT1170,

New comment by donpdonp in "A Friendly Introduction to Assembly for High-Level Programmers"

donpdonp — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 08:28:26 +0000

Really well written - it was a pleasure to read. Concepts were introduced in small, consumable chunks, without being too slow or overwhelming. I hope more articles are coming.

New comment by donpdonp in "Quarkdown: Markdown with Superpowers"

donpdonp — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 10:36:28 +0000

this looks very nice though it also is close to typst. a comparison would be interesting.

New comment by donpdonp in "The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide"

donpdonp — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 09:39:28 +0000

A detailed, hands-on, build a kernel module right away kind of tutorial. Bravo.