Hacker News: dukoid

New comment by dukoid in "Bringing the Predators to Life in MAME"

dukoid — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 13:25:14 +0000

I think it might be this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJliQ2fsiUA

New comment by dukoid in "Musashi: Motorola 680x0 emulator written in C"

dukoid — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:40:07 +0000

I'd expect the main advantages to be portability and maintainability?

New comment by dukoid in "Tube trains could navigate the Underground using the rules of Quantum Physics"

dukoid — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 10:44:11 +0000

I wonder if it theoretically could (or already does) benefit from something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCg3aXn5F3M

New comment by dukoid in "Compiler for "Easy" language from "Etudes for Programmers" book (1978)"

dukoid — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:32:36 +0000

I was assuming it's something similar to PL/0 but the grammar looks quite extensive...

New comment by dukoid in "Why are so many pedestrians killed by cars in the US?"

dukoid — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 12:58:12 +0000

Why do so many drivers kill pedestrians?

Passive voice and saying that they are killed by cars is part oft the problem: https://visionzeroreporting.com/

New comment by dukoid in ""Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec""

dukoid — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 20:21:17 +0000

Ah, now I am glad I stuck with DSSSL :)

New comment by dukoid in "Geneva makes public transport temporarily free to combat pollution spike"

dukoid — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 16:59:40 +0000

I am not arguing against cars. I am just arguing against the "right" to pollute the environment without taking responsibility for adequate cleanup.

New comment by dukoid in "Geneva makes public transport temporarily free to combat pollution spike"

dukoid — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:21:01 +0000

Why do we still allow drivers to externalize most of the costs associated with cars? There is existing technology to extract co2 from the atmosphere, and the current cost of this should be the free market-based price for co2 emissions.

New comment by dukoid in "The magic of through running"

dukoid — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 12:35:51 +0000

Why not think bigger? https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1hwChHpCfdV23GhvcZCun...

New comment by dukoid in "A receipt printer cured my procrastination"

dukoid — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 13:09:48 +0000

One "trick" that helped me some times: If you don't make progress with a task, count breaking it down into subtasks as an accomplishment

New comment by dukoid in "Boxie – an always offline audio player for my 3 year old"

dukoid — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:06:43 +0000

I wonder if one of the Anberinc (or similar) devices with single-purpose software would be an option for people shy of going into hardware...

New comment by dukoid in "France high-speed rail traffic disrupted by 'malicious acts' on Olympic ceremony"

dukoid — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 12:07:17 +0000

What would Reagan say to this?

New comment by dukoid in "310-mile automated cargo conveyor will replace 25,000 trucks in Japan"

dukoid — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 13:33:02 +0000

I suppose the bandwidth is not the bottleneck currently but mainly the "switching capacity" for this kind of application?

New comment by dukoid in "310-mile automated cargo conveyor will replace 25,000 trucks in Japan"

dukoid — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 13:22:49 +0000

Yeah I was going to write UDP first but then thought it might be a worse analogy because of that.

So what I was trying to say is: Why can't shipping containers be more "automatically" routed over rail? Perhaps fully automatic rail car couplers would be more helpful in general than yet another gadgetbahn?

New comment by dukoid in "310-mile automated cargo conveyor will replace 25,000 trucks in Japan"

dukoid — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 13:20:22 +0000

Doesn't seem to go anywhere in the end: https://www.blick.ch/wirtschaft/cargo-sous-terrain-entlaesst...

New comment by dukoid in "310-mile automated cargo conveyor will replace 25,000 trucks in Japan"

dukoid — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 13:19:27 +0000

Looks like that particular Gadgetbahn is not going to go anywhere: https://www.blick.ch/wirtschaft/cargo-sous-terrain-entlaesst...

New comment by dukoid in "310-mile automated cargo conveyor will replace 25,000 trucks in Japan"

dukoid — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 12:50:42 +0000

I wish we had some form of "TCP/IP" over rail, where the "packets" are containers or pallets...

Show HN: A Kotlin DSL for WebAssembly

dukoid — Wed, 01 May 2024 13:00:06 +0000

The initial motivation for this project was just to see how far one can take Kotlin DSLs.

That said, it might be useful for situations where one needs to generate Wasm code in a general Kotlin context.

In a way, this project constitutes a Wasm "macro assembler" with the Kotlin as the "macro language" -- at the price of an "unusual" syntax.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40222541

Points: 2

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New comment by dukoid in "Zenv: Forth for the ZX Spectrum"

dukoid — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 18:57:56 +0000

I didn't manage to build any Games with it, but I think it helped me to read Postscript files a few years later :)

New comment by dukoid in "The built environment and the determination of fault in urban pedestrian crashes"

dukoid — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 02:08:50 +0000

The intended outcome of so-called "road safety" campaigns, always addressing the victims instead of drivers