Hacker News: elliottcarlson

New comment by elliottcarlson in "Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders"

elliottcarlson — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:50:42 +0000

Nice interface -- I made something similar but for a specific game (Binding of Isaac) because it has a specific way of implementing shaders for mods. https://sublimnl.github.io/IsaacShaderStudio/

New comment by elliottcarlson in "VHS, VCDs, and Laserdiscs in Southeast Asia"

elliottcarlson — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 16:36:16 +0000

A decade or so ago, we got rid of a huge collection of about 350 laserdics - a guy drove from two states over to pick them up for his small towns community center where they would play movies for the town.

New comment by elliottcarlson in "Show HN: HTML visualization of a PDF file's internal structure"

elliottcarlson — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 23:00:46 +0000

Kaitai is very useful for reverse engineering a binary file that you have some assumptions of. I've used it for save file reverse engineering and then creating a read/write library for it. It should be usable for PDF Metadata.

New comment by elliottcarlson in "Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more"

elliottcarlson — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 19:34:23 +0000

Interestingly, my paternal great-great-grandfather immigrated to the U.S. in 1868 with Carlson as his last name; later in life, my sister was born in Sweden because we happened to live there at the time, and her birth certificate was written as Carlsson - tbh I always thought my dad just didn't fill things out right and hence why she has a different spelling on her lastname.

New comment by elliottcarlson in "BlenderGPT"

elliottcarlson — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 15:15:25 +0000

I tried three images as the prompt, all three isolated without a background, and it worked pretty decently. Nothing I would actually use, but they generated something close enough.

New comment by elliottcarlson in "Show HN: I've added undo and redo to IsoCity"

elliottcarlson — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 19:10:05 +0000

You can also add ?w=1 to a PR to hide whitespace related changes; i.e. https://github.com/victorqribeiro/isocity/pull/26/files?w=1

New comment by elliottcarlson in "Bypassing airport security via SQL injection"

elliottcarlson — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 18:45:23 +0000

I think that is the goal of https://id.me

New comment by elliottcarlson in "All text in Brooklyn"

elliottcarlson — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 23:34:04 +0000

GoDaddy is the registry, but not the sole registrar that it can be registered through. Both NameCheap and Gandi are options - and I am sure others too.

NB: I work for GoDaddy, but am not responding in any capacity on their behalf.

New comment by elliottcarlson in "After 12 years of reviewing restaurants, I'm leaving the table"

elliottcarlson — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 01:25:10 +0000

Last spring, I was at my friends new at the time restaurant, when he let me know that Pete Wells was at the table behind us (and how important this night was for my friend) -- I noticed the sheer amount of food - pretty much the entire menu - that was coming and going from that table. I didn't even put it in to perspective how demanding that was on the body, since all I could think of was how I wish I had his job tasting amazing food all the time. The review came out a few weeks later, and it was a pretty nice review - took quite some time before reservations were obtainable again.

New comment by elliottcarlson in "Ant Design – the second most popular React UI framework"

elliottcarlson — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 16:43:10 +0000

Semantic UI[1] was one I used to use, both the plain CSS one as well as the React version of the library. Version 3.0 is coming (eventually), which has left it a bit outdated for a while, but it's still a solid UI library imho. I have been switching away to Tailwind.

[1]: https://semantic-ui.com/

New comment by elliottcarlson in "Webneko – a desktop screenmate ported to web"

elliottcarlson — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 11:22:59 +0000

I am rebuilding the website for a personal project of mine; the site is for a mod in a game that offers twitch integration, and in the mod, there is a "twitch chest" that only chat can open.

I added an easter egg on the website, that when you click on the chest in the footer, it follows the mouse in a similar way it would within the game -- it keeps a safe distance from the mouse to prevent interfering with it, and will repel away to that distance when moving the mouse towards it.

https://codesandbox.io/p/sandbox/floating-chest-k33n63 for a React component that implements this functionality.

New comment by elliottcarlson in "Dutch woman, 29, granted euthanasia approval on grounds of mental suffering"

elliottcarlson — Thu, 16 May 2024 19:33:03 +0000

My grandfather, from Belgium, suffered from mesothelioma - I flew back to see him and attended the conversations and sign offs, secondary sign offs, etc necessary for him to be able to be euthanized. He was already in a lot of pain and his quality of life was very different than the man I knew growing up. I was already back in the States when the waiting period was over, and we had a final video call prior to him being administered the medications that would ease him in to cardiac arrest -- he had deteriorated so much more in that month. Death was unfortunately the only outcome in his scenario, and giving him the ability to pass away while at home surrounded by loved ones, was a choice he had and took. I am very Americanized, having been here in the States for so long now, and it was a bit surreal going through all this, but, I am very happy he had that option.

If you look at this[1] 2023 report on euthanasia in Belgium, I don't think the numbers are anywhere near a height that it would be something I would say they "excel" at.

[1] https://wfrtds.org/belgium-2023-report-on-euthanasia/

New comment by elliottcarlson in "Show HN: a Rust based CLI tool 'imgcatr' for displaying images"

elliottcarlson — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 11:11:06 +0000

I was making a similar library (paired with a cli app) in Go a while back with some fun results -- it lead me down a rabbit hole trying to render animated gifs, which has interesting results depending on the terminal being used. I also implemented the resizing of the images to properly scale for the terminal as well. I never actually got around to uploading the repo, but will try to get around to that tonight.

Some videos of it in action: https://youtu.be/L2LTPKW6EPw https://youtu.be/b0CYZyuKLr8 https://youtu.be/_VnV96l5Xkc

New comment by elliottcarlson in "2600.network Dialup Service"

elliottcarlson — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 10:52:59 +0000

You should also check out Phrack Magazine (an online distributed ezine that is still active, albeit with years between issues - they also have a 2024 call for writers though!) at phrack.org

Another older print publication was Blacklisted! 411, very similar format to 2600. I attended some meetups from both of these back in the day.

New comment by elliottcarlson in "AI your home on street view"

elliottcarlson — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 11:50:54 +0000

Little feedback on the site; the site is very hard to use on my current laptop at 1920x1080 - overflow is hidden so I can't scroll to the button to perform the generation (and after disabling overflow hidden in dev tools I can see that's because the page is designed to be a very static height).

Great concept though!

New comment by elliottcarlson in "Hello world: meet قلب (Qalb) a programming language based on Arabic (2013)"

elliottcarlson — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 20:17:39 +0000

https://github.com/nasser/---/ is the repo for it -- sadly doesn't seem it has been updated much since the initial article and release of it.

New comment by elliottcarlson in "Show HN: Play the game I'm developing directly on its website"

elliottcarlson — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:42:37 +0000

Very neat -- one issue with the site is once you have started a game, if you try to scroll down to check out the rest of the page it keeps scrolling me back up to the game. I was looking for a pause button, hoping that would let me check things out, but couldn't find one.

New comment by elliottcarlson in "Add coffee stains to LaTeX documents (2021)"

elliottcarlson — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 03:11:00 +0000

I made this a while back for fun -- changing the seed will add different artefacts to the page, rotate it, hole punches, and of course coffee stains: https://sublim.nl/scp/?seed=1234567

New comment by elliottcarlson in "Flipper Zero: Multi-Tool Device for Geeks"

elliottcarlson — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 09:55:45 +0000

Any app run on the Flipper Zero can be run and interfaced with from the mobile app. It works quite well.

New comment by elliottcarlson in "Flipper Zero: Multi-Tool Device for Geeks"

elliottcarlson — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 09:46:45 +0000

The batteries died in my bedroom TV remote a few nights ago, it wasn't until I went to replace them did I notice that one of the batteries had leaked and seems to have caused some corrosion on the contact, so until I clean it up I've switched to my Flipper Zero as the remote for it (just need power and audio control, rest is via a Roku stick). Never thought this would be my use case for it, but it worked out perfectly.