Hacker News: evrimoztamur

New comment by evrimoztamur in "A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal"

evrimoztamur — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:39:52 +0000

Wrong take. Bloomberg has a data monopoly on certain asset classes, most importantly bonds.

New comment by evrimoztamur in "How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of Signal chats"

evrimoztamur — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:58:34 +0000

You commented this twice, what's your backing, besides 'they're non-commercial thus must be fed by nefarious actors'?

New comment by evrimoztamur in "Show HN: Godot and Rust based multiplexer (terminal panes and more)"

evrimoztamur — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:24:11 +0000

This is such a cursed combination... I really don't understand what you get from Godot that benefits you for building a TTY "multiplexer."

Wildly vibe-coded to the extent that it's more misguided than Doom on a pregnancy test...

Also looking at OP's notes here, there doesn't even seem to be a need for this to exist, "FPS counter" ..? Perhaps, I don't know, fake terminals on a spaceship or something. Yueash...

New comment by evrimoztamur in "Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer"

evrimoztamur — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:52:07 +0000

I can't imagine using this in the Netherlands with random rain. The tradeoffs are hard to accept, wondering how it looks and performs in various weather conditions, and if a physical buttoned shell is worth it...

New comment by evrimoztamur in "GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released"

evrimoztamur — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:32:42 +0000

OpenAI team sounds like they've misidentified the root cause for this particular case then.

New comment by evrimoztamur in "GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released"

evrimoztamur — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:02:15 +0000

Penny sample shown looks like failed EXIF orientation registered by the model/harness. The coins are correctly marked, it's rotated 90 degrees.

New comment by evrimoztamur in "How to pack ternary numbers in 8-bit bytes"

evrimoztamur — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:19:11 +0000

Would having 16 bits to pack a tuple of ternary numbers have a potential to give even better efficiency?

New comment by evrimoztamur in "Web-based cryptography is always snake oil"

evrimoztamur — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 21:02:42 +0000

Anything you see rendered onto a screen is no longer secure though, or is it a hyperbole to phrase it this way?

New comment by evrimoztamur in "One year of Roto, a compiled scripting language for Rust"

evrimoztamur — Sun, 31 May 2026 08:57:46 +0000

Does anyone know if the Roto runtime is serde-able?

A big problem I encountered in using Lua in Rust for my game engine was that I wasn't able to serde the Lua runtime such that I can snapshot a game session and save it in a file, and retrieve it in another context.

New comment by evrimoztamur in "A few interesting modern pixel fonts"

evrimoztamur — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:09:02 +0000

Geist looks like unadulterated garbage, a sloppy rendition of a vector font onto a pixel grid, lack of character and care to banding and shape...

New comment by evrimoztamur in "Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry"

evrimoztamur — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:29:09 +0000

There is a faint sensation of translucency, I wonder if that's an artefact of the process, or if it's the actual optics of the surface layer if the strawberry...

New comment by evrimoztamur in "Nucleus Nouns"

evrimoztamur — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:05:42 +0000

Identifying the right taxonomy is not only an exercise in naming things, but also building the appropriate data structures and systems in your programs. I think this exercise is incomplete in the absence of studying how these nouns interact with one another.

I don't think that a loose-hanging 'payment intent' evokes a particular emotion, without its constituents' (credit cards, direct debits, cryptocurrencies) relationship to other nouns (customers, invoices, taxes, countries).

New comment by evrimoztamur in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

evrimoztamur — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:59:29 +0000

There is a major difference between open-sourcing a completed product versus being an open source maintainer, and I'm disappointed that Carmack is drawing a false equivalence here.

New comment by evrimoztamur in "Put the zip code first"

evrimoztamur — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:13:15 +0000

In the Netherlands most websites use a common routing database to map a combination of a ZIP code and house number (+ suffix) to your exact address automatically. Great UX! And naturally depends on good administrative and postal services data quality.

New comment by evrimoztamur in "Weave – A language aware merge algorithm based on entities"

evrimoztamur — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:19:01 +0000

I would love it if sem was hooked up into a PR review UI...

New comment by evrimoztamur in "When AI writes the software, who verifies it?"

evrimoztamur — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:16:46 +0000

Why are they expected to?

New comment by evrimoztamur in "0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix"

evrimoztamur — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:15:11 +0000

Isn't this Mount and Blade?

New comment by evrimoztamur in "A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw"

evrimoztamur — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:18:41 +0000

Sane is an adjective, 'X but Y Noun' expects Y to be an adjective if X is also such. Sane/Bull Case-> Sane/Bullish Case

New comment by evrimoztamur in "Non-Zero-Sum Games"

evrimoztamur — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 11:39:19 +0000

Social credit systems upset people because of distrust in the system operators.

New comment by evrimoztamur in "Analysis finds anytime electricity from solar available as battery costs plummet"

evrimoztamur — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 18:28:07 +0000

Baseload, ideally.