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New comment by ffin in "Butlerian Jihad"

ffin — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 04:48:01 +0000

the Fremen express freedom of speech despite overwhelming oppression

New comment by ffin in "Butlerian Jihad"

ffin — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 04:22:22 +0000

> So sex, alcohol and drugs are not an issue today, but gambling, addiction, disenfranchisement, exploitative business practices, mind-boggling amounts of corruption - they're all back in the same form and for the same reasons

what is sex referring to in this context? is this talking about societal attitudes toward sex, sex as in gender, or something else?

New comment by ffin in "Butlerian Jihad"

ffin — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 04:04:15 +0000

this is an interesting interpretation. i always imagined the jihad as being a violent struggle.

the other jihad in the first novel is that of the Fremen, which is described as being unspeakable violent, so I find it hard to imagine these to be different in that regard.

New comment by ffin in "Butlerian Jihad"

ffin — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 03:42:20 +0000

i’m not sure how to distinguish any difference from modern reality from what you seem to consider plot-armour to be.

what does the Butlerian Jihad “working” mean?

A library to stream Lichess games as GIFs

ffin — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 01:00:02 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/lichess-org/lila-gif

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50126758

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ffin in "Yet another way to invoke functions in JavaScript without parentheses"

ffin — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:29:48 +0000

this feels like a direct descendent of this work of art:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyBEUyEtxQo

New comment by ffin in "Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design"

ffin — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:53:28 +0000

themes are actually possible on macos

https://github.com/CoreBedtime/playground

Contact Recycling

ffin — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:22:59 +0000

Article URL: https://box2d.org/posts/2026/10/contact-recycling/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50077185

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Synthetic Sagas

ffin — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:55:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/synthetic-sagas/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880969

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

Steve Wozniak launches merch store

ffin — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:37:28 +0000

Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/09/16/woz

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49734001

Points: 16

# Comments: 14

Ending my elixir exploratory writing

ffin — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 11:52:48 +0000

Article URL: https://lucassifoni.info/blog/the-end-of-this-elixir-log/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49534921

Points: 74

# Comments: 46

Exponential Smoothing

ffin — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 02:12:00 +0000

Article URL: https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/exponential-smoothing.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49504851

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Ergonomic keyboard generator with hand scanning

ffin — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:20:38 +0000

Article URL: https://ryanis.cool/cosmos/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48964141

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Relocatable Derivations

ffin — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:10:00 +0000

Article URL: https://fzakaria.com/2026/06/08/relocatable-derivations

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48464014

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

On the Future of Apple’s Vision Platform

ffin — Fri, 01 May 2026 00:56:26 +0000

Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2026/04/on_the_future_of_apples_vision_platform

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47970220

Points: 24

# Comments: 8

Bedrock Linux: A Meta-Distribution for Combining Parts of Other Distros

ffin — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:24:23 +0000

Article URL: https://bedrocklinux.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47917063

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

How Hard Is It to Open a File?

ffin — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:01:40 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/how-hard-is-it-to-open-a-file/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884625

Points: 96

# Comments: 15

New comment by ffin in "Perspective-stable 3D pixel art using Texel Splatting"

ffin — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:17:15 +0000

Unfortunately the demo doesn't work on Firefox from me due to the WebGPU requirement. The creator does have a video that shows off the technique nicely however:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SELiz9VRg5Q

Perspective-stable 3D pixel art using Texel Splatting

ffin — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:39:11 +0000

Article URL: https://dylanebert.com/texel-splatting/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47876298

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by ffin in "I am building a cloud"

ffin — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:12:50 +0000

> Agents, by making it easiest to write code, means there will be a lot more software.

He's saying that agents make code much cheaper, therefore there will be a large increase in demand for code. This appears to be exactly what you're describing.