Hacker News: fhchl

New comment by fhchl in "Bitmap and tilemap generation from a single example"

fhchl — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:06:23 +0000

Cool! Anyone knows if there are generalizations to video? Let's say the input is not a Bitmap but a sequence of bitmaps?

New comment by fhchl in "Pop OS 24.04 LTS Beta"

fhchl — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 14:11:15 +0000

I highly recommend regolith as well, even though the Sway session has never worked without issues for me yet. X11 is very stable.

New comment by fhchl in "US authorities can see more than ever, with Big Tech as their eyes"

fhchl — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 07:06:57 +0000

Have been using proto mail for a few years now and highly recommend it. You will ever have a cute @pm.me address!

New comment by fhchl in "Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?"

fhchl — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 16:54:43 +0000

Anna Karenina is a masterpiece of a novel. I highly recommend it as well.

I often jokingly mention that this is the first book that ever made me want to get married. While many now that the novel describes the tragic life and relationships of Anna, only those that read it will now that here is another, as important and positive story, about the love between Kitty and Levin.

New comment by fhchl in "Hy 1.0 – Lisp dialect for Python"

fhchl — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 11:09:11 +0000

Not a Lisp, but also an interesting take on a functional programming language that transpiles to Python is Coconut (https://coconut-lang.org/).

I'd be seriously interested in hearing from people that have actually used any of these two and what their experience was.

New comment by fhchl in "Show HN: LeanRL: Fast PyTorch RL with Torch.compile and CUDA Graphs"

fhchl — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 04:59:31 +0000

Very cool! How does the optimized Pytoch code compare to the Jax implementation?

New comment by fhchl in "Plum: Multiple Dispatch in Python"

fhchl — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 12:29:53 +0000

This lookes well made and based on the great beartype. I wonder if there are packages that use this and if one could imagine a similarity interfunctioning ecosystem for Python as Julia seems to have.

Plum: Multiple Dispatch in Python

fhchl — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 12:26:33 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/beartype/plum

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37856237

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by fhchl in "Organic Maps"

fhchl — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 08:07:35 +0000

I highly recommend "mapy.cz", another free, ad free, offline map app. I used it for a longer hike in Slovenia this summer and was amazed that it included all of the hiking trails we encountered in the area.

We were hiking the Slovenian Mountain Trail. What a beauty!

New comment by fhchl in "Universal Summarizer"

fhchl — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 23:26:20 +0000

Tried to get it to summarize this comment page on hacker news, but the output seems to refer to another document.

https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum?url=https://news.ycombinator.co...

New comment by fhchl in "TeXmacs “The Jolly Writer” book is now available as pdf download"

fhchl — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 16:55:59 +0000

Any chance that the TeXmacs format could be supported by Pandoc?

New comment by fhchl in "Ask HN: Best book to learn C in 2022?"

fhchl — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 14:22:51 +0000

I recommend "Modern C" by Jens Gusted.

https://www.manning.com/books/modern-c

The C language can be quite tricky to navigate (at least to me) and this book helped me a lot to understand writing idiomatic code.

New comment by fhchl in "School vs. Wikipedia"

fhchl — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 13:27:07 +0000

I feel it is important to teach kids not only to be critical of online content but also give them recommendations/hints/alternatives on where to find good sources of information. Finding content online is surely a good skill but supplying a catalogue of good sources via a mentor / teacher kick-starts people to understand what actual reliable content is.

For example, I recommend anyone interested in math subjects to (also) check the Princeton companions to (applied) math.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691150390/th...

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691118802/th...

New comment by fhchl in "Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret?"

fhchl — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 05:35:59 +0000

Learning Latin in school for 8 years instead of a romanic language that is actually spoken and actually useful like frensh or Spanish.

I think there is absolutely no reason to teach kids dead languages. If they are really interested, they can do so at university later on.

New comment by fhchl in "Show HN: HiFiScan, a Python app to optimize your loudspeakers"

fhchl — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 16:59:02 +0000

This is a common psycoacoustic effect and probably not due to the loudspeakers or the room acoustics (which are linear): the (perceived) loudness of a tone is frequency and level dependent [1]. This makes sounds more bassy at large sound pressure levels.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-loudness_contour

Geometrical Anatomy of Theoretical Physics

fhchl — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 20:50:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPH7f_7ZlzxTi6kS4vCmv4ZKm9u8g5yic