Hacker News: fisian

New comment by fisian in "Dcmake: A new CMake debugger UI"

fisian — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 04:36:48 +0000

I didn't know CMake introduced this debug adapter. This would have been very useful to me at some occasions.

Instead, I used printf debugging (aka `message(FATAL_ERROR )` debugging in CMake).

With this debug adapter, there also seem to be integrations in VSCode and CLion. I will have to try them out soon.

New comment by fisian in "Can you instruct a robot to make a PBJ sandwich?"

fisian — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 09:09:37 +0000

I think this is a great introduction to logical thinking and coding. The overcooked scripting layer looks awesome and very polished. Reminds me a bit of Scratch (the programming language). Are you going to make it available to others?

There are also video games based on this concept, e.g. Bots are Dumb. So maybe your scripting layer it could even become its own commercial game.

New comment by fisian in "Buckle Up for Bumpier Skies"

fisian — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:48:51 +0000

For the part which talks about turbulence damping, this page illustrates how this looks like on a smaller plane: https://turbulence-solutions.aero/technology/

(Not affiliated, just saw their demo once.)

New comment by fisian in "Are two heads better than one?"

fisian — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:52:18 +0000

This principle is also highly relevant in safety critical systems for using redundant sensors. Just adding a second sensor is often not enough. Because if they disagree, which one do you trust.

One example of this is in airplanes.

Austria's top court rules Meta's ad model illegal

fisian — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:03:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/austrias-top-court-rules-metas-ad-model-illegal-orders-overhaul-user-data-2025-12-18/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46326610

Points: 9

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New comment by fisian in "Thunderbird Pro November 2025 Update"

fisian — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 09:43:22 +0000

Looking forward to the early bird launch. JMAP support from an email provider (other than fastmail) is great. Additionally, this seems like a good way to fund thunderbird apart from donations, while supporting open source email.

New comment by fisian in "Text case changes the size of QR codes"

fisian — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 14:14:05 +0000

Another fun thing are these stable diffusion/controlnet combinations which create QR codes that at the same are AI generated art. e.g. qrdiffusion or qrbtf

New comment by fisian in "State of Embedded: Q4 2025 Overview"

fisian — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:27:06 +0000

Does a Banana Pi BPi-M5 fit your specs? The banana pis have pretty good networking options.

New comment by fisian in "Nvidia DGX Spark: great hardware, early days for the ecosystem"

fisian — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 05:18:44 +0000

The reported 119GB vs. 128GB according to spec is because 128GB (1e9 bytes) equals 119GiB (2^30 bytes).

Trackio: A Lightweight Experiment Tracking Library from Hugging Face

fisian — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 11:21:54 +0000

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/blog/trackio

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45461590

Points: 1

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New comment by fisian in "Anticheat Update Tracking"

fisian — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 12:32:05 +0000

off topic: What's the font this website uses for the code? The font ligatures seem nice, but I also would have to get used to reading code like that.

New comment by fisian in "Diffusion models explained simply"

fisian — Mon, 19 May 2025 19:39:05 +0000

I found this course very helpful if you're interested in a bit of math (but all very well explained): https://diffusion.csail.mit.edu/

It is short, with good lecture notes and has hands on examples that are very approachable (with solutions available if you get stuck).

New comment by fisian in "SSH Keys Don't Scale. SSH Certificates Do"

fisian — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 14:23:05 +0000

It's just an ad for their SSH cert service...

I feel like for SSH certs to expand beyond large companies, there's the need for an open-source service which does the issuing of short-lived certs after a user authenticates. I know smallstep, but their offer feels open-core/freemium.

New comment by fisian in "KOReader: Open-Source eBook Reader"

fisian — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 05:21:42 +0000

Can anyone recommend a site for buying DRM free books so I can read it with KOReader?

New comment by fisian in "France rejects backdoor mandate"

fisian — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 16:54:04 +0000

Denying math has a tradition among politicians: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Malcolm_Turnbull

New comment by fisian in "There Was a Texas Lottery Arbitrage"

fisian — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 04:25:04 +0000

Mathematically, what you need is the binomial coefficient ("n choose k"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_coefficient

New comment by fisian in "DivestOS ROM shuts after ten years"

fisian — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 20:55:13 +0000

GrapheneOS on a Pixel is probably the most polished and secure experience. I have installed it (and enabled sandboxed Google services) on my mom's phone (she's pretty non-technical) and she had no bigger problems in the last years.

New comment by fisian in "The number pi has an evil twin"

fisian — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 07:39:05 +0000

There are the anti prime numbers (also called highly composite numbers).

New comment by fisian in "The number pi has an evil twin"

fisian — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 06:54:28 +0000

Yes, the Lissajous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lissajous_curve which also can be turned vertical (to look like an 8 instead of ∞).

3D Rotation Design

fisian — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 09:07:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/rotation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42058355

Points: 147

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