Hacker News: harph

New comment by harph in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

harph — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:03:10 +0000

Gemini does turn it into a joke, I was impressed.

New comment by harph in "Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle"

harph — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 11:05:15 +0000

Because sometimes skipping is not enough: https://mrwint.github.io/winter/writeup/writeup.html

New comment by harph in "Rendering a game in real time with AI"

harph — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:03:31 +0000

It seems it's because OP is generating the whole screen every frame / every move. Of course that will give inconsistent results.

I wonder if this approach would work better:

1. generate the whole screen once

2. on update, create a mask for all changed elements of the underlying data

3. do an inpainting pass with this mask, with regional prompting to specify which parts have changed how

4. when moving the camera, do outpainting

This might not be possible with cloud based solutions, but I can see it being possible locally.

New comment by harph in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

harph — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 07:36:38 +0000

So something that is not a thing yet, and is being actively campaigned against?

New comment by harph in "Investigating corrupt Winamp skins"

harph — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 13:14:39 +0000

This prompted me to check how long ago I was 13 years old.

It was 26 years ago.

Are we old yet?

New comment by harph in "OpenTTD"

harph — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 08:52:11 +0000

I remember getting this bug on accident when I was a kid. I was building a tunnel, but clicked the wrong tile. It popped up a huuuge sum of money and I got scared that I messed up and I'll go bankrupt, only to realize I now had 2B dollars...

New comment by harph in "You Paid $1k for an iPhone, but Apple Still Controls It"

harph — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 16:16:02 +0000

> using iPhones for 20+ years

You probably meant Apple devices in general? The iPhone is not yet 20 years old.

New comment by harph in "Write more "useless" software"

harph — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 18:07:14 +0000

Skateboarding taught me the power of perserverance, and muscle memory. That and Quake 3: Defrag trickjumping.

New comment by harph in "Ollama for Linux – Run LLMs on Linux with GPU Acceleration"

harph — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 19:24:36 +0000

Llama2 was not released with 30B parameters, or was it?

New comment by harph in "NASA’s Webb finds carbon source on surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa"

harph — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 23:08:21 +0000

There's also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enceladus so it's not just one random moon.

New comment by harph in "Chess is booming among teens"

harph — Mon, 01 May 2023 16:30:23 +0000

Is watching a twitch stream a social activity? I guess you can participate in the chat, but we know what twitch chat looks like...

New comment by harph in "Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news"

harph — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 12:22:24 +0000

I've been playing games on Linux daily for years now (even AAA games like Cyberpunk 2077) and this is why I am still holding out on VR. I just don't want to be forced to go back to Windows just to play the games I want to play.

I'm waiting for Valve to maybe make a successor to Index with proper Linux support, but I'm not holding my breath.

New comment by harph in "Instagram Is Disabling Its NFT Features"

harph — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 10:35:49 +0000

> finite digital assets

That's a nice oxymoron you have there. Digital assets are not "finite" or scarce, that's their biggest strength: that they can be copied and shared infinitely. I know that some people hate that, and would love to change it (see DRM). But to hell with that.

New comment by harph in "Ask HN: Any solo game developers here?"

harph — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 17:21:16 +0000

On the contrary, I would recommend everyone to try and make a game engine. Through my teens and university years I tried many types (3D, 2D, visual novel...) and it's an awesome learning experience. Of course, for a real project that you want to actually finish, that's a different story

New comment by harph in "Meta Quest Pro"

harph — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 22:25:55 +0000

Does that mean I don't need to create an account if I want to use the headset only with OpenVR stuff?

New comment by harph in "Pedal Me bans staff riders from wearing helmets for safety reasons"

harph — Sun, 22 May 2022 17:49:33 +0000

Protective gear was always uncool in street skateboarding. Vert (Tony Hawk's main discipline) was the exception. From what I understand it's about being counterculture, punk etc. Today even bowl riders mostly don't wear helmets or pads, and crashing in a concrete bowl is arguably even worse than on a wooden ramp.

New comment by harph in "Ask HN: How many computers you got?"

harph — Tue, 10 May 2022 16:28:20 +0000

1 Work + play desktop PC

1 Laptop

1 HTPC under the TV

All running Linux, fwiw

New comment by harph in "Porting Zelda Classic to the web"

harph — Tue, 03 May 2022 19:47:32 +0000

I did some scripts for a NWN RP persistent world back when I was a teenager. Great memories

New comment by harph in "Marriage and luxury beliefs at the United Nations"

harph — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 08:55:44 +0000

When my wife was staying home with our son until he was 3yo, I got to write that into my tax returns and I got a tax bonus. A not working wife + a child = I didn't pay any tax and even got some money back from the government.

I'm not sure how it would work if we were not married. Would probably involve some more bureaucracy.

An of course, as you say, it's easier to handle child bureaucracy when married.

New comment by harph in "uBlock Origin 1.41"

harph — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 19:07:52 +0000

First time I heard about this - I set up uBlock on my mom's Firefox years ago, and it's still there...