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New comment by hum3hum3 in "A desktop made for one"

hum3hum3 — Mon, 04 May 2026 04:28:52 +0000

I was inspired by Nicklaus Wirth when he wrote his own language opearting system and CPU. LLM allow many more to do this like you so am seriously impressed. It is also fun.

New comment by hum3hum3 in "Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people"

hum3hum3 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:42:16 +0000

I have done this with the help of Claude. codeberge first, using static host for my pages and a Hetzner woodpeckr for a tiny amount of testing. working well so far.

New comment by hum3hum3 in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

hum3hum3 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 13:18:54 +0000

Me too - I am 65 and coding all hours. At least half the time on tooling to encode the way I want to do things. I have ideas and implement them. I think it is fun as you make more progress. I do think it is a temporary phase and not sure if the next one will be as much fun or once I have drained the accumulated ideas that would be nice to do someday.

I feel selfish in that I am towards the end of my career rather than right at the start.

New comment by hum3hum3 in "Lectures in London"

hum3hum3 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 23:11:07 +0000

My son wrote this (no AI), he got the lectures tab (written by the latest Codex 5.3 rampant for 2 1/2 hours) with Codex 5.3 of which ca 70% is written by itself. It feels like the singularity is now. It is remarkable what you can get done.

Lectures in London

hum3hum3 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 23:11:07 +0000

Article URL: https://taydrummond.com/lectures_in_london

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46906748

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by hum3hum3 in "The Synology End Game"

hum3hum3 — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 08:38:40 +0000

It is sad. I liked my Ds with ecc. It has been great but it complains about the non synology memory. So it sounds like it will be my last after about 20 years

New comment by hum3hum3 in "My Self-Hosting Setup"

hum3hum3 — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 11:29:10 +0000

I am thinking about replacing my Synology BUT I have had three and now ECC over the last 20 years and they have done their job faullessly. There are stupid things now like complaining about non Synology ram modules.

New comment by hum3hum3 in "My Self-Hosting Setup"

hum3hum3 — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 11:15:18 +0000

Me too. It works really well now that I have a silent version with SSD and passive heat sink. This avoids my son turning it off because the fan noise annoys him. I am thinking about adding kubernetes for failure resilience but that is a work in progress.

I am happy to start digging into Authelia.

Are you using the gokrazy router as well?

New comment by hum3hum3 in "The Influence of Japanese Archaeology on the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild"

hum3hum3 — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 07:19:30 +0000

I know virtually nothing about gaming culture. But eons ago was interested in Japanese pottery. My understanding then was the start of Japanese culture in 300 ad with importation of styles and language from Korea. I have no memory of the Jomon period. But now that long stable period snd uniquely Japanese culture from the Jomon period seems a vital strand of Japanese culture. Do the article is interesting to bring that to life in a gaming context.

New comment by hum3hum3 in "How I write code using Cursor"

hum3hum3 — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 06:54:01 +0000

OK I have been writing code for 50 years but can only use cursor for home use. From my experience, I echo the authors comments. You do have to be careful with larger suggestions that it makes sense but the syntax will be right. It is just faster.

New comment by hum3hum3 in "Show HN: Numscript, a declarative language to model financial transactions"

hum3hum3 — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 07:49:16 +0000

You should never use floats for money. In python Decimal works well. TigerBeatle uses 128 bit accounts and amounts which I thought was interesting although more than needed gor many cases.

New comment by hum3hum3 in "Show HN: Numscript, a declarative language to model financial transactions"

hum3hum3 — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 07:47:55 +0000

You might like https://martin.kleppmann.com/2011/03/07/accounting-for-compu... which shows it as a directed graph.

New comment by hum3hum3 in "FastHTML – Modern web applications in pure Python"

hum3hum3 — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 07:27:36 +0000

I have used and liked FastHTML although I was going in a different direction (not very modern and no javascript) https://github.com/drummonds/lofigui. It works well.

New comment by hum3hum3 in "Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to count"

hum3hum3 — Fri, 17 May 2024 08:03:27 +0000

The counting/estimstion technique is rather like a floating point number. An integer exponent k and a mantissa of a population.

New comment by hum3hum3 in "When will computer hardware match the human brain? (1998)"

hum3hum3 — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 06:14:56 +0000

I think the power efficiency is very relaxed as you just need to consider the value of a single performance digital brain that exceeds human level.

New comment by hum3hum3 in "Building a Scalable Accounting Ledger"

hum3hum3 — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 14:00:31 +0000

1 for a zero amount more realistically commonly 2. End of year may have one for each account do many.

New comment by hum3hum3 in "Building a Scalable Accounting Ledger"

hum3hum3 — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 09:46:28 +0000

I think the transactions table is misnamed. This is a table of posting legs. Which all must balance for a single transaction. I don't think you should get hung up on +ve-ve versus cr and Dr. When double entry was formalised negative numbers were not common and then thought errant. It is only in the eighteenth century it became normal. I enjoyed the entry. Note that you might you use different minimum fractions eg we use 0.00001p as a discrete value.

New comment by hum3hum3 in "Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative"

hum3hum3 — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 09:15:17 +0000

I have just been working with photoprism. Ente looks nice but going to stay with photoprism as I like the go binary and can build features I want.

New comment by hum3hum3 in "The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge"

hum3hum3 — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 08:47:04 +0000

Amazing dedication and I did read to the end.

New comment by hum3hum3 in "Cardinal/WASM: In-Browser Modular Synth Based on VCV Rack"

hum3hum3 — Tue, 02 May 2023 23:26:31 +0000

That was really neat and impressive in Wasm