Hacker News: ivolimmen

New comment by ivolimmen in "HTML-in-Canvas Demos"

ivolimmen — Wed, 20 May 2026 05:59:37 +0000

You broke the internet!

New comment by ivolimmen in "Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism"

ivolimmen — Wed, 20 May 2026 05:00:31 +0000

Exactly the same for me. I am very used to using my right hand so most thing I can do with both hands. When I played baseball (Even though I am Dutch) I could swing with my left and my right. I do catch with left though.

Weird thing is; lefties are rare. I have a very old group of friend that I know since I was 15. We are all lefties and one friend even married a left handed woman so the lefties are in the majority.

New comment by ivolimmen in "Google changes its search box"

ivolimmen — Wed, 20 May 2026 04:51:43 +0000

Even more reasons to avoid using Google. I have been a DuckDuckGo user for a few years now.

New comment by ivolimmen in "Show HN: Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry"

ivolimmen — Tue, 19 May 2026 11:48:47 +0000

Wow this is a time killer... ended up here: https://superspl.at/scene/ff1d0393 beautiful!

New comment by ivolimmen in "Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users"

ivolimmen — Tue, 19 May 2026 11:43:15 +0000

Let's not start on GIT then...

New comment by ivolimmen in "Click (2016)"

ivolimmen — Tue, 19 May 2026 10:49:32 +0000

I can clearly hear a fellow countryman. There is something very distinctive when Dutch people speak English. Very nice website. Very informative.

New comment by ivolimmen in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

ivolimmen — Tue, 19 May 2026 04:46:37 +0000

Very nice. Coincidentally I was doing the same. I tried multiple alternatives to Obsidian and they where all not it. I also wrote my own but opted for a website version that I host on a PINE64. Also written in Go; it's my first ever product written in Go.

New comment by ivolimmen in "Points are a weird and inconsistent unit of measure"

ivolimmen — Sun, 17 May 2026 07:00:23 +0000

This is why Microsoft access had twips

New comment by ivolimmen in "Starship V3"

ivolimmen — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:45:39 +0000

I don't think showing a flag is a sign of pride, and as I watch the news it is currently a very misplaced pride in America.

New comment by ivolimmen in "Starship V3"

ivolimmen — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:02:33 +0000

Saw some photo's and the first thing that stands out: the American flag. What's up with that? If you see a product launch in Europe there will be no flag in the photo's (non that I ever saw).

New comment by ivolimmen in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

ivolimmen — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:17:40 +0000

Writing a poc requires speed in development and you want it to be thrown away when the poc is done. So I say we should all do poc's in BASIC. /s

New comment by ivolimmen in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

ivolimmen — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:29:34 +0000

So basically they are saying: do not code here because we are letting machines code... nice.

New comment by ivolimmen in "Boriel BASIC"

ivolimmen — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:24:46 +0000

Even though the language is 'horrid' I have a weird attraction to it. I have been programming in various BASIC languages for more than 20 years. The last years I maintained a self developed application for my Mom in Visual Basic. Somehow I got things done in that language.

New comment by ivolimmen in "Show HN: Hallucinopedia"

ivolimmen — Thu, 07 May 2026 10:39:54 +0000

Great resource: https://halupedia.com/013-hitlerwasrighthitlerwasrighthitler...

Took me 5 clicks to see it go bad

New comment by ivolimmen in "Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC"

ivolimmen — Thu, 07 May 2026 05:45:30 +0000

HELP is not a correct argument to SEEK. You must not have a lot of BASIC experience.

New comment by ivolimmen in "Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy"

ivolimmen — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:32:48 +0000

So now some spammer/scammer can just instruct some AI to build the next scam and/spam site and fully automated. Just great.

New comment by ivolimmen in "I completed 100 Days of Java over 5 years and mapped the journey as a graph"

ivolimmen — Wed, 06 May 2026 06:40:27 +0000

As a Java Developer that has been coding since Java 1.2.2; it depends on the quirks :D

To name 2:

https://devdocs.io/openjdk~21/java.base/java/util/gregorianc...

https://devdocs.io/openjdk~21/java.base/java/net/url#equals(...

New comment by ivolimmen in "Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused"

ivolimmen — Tue, 05 May 2026 05:29:24 +0000

We have an automated task that runs the OWASP plugin (Maven on Java stack) that automatically creates a JIRA issue if there is any issue found. So I pickup the JIRA ticket and look at the CVE. First things first I __READ__ the actual CVE. Score: 7, ok that is bad Hacker can do ANYTHING by using the tmp file on THE ACTUAL MACHINE ... drag to cancel

New comment by ivolimmen in "I am worried about Bun"

ivolimmen — Tue, 05 May 2026 04:28:28 +0000

I am asuming you are European as I (I live in the Netherlands) have not seen any outage of GitHub as well...

New comment by ivolimmen in "Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust"

ivolimmen — Tue, 05 May 2026 04:19:16 +0000

I am not a fan of AI but my limited experience with running local small LLM's did show me that rewriting some scripts into a different language worked really well. So my guess is this will just turn out fine.