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New comment by jankhg in "A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps"

jankhg — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:30:22 +0000

Wow, I like the idea and how this was used as a photography arts project. Also, I think this idea could be transferred to other materials, such as iron, or ice.

New comment by jankhg in "A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps"

jankhg — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:05:23 +0000

This reminds me of this beautifully written article about the font Gorton.

https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201953

New comment by jankhg in "Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System"

jankhg — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:35:42 +0000

Apart from GSD and superpowers, there's another system, called PAUL [1]. It apparently requires fewer tokens compared to GSD, as it does not use subagents, but keeps all in one session. A detailed comparison with GSD is part of the repo [2].

[1] https://github.com/ChristopherKahler/paul

[2] https://github.com/ChristopherKahler/paul/blob/main/PAUL-VS-...

New comment by jankhg in "The Mathematics of Tuning Systems"

jankhg — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:01:29 +0000

There is actually an interesting mathematical method for piano tuning that takes harmonics into account [1]. The core idea is to minimize the integral over the logarithm of the sum of all spectra. This basically favors spectra that are smeared out less. Instead of the logarithm, one could also use another sublinear function, such as the square root, but I guess it just makes for a better story to call it „piano entropy tuner“. The paper also shows a nice plot about the „stretched tuning“ that you mentioned.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.5101