Hacker News: johanvts

New comment by johanvts in "The Emacsification of Software"

johanvts — Thu, 14 May 2026 06:54:52 +0000

Music apps especially went downhill, spotify and tidal etc need to offer apis so we can integrate several sources in one app. They used to offer much more. I was able to import my library into spotify once (thoigh it could only hold 10k item back then). I want all my music in one place, not 4 apps

New comment by johanvts in "The Emacsification of Software"

johanvts — Thu, 14 May 2026 06:45:09 +0000

The problem is the dependencies, getting hunspell installed and finding the dictionary files for example. I normally only get a new computer every few years and each time stuff like that is a new pain. And dont even start with treesitter, i cant compile anything on windows and always end up using prebuild dlls.

New comment by johanvts in "A construction of the Hat tilings by a Markov partition"

johanvts — Sun, 10 May 2026 06:52:47 +0000

Is there a paper or any explanation of what’s shown? Is it better than the construction given in the original paper somehow?

New comment by johanvts in "Flipdiscs"

johanvts — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 05:00:02 +0000

Can someone explain the “Fontainebleau art deco style”? I have been to Fountainbleau and I remember it as much older renaissance style architecture and geometric/baroque gardens.

New comment by johanvts in "3.4M Solar Panels"

johanvts — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:36:06 +0000

It’s no less valuable because he got it cheap.

New comment by johanvts in "10 years ago, someone wrote a test for Servo that included an expiry in 2026"

johanvts — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:02:29 +0000

That introduces dependency of a clock which might be undesirable, just had a similar problem where i also went for hardcoding for that reason.

New comment by johanvts in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

johanvts — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:33:30 +0000

Interesting thought, I looked it up out of curiosity and fund 155w max (but realistically more like 80w sustained) for the mac under load, and just around 20watts for the brain, surprisingly almost constant whether “under load” or not.

New comment by johanvts in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

johanvts — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:21:32 +0000

I think it’s difficult to draw a bike exactly because you remember how it works rather than how it looks, so you worry about placing all the functional parts and get the overall composition wrong. Similar to drawing faces, without training, people will consistently dedicate too much area to the lower part of the face and draw some kind of neanderthal with no forehead.

New comment by johanvts in "Backpacks got worse on purpose"

johanvts — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:58:59 +0000

I think Google has turned to garbage and especially for product reviews there is a flood of affiliate marketing grifters in every category. It takes effort and sometimes payment to find good reviews these days.

New comment by johanvts in "The AI School Bus Camera Company Blanketing America in Tickets"

johanvts — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:58:25 +0000

And with SUVs, great combination.

New comment by johanvts in "The AI School Bus Camera Company Blanketing America in Tickets"

johanvts — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:53:49 +0000

AI just means software at this point.

New comment by johanvts in "Simplest Hash Functions"

johanvts — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:20:46 +0000

This is a excellent article for anyone looking for some more in-depth analysis of tabulation based hashing methods: https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.01523

New comment by johanvts in "A complete GPT language model in ~600 lines of C#, zero dependencies"

johanvts — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:00:50 +0000

I think the app.cs approach is mainly for single file apps/scripts. While this is small there are two projects and several files so a solution + project files seems totally standard.

New comment by johanvts in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

johanvts — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:21:52 +0000

https://theonion.com/humanity-still-producing-new-art-as-tho...

New comment by johanvts in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

johanvts — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:05:25 +0000

I think both missiles and drones can launch from trucks.

New comment by johanvts in "Show HN: I turned a sketch into a 3D-print pegboard for my kid with an AI agent"

johanvts — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 05:21:14 +0000

Thank you so much, hope I can find a way to get this done!

New comment by johanvts in "Show HN: I turned a sketch into a 3D-print pegboard for my kid with an AI agent"

johanvts — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:08:28 +0000

They are great sets. I would worry there would be lots of small splinters coming from the holes with plywood, at least with pine it looks like it would be an issue. Do you use pine or poplar or birch or bamboo or something else? Thanks.

New comment by johanvts in "Show HN: I turned a sketch into a 3D-print pegboard for my kid with an AI agent"

johanvts — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:26:39 +0000

This looks like a great project for laser cutting, but I'm actually more interested in the peg-board itself. I would love to have a big one for the kids room that was compatible with the BRIO construction sets.

New comment by johanvts in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

johanvts — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:51:23 +0000

I don’t care if my shooter game “community” is toxic. I don’t have any interaction with the “community” other than to try and virtually kill its members. I wish my chess app had anti-cheat, there are just some people who will cheat and any game is more fun if they can be prevented from playing.

New comment by johanvts in "Show HN: Email.md – Markdown to responsive, email-safe HTML"

johanvts — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 05:58:29 +0000

Emacs ofc :) seriously it should not be too much work although org-mode syntax would be even easier, there is a markdown mode here: https://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/ The email part is not something i have done myself but it has been a feature for a very long time and you can find plenty of guides online.