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New comment by jweather in "Show HN: A game where you build a GPU"

jweather — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:22:55 +0000

Pretty fun, needs some improvements:

- wire routing makes most circuits write-only. There's no way to follow the wires once a circuit is completed, it's easier to delete them all and start over.

- some of the later levels seem incomplete, at least as far as test cases: 2.26 Row Buffer you don't actually have to buffer the row to meet the requirements. 2.34 can be completed with a single VDD symbol. 2.37 and 2.38 I expected to have access to components that I had completed previously, but then it turned out neither of them have complete tests so they can be cheesed as well.

- no GPU?

New comment by jweather in "Typing and Keyboards"

jweather — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:58:34 +0000

I have a similar sized macropad that I use extensively with AutoHotKey for application-specific shortcuts like clicking on buttons that don't have a keyboard shortcut, or scrolling two panes of a window simultaneously. All things that I could bind a key combo to, but I like having a dedicated button for.

New comment by jweather in "Typing and Keyboards"

jweather — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:54:44 +0000

parens are third and fourth finger

=+ is my palm (weird keyboard I know)

[]{} I used a modifier key to put them on O and P directly below () (columnar keyboard)

-_ and \| are actually pinky

I don't feel like any particular finger is overloaded. Dvorak helps a lot with that IMHO.

New comment by jweather in "My lobster lost $450k this weekend"

jweather — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:38:09 +0000

That $450k was actually worth $40k when it was cashed out. Why are you calling it $450k?

New comment by jweather in "Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations"

jweather — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:34:01 +0000

Paste the original blog post into ChatGPT asking it to summarize or provide suggestions. Unintentionally copy and paste quotes from the ChatGPT output rather than the original blog post.

New comment by jweather in "OpenClaw is changing my life"

jweather — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 04:16:22 +0000

For the better? For the better, right?

New comment by jweather in "How to Foster Psychological Safety When AI Erodes Trust on Your Team"

jweather — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:38:35 +0000

Man, this makes me feel old. Are people really having to work with "AI Team Members"? Trust ambiguity seems like a complicated way to say "unreliable".

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

jweather — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:26:47 +0000

In my small corner of technology (AV) I regularly use three products with physical USB license keys: Crestron VC-4, Scala Digital Signage, and Dataton Watchout. Two of them have a "virtual license key" option that costs extra, intended for use with a VM. I wish they were more rare...

New comment by jweather in "EmuDevz: A game about developing emulators"

jweather — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 01:45:35 +0000

Unexpected side benefit: this is teaching more about the ES6 module and class stuff that I haven't gotten around to using up on. Will be very useful on my next large-scale JS project.

New comment by jweather in "EmuDevz: A game about developing emulators"

jweather — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:51:45 +0000

Aha, thank you for that. I don't see an "unpin" though, just close. Sometimes I need to refer back to the chat messages as well. I know, now I'm just being picky.

New comment by jweather in "EmuDevz: A game about developing emulators"

jweather — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:21:39 +0000

This is so cool! Having a ton of fun. Only place I got stuck for a while is on instructions adding extra cycles - didn't see the note at the bottom of instructions.md. Did I miss a way to open documentation in the left pane? I keep taking screenshots of the docs that I can view on another monitor while I'm coding.

New comment by jweather in "Show HN: A 45x45 Connections Puzzle To Commemorate 2025=45*45"

jweather — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:40:04 +0000

It appears to save to browser-local storage. Mine is still there after having the tab closed for at least 24 hours.

New comment by jweather in "Show HN: A 45x45 Connections Puzzle To Commemorate 2025=45*45"

jweather — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 17:35:29 +0000

So... got any more of these?

New comment by jweather in "Show HN: A 45x45 Connections Puzzle To Commemorate 2025=45*45"

jweather — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 20:39:36 +0000

I think the click logic may be a little twitchy. My trackball button worked okay, but my footpedal button frequently did what you describe here - possibly due to a longer-duration button press?

And yes, that would be helpful, but would remove part of the memory challenge. Maybe an optional feature?

New comment by jweather in "Show HN: A 45x45 Connections Puzzle To Commemorate 2025=45*45"

jweather — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 20:37:44 +0000

Very challenging and fun. Score 1695 and mistakes 315 when I gave up and started Googling things. Did not do so well on (rot13)Nzrevpna ICf, pnegbbavfgf, be FAY pnfg zrzoref. Pbzcyrgryl zvffrq gur ncbpelcuny obbxf bs gur Ovoyr nf jryy. Gung jnf zrna!

New comment by jweather in "Programming languages used for music"

jweather — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 04:15:44 +0000

Sonic Pi is by far the most accessible way to play with these tools. It's designed to teach music and coding to kids and has great starter tutorials, and a ton of depth as well. Check it out!

New comment by jweather in "Toucan Wireless Split Keyboard with Touchpad"

jweather — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:02:33 +0000

Mode feedback is the only thing I can think of, especially when you're getting used to the keyboard and/or have mode toggles set up. I don't have much use for my keyboard screens personally. Cool place to put a logo I guess.

New comment by jweather in "Hacking the World Poker Tour: Inside ClubWPT Gold's Back Office"

jweather — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:07:02 +0000

Not familiar with that one, but two that come with Kali use search engines to locate subdomains. Your DNS server would have to be pretty misconfigured to allow zone transfers to the general public, which would be the only way to discover a truly "unlisted" subdomain.

New comment by jweather in "Thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards and the ZSA Moonlander"

jweather — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:06:01 +0000

My daily driver is an Allium58 not too different from the Moonlander. I love having modifier keys to set up macro functions and layers. My favorites from an ergonomics standpoint are Mod1+WASD for arrow keys (Q=home, E=end), Mod1+Capslock for double-click, and Mod1+Tab for middle click (my trackball doesn't have one). It didn't take too long to get to a faster WPM than I had on my previous 101-key mechanical, and I can go back to normal keyboards when I have to.

New comment by jweather in "I built ChatGPT with Minecraft redstone [video]"

jweather — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 13:50:01 +0000

It would take just over 9 years for a response at the normal redstone tick rate... sounds about right.