Hacker News: kelsolaar

New comment by kelsolaar in "Dark Castle"

kelsolaar — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:55:03 +0000

The download links are all dead.

New comment by kelsolaar in "DRAM has a design flaw from 1966. I bypassed it [video]"

kelsolaar — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:05:28 +0000

The video could be a shorter, some of the goofiness might not please the most pressed people but that is also what makes it fresh and stand out.

New comment by kelsolaar in "Virtual Mars Traverse: Every inch of Curiosity rover's path since 2012 landing"

kelsolaar — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:41:21 +0000

I came to say exactly this, keyboard navigation please and automatic playback!

New comment by kelsolaar in "Show HN: Modo – I built an open-source alternative to Kiro, Cursor, and Windsurf"

kelsolaar — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:26:55 +0000

Modo was also really good, ahead of its time in many respects. Excellent UX, the material system was quite good, especially for rapid prototyping.

New comment by kelsolaar in "Show HN: Modo – I built an open-source alternative to Kiro, Cursor, and Windsurf"

kelsolaar — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:50:40 +0000

Modo was a DCC software: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modo_(software)

New comment by kelsolaar in "Rendering the Visible Spectrum"

kelsolaar — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:50:59 +0000

If you are interested in this topic, we have a fully feature colour science Python package that can of course render the visible spectrum: https://github.com/colour-science/colour?tab=readme-ov-file#...

New comment by kelsolaar in "Show HN: Nogic – VS Code extension that visualizes your codebase as a graph"

kelsolaar — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 02:25:10 +0000

Quite enjoying the idea as I have been looking for something like this for a while but it is reallllllly slow for our medium sized codebase, I have like 2 or 3 fps on my M1: https://github.com/colour-science/colour/tree/develop/colour

New comment by kelsolaar in "Top Open Source Authorization Libraries (2024)"

kelsolaar — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 08:47:16 +0000

> In this article, you will learn top 6 open source authorization libraries ant <-- their key factors that you should consider when choosing an authorization library.

Typo on first sentence.

New comment by kelsolaar in "Show HN: Zenflow – orchestrate coding agents without "you're right" loops"

kelsolaar — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 02:42:53 +0000

The app is really good, gave it a quick spin earlier, quite like it!

Colour 0.4.7 has been released

kelsolaar — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 10:08:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.colour-science.org/posts/colour-047-is-available/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46172110

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kelsolaar in "A year without caffeine (2013)"

kelsolaar — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 20:12:38 +0000

I used to not drink coffee, joined the high-end VFX industry, started to drink a lot, e.g., 3 big dark mugs at work each day. We had top-of-the-line espresso machines and great coffee so it was easy. Something I noticed is that on weekends, I had systematically huge migraines, those were soothed by drinking more coffee...

The issue is that caffeine has a vaso-constricting effect on blood vessels [1], which then, when they re-expand by lack of caffeine creates the migraines.

One day, I decided to stop, I had an horrible week, constant migraines, it eventually stopped and I never really had coffee since then. Only 2 times during conditions where I needed which added the benefit that the caffeine had a really strong effect then.

I'm certainly missing the taste and ritual, so I replaced coffee with green tea, not as good but no migraines!

1. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2748160/

New comment by kelsolaar in "Shaders: How to draw high fidelity graphics with just x and y coordinates"

kelsolaar — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 19:50:41 +0000

Beautiful website!

New comment by kelsolaar in "Dark Mode Sucks"

kelsolaar — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 18:55:07 +0000

It absolutely depends on what you do, for any work involving computer imagery, a dark surround, i.e., dark UI, around the area of interest, e.g., 3D Viewport, 2D Canvas is a must so that to not bias the work. This one of the main reason why Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, Autodesk Maya, Blender, The Foundry Nuke, Autodesk Flame, Baselight Filmlight, etc... all have dark themed UI.

New comment by kelsolaar in "Blender 5.0"

kelsolaar — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 08:02:51 +0000

ACES 1.x was quite old and released at a time where HDR displays were pretty much non-existent. ACES 2.x is not perfect but trying to provide display rendering transforms that hit contradictory requirements is really hard, e.g., need to have a really nice rolloff and desaturation towards white whilst being able to reach corners of the gamut.

New comment by kelsolaar in "LED types by color, brightness, and chemistry (2021)"

kelsolaar — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 09:19:55 +0000

sRGB is not wide gamut enough to represent most of the LEDs, you would need a Wide Gamut display and use a space like ITU-R BT.2020.

New comment by kelsolaar in "Grok 4 Fast now has 2M context window"

kelsolaar — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 05:03:05 +0000

As you point out, Sam Altman is not exactly an altar boy: https://fastcompany.co.za/business/2025-11-07-sam-altmans-tr...

New comment by kelsolaar in "Multi-Core by Default"

kelsolaar — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 09:18:54 +0000

Ryan is the author of the RAD Debugger: https://github.com/EpicGamesExt/raddebugger

New comment by kelsolaar in "ACP Brings JetBrains on Board"

kelsolaar — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 08:31:38 +0000

Why not using the best of both worlds?

New comment by kelsolaar in "Conare: Ship More with Context Management"

kelsolaar — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 09:48:26 +0000

Related: https://repoprompt.com

Conare: Ship More with Context Management

kelsolaar — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 09:37:30 +0000

Article URL: https://conare.ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45480241

Points: 1

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