Hacker News: lancefisher

New comment by lancefisher in "The Burrows-Wheeler Transform"

lancefisher — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 23:02:08 +0000

This is a good article and a fun algorithm. Google made a great series of compression videos a while ago - albeit sometimes silly. For the Burrows-Wheeler one they interviewed Mike Burrows for some of the history. https://youtu.be/4WRANhDiSHM

New comment by lancefisher in ""Your" vs. "My" in user interfaces"

lancefisher — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:03:11 +0000

We’ve been talking about this for a while, but it’s always fun to revisit in the context of the latest advancements and trends. I always liked the conclusion that Dustin Curtis came to which is: if you can use “your” in the UX it acts like a conversation with the user. This is even more appropriate as UX is becoming literally conversational.

https://dcurt.is/yours-vs-mine

New comment by lancefisher in "How Monty Python and the Holy Grail became a comedy legend"

lancefisher — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 08:54:42 +0000

No it isn’t.

New comment by lancefisher in "Show HN: Benlink – Control Benshi Radios (e.g. BTech UV-Pro) with Python"

lancefisher — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 02:03:15 +0000

This is really cool! Thanks for making it. I'm going to try it out today with my UV-PRO. I'd be curious to learn how you go about reversing the protocol. That'd make a really interesting blog post.

New comment by lancefisher in "YouTube's New Hue"

lancefisher — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 07:06:27 +0000

And then “fat man” came out and that’s all I ever thought of when I saw the logo. https://www.suckatlife.com/pepsiLogoBlowatlife.html

New comment by lancefisher in "GT730 Purse with Fan"

lancefisher — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 14:22:54 +0000

Looks more like a clutch to me. The domain is available. It’s not to late to change names.

New comment by lancefisher in "Building Lego Machines to Destroy Tall Lego Towers"

lancefisher — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 10:34:14 +0000

Akiyuki makes infrequent videos, but beautiful LEGO machines.

https://youtube.com/@akiyuky

New comment by lancefisher in "The true, dramatic story of Robert Downey Jr.'s 'Oppenheimer' villain"

lancefisher — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 13:42:00 +0000

Thanks, I didn’t realize I get these articles with my Apple News subscription.

New comment by lancefisher in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024)"

lancefisher — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 01:50:29 +0000

Yes, depending on the team. We have a legacy Elixir backend that we’ve been breaking into services written in Go. We also have a couple of newer Elixir services. We’d love Elixir experience especially if you are also interested in Go.

New comment by lancefisher in "Game Boy / Color Architecture"

lancefisher — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 03:15:45 +0000

Some people have done this, but you need to transplant at least the CPU from an original. Those chips weren’t built for anyone else. https://www.reddit.com/r/Gameboy/s/FEAH2VhBRT

FunnyPlaying recently came out with an FPGA-based version for an affordable price. https://funnyplaying.com/products/fpgbc-kit?variant=40858870...

They also have a new, populated motherboard for the Game Boy Advance, into which you have to transplant the CPU and RAM.

New comment by lancefisher in "Gameboy technical reference for homebrew developers"

lancefisher — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 19:33:53 +0000

Thanks for making those videos. I really enjoyed watching them earlier this year. I’ve been getting into making games, restoring, and collecting Game Boys.

New comment by lancefisher in "The trouble with ingredients in sunscreens"

lancefisher — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 07:31:26 +0000

Rash guards are halfway between a wetsuit and a sun shirt. I have one for surfing, but I got the kids wetsuits because Flathead Lake can be cold as well as sunny. They have more fun and play longer in the water with them.

New comment by lancefisher in "The trouble with ingredients in sunscreens"

lancefisher — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 21:00:09 +0000

I’ve started to minimize my use of sunscreen. It still important to stay protected from the sun, but long sleeves, hoods, hats, and pants are a great alternative. The lightweight sun shirts are comfortable and more convenient.

For my kids, I got them cheap wetsuits from Amazon for the time we spend camping at the lake. This is also cheaper than sunscreen. They can fully manage it on their own since about age 6 or 7.

New comment by lancefisher in "I think I kind of hate lazy loading"

lancefisher — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 04:13:42 +0000

It’s a data driven decision. They a/b tested and found users were more interested in clicking on ads when images were lazy loaded.

New comment by lancefisher in "The Story of “How About Never” (2014)"

lancefisher — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 23:53:22 +0000

Of course this isn’t really monumental, but it can be hard to understand history if you’re looking at it through a modern lens. Humor was different, and this phrase was not in the lexicon like it is now. It was fresher then.

New comment by lancefisher in "Pretendo: A free and open source server replacement for the 3DS and Wii U"

lancefisher — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 14:37:53 +0000

Thanks for the reply, and the info on Weblate too. I’ll check it out the next time I need a localized site. Looks like a nice tool.

New comment by lancefisher in "Pretendo: A free and open source server replacement for the 3DS and Wii U"

lancefisher — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 16:37:32 +0000

That's fun! It also likely serves a real purpose. It lets English-only speakers test that localization is working and available for every text element.

New comment by lancefisher in "The rule says, “No vehicles in the park”"

lancefisher — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 04:32:38 +0000

It’s funny, I first thought the game was going to be a commentary on the “no mechanical transport in the wilderness” rule that he mentioned at the end. You cannot have a bicycle in the wilderness. You can’t push it or carry it. I guess this simplifies enforcement. If someone is camped with a bike, they can be ticketed.

I have friends that do long bike camping trips, and they sometimes want to pass through areas of wilderness on their trips. What do they do? They take apart the bike and pack it, because you are allowed to have bike parts in the wilderness.

New comment by lancefisher in "The Cuboid: A DIY air purifier that's better than a box-fan (2021)"

lancefisher — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 23:11:08 +0000

Exactly what I do, but with a 5", 20x25" MERV 16 filter. I run two of these on box fans when it's smokey in the summer, and it works very well. Box fans do get loud though.

New comment by lancefisher in "Tell HN: iOS converts units for highlighted text"

lancefisher — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 06:06:11 +0000

It is so annoying! Slack in particular. I screenshot and then copy. Feels like a waste of compute as well as a hassle.