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New comment by ldb in "Sci-Fi Short Film “There Is No Antimemetics Division” [video]"

ldb — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:49:23 +0000

Very nice. This is up there with my favorite DUST short film, "Final Offer". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv8kOzRZK8g

New comment by ldb in "Ask HN: What Happend to Arthur Whitney's Shakti?"

ldb — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:22:43 +0000

For me (in EU) the shakti.com site now forwards to k.nyc and shows a white screen with a single letter "k". Has Shakti been discontinued?

Ask HN: What Happend to Arthur Whitney's Shakti?

ldb — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:22:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.shakti.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47134371

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by ldb in "Terpstra Keyboard"

ldb — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 07:35:53 +0000

Oh man, what a legend this guy is. Using an ambiguity in Klingon lore to explore yet another micro-tonal system is just incredible. And he profoundly apologizes for an off-by-one error he made in the previous video ... as if that hasn't happened to most of us :-)

New comment by ldb in "Terpstra Keyboard"

ldb — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 16:30:50 +0000

Wow, not in my wildest dreams would I have thought that such a deep dive into Klingon music theory exists. This is amazing. Thanks for sharing.

New comment by ldb in "Show HN: Matle – A Daily Chess Puzzle Inspired by Wordle"

ldb — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:51:03 +0000

Very nice idea. Reminds me a bit of https://www.chessguessr.com/.

Advent of Chess 2024

ldb — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 12:41:09 +0000

Article URL: https://adventofchess.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42288156

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ldb in "Show HN: Coros – A Modern C++ Library for Task Parallelism"

ldb — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 05:55:01 +0000

A great project.

FYI: I guess there is a minor typo in the README example: the argument of the second call to fib() in the non-coros version of the code should be "n-2" and not "n-1".

New comment by ldb in "Apple insists 8GB unified memory equals 16GB regular RAM"

ldb — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 14:29:17 +0000

Maybe Apple competitors should start a campaign: "Only RAM can".

(paraphrasing the famous car industry’s slogan "There is no replacement for displacement")

New comment by ldb in "Show HN: Where Does the A380 Fly?"

ldb — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 07:27:07 +0000

Nice site. Found it a bit counter-intuitive that the selected airline button has a black border while it has a blue blue border in its unselected state. I would have expected it to be the other way round.

New comment by ldb in "Why Lisp Syntax Works"

ldb — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 13:10:48 +0000

There are some nice Lisp related comics on xkcd, e.g. https://xkcd.com/224/ and https://xkcd.com/297/.

New comment by ldb in "Show HN: SuperDB- Interact with Your Database"

ldb — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 09:14:11 +0000

I used SQL a lot when working in the financial industry many years ago. Our "use-cases" were questions like "why did the P/L go down?" or "why did the risk position increase?". These are quite open questions (that require some creativity and interpretation to be answered) but I guess it is possible to train an AI to even answer such questions.

New comment by ldb in "Show HN: SuperDB- Interact with Your Database"

ldb — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 14:50:26 +0000

Nice. Why do I need to select a table? I tried "Customers with most orders" and selected table "offices" and still got the correct query on tables "customers" and "orders".

Jean-Claude Mézières has died

ldb — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 16:30:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/mezieres.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30073807

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

“Final Offer” – A sci-fi short film masterpiece

ldb — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 17:44:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv8kOzRZK8g

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29865536

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Pitching to Ridley Scott

ldb — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 15:53:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F49CIVxkgKk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29810486

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ldb in "Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)"

ldb — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 17:42:26 +0000

A great example page http://vcfmw.org/

New comment by ldb in "Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 16"

ldb — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 12:32:23 +0000

Wow, "it's so dense; every single frame has so many things going on".

Love the walking cat gif http://vcfmw.org/friends.html

Interesting Croquet Demo

ldb — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 13:38:39 +0000

Article URL: https://croquet.io/#demo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28367908

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ldb in "The Big Alien Theory"

ldb — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 08:05:32 +0000

Yes, I do understand that. So there is a certain probability that my “i am a high population country” conclusion is wrong (e.g. if I am from Iceland). As already asked below: Do you know a way to quantify the likelihood of me making the wrong conclusion (without knowing the population numbers of the other countries)?