Hacker News: leephillips

New comment by leephillips in "Terpstra Keyboard"

leephillips — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:47:52 +0000

What kind of guitar players are these? Are you talking about pop music?

NYC law could force Uber and Lyft to keep dangerous drivers on the road

leephillips — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 14:23:41 +0000

Article URL: https://reason.com/2026/09/05/nyc-law-could-force-uber-and-lyft-to-keep-dangerous-drivers-on-the-road/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49576790

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by leephillips in "Hang on to Your Firefox"

leephillips — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 01:22:40 +0000

It’s an expression of frustration at being expected to supply evidence after accusing someone of racism.

New comment by leephillips in "Hang on to Your Firefox"

leephillips — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 23:50:11 +0000

That fun example does not provide evidence of what you accused the developer of. Not even close. I think if you’re going to accuse someone of what amounts to racist paranoia, you’d better have clear evidence of it. The fragment you linked to simply shows Kling being uncomfortable with racial discrimination in hiring, which is a mainstream, probably majority, attitude.

Placemark is now open source

leephillips — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:36:03 +0000

Article URL: https://macwright.com/2026/08/25/placemark-fully-open-source

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49470871

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Florida Catholics slap down state AG by rejecting religious vaccine exemptions

leephillips — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:21:11 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/08/catholic-bishops-tell-florida-theres-no-religious-reason-for-vaccine-exemptions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467311

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

New comment by leephillips in "How much of HN is AI?"

leephillips — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 03:12:18 +0000

...and some of us Fortran.

As-Album – A Web Component Because Sometimes You Just Want to Post Pictures

leephillips — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:16:39 +0000

Article URL: https://sheep.horse/2026/8/as-album_-_a_web_component_because_sometimes_you_j.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442563

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Curvature Beziers: Improving on a timeless recipe

leephillips — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:03:12 +0000

Article URL: https://acko.net/blog/curvature-beziers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49422743

Points: 162

# Comments: 31

New comment by leephillips in "Woman stranded in Spain after UK's eVisa system mistakes her for twin sister"

leephillips — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:28:53 +0000

“Webb said Home Office staff promised her over the phone the problem would be fixed, though a confirmation email was then sent to her sister instead of to her.”

Comedy gold.

New comment by leephillips in "A journalist was banned from a Flock Safety convention, so they hacked it"

leephillips — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:19:10 +0000

That might make sense. But in the video he (not “they”) never mentions that the room was part of a conference block. But it very well might have been.

New comment by leephillips in "A journalist was banned from a Flock Safety convention, so they hacked it"

leephillips — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:07:48 +0000

I guess avoid Hilton hotels. They cancelled a reservation without verifying that they were talking to their client or someone authorized by their client.

New comment by leephillips in "Stop Making TUIs"

leephillips — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 19:57:47 +0000

Some terminal emulators, for example Kitty, can render text at various sizes (within the same window).

Bhartrhari's Paradox

leephillips — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:37:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.futilitycloset.com/2026/08/18/bhartrharis-paradox/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49401897

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by leephillips in "Stop Making TUIs"

leephillips — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:46:56 +0000

I’ve been enjoying making TUI programs for my own use. It turns out that the Kitty terminal emulator, with its saveable sessions of arrangements of panels that can communicate with each other, is an interesting framework for TUIs:

https://lwn.net/Articles/1080821/

New comment by leephillips in "Things that used to be normal and are now a luxury"

leephillips — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:30:09 +0000

This is a real loss, unlike the manufactured despair in the article.

Hackers hijack hotel Wi-Fi DNS to steal Microsoft 365 accounts

leephillips — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:20:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-hijack-hotel-wi-fi-dns-to-steal-microsoft-365-accounts/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334475

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

New comment by leephillips in "Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video]"

leephillips — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:23:43 +0000

I had one! One of my favorite possessions in elementary school. It came with a nice booklet introducing the theory. Because I studied that booklet, I was probably the only brat in my 2nd grade who knew about number bases. I entertained myself by converting decimal numbers into binary.

JAMA journal won't retract oxycodone paper despite author request

leephillips — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:58:00 +0000

Article URL: https://retractionwatch.com/2026/08/13/jama-archives-internal-medicine-oxycodone-osteoarthritis-pain/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313261

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by leephillips in "Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?"

leephillips — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:59:34 +0000

You’re right, I need to do that. It would create a glitch in the historical graph, but still, there’s too much slop getting through.