Hacker News: lewispollard

New comment by lewispollard in "Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi"

lewispollard — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:26:35 +0000

To be fair, most of the complication there is because it's dynamically generated in 3D, where moving the camera makes the dithering unstable. In 2D hand-drawn art, it's a skill, but it's not quite the same challenge as described in that post.

New comment by lewispollard in "Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made"

lewispollard — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:50:02 +0000

I mean, he's still going to be paying 30% to Steam.

New comment by lewispollard in "Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network"

lewispollard — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:48:17 +0000

Yeah it only seems to show small station near me, and not the main city stations, not sure why but it's very incomplete, and not related to age. For example Sheffield station isn't on the map, and that opened in 1870.

New comment by lewispollard in "HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88"

lewispollard — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:10:44 +0000

Depends how "unfiltered" you consider LLM output to be.

New comment by lewispollard in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

lewispollard — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:51:29 +0000

That's like saying that low effort human-generated posts are worth your time because the phones and computers they're writing on take a lot of time and effort to build from scratch.

New comment by lewispollard in "Ferrari Luce"

lewispollard — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:03:36 +0000

I noted that in the linked Top Gear review, they state "Ferrari won’t confirm the drag co-efficient", which makes me wonder about that claim

New comment by lewispollard in "Where are all the UK red telephone kiosks?"

lewispollard — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:00:43 +0000

The red phone box is a type of phone kiosk. The design of the phone box is designated as K1-K6, where the K stands for kiosk. I believe the term comes from the time before phone boxes were ubiquitous, and public phones were found in small buildings/rooms called kiosks.

New comment by lewispollard in "Architect of the UK Online Safety Act Calls for Its Complete Repeal"

lewispollard — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:47:35 +0000

But the US does jail people for posting objectionable content, the FBI surveil people posting extreme and objectionable stuff on social platforms and it's led to jail time in at least some cases, one that comes to mind is Lucas Nevcherlian

New comment by lewispollard in "Spam in conversational replies to blog posts"

lewispollard — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:08:20 +0000

Happens a lot in meditation/spiritual videos on YouTube, spam promoting some AI-generated "manifest riches with the power of your mind" type book.

New comment by lewispollard in "Stephen's Sausage Roll remains one of the most influential puzzle games"

lewispollard — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:37:17 +0000

My bad, it appears you're right, an Irish national based in London.

New comment by lewispollard in "Stephen's Sausage Roll remains one of the most influential puzzle games"

lewispollard — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:58:07 +0000

The developer is also British; it's a pun because you roll sausages in the game.

New comment by lewispollard in "Most people can't juggle one ball"

lewispollard — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:04:27 +0000

I think the use of the word "ends" rather than "end" makes it sound like you're making 2 snips on each balloon.

New comment by lewispollard in "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"

lewispollard — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:38:33 +0000

Definitely post-COVID. I remember going to see bands in between or just after lockdowns ended, and even the bands were taken aback by the change in audience behaviour, commenting on it. Lots of self-entitled behaviour, talking and even yelling out during quiet moments, people walking up to the stage during a seated Nick Cave concert demanding to hand him stuff or shake his hand - I remember him saying "wow, you guys really forgot how to behave over the last couple of years". Now it just seems to be normalised that crowd behaviour is worse, more self-entitled. I'm not sure what's driving it - whether people who previously weren't going to gigs decided, during lockdown, that they wanted to go out and do stuff more, but just had never learned the etiquette, and/or social media making the experience about the individual rather than the performance.

New comment by lewispollard in "Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker"

lewispollard — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:03:12 +0000

The drones Iran are using are actually relatively small, you can fit 5 of them into a medium sized truck and they can launch in-situ, which is how they've been using them in ground operations. Doesn't seem that much of a stretch to put a bunch of them into shipping containers.

New comment by lewispollard in "You Just Reveived"

lewispollard — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:53:59 +0000

It's a common abbreviation for significant other, i.e. one's husband/wife or partner, but never seen it abbreviate "someone" before.

New comment by lewispollard in "Layoffs at Block"

lewispollard — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:30:26 +0000

Yeah, mid-late last year was one of the worst markets I've seen in my career, but the last couple of months things have really seemed to pick up speed.

New comment by lewispollard in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

lewispollard — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 11:45:32 +0000

Etymologically speaking, "scapegoat" does mean "escaped goat" so it's not a crazy mistake to make.

New comment by lewispollard in "GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client"

lewispollard — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:38:32 +0000

Yeah that's a good salary in Europe. It's only slightly less than I make in the UK as a senior.

New comment by lewispollard in "Show HN: Only 1 LLM can fly a drone"

lewispollard — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:26:35 +0000

The point is that you don't need an LLM to pilot the thing, even if you want to integrate an LLM interface to take a request in natural language.

New comment by lewispollard in "KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer"

lewispollard — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:25:19 +0000

Says right underneath:

> Beyond adjusting parameters, phase8 invites physical interaction. Sculpt sound by touching, plucking, strumming, or tapping the resonators – or experiment by adding found objects for new textures.

Like prepared piano.