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New comment by micheljansen in ""Anyone else out there vibe circuit-building?""

micheljansen — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:36:52 +0000

If you don't know Ben Eater, check out his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/beneater

WARNING: nerd snipe material.

New comment by micheljansen in "Show HN: Awesome J2ME"

micheljansen — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:03:21 +0000

Thanks for making me feel old! One of my first real jobs involved MIDP/J2ME development. I cannot say I loved the platform, but it somehow felt more magical back then to develop something and run it on a Nokia brick than (mobile) development of today.

New comment by micheljansen in "Shader Glass"

micheljansen — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:10:59 +0000

The way I understand it, the shader overlay can only modify what is already being rendered below. It does not have access to the underlying application logic, 3D geometry or other internals of a game that you would need for this. You can increase the contrast etc of a game but you cannot see through walls or anything, so it probably won’t help you cheat.

New comment by micheljansen in "Shader Glass"

micheljansen — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:40:39 +0000

That's so clever! Plenty of emulators and games don't have native support for these kinds of shaders so just put a filter over it.

New comment by micheljansen in "Bending Spoons acquires Vimeo for $1.38B"

micheljansen — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 14:51:02 +0000

Ah yes, Bending Spoons. The company known for:

* Acquiring Evernote, laying off most of its staff and raising prices.

* Acquiring WeTransfer, announcing 75% layoffs and pissing off their most loyal users by changing their T&Cs to grant themselves license to use their content for AI training purposes.

* Acquiring Filmic and laying off all their staff.

* Acquiring Komoot and laying off most of its staff.

Now would be a good time to poach some Vimeo engineers.

New comment by micheljansen in "E-paper display reaches the realm of LCD screens"

micheljansen — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 07:11:31 +0000

For mobile devices that matters, but plenty of use cases for stationary displays, including desktops.

New comment by micheljansen in "OpenMower – An open source lawn mower"

micheljansen — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 13:49:43 +0000

"Let's be honest: The current generation of robotic lawn mowers sucks. Basically all of these bots drive in a random direction until they hit the border of the lawn, rotate for a randomized duration and repeat. I think we can do better!"

The funny thing is: this actually works incredibly well. Perimeter wires are a PITA to install, but once that's done, they are a very practical and flawless method for making sure the robot does not escape into the neighbour's yard or worse. The random movement is really effective too. What exactly can a smart robot do better?

Removing the need for perimeter wires would be great, as long as it works 100% flawlessly. Obstacle detection would also be nice, so I can avoid my mower chewing up the toys my kid sometimes leaves lying around (though it is a great motivation to clean up!)

New comment by micheljansen in "Show HN: Reviving a 20 year old OS X App"

micheljansen — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 09:02:46 +0000

I came here to say the same thing! I used an ancient (DOS) version of it to get me through high school French, German, Latin and so on. Fond memories.

New comment by micheljansen in "Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen"

micheljansen — Thu, 29 May 2025 14:33:04 +0000

That’s by Jeffrey Zeldman

New comment by micheljansen in "A tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips"

micheljansen — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 12:53:04 +0000

Thanks I will see if I can get my hands on an oscilloscope and look at the 12v and 5v rails.

New comment by micheljansen in "A tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips"

micheljansen — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 20:36:25 +0000

Amazing that they were able to figure this out. I have a PET that also sometimes boots up into a garbled screen similar to the one pictured in the article. I am usually able to get past it with a few hard resets. I don’t have access to (or much knowledge of) logic analysers, but this almost makes it look doable to figure out the problem.

OpenAI's Nightmare: DeepSeek R1 on a Raspberry Pi

micheljansen — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:42:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1sN1lB76EA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42880745

Points: 9

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New comment by micheljansen in "Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]"

micheljansen — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 20:01:42 +0000

I was doing mobile development on a home healthcare product during this period. The product was built around Nokia’s line of phones with NFC built in, so we had good ties with them and would always get prototypes of their next generation of NFC-capable device ahead of time to get the software ready ahead of launch.

Shortly after the launch of the iPhone, Nokia canned the prototype S60 model we were working on without announcing any alternative. I always imagined they scrapped the whole pipeline of successors they had planned. The iPhone was at least 2 generations ahead of the unreleased prototype. Ended up having to port the whole thing to a different device from Samsung.

Banana Pi OpenWrt One Router

micheljansen — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 21:02:39 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.banana-pi.org/en/OpenWRT-One/BananaPi_OpenWRT-One

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42300348

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by micheljansen in "Starlink Direct to Cell"

micheljansen — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:40:02 +0000

Awesome proposition, but good grief what a terrible website. It looks like some dodgy knockoff site and scrolling is broken. Not really inspiring confidence.

New comment by micheljansen in "Anger over sale of George Orwell archive"

micheljansen — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 10:44:46 +0000

'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.'

New comment by micheljansen in "A rare disorder makes people see monsters"

micheljansen — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 18:41:38 +0000

Nightmares differ from night terrors though. To quote Wikipedia:

Night terrors are distinct from nightmares.[31] In fact, in nightmares there are almost never vocalization or agitation, and if there are any, they are less strong in comparison to night terrors.[31] In addition, nightmares appear ordinarily during REM sleep in contrast to night terrors, which occur in NREM sleep.[2] Finally, individuals with nightmares can wake up completely and easily and have clear and detailed memories of their dreams.[2][31]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_terror

For a good description of what they are like, read the "Signs and Symptoms" section of that article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_terror#Signs_and_symptom...).

New comment by micheljansen in "A rare disorder makes people see monsters"

micheljansen — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 18:35:57 +0000

That may help for bad dreams, but not for night terrors (which are medically a different thing, where you are not consciously awake).

New comment by micheljansen in "A rare disorder makes people see monsters"

micheljansen — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 19:49:07 +0000

My son has night terrors and if I were living in the Middle Ages, I would probably have called in a priest for an exorcism by now. I can absolutely imagine that in less enlightened times, where we did not have access to the internet, peer reviewed journals and MRI machines, people with night terrors were believed to be possessed by demons.

New comment by micheljansen in "The lie of music discovery algorithms"

micheljansen — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 11:20:28 +0000

I don't have evidence for this, but my working theory is that there is too much money to be made in promoting certain artists / songs for music recommender systems to remain objective. If supermarkets auction off premium shelf space to the highest bidder, what's stopping Spotify, Tidal, Apple etc. from doing the same? Want to create a new pop star? Hand over the cash and we'll put it in millions of people's "Discover" playlist.