Hacker News: mypalmike

New comment by mypalmike in "GitHub is the wrong shape for this new world"

mypalmike — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:24:32 +0000

The article failed to describe the problem or a solution. But it was fun seeing the phrase “paradigm shift” again, which feels very 1998.

New comment by mypalmike in "Recursion is lying to you"

mypalmike — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:59:41 +0000

I once wrote a Xbox 360 indie game that would crash only in unusual situations due to stack overflow. The game involved essentially gluing together balls, and it would detect if the balls surrounded something. I used recursive DFS to check connectivity of the balls. And most of the time, there would be a couple dozen balls max connected. But you could definitely intentionally connect many many more balls if you wanted to. At a certain point, it would crash with a stack overflow. Changing it to not use recursion (explicit data structures) fixed the crash.

New comment by mypalmike in "US DOT deleting bike lane references"

mypalmike — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:40:55 +0000

I’m getting somewhat sick of Christian Nationalist trolls running the US government.

New comment by mypalmike in "Using ThinkPad T480 as a mobile phone"

mypalmike — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 20:21:54 +0000

I can imagine it! It should be called the Imagine Phone, or iPhone for short.

New comment by mypalmike in "Claude Opus 5"

mypalmike — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:40:07 +0000

I mean, it's Anthropic‘s front end, Michael. What could it cost? 10 dollars?

New comment by mypalmike in "Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s"

mypalmike — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 02:26:16 +0000

My local bowling alley charges $130 for shoes and 1 hour of bowling for 4 people off-peak. That scales up to $220 peak rates (e.g. Saturday night). It’s in the middle of a major city so it’s a different market of course, but the pricing difference is striking. No pun intended.

New comment by mypalmike in "CD sales growth outpaced vinyl in the first half of 2026"

mypalmike — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:55:44 +0000

True, PHM was not the best example.

New comment by mypalmike in "CD sales growth outpaced vinyl in the first half of 2026"

mypalmike — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:40:47 +0000

This type of remastering (and remixing) has been happening for a while now. Lots of newer releases of classic albums of the CD era have remasters with less compression. Pretty Hate Machine, American Idiot, Absolution (Muse)…

New comment by mypalmike in "The Acton Programming Language"

mypalmike — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 05:06:54 +0000

I thought the same. Possibly because I recently wrote a compiler/interpreter for the Action! language. Not terribly useful in its current state, but most of the language is supported.

https://github.com/mypalmike/RetrAction

New comment by mypalmike in "WebGPU-Based WiFi Simulator"

mypalmike — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:39:03 +0000

I get the same coil whine on my laptop (AMD Radeon Mobile GPU) whenever I run GPU heavy code.

New comment by mypalmike in "Adding syntax to the CPython interpreter"

mypalmike — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 19:14:53 +0000

Though I used it for 2 years of it as my primary language at work, I never quite got used to Ruby's quirky idioms like this. It just reads badly to me, in terms of quickly understanding code flow, to have statements that start with "raise" or "return" which might not raise or return. Similar to the up-thread comment about assignment.

New comment by mypalmike in "A Simple open-source Phone programmable with Arduino"

mypalmike — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 18:46:36 +0000

It seems unlikely to be a cgnat issue since the phone uses WiFi rather than cellular networks (where cgnat is most commonly found).

New comment by mypalmike in "The feds are coming for John Deere over the right to repair"

mypalmike — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 00:42:50 +0000

You are describing selective breeding.

GMO is different. It involves the laboratory isolation of genes, and techniques to introduce said genes into an organism such that its DNA is altered. These technique do include gene splicing.

Golden rice is one well known example. It is a GMO plant which has been modified with genes taken from daffodils and a bacteria called erwinium uredovora. It's not just breeding existing species for good qualities.

New comment by mypalmike in "OpenAI to become for-profit company"

mypalmike — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:28:37 +0000

This metaphor is quite stretched.

A more fitting metaphor would be something like... If you had the ability to read all the books in the library extremely quickly, and to make useful mental connections between the information you read such that people would come to you for your vast knowledge, should you be allowed in the library?

New comment by mypalmike in "OpenNMS: Visualize and monitor everything on your local and distributed networks"

mypalmike — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 18:03:16 +0000

NMS systems are useful for monitoring large networks where something is likely to fail due to sheer quantity of devices/interfaces. Visualization is secondary to state capture and alerting.

New comment by mypalmike in "Playstation 2 GS emulation – the final frontier of Vulkan compute emulation"

mypalmike — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 09:14:40 +0000

Most games were primarily C. 3D performance came from the graphics hardware, which had straightforward C APIs and dedicated texture RAM. The machine lacked a floating point processor, so I think we wrote some fixed point math routines in assembly, but that's basically it.

New comment by mypalmike in "The art of programming and why I won't use LLM"

mypalmike — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 18:38:55 +0000

That was precisely the goal of many high level languages.

New comment by mypalmike in "Artificial intelligence is losing hype"

mypalmike — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 23:14:48 +0000

Designing biological tools is not a commonly accepted bar for AGI.

New comment by mypalmike in "Getting back into C programming for CP/M"

mypalmike — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 05:42:48 +0000

So true. My first parser was for a little text adventure I wrote. I didn't know parsing was a thing people might write about, so I just muddled through some text manipulation in Atari BASIC it until it worked. Even sorting was something you just had to figure out - I managed to come up with bubble sort on my own, presumably like many others did in those days, unaware that sorting was well-trodden territory.

New comment by mypalmike in "Please do not attempt to simplify this code"

mypalmike — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 22:53:05 +0000

Someone has obviously simplified the code. Oops.