Hacker News: nanna

Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX

nanna — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 15:48:12 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/kevinraymond/florilegium

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50305637

Points: 297

# Comments: 48

New comment by nanna in "Nietzschian Debugger"

nanna — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 18:27:33 +0000

Nietzsche had no qualms with asserting answers. If anything this should be named after Socrates. But then Socrates would have despised AI for its automation of thinking. Really this Claude project shouldn't be named after philosophers at all.

New comment by nanna in "Galaxy Game"

nanna — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 22:38:33 +0000

https://archive.org/details/arcade_galgame

Space, Alt and Ctr to hyperspace, thrust and fire. You're welcome.

Hardlist: Index of ambitious European hardware startups

nanna — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:46:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hardli.st/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49843259

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The turbulent AI era is here

nanna — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:23:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gatesnotes.com/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49447057

Points: 360

# Comments: 625

Nyctography: A substituton cypher by Lewis Carroll

nanna — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:30:02 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyctography

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49081851

Points: 82

# Comments: 15

New comment by nanna in "The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 1: SimEverything"

nanna — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:53:53 +0000

Was the game Ökolopoly an influence on him? It was a 'cybernetic environment game (kybernetik unweltspiel)' from West Germany where players run a country and strive to hold off economic, social and ecological collapse. It was released as a board game (beautiful, if I may so so, owning a copy) in the early 1980s and then the true, apparently fully realised DOS videogame followed later. It always seemed like a simple Sim City to me.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96kolopoly

https://archive.org/details/oekolopoly_202509

Further question, how much did he read about cyberneticş beyond Gaia Theory? Was he influenced by Norbert Wiener?

New comment by nanna in "'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win Polymarket bet"

nanna — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:38:53 +0000

Why is Polymarket legal? I just don't understand.

New comment by nanna in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

nanna — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:50:02 +0000

This is something I wanted to get into after vising Alhambra, which really is the "mirror of paradise" that it purported to be. You say that the complex designs are done by hand, but given how mathematical they are it left me wondering if there is a thriving scene of computer-generated patterns?

Segagaga Has Been Translated into English

nanna — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:47:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thedreamcastjunkyard.co.uk/2026/02/segagaga-has-finally-been-translated.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47296259

Points: 102

# Comments: 38

Hacking Involved in Khamenei Assassination

nanna — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:26:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-888598

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47231969

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nanna in "Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship"

nanna — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:25:03 +0000

Wait why are there separate mens and womens prizes?

New comment by nanna in "CIA to Sunset the World Factbook"

nanna — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:34:53 +0000

Bit confused, what's this to do with the CIA World Factbook?

New comment by nanna in "How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital"

nanna — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:55:26 +0000

I remember that one of Stockholm's train line is also endearingly tiny too?

New comment by nanna in "How London cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground"

nanna — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 09:47:12 +0000

Looks like TFL issued a whopping three fines in total last year...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdx4lje9jpjo

New comment by nanna in "How London cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground"

nanna — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 09:42:29 +0000

Because silence is a common good, like clean air. It's everyone's. When people fill it with their noise they effectively privatize it for the duration. When they shout on speakerphone or play their music or blare sound from their apps it's especially selfish.