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New comment by nickswalker in "Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)"

nickswalker — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:32:18 +0000

That indicates that approval has been rolled up into GoDaddy at this point, and you’ll have to get a notarized letter from the city for them to issue you a domain.

New comment by nickswalker in "Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)"

nickswalker — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:29:58 +0000

Unfortunately the author is correct that you’re pretty screwed if the locality is no longer delegated. I messaged GoDaddy to register one in Boston, they asked for a _notarized_ letter on the local governments letter head approving. No one within the Boston city government knew what their procedure would be, and those willing to say yes didn’t have a notary around. They ended up citing a state law indicating that no locality domains were to be used for _government_ purposes in MA as their reason to say no, when of course that has no bearing on private use…

If anyone would like to band together to push city of Boston or Cambridge to start approving these, please let me know! I can revive some email chains.

Stringman: Cable-driven room-scale organization robot

nickswalker — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:57:36 +0000

Article URL: https://neufangled.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950207

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

$2000 Bug Bounty to Whoever Fixes the Lenovo Legion Pro 7's Speakers on Linux

nickswalker — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:50:08 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/nadimkobeissi/16iax10h-linux-sound-saga/blob/main/PLEDGE.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666879

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

It looks like the status/need-triage label was removed

nickswalker — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:10:20 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/16728

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46721179

Points: 303

# Comments: 82

When Will Robots Go Mainstream

nickswalker — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:09:24 +0000

Article URL: https://colossus.com/article/when-will-robots-go-mainstream/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46560089

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Languish – Programming Language Trends

nickswalker — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 04:39:08 +0000

Article URL: https://tjpalmer.github.io/languish/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46441326

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

2D Signed Distance Functions

nickswalker — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 22:41:11 +0000

Article URL: https://iquilezles.org/articles/distfunctions2d/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46380054

Points: 125

# Comments: 18

Timecode Is Not Time: Reinventing SMPTE ST-12 for the Cloud Era

nickswalker — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 06:15:57 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.frame.io/2022/07/11/reinventing-timecode-for-the-cloud/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46372971

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: A Live Map for Running Seattle's Light Rail

nickswalker — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 23:01:43 +0000

I host the Light Rail Relay in Seattle, an event where people run the length of the 1 Line. Over the years I've built a web map that includes an annotated on-foot route as well as live transit info. OSM Data, self-hosted PMTiles in MapLibre + One Bus Away API used from the client side to draw trains and arrivals.

The registration and results system (Pantograph, see links on page) are also homegrown. If you or your coworkers are looking for something fun to do together this weekend, come run (or walk) and try things out!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45353931

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nickswalker in "A Tour of Microsoft's Mac Lab (2006)"

nickswalker — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 16:25:29 +0000

The author is likely referring to the potential for a Cascadia megaquake: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big...

Ocarina of Time Randomizer

nickswalker — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 04:08:34 +0000

Article URL: https://ootrandomizer.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44334419

Points: 163

# Comments: 50

Area Lights in Shaders

nickswalker — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 22:30:16 +0000

Article URL: https://articles.hyperknot.com/area_lights_in_shaders/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42598156

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Formalizing Nuance in Classical Music

nickswalker — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 03:21:40 +0000

Article URL: https://continuum-hypothesis.com/nuance.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42373395

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Mt Rainier Elevation Survey

nickswalker — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 18:24:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.countryhighpoints.com/mt-rainier-elevation-survey/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41862103

Points: 51

# Comments: 11

The ACM Digital Library Has a Fake DOI Problem

nickswalker — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 20:50:56 +0000

Article URL: https://nickwalker.us/blog/2024/acm-dl-fake-dois/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41770909

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nickswalker in "Ask HN: What's Prolog like in 2024?"

nickswalker — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 20:37:28 +0000

I noticed the same friction while trying to integrate Answer Set Programming solvers into Python projects. The people who built the dominant ASP solver actually provide nice solutions though. Possible inspiration for Prolog tooling:

Clorm (Clingo ORM) [1] makes it easy to create facts after you define simple predicate Python classes. Here's an example project of mine which uses it to set up a scheduling problem (Python -> ASP) and to present the results (ASP -> Python).

https://github.com/raceconditionrunning/relay-scheduler

Clingo (the solver) exposes its internal AST implementation through Python bindings[2], so you can build up rules or other statements from typed components instead of strings. This simplifies the translation bits of implementing an ORM or whatever kind of wrapper a developer would prefer.

[1] https://github.com/potassco/clorm [2] https://potassco.org/clingo/python-api/current/clingo/ast.ht...

Legibility: How and why typography affects ease of reading

nickswalker — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 02:23:29 +0000

Article URL: https://legible-typography.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38976748

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

A Bug Hunting Story: How Album Artwork Caused a System-Wide Loss of Audio

nickswalker — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 00:43:09 +0000

Article URL: https://supermegaultragroovy.com/2023/11/28/a-bug-hunting-story-how-album-artwork-caused-a-system-wide-loss-of-audio/

Hacker News: nickswalker

New comment by nickswalker in "Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)"

New comment by nickswalker in "Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)"

Stringman: Cable-driven room-scale organization robot

$2000 Bug Bounty to Whoever Fixes the Lenovo Legion Pro 7's Speakers on Linux

It looks like the status/need-triage label was removed

When Will Robots Go Mainstream

Languish – Programming Language Trends

2D Signed Distance Functions

Timecode Is Not Time: Reinventing SMPTE ST-12 for the Cloud Era

Show HN: A Live Map for Running Seattle's Light Rail

New comment by nickswalker in "A Tour of Microsoft's Mac Lab (2006)"

Ocarina of Time Randomizer

Area Lights in Shaders

Formalizing Nuance in Classical Music

Mt Rainier Elevation Survey

The ACM Digital Library Has a Fake DOI Problem

New comment by nickswalker in "Ask HN: What's Prolog like in 2024?"

Legibility: How and why typography affects ease of reading

A Bug Hunting Story: How Album Artwork Caused a System-Wide Loss of Audio

Misclicking Live Search (2021)