Hacker News: nkron

New comment by nkron in "Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator"

nkron — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 04:53:58 +0000

Really cool! On iOS there's a noticeable delay when clicking the buttons and clicking the backspace button quickly zooms the page so it's very hard to use. Would love it in mobile friendly form!

Visualization of gravity's affect on light in Newtonian and Relativistic Physics

nkron — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 06:36:49 +0000

Article URL: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/29837/does-newtonian-mechanics-predict-the-bending-of-the-course-of-light-by-objects-w

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43678630

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Free Static Website Forms via a Google Script

nkron — Fri, 29 May 2020 15:10:22 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/dwyl/learn-to-send-email-via-google-script-html-no-server

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23350842

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nkron in "Show HN: I built a free forms service for static websites"

nkron — Fri, 29 May 2020 15:06:46 +0000

This looks really nice but I was burned by another free form service (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16466147) that just disappeared without any notice.

I ended up switching to using a Google script which I've been happy with so far: https://github.com/dwyl/learn-to-send-email-via-google-scrip...

Using Basis Textures in Three.js

nkron — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 01:01:29 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/samsung-internet-dev/using-basis-textures-in-three-js-6eb7e104447d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20321655

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nkron in "Nearly Half of Americans Are Lonely"

nkron — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 06:02:33 +0000

I tried to sign up but couldn't get past the street sign captcha. I tried three times... Google is making it hard these days.

New comment by nkron in "Show HN: A CSS Grid generator for building layouts faster"

nkron — Thu, 03 May 2018 01:05:02 +0000

Using 'data-area' requires modifying the html so it is not a css only approach. This is a fairly big turn off for me.

The first rule of pricing is: you do not talk about pricing

nkron — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 20:32:14 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/fluxx-studio-notes/the-first-rule-of-pricing-is-you-do-not-talk-about-pricing-1875caa39b89

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16962013

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Windows 10 works incorrectly with Large memory pages

nkron — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:02:21 +0000

Article URL: https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/e730c709/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16849422

Points: 159

# Comments: 93

New comment by nkron in "TurboTax Freemium Funnel: Critical Analysis and UX Teardown"

nkron — Sun, 15 Apr 2018 15:10:22 +0000

I tried https://www.freetaxusa.com this year since I dislike Intuit so much for their lobbying. The site works very well and has a pretty similar flow to TurboTax except no auto import of financial account info.

I'm not sure the trustworthiness of the company/site. I didn't see any red flags in the privacy policy but would love to hear from others if they've used this.

Page Weight Matters

nkron — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 06:58:05 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16790971

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by nkron in "Jevons paradox"

nkron — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 06:56:12 +0000

Here's my favorite example of that:

http://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters

YouTube increased the efficiency of their site which ended up increasing average page load time - more people across the globe could now use the site when before it was too slow to bother with.

“I Don't Like Your Examples” (2000)

nkron — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 04:54:47 +0000

Article URL: http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly//news/feuerstein_1000.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15858641

Points: 122

# Comments: 85

Use Deep Learning to Automatically Colorize Black and White Photos

nkron — Sun, 17 Jul 2016 15:45:51 +0000

Article URL: http://demos.algorithmia.com/colorize-photos/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12110506

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Interactive JavaScript API Reference

nkron — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 17:23:32 +0000

Article URL: http://www.javascripture.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11947480

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Image Dithering: Eleven Algorithms and Source Code

nkron — Sun, 12 Jun 2016 02:15:05 +0000

Article URL: http://www.tannerhelland.com/4660/dithering-eleven-algorithms-source-code/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11886318

Points: 199

# Comments: 61

New comment by nkron in "Colorizing black and white photos with deep learning"

nkron — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 15:43:28 +0000

Very cool results. Seems like with some extra human intervention this would produce very good results.

Shameless plug: I built an online tool to colorize photos using WebGL. It's all manual but it's easy to get started and doesn't require any additional software. http://www.colorizephoto.com

New comment by nkron in "Show HN: ColorizePhoto.com – WebGL Based Photo Colorizing Tool"

nkron — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 15:40:06 +0000

I just saw the front page post about automatically colorizing photos (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10864801) and thought I should share this website I built a couple years ago. It allows grabbing color from a reference photo and painting it onto the black and white image you wish to color. It was a fun learning experience and can make some pretty convincing photos with a bit of patience.

Show HN: ColorizePhoto.com – WebGL Based Photo Colorizing Tool

nkron — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 15:34:55 +0000

Article URL: http://www.colorizephoto.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10865546

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by nkron in "The App-ocalypse: can Web standards make mobile apps obsolete?"

nkron — Mon, 28 Dec 2015 21:09:34 +0000

Apple recently checked in support for touch-action: manipulation

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149854