Hacker News: pb060

New comment by pb060 in "Bitmap fonts make computers feel like computers again"

pb060 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:21:15 +0000

I like to flirt with new fonts every now and then but for me all roads lead to Monaco.

New comment by pb060 in "Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes"

pb060 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:08:43 +0000

Why do you consider Postgres + PostGIS out of fashion? What are people using for spatial data these days?

New comment by pb060 in "If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?"

pb060 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:54:51 +0000

I don’t have a formula, but in Italy for example it would be 24% of their profit.

New comment by pb060 in "Learn Turbo Pascal – a video series originally released on VHS"

pb060 — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 15:35:58 +0000

I hear you, I can write BASIC in any language.

New comment by pb060 in "Fall Foliage Map 2025"

pb060 — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 07:28:13 +0000

Not that I was expecting a global dataset, but title should be “USA Fall Foliage Map 2025“.

New comment by pb060 in "This map is not upside down"

pb060 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 21:10:58 +0000

To me it just looks like a world map rotated by 180 degrees. Not strange or disorienting.

New comment by pb060 in "Meta Ray-Ban Display"

pb060 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 07:33:23 +0000

And progressive lenses. There’s still a long way to go.

New comment by pb060 in "New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes"

pb060 — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 06:35:32 +0000

Incidentally, it’s also a demonstration that you shouldn’t use high contrast in typography. When you start the test you can clearly see the lines of text retained on your retina.

New comment by pb060 in "New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes"

pb060 — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 06:22:11 +0000

I don’t understand why you need the animation. If you point at the green background after staring the red one for a while, you can see a whole circle of the saturated color.

New comment by pb060 in "German court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy laws"

pb060 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 07:51:00 +0000

Some people are so dumb they don't know how dumb they are. Thank you for making me realize I'm one of those.

New comment by pb060 in "AI is not our future"

pb060 — Fri, 30 May 2025 12:39:56 +0000

I had the same interpretation and in fact there's some truth in it. I recently did procreate and realized how primitive AI is compared to human beings and how long it might take for it to catch up.

New comment by pb060 in "Apache ECharts"

pb060 — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 12:09:32 +0000

> Glad to see Echarts getting the recognition it deserves.

Why is it so rarely mentioned in chart libraries comparisons? Its not even listed on the Wikipedia page for JavaScript chart libraries. I discovered it by chance through Apache Superset.

New comment by pb060 in "Why is the world losing color?"

pb060 — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:26:26 +0000

What I find infuriating is to see colors stripped from children’s toys and clothes, especially by Northern Europe brands. Those dull beige taupe tones might attract parents but I’m sure that they bring little joy and stimulation to children.

New comment by pb060 in "Mark Zuckerberg Announces the "Beginning of the End" for Programmers"

pb060 — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 13:56:35 +0000

> leaving only a small number of highly specialized positions available.

Stupid question: how do you become a high level programmer if entry and mid level roles disappear?

New comment by pb060 in "Most people don't care about quality"

pb060 — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 13:58:10 +0000

Not sure I get your point, are you saying that I should enjoy them because many people do?

New comment by pb060 in "Most people don't care about quality"

pb060 — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 16:11:57 +0000

Serious question: how do you understand ABBA? Because I consider music listening a journey and songs that I dislike now might be my favorite ones in the future. But I really don’t know how it could lead me to like ABBA.

New comment by pb060 in "Quincy Jones has died"

pb060 — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 04:49:33 +0000

There’s also a short "Making of" documentary available on YouTube. So moving and inspiring.

New comment by pb060 in "SOFA - Start Often Finish rArely"

pb060 — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 08:16:37 +0000

Use to do SOFA without knowing about it. Then marriage came, then children and boom, collapse of the wave function.

New comment by pb060 in "The Third Atomic Bomb"

pb060 — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 21:17:36 +0000

80 years are not so far in time for me as I recently realized that when I was born I was closer to the end of the war than my current age. That made me feel somehow more connected to that past event than to the present.

New comment by pb060 in "Nxylon: New super-black material made from wood"

pb060 — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 20:58:15 +0000

I believe it's something called "structural absorption", similar to what happens on birds of paradise feathers [1]

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02088-w