Hacker News: perryprog

New comment by perryprog in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

perryprog — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:07:20 +0000

You could, but that doesn't make /either/ an acceptable to market towards kids.

New comment by perryprog in "OpenRocket"

perryprog — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:16:30 +0000

Tangentially related is NASA's open source GMAT[0] software which is more focused for calculating orbital transfers and the like. It's pretty fun to play around in.

[0] https://software.nasa.gov/software/GSC-18094-1

Blender 5.1

perryprog — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:44:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.blender.org/download/releases/5-1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47415125

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by perryprog in "xAI joins SpaceX"

perryprog — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:01:24 +0000

It's really not that simple. See this for a good explanation of why: https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horri...

New comment by perryprog in "Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games"

perryprog — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 14:19:06 +0000

Funny, I just started playing The Wise-Woman’s Dog yesterday—it really is excellent!

I’d also secondly endorse Dialog. It’s a really intuitive way to think about the game world as a whole without having to worry about Inform 7’s AppleScript-esque syntax. It’s also grown quite a bit since the community started their own fork: https://github.com/Dialog-IF/dialog

New comment by perryprog in "Giving up upstream-ing my patches and feel free to pick them up"

perryprog — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:21:53 +0000

Even if the changes aren't "meaningful" (which it seems like they are), they still have an impact in how it makes the contributor more comfortable with working on the project. No new contributor is going to start with making massive patches without starting out with some smaller things to get a feel for working with the project.

New comment by perryprog in "FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub"

perryprog — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 23:23:26 +0000

I think it's probably less frequent nowadays, but it very much does happen. This still-active lawsuit[0] was made in response to LLMs generating verbatim chunks of code that they were trained on.[1]

[0] https://githubcopilotlitigation.com [1] https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/8/23446821/microsoft-openai...

New comment by perryprog in "FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub"

perryprog — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 19:22:45 +0000

The issue is that you need an account to view the replies, not that there's a moral opposition to visiting the website (though it could be that too).

Lambda Calculus – Animated Beta Reduction of Lambda Diagrams

perryprog — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:17:15 +0000

Article URL: https://cruzgodar.com/applets/lambda-calculus

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46030613

Points: 150

# Comments: 10

New comment by perryprog in "How to turn liquid glass into a solid interface"

perryprog — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 04:36:09 +0000

For what it’s worth, I’m definitely leaning “Apple fanboy” and have been amenable to their past UI redesigns. This is the first that I truly think is a regression, and I immediately turned on Reduce Transparency after updating.

New comment by perryprog in "Gene therapy restored hearing in deaf patients"

perryprog — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 22:47:22 +0000

> Not being able to hear sirens, or oncoming trucks, or cars honking their horns, or cyclists saying "on your left".

For what it's worth, it's generally thought that deaf drivers are safer drivers. See https://www.handspeak.com/learn/280/.

> fire alarms

ADA requires fire alarms to include visual alarms (as in flashing strobes) for this reason.

Acids to Ashes: The crash of Pan Am flight 160

perryprog — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 04:36:12 +0000

Article URL: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/acids-to-ashes-the-crash-of-pan-am-flight-160-bed699b6b8b2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43501588

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by perryprog in "A better build system for OCaml"

perryprog — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 03:59:58 +0000

NoRedInk[0] also uses some Haskell in their backend, as well as Elm for most of their frontend. They've also worked some with Roc according to a blog post from a few years back; not sure if using it.

[0] https://blog.noredink.com

New comment by perryprog in "Regular expression functions in Excel"

perryprog — Fri, 24 May 2024 21:23:52 +0000

As someone who regularly flits between Google Sheets, LibreOffice Calc, and Numbers regularly (with my most time in Google Sheets and Numbers), and as someone who's made some extremely complicated spreadsheets in all three, I have to say I vastly prefer Numbers if I can get away with it. It has a lot of issues that can make some stuff hard fast (no array formulas is a big one), but I find it significantly easier and faster to prototype in Numbers regardless.

I think the main bit I love so much about it is having actual tables instead of the Infinite Grid that most spreadsheet software uses. You get named ranges for free, and it makes semantical sense too, among a good number of other benefits (sheet organization, refactoring, simpler styling...).

There are some really nice things that Google Sheets does, and I've done a few fancy things with App Script which isn't too bad, and I do really like QUERY though I wish it was a bit higher power. I just always find myself missing the UX of Numbers, though.

New comment by perryprog in "Tell HN: Bash.org is no more"

perryprog — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 18:23:46 +0000

Considering the quotes have an unknown, and almost certainly not public domain or CC BY-SA license[1], they wouldn't be appropriate for any Wikimedia project.

[1] And even if submitting required licensing the contribution under some Wikimedia-friendly license, considering each person included in a quote would also have to agree to such a license... and I have a feeling bloodninja wasn't following up their conversations with "would you mind sending me a signed release of the above six (6) messages under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license version 3.0?"

New comment by perryprog in "Show HN: NowDo – MacOS todo app for procrastinators"

perryprog — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 15:04:29 +0000

Speaking as a chronic procrastinator, I think GP is more referring to the difficulty that comes with actually /adding/ items that need to be done. At least, that's always been one of the difficulties for me.

New comment by perryprog in "Blender 4.0 release notes"

perryprog — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 17:26:53 +0000

The content reel was uploaded to their PeerTube[1]; I don't see the other two videos on there yet, though.

Edit: The node tool introduction is now also live[2]!

[1] https://video.blender.org/w/ni4S8WYzVG9kqQ6mDjnY1s [2] https://video.blender.org/w/hyq7PB9uaUUKkjwSENxid5

New comment by perryprog in "Blender 4.0 release notes"

perryprog — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 16:37:27 +0000

The release page is now live at https://www.blender.org/download/releases/4-0/.

New comment by perryprog in "I created Clippy [video]"

perryprog — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 15:19:19 +0000

Wow, I'd never seen those before. As far as ads go, those seem really stand-out—seriously creative, and even self-deprecating for the sake of promoting XP.

New comment by perryprog in "Let us serve you, but don't bring us down"

perryprog — Mon, 29 May 2023 12:36:49 +0000

What’s the benefit of waiting a random amount of time between requests?