Hacker News: peterbmarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=peterbmarksHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:42:22 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by peterbmarks in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"]]>Didn't Stack Overflow have a similar impact on Experts Exchange?

]]>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:46:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48959742peterbmarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48959742https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48959742<![CDATA[New comment by peterbmarks in "Raspberry Pi Pico as AM Radio Transmitter"]]>You think that's fun, rpitx will blow your mind: https://github.com/F5OEO/rpitx

]]>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:24:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47253283peterbmarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47253283https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47253283<![CDATA[New comment by peterbmarks in "Investigating MacPaint's Source Code"]]>Bill Atkinson unfortunately has been diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/11/13/atkinson-prayer... I'm sure everyone wishes him well.

]]>Sat, 05 Apr 2025 05:44:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43591122peterbmarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43591122https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43591122<![CDATA[New comment by peterbmarks in "Forking Is Beautiful"]]>It could be misdirection. Maybe I'll wait for the fork Matt doesn't like.

]]>Thu, 10 Oct 2024 21:33:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41803810peterbmarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41803810https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41803810<![CDATA[New comment by peterbmarks in "It is hard to recommend Google Cloud"]]>Never forget what happened to Australian UniSuper when google accidentally deleted their account. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/...

"More than half a million UniSuper fund members went a week with no access to their superannuation accounts after a “one-of-a-kind” Google Cloud “misconfiguration” led to the financial services provider’s private cloud account being deleted, Google and UniSuper have revealed."

]]>Sun, 22 Sep 2024 06:57:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41615124peterbmarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41615124https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41615124<![CDATA[New comment by peterbmarks in "Everyone says Chrome devastates Mac battery life, but does it? 36 hour test"]]>The test is dominated by YouTube watching which presumably Google Chrome is particularly optimised for.

]]>Sat, 14 Sep 2024 21:36:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41543186peterbmarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41543186https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41543186<![CDATA[New comment by peterbmarks in "The history of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (2009)"]]>The codec2 project includes an HF OFDM that can be run from a command line. https://github.com/drowe67/codec2

]]>Fri, 16 Aug 2024 01:15:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41262182peterbmarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41262182https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41262182<![CDATA[New comment by peterbmarks in "Ask HN: Where are the good resources for learning audio processing?"]]>If you are interested in Apple platforms check out https://www.audiokit.io

]]>Sun, 07 Jul 2024 02:43:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40894894peterbmarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40894894https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40894894<![CDATA[New comment by peterbmarks in "MacRelix – Unix-like features for classic Mac OS"]]>Reminds me of Idris from Whitesmiths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idris_(operating_system)

]]>Mon, 13 May 2024 08:34:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40341013peterbmarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40341013https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40341013<![CDATA[New comment by peterbmarks in "World Wide Web (1991)"]]>I remember having an O'Reilly book titled "The Whole Internet". Hilarious concept. Gopher was pretty cool at the time.

]]>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 22:06:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40184028peterbmarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40184028https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40184028<![CDATA[New comment by peterbmarks in "A concrete example of what goes wrong with Apple's docs"]]>I went through pretty much the same dance yesterday trying to figure out the right way to choose a directory in my SwiftUI app. SwiftUI is a wonderful UI toolkit but it's far from complete. The documentation Apple is creating for it is wonderful, check out: https://developer.apple.com/tutorials/swiftui

]]>Sun, 07 Jan 2024 20:59:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38905071peterbmarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38905071https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38905071<![CDATA[New comment by peterbmarks in "A look back at the Argus C44 rangefinder camera"]]>Is "anyways" part of written English these days?

]]>Tue, 02 May 2023 06:51:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35784209peterbmarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35784209https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35784209<![CDATA[New comment by peterbmarks in "[dead]"]]>"If you’ve notices, all of that happened preety quickly." is an odd phrase.

]]>Thu, 06 Apr 2023 21:24:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35474692peterbmarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35474692https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35474692<![CDATA[New comment by peterbmarks in "A lightweight (~5000 LOC) Python interpreter for game engines"]]>I wonder how it compares with MicroPython?

]]>Wed, 08 Feb 2023 05:03:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34704341peterbmarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34704341https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34704341<![CDATA[New comment by peterbmarks in "QOA, the Quite OK Audio Format"]]>I'd like to see a comparison with codec2 https://www.rowetel.com/wordpress/?page_id=452

]]>Thu, 02 Feb 2023 21:52:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34633701peterbmarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34633701https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34633701<![CDATA[New comment by peterbmarks in "How primitive building videos are staged [video]"]]>YouTube ironically also listed a bunch of other videos about faked YouTube videos.

]]>Mon, 23 Jan 2023 20:46:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34494786peterbmarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34494786https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34494786<![CDATA[New comment by peterbmarks in "Mac OS Ventura Issues"]]>The issues listed are Finder issues. I haven't seen them. Finder is vulnerable to connected storage devices. I did have a dodgy USB drive connected to one machine and all sorts of weird things happened, such as beach balling, until I disconnected it.

]]>Sat, 31 Dec 2022 20:51:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34200617peterbmarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34200617https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34200617<![CDATA[New comment by peterbmarks in "Software horror show: SAP Concur"]]>Of course they are motivated to make it hard to claim expenses. This is genius.

]]>Sun, 04 Dec 2022 22:56:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33858927peterbmarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33858927https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33858927<![CDATA[New comment by peterbmarks in "YouTube channel with 100s of Apple WWDC videos taken down"]]>One problem of having old WWDC content available is that it is confusing for a developer searching for how to do something to be shown deprecated approaches. It's hard enough finding the right way to do something in Swift with all the old versions of the language around.

]]>Fri, 04 Nov 2022 23:16:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33475426peterbmarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33475426https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33475426<![CDATA[New comment by peterbmarks in "ZX81plus38 – A ULA-less ZX81 clone"]]>Took me a bit of research to figure out that ULA is "Uncommitted Logic Array"

]]>Sat, 17 Sep 2022 21:32:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32881795peterbmarkshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32881795https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32881795