Hacker News: pikuseru

New comment by pikuseru in "Almost Always Unsigned"

pikuseru — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:58:52 +0000

What if I’m making a 2d game and need to go left

New comment by pikuseru in "Pi squared is nearly 10"

pikuseru — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:10:26 +0000

BBQ

New comment by pikuseru in "When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?"

pikuseru — Sun, 03 May 2026 10:25:01 +0000

No.

New comment by pikuseru in "Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML"

pikuseru — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 12:42:17 +0000

“Layers upon layers of opaque incantations”

You’ve described software.

New comment by pikuseru in "Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML"

pikuseru — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 12:35:28 +0000

Because a team of browser engineers have already written and reviewed the code to do it for you; and (hopefully) it’ll be performant, properly tested and accessible… ;-D

New comment by pikuseru in "Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB"

pikuseru — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:02:29 +0000

Of the many cool things I liked about this, removing the missile from the array by swapping it with the last missile and decrementing the missile count was a nice trick.

New comment by pikuseru in "Where are you supposed to go if you don't care about growth?"

pikuseru — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 02:13:33 +0000

I remember being idealistic when I first started. Now I’m just jaded and cynical. Don’t try looking for meaning in any of it, you won’t find any. The system just churns along. And everyone with it. Play the game and nod along. Your job doesn’t define who you are. Just be thankful because you could be in a worse situation.

New comment by pikuseru in "Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright"

pikuseru — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:47:24 +0000

I’m glad it’s not just me. These LED headlights are terrible and dazzle me all the time. It’s especially bad with SUVs that have lights right in your eyeline, when you’re driving a “normal” car.

New comment by pikuseru in "Do you know that there is an HTML tables API?"

pikuseru — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 13:32:29 +0000

They’re probably still quite useful for displaying tabular data - there’s also semantics involved, it’s not primarily just a layout mechanism.

New comment by pikuseru in "People with blindness can read again after retinal implant and special glasses"

pikuseru — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 11:42:52 +0000

Free healthcare as well

New comment by pikuseru in "Apple Photos app corrupts images"

pikuseru — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 08:16:22 +0000

“It just works”

New comment by pikuseru in "A QBasic Text Adventure Still Expanding in 2025"

pikuseru — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 08:13:11 +0000

Windows 10

New comment by pikuseru in "Ask HN: How can I recover and run my old mobile game from the 2010s?"

pikuseru — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 15:06:11 +0000

How about making a new game with help from your son (even if it’s ideas) and making some new memories? ;-)

The problem I found is that a lot of the stuff I made is tied to the hardware, OS and SDKs I used to make and run it (especially PalmOS and J2ME stuff - although Apple is just as bad.)

Luckily I’ve been able to find an emulator called Cloudpilot Emu to run some of my old PalmOS games in the browser.

I think if I was doing a game now and wanted to be able to look back on it in 10 to 20 years time I’d be doing it in C with SDL or JavaScript - although you’re betting on those being around. Or at least some virtual machine / runtime that could be ported to some new OS / platform.

New comment by pikuseru in "Long Term Support"

pikuseru — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 18:08:01 +0000

I wish most software was developed and supported like this

New comment by pikuseru in "JavaScript Trademark Update"

pikuseru — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 21:49:11 +0000

Can I invent a language called Larry Ellison Script and trademark it

New comment by pikuseru in "What is a modern successor to HyperCard?"

pikuseru — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 13:48:20 +0000

I think Scrappy may have been mentioned on HN a few weeks ago, not sure if that fits what you’re looking for.

https://pontus.granstrom.me/scrappy/

New comment by pikuseru in "How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look?"

pikuseru — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 12:39:09 +0000

Glad I’m not the only person stood there focusing intently over my spectacles on orange skin looking for defects through the red plastic netting.

New comment by pikuseru in "I want a good parallel computer"

pikuseru — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:03:07 +0000

No mention of the Transputer :(

New comment by pikuseru in "Ask HN: Why does current interest in retro computing focus on the early 80s?"

pikuseru — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 15:31:38 +0000

It’s because the folks who are the middle-aged adults with disposable income in their 40’s and 50’s used to have computers from the 80’s.

Although one of the benefits of them is that you can still play and program for them (and even on them.) They’re simpler and more immediate.

New comment by pikuseru in "Why I Quit Google’s WebAssembly Team, and How It Made Me Sick"

pikuseru — Wed, 11 May 2022 22:05:10 +0000

Hope you don’t mind but I’ve copied this So I can refer back to it ;)