Hacker News: qiller

New comment by qiller in "All elementary functions from a single binary operator"

qiller — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:02:38 +0000

For completeness, there is also Peirce’s arrow aka NOR operation which is functionally complete. Fun applications iirc VMProtect copy protection system has an internal VM based on NOR.

Quick google seach brings up https://github.com/pr701/nor_vm_core, which has a basic idea

New comment by qiller in "Tell HN: Amazon has deactivated my seller account"

qiller — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:53:21 +0000

Big nod. I've been trying to register our company to sell customized products. It's been quite an ordeal with document rejections etc, and at the end they just said the rejection is final. No support, no appeals, no transparency. Yet those ALLCAPS companies seem have no troubles.

New comment by qiller in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

qiller — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 21:02:22 +0000

We battled https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1331370/... for over a year, and finally decided to move off since there was no any resolution. Unfortunately our API servers were still behind AFD so they were affected by today's stuff...

New comment by qiller in "IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)"

qiller — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 17:57:18 +0000

Loved Borland IDE at the time. I still miss Ctrl-KB/KK (IIRC?) style selections from time to time.

These days Far Manager (via far2l) or MC kind of scratch the itch for quick TUI edits.

New comment by qiller in "Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP"

qiller — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:28:05 +0000

Impressing, but I can't believe we went from fixing bugs to coffee-grounds-divination-prompt-guessing-and-tweaking when things don't actually go well /s

New comment by qiller in "OpenAI ChatKit"

qiller — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:00:49 +0000

Would be great if they provided at least some guidance how to keep this thing on topic. Even the official demo https://chatkit.world/ is not restricted, it happily chats about whatever.

New comment by qiller in "Claude Code weekly rate limits"

qiller — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 22:14:34 +0000

Like when Claude suddenly decides it's not happy with a tiny one-off script and generates 20 refined versions :D

New comment by qiller in "Claude Code weekly rate limits"

qiller — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 19:19:41 +0000

I'm ok using a limited resource _if_ I know how much of it I am using. The lack of visible progress towards limits is annoying.

New comment by qiller in "Blender 4.5 LTS"

qiller — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 22:16:36 +0000

One problem I find is that a lot educational content has moved into YouTube and videos (monetization be damned). I have no time to watch 10mins of rambling and ads for a quick tip, LLMs are great at distilling the info. Otherwise, I agree, deep knowledge building only happens through doing stuff…

New comment by qiller in "Bringing 3D shoppable products online with generative AI"

qiller — Fri, 16 May 2025 14:48:28 +0000

GLTF standard covers a lot of PBR (physically based rendering) properties for materials.

New comment by qiller in "Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT"

qiller — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 20:13:12 +0000

Since when "Add emojis for clutter and noise" became an USP...

New comment by qiller in "Show HN: JSON For You – Visualize JSON in graph or table views"

qiller — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:09:45 +0000

Looks interesting! Reminds me of XMLSpy JSON Grid view - https://www.altova.com/images/json-editor-grid.png

Any plans to make an editor on top of this?

New comment by qiller in "Flower Machine"

qiller — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 21:10:52 +0000

Took a bit of hunting to figure out what that is: makes tiny origami flowers: https://blog.rahix.de/flower-machine/#paper-flowers

New comment by qiller in "Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?"

qiller — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 17:27:48 +0000

Technically it's possible to see most of my code on github, but most of it definitely wasn't intended for sharing, mostly protection from losing it.

A number of SmartThings device handlers and arduino code for home automation (early Ambilight clone, light strips, sump pump monitoring, desk fans).

A janky pendant to run on RPi for my CNC (clockworkpi.com devices are cool btw!)

Reddit bookmarks manager that google somehow scanned so technically there are a few people using it... accidentally

Custom Mailspring build with themes and minor annoyance tweaks

Not counting various TamperMonkey scripts that fix some site annoyances

New comment by qiller in "Node 18 Ate My Website"

qiller — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 02:28:17 +0000

The pace of javascript ecosystem is annoying at times. The first issue is due to deprecation of md4 hash and can at least can be worked around which may allow to avoid upgrading _some_ dependencies - https://stackoverflow.com/a/72219174

New comment by qiller in "LINQPad – The .NET Programmer's Playground"

qiller — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 16:00:06 +0000

Shout out to my go-to https://dotnetfiddle.net/

New comment by qiller in "ICQ will stop working from June 26"

qiller — Fri, 24 May 2024 16:47:05 +0000

See ya from 54198743. Weird how I remember this one better than any of my phone numbers

New comment by qiller in "Thunderbird.net Has a New Look"

qiller — Fri, 17 May 2024 16:11:15 +0000

Love that Thunderbird is moving forward. The UX work is great, and looks like they are finally getting to some more deeply buried issues too, like https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479969 - my main reason why I can't switch fully back yet

New comment by qiller in "Amazon virtually kills efforts to develop Alexa Skills"

qiller — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 04:00:13 +0000

I just wanted it to show a clock in a huge font so I could see when I needed to rush back into the "office" when taking a break or making coffee. Alexa Show became useless after a while because of all the non-disable content, and it barely even shows the time anymore.

I swapped it back to my old Echo Spot (the round screen one). It's great at being a clock.

New comment by qiller in "Babylon 7.0 Is Out"

qiller — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 00:10:57 +0000

It’s still quite monolithic. The issue is that it is a more complete engine than, let’s say Three, so the scene graph makes use of pretty much everything. Even you don’t use them, things like audio, webxr, node materials would get pulled in, despite tree shaking.

For our purposes, we filter out unused modules using webpack build. Things would crash badly if something would get used by accident, but we have a pretty controlled environment