Hacker News: s20n

New comment by s20n in "Shattered skeleton is first confirmed death from trebuchet"

s20n — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 05:41:49 +0000

first confirmed case of MLG noscope

New comment by s20n in "Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption"

s20n — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 04:41:31 +0000

Also this lecture by Vinod Vaikuntanathan is really helpful if you want to learn about FHE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LGwaICJ5sw

New comment by s20n in "I hate packaging my software for Linux"

s20n — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:43:12 +0000

Yes, the DLLs are usually installed along with the binary by the installer on Windows.

What I was talking about was the setup required on your machine/CI to get the dependencies to build those DLLs.

New comment by s20n in "I hate packaging my software for Linux"

s20n — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:35:17 +0000

I just did a double take at "Windows and macOS aren't as bad as Linux".

Packaging for Windows is truly horrible. Even getting the dependencies to build your app on Windows is a nightmare (the author mentions winget which is no good for libraries)?

I maintain an app that uses libsfml, libfluidsynth and a bunch of other dependencies. Packaging on windows was only made possible by MSYS2 and pacman which is literally a linux package manager.

New comment by s20n in "Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work"

s20n — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:29:42 +0000

Finally, we have an "OS" written in typescript. And here I was thinking that an OS would be the only exception to Atwood's law /s

New comment by s20n in "Software for One"

s20n — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:29:47 +0000

I really want to use a scheme based operating system where all processes are continuations and people boot into a REPL instead of a unix shell. something like a modern version of the symbolics lisp machines. Instead of using fork() and exec, spawning a new process would be a call/cc. can you imagine?

New comment by s20n in "Azulejo"

s20n — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:07:36 +0000

I assumed the word was derived from "azul" but from the article, it's apparently derived from the Arabic الزليج (al-zillīj) and has no relation with "azul"

Kaappi – r7rs scheme written in Zig

s20n — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 05:18:10 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/kaappi/kaappi

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49054958

Points: 6

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New comment by s20n in "There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days"

s20n — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:09:03 +0000

xcancel link: https://xcancel.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2069799283369345247

New comment by s20n in "1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background"

s20n — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:35:14 +0000

but that's the wrong shade of blue? It'd have been great if they took the colour from "The blue marble" instead of this Turbo Pascal blue.

New comment by s20n in "A 10 year old Xeon is all you need"

s20n — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:47:22 +0000

I agree with the first part. I think this article by FSF about Intel's ME summarizes the issue https://static.fsf.org/nosvn/blogs/Intel_ME_Carikli_article_...

As for the second part, I am not sure about how living in a five eyes state would mitigate it. What do you mean by that?

New comment by s20n in "Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks"

s20n — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:53:39 +0000

I'm failing to understand GP's logic here. Why would someone who's posting some TV show's content in complete disregard of their intellectual property rights be bothered about AI scraping?

New comment by s20n in "Rtwatch: Watch videos with friends using WebRTC"

s20n — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:01:58 +0000

Thanks, that would be great! I am trying to think how this could work. Generally, subtitles are embedded as a separate track in the video container or as a sidecar .srt file [1].

Perhaps they can be converted and shown using the WebVTT API[2] or tags [3]?

Edit: Maybe that wouldn't work, here's a relevant stackoverflow post [4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubRip

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebVTT_API

[3] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

[4] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61446205/webrtc-and-text...

New comment by s20n in "Rtwatch: Watch videos with friends using WebRTC"

s20n — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:45:29 +0000

I used to stream movies from my desktop over the local network with VLC and the main issue I faced was that I could never get the subtitles to work. I took a quick look at this repository and it doesn't look like they support subtitles either.

New comment by s20n in "A HN post with negative points – how?"

s20n — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:36:05 +0000

OP should have archived the page when the count was negative.

Here's a snapshot from when the count was 0 https://web.archive.org/web/20260512115623/https://news.ycom...

New comment by s20n in "Bliss (Photograph)"

s20n — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:19:19 +0000

Microsoft Design also released 4K renders of nostalgic wallpapers (including bliss) a few years ago. I can't find the original link but here's the reddit post with the pictures.

https://www.reddit.com/r/windows/comments/ogpni5/microsoft_n...

New comment by s20n in "Bliss (Photograph)"

s20n — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:14:20 +0000

The name didn't help much either, I suppose.

New comment by s20n in "The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)"

s20n — Mon, 11 May 2026 05:40:47 +0000

It really grinds my gears that the uploader had to ruin the "Greatest Shot in Television" by stretching the 4:3 video to 16:9.

I know I sound like a pedant but so many of these old TV recordings are uploaded this way on youtube. I was so annoyed by this infact that a few years ago I made a dumb extension that squeezes the video element back to 4:3 [1]. I'm not sure if this still works though.

[1] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/doddimnledmldclhlbf...

New comment by s20n in "Space Cadet Pinball on Linux"

s20n — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:08:26 +0000

It's ridiculous how accurate this recreation is to the original, it looks and feels identical.

The author was able to do this just decompiling the exe files, without looking at the original source code. Basically, completely blind.

So it goes without saying: The deaf, dumb and blind kid sure makes a mean pinball.

New comment by s20n in "The Vatican's Website in Latin"

s20n — Thu, 07 May 2026 03:09:04 +0000

Clickus Hereus