Hacker News: sea6ear

Loss32: An idea for a Linux designed around Win32 apps

sea6ear — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 20:19:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/06/loss32_crazy_or_inspired/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46518070

Points: 5

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I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked

sea6ear — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 23:52:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/food/commentisfree/2025/dec/04/recipe-book-sabzi-vegetables-yasmin-khan-trademark

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46154983

Points: 2

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New comment by sea6ear in "Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps"

sea6ear — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 17:25:14 +0000

I've been playing around with the Godot game engine as a sort of modern successor to Delphi / Lazarus. I'm currently messing around with trying to create some database server management software using it.

GDScript is pretty similar in feel to Python, and you can also use C# if you want to. It has some level of GUI controls in the framework (not sure how many yet, but all of the GUI controls used to build the editor are available for use).

I want to believe the 3d capabilities might be useful for some kind of UI stuff, but I don't really have a real idea how to make that work - just a "wouldn't it be neat if..." question about it right now.

New comment by sea6ear in "A rant on personal engineering projects [video]"

sea6ear — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:17:33 +0000

I love the framing in this video in terms of the decisions I need to make when I'm doing personal projects.

A rant on personal engineering projects [video]

sea6ear — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 23:58:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jgTCayWlwc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43031143

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Thirty Days Hath September

sea6ear — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 17:28:37 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Days_Hath_September

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42805958

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Visual Basic 6 recreated as a cross-platform IDE in modern .NET – just 'for fun'

sea6ear — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 20:50:00 +0000

Article URL: https://devclass.com/2024/11/12/visual-basic-6-recreated-as-a-cross-platform-ide-in-modern-net-just-for-fun/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42129861

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

New comment by sea6ear in "What I wish someone told me about Postgres"

sea6ear — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 20:43:11 +0000

With the caveat that you probably shouldn't listen to me (or anyone else on here) since you are the only one who knows how much pain each choice will be ...

I think that given that you are not really dealing with structured data - you've said that different sites have different structures, and I assume even with processing, you may not be able to generate identical metadata structures from each entry.

I think I would go for one column of XML, plus maybe another column that holds a parsed data structure that represents the result of your processing (basically a cache holding the post-processed version of each site). Hopefully that could be re-evaluated by whatever language (Python?) you are using for your application. That way you don't have to do the full parsing each time you want to examine the entry, but you have access to something that can quickly give you whatever metadata is associated with it, but which doesn't tie you to the rigid structure of a table based database.

Once you know what you are really doing with the data, then you could add additional metadata columns that are more rigid, and which can be queried directly in SQL as you identify patterns that are useful for performance.

Scientists use food dye found in Doritos to make see-through mice

sea6ear — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 18:25:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2024/09/05/see-through-transparent-mice-food-dye/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41468547

Points: 3

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ICFP Contest 2024

sea6ear — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 00:33:37 +0000

Article URL: https://icfpcontest2024.github.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40806119

Points: 12

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US bans Kaspersky antivirus software for alleged Russian links

sea6ear — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 23:53:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceqq7663wd2o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40744769

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

McDonalds removes AI drive-throughs after order errors

sea6ear — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 16:28:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c722gne7qngo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40719620

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Pembrokeshire man breaks world record for fastest wheelbarrow

sea6ear — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 17:58:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9961lg6l1o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40600420

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Oracle's biggest-ever acquisition turned deadly

sea6ear — Mon, 20 May 2024 22:28:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/ar-BB1mHNGH

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40421226

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by sea6ear in "How to read C type declarations (2003)"

sea6ear — Fri, 17 May 2024 18:02:19 +0000

It's not listed as cdecl and (therefore?) not findable in the index, but in chapter 5 - Pointers and Arrays - the book presents the programs dcl and undcl that translate between C declarations and English renderings of them.

I believe dcl mimics the cdecl program.

New comment by sea6ear in "Ask HN: Modern day equivalent to HyperCard?"

sea6ear — Thu, 02 May 2024 01:53:37 +0000

My suggestions would be Tcl/Tk or Pico 8.

Tcl/Tk is still the easiest way I have found to make small gui apps and the language and standard library is small enough to keep in your head easily.

Pico 8 is my recent love. It's a great way to make small retro style games. There's a free educational edition or you can pay $15 for the full version which has some extra export options. I've been playing with it for the past couple months and my kids from 6-11 have started to get involved. It's programmed in Lua and I and my kids prefer it at the moment to our previous attempts at Scratch.

Journey to Poom (Doom on PICO-8)

sea6ear — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 04:24:50 +0000

Article URL: https://freds72.itch.io/poom/devlog/241700/journey-to-poom

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40094798

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Brightest-ever cosmic explosion solved but new mysteries sparked

sea6ear — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 20:28:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68787534

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40017312

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Asthma: Scientists find new cause of lung damage

sea6ear — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 16:11:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-68731197

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39944134

Points: 3

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New comment by sea6ear in "Ferret Lisp"

sea6ear — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 21:54:04 +0000

Couple questions / points of note:

o I believe this manual is downloadable as a literate org file that contains both the full documentation of the system, and the code of the system itself

o This system produces C++ code that can be compiled down to binaries.

o I am curious how this compares to Jank - another Clojure (ish?) dialect that also targets compilation via C++.