Hacker News: severak_cz

New comment by severak_cz in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

severak_cz — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:31:39 +0000

Delphi (or Free Pascal+Lazarus) and Visual Basic had this capability (to easily spin up GUI). It was called RAD.

New comment by severak_cz in "So where are all the AI apps?"

severak_cz — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:51:52 +0000

My guess - these are not not on PyPI because of libraries. AI generating is good when you don't care about how your app works, when implementation details does not matter.

When you are developing library it's exact opposite - you really care about how it works and which interface it provides so you end up writing it mostly by hand.

New comment by severak_cz in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

severak_cz — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:59:51 +0000

Infecting with React can be easily explained by pathetic state of desktop application development environment.

See https://domenic.me/windows-native-dev/

New comment by severak_cz in "Drawvg Filter for FFmpeg"

severak_cz — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:24:14 +0000

Well turtle graphics is not implemented in drawvg. But it should be easy to implement it.

New comment by severak_cz in "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language"

severak_cz — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:26:40 +0000

The old world is sunsetting, and the new paradigm is still in the incubation phase. We’re currently navigating a period of massive disruption—it’s officially the era of the monsters. Time to lean in, pivot, and embrace the chaos.

#Disruption #GrowthMindset #FutureOfWork #Leadership

New comment by severak_cz in "Sizing chaos"

severak_cz — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:41:12 +0000

Forget oil rig units. Clothes sizing is the true cursed unit system.

New comment by severak_cz in "Ask HN: When do we expose "Humans as Tools" so LLM agents can call us on demand?"

severak_cz — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 01:36:00 +0000

It's probably already done but in some third world country and hidden behind NDAs.

New comment by severak_cz in "It's hard to build an oscillator"

severak_cz — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 22:29:44 +0000

> There’s an old electronics joke that if you want to build an oscillator, you should try building an amplifier

This can be easily demonstrated using so called no-input technique[0] which basically means that you patch audio mixer output to it's input and it starts feedbacking and you can create some tones from this. Note that this needs to be done carefully.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-7kQmpjBds&t=2s

New comment by severak_cz in "Show HN: I was in a boring meeting so I made an encyclopedia"

severak_cz — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 16:06:53 +0000

Which AI did you used? It seems it's quite happy with inventing non-existing things [0] or adding nonsense to real things [1]. I like it for that - it's nice artistic demonstration about pitfalls of AI. Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius [3] in real life.

[0]: https://encyclopedai.stavros.io/entries/issd/

[1]: https://encyclopedai.stavros.io/entries/concertgebouw-orches...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tl%C3%B6n,_Uqbar,_Orbis_Tertiu...

New comment by severak_cz in "A bug saved the company"

severak_cz — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 11:44:43 +0000

This was the case when there was only MME. With something like a Voicemeter and Audacity you can have similar setup. I was able to have voice call on Messenger and simultanously stream it to the Facebook using OBS.

But it's very clunky, that's true.

New comment by severak_cz in "PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator"

severak_cz — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 08:04:44 +0000

yes, for a long time - https://www.php.net/manual/en/class.iterator.php

New comment by severak_cz in "Welcome to url.town, population 465"

severak_cz — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 11:26:34 +0000

It does not work for people who are using web interface of e-mail only. It would be nice to provide textual instructions (sent this subject to this e-mail) instead of mailto links only.

New comment by severak_cz in "Vector Tiles are deployed on OpenStreetMap.org"

severak_cz — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 12:20:08 +0000

Yeah. MapTiler has much better styles in general.

New comment by severak_cz in "Vector Tiles are deployed on OpenStreetMap.org"

severak_cz — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 09:31:32 +0000

Oh but that default style for Shortbread is so ugly! No contrast, missing details and lots of information lost.

Hopefully it's vector tiles and information are there (I checked in Maputik) so it's possible to create my own style (which I will definitely try).

New comment by severak_cz in "Hundred Rabbits – Low-tech living while sailing the world"

severak_cz — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 21:24:40 +0000

Yes - this is definitely some kind of computer performance art or something like that.

New comment by severak_cz in "Show HN: Bedrock – An 8-bit computing system for running programs anywhere"

severak_cz — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:03:28 +0000

It's a pity there is not some similar concept using more high level language (instead of assembly).

But I can see why as every interpreted language can be "fantasy console" on itself.

New comment by severak_cz in "Proposal: GUI-first, text-based mechanical CAD inspired by software engineering"

severak_cz — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:39:05 +0000

It looks interesting and I see use cases for this but my tool is (and will be something little different) - it's more visual drawing tool (with exact dimensions) and human readable file format is more byproduct than not.

New comment by severak_cz in "Proposal: GUI-first, text-based mechanical CAD inspired by software engineering"

severak_cz — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 14:17:42 +0000

I am already working on something similar yet much smaller - simple, easy to use 2D CAD for hobbyists, maps and geometric art. I have working prototype implemented in lua (Love2D) [0] and barebones text based file format[1].

Curently I am experimenting with drawing things in DeltaCAD (another easy to use CAD - unfortunately abandonware now), converting it to my format (via DXF export) and displaying it with javascript. I want to reimplement second version in javascript to be able to run it in browser and use better GUI components than those which I tried to implement myself.

[0] - https://github.com/severak/graph-paper

[1] - https://github.com/severak/graph-paper/blob/main/doc/file-fo...

New comment by severak_cz in "Show HN: I built an app to use a QR code as my doorbell"

severak_cz — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 11:14:51 +0000

Feedback: Bad UX. After scanning your example code I got page which asked me to take photo and I get really confused because I thought you want me to scan QR code again but there is no way to switch to other camera of my phone.

Overall this feels too complicated. Unfriendly to people without smartphone or mobile internet. I understand this is DIY equivalent of camera doorbell, but I would definitely prefer some no-name chinese radio doorbell both as one ringing and maintaining it.

New comment by severak_cz in "Uxn"

severak_cz — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 08:17:53 +0000

I am not surprised as Unxtal is very low level and with lot of constraints. It looks more like some tool of demoscene than a practical programming platform.