Hacker News: skripp

New comment by skripp in "Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras"

skripp — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 14:18:00 +0000

”I would feel pretty silly if my solution uses its own camera. So I'll be avoiding that.”

From the GitHub link.

New comment by skripp in "VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model"

skripp — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 16:51:59 +0000

The male Chinese speakers had THICK American accents. Nothing really wrong with the language, but think the stereotype German speaking English. That was kind of strange to me.

New comment by skripp in "DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Days"

skripp — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:52:57 +0000

Maybe. We’ll see if he open sources grok 2 or if he just want others to open source their models and weights.

New comment by skripp in "Elon Musk's Demolition Crew"

skripp — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 03:24:25 +0000

Is this a new thing? As a non-American the US is for us famous for the exact opposite in south/latin America.

New comment by skripp in "Thousands of Pablo Picasso’s works in a new online archive"

skripp — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 21:26:21 +0000

Extremely easy.

But the resolution of the images are absolutely horrible...

New comment by skripp in "Germany may introduce conscription for all 18-year-olds"

skripp — Sun, 12 May 2024 18:39:55 +0000

By giving up enough you can have the possibility of having the U.S. army help you. Unless they for some reason don’t want to.

New comment by skripp in "Nesizm: NES emulator for Casio Prizm calculators"

skripp — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 23:25:23 +0000

Thread hijack: where can I get a replacement screen? Mine is very scratched up.

New comment by skripp in "From Nand to Tetris (2017)"

skripp — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 17:55:27 +0000

I highly recommend you play the game “Turing complete” alongside this course. Will give you an additional visual way of looking at the problems.

New comment by skripp in "Are Open-Source Large Language Models Catching Up?"

skripp — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 08:21:52 +0000

I live in China. You can't use it here easily. Even if you use a VPN you still need a non-Chinese phone number.

New comment by skripp in "GIMP 3.0 has a release schedule"

skripp — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:49:18 +0000

I also can’t stand the gimp ui/ux. I haven’t tried it myself but I just googled this[0].

[0] https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP

New comment by skripp in "Google can turn ANC earbuds into a heart rate monitor with no extra hardware"

skripp — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 01:10:07 +0000

In 2003 I installed a scale in our dorm toilet. When you sat down you push a button and when done you push it again. If you were in the top five you could enter your (three letter max) name using a two button system. Top five were displayed using a super low resolution screen similar to a pinball high score screen.

New comment by skripp in "What is the Demoscene? An interview"

skripp — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 13:17:27 +0000

I can also recommend Sunvox as a great tracker, but it’s much more than that. Free on most platforms and around 10 usd on iOS/android.

New comment by skripp in "WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight"

skripp — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 23:07:33 +0000

> I had to tell him not to do that, but I was kind of proud of him for having the temerity to go for it.

You told him off for such a small thing? You were impressed but didn’t give encouragement? You are a horrible parent.

New comment by skripp in "n8n.io - A powerful workflow automation tool"

skripp — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 18:20:10 +0000

Maybe Node-RED?

New comment by skripp in "Xiaomi CyberDog 2"

skripp — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 05:28:20 +0000

This is not a dog replacement. It's a robot that looks like a dog.

New comment by skripp in "Fantastic Learning Resources"

skripp — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 17:34:16 +0000

The three books I recommend are these: {0,1,2}. The first two are best read together and maybe sprinkle in a bit of [2]. If you are on Linux or Mac then the last one obviously has to be substituted for something else.

[0] https://deitel.com/c-how-to-program-8-e/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code:_The_Hidden_Language_of_C...

[2] http://www.charlespetzold.com/pw5/

New comment by skripp in "YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers"

skripp — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 01:33:26 +0000

> It's because they've become increasingly obnoxious.

Earlier this week I got served a 1.5 HOUR long ad by YouTube for a bank here in Hong Kong.

New comment by skripp in "PyPI Was Subpoenaed"

skripp — Thu, 25 May 2023 19:49:06 +0000

I kind of get your point (i think?) but maybe you shouldn't try to belittle the use of the word "supremacists" in the context of modern language. Try looking up a definition if you are unsure. Maybe you disagree on the definition but that is probably the mainstream one...

Deluge Goes Open Source

skripp — Tue, 16 May 2023 09:24:27 +0000

Article URL: https://forums.synthstrom.com/discussion/5280/deluge-goes-open-source

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35959421

Points: 1

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New comment by skripp in "Writing a SQLite Clone from Scratch in C (2022)"

skripp — Fri, 05 May 2023 01:47:32 +0000

I love these type of projects. This is definitely on the top of my reading list now.

Another wonderful “from scratch” resource is “Crafting interpreters” [0] that I was recommended here on hn.

[0] https://craftinginterpreters.com/introduction.html