Hacker News: skywal_l

New comment by skywal_l in "C/C++ projects packaged for Zig"

skywal_l — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:30:47 +0000

RIP @cImport.

New comment by skywal_l in "The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)"

skywal_l — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:43:17 +0000

You forgot an important quote: “We want the iTunes Music Store to have every piece of music ever recorded. Even if it’s discontinued or not selling much, we want it all.”

It seems pretty unambiguous to me.

New comment by skywal_l in "SpaceX stock erases all its gains and slides below IPO price in intraday trading"

skywal_l — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:12:02 +0000

Is it possible that people who don't care about short term profitability but still want a strategic ownership of the company bought at a high price on IPO day and now that the day traders are in, speculation will readjust the price to short term values? The change of price just reflect the different buyer profiles.

SpaceX is a pretty important company not just for "the market" but also for many other things (see Russia/Ukraine war).

Fair warning: I know nothing about all this.

One KW wind turbine without civil engineering

skywal_l — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:43:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.windtowatt.com/index-en.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48752843

Points: 45

# Comments: 30

New comment by skywal_l in "Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada"

skywal_l — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 08:11:42 +0000

So I don't necessarily disagree with you but people way more rugged than we are and who didn't even knew what a paved road was decided to get rid of wolves a long time ago.

Moreover, what I observed is that urban professional class populations are usually way more in favor of wolves reintroduction than rural working class population.

New comment by skywal_l in "Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches"

skywal_l — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 05:38:06 +0000

Reminds me of Deepness in the Sky (Vernor Vinge) where a guy maintains a ship by doing software archeology. He is the only guy who knows what the Unix epoch is.

New comment by skywal_l in "DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots"

skywal_l — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 05:29:33 +0000

And personally, I prefer doing ./game, rather than having to install a bunch of stuff and see my system cluttered by hidden folders.

New comment by skywal_l in "C47/R47 Calculators"

skywal_l — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:46:32 +0000

here you go: https://www.swissmicros.com/en/products/r47

New comment by skywal_l in "Zig Structs of Arrays (2024)"

skywal_l — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:48:04 +0000

You URL seems KO, an alternative I found: https://x.com/chessMan786/status/1879092981892067383/photo/1

New comment by skywal_l in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

skywal_l — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:45:58 +0000

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever"

New comment by skywal_l in "Reviving old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP"

skywal_l — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:24:53 +0000

My recent experience shows that eSCL is way behind in terms of functionality. If I want lossless scanning from by Brother scanner, I need the proprietary drivers.

New comment by skywal_l in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

skywal_l — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:33:49 +0000

Does it mean that instead of depending on the Visa/Mastercard duopoly you now depend on the Google/Apple duopoly?

New comment by skywal_l in "The 30-Hour Shift That Turned a San Jose Robot Lab into a Global Spectacle"

skywal_l — Mon, 18 May 2026 10:35:32 +0000

Yes but they are also a quick win to replace humans because they don't need accommodation or specific R&D. Any job by a human that has no been automated yet is because the ROI was too low to develop a specific robot and adapt the work environment for it.

The human is basically the standard API. A humanoid robot is a drop-in replacement implementation of this API.

New comment by skywal_l in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

skywal_l — Thu, 14 May 2026 06:47:09 +0000

After a few fixes, it builds on a debian-13. You just need to install a few dependencies (glew, SDL, curl).

The real problem here is the tooling. New versions of automake and C++ compilers are stricter than they used to be.

Indeed, for long term conservation, you need to vendor your dependencies AND your tools to make sure that the project is sustainable without intervention. But with the magic of LLMs now, this is not a problem anymore. Claude was able to fix it in less than 10 minutes.

And having the source code beats playing the original game. You can recompile in high def and make all the modifications you want to make it feel like a modern game (or not!) and sill get you your dose of nostalgia.

New comment by skywal_l in "UnDUNE II"

skywal_l — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:19:39 +0000

A remake, in video games, is usually a rewrite on a more powerful platform. You get better resolution, better music and event better gameplay.

A demake is a rewrite on a less powerful platform.

A game based on scrolling and zooming

skywal_l — Mon, 11 May 2026 09:40:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vaskange.world/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48092902

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by skywal_l in "A Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability theory"

skywal_l — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:36:09 +0000

> a French gambler and intellectual socialite enlisted the help

Imagine Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat teaming together to solve your problem.

New comment by skywal_l in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

skywal_l — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:54:17 +0000

Any plan for a 75% keyboard?

New comment by skywal_l in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

skywal_l — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:56:35 +0000

75% keyboard?

New comment by skywal_l in "Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group"

skywal_l — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:20:51 +0000

Note that they did not "publish" the picture. They shared it in a private group. This is 1984 kind of stuff. This will hurt Dubai's brand way more than any kinetic attack from Iran.