Hacker News: skywal_l

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.

New comment by skywal_l in "Codex Hacked a Samsung TV"

skywal_l — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:52:58 +0000

You can tweak the current Ghidra MCP to work in headless mode. It makes things much easier.

New comment by skywal_l in "The Technocracy Movement of the 1930s"

skywal_l — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:09:52 +0000

An interesting critique of the meritocracy/technocracy: The Rise of Meritocracy by Michael Young.

Written in the 50s it's prescient to what has been happening since.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy

New comment by skywal_l in "You are falling behind because you haven't fed the insincerity machine"

skywal_l — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:58:13 +0000

"Sincerity is the key to success. If you can fake it, you've got it made"

-- Groucho Marx (probably)

New comment by skywal_l in "Midnight train from GA: A view of America from the tracks as airports struggle"

skywal_l — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:38:14 +0000

> An 18 hour highspeed NYC to LA train would be amazing.

Often I think of the cut intro scene for "Escape From New York" where Snake robs some sort of bank and then escape in the inter state subway[0]. That future is grim but at least they got high speed long distance underground subways.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsLT-zRWWdQ

New comment by skywal_l in "Interoperability Can Save the Open Web (2023)"

skywal_l — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:44:03 +0000

It was mandated because, in some cases, getting data from the patient is actually harmful. A CT scan is not benign. So to ensure that CT scans from manufacturer A could be read on a review station of manufacturer B, the DICOM standard was created.

But there is a real health element to it. Although I perfectly agree that standards are good for the consumer, the incentives here are not as strong.

New comment by skywal_l in "US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects"

skywal_l — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:35:04 +0000

Contrary to windmills, which slows down the rotation of the earth.

New comment by skywal_l in "US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects"

skywal_l — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:58:38 +0000

Isn't there Ansaldo Energia too?

New comment by skywal_l in "Zero ZGC4: A Better Graphing Calculator for School and Beyond"

skywal_l — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:36:47 +0000

> USB-C charging—no more scrambling for AAA batteries

Bear with me if you’ve already seen this comment, but I dug out my old TI-89 a while ago for some reason, and all I had to do was plug in four AAA batteries and it worked.

If it had been fitted with a rechargeable battery, 30 years ago, even assuming it was still functional, I would have needed to recharge it... but with what?

Now we have USB-C rechargeable AA/AAA batteries, so there’s really no excuse.