Hacker News: stephenhumphrey

New comment by stephenhumphrey in "Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)"

stephenhumphrey — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:34:29 +0000

Healthy skepticism is certainly laudable, but too many llmuddites seem rather aggressive while whistling past their own graveyards.

New comment by stephenhumphrey in "alpr.watch"

stephenhumphrey — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 03:58:22 +0000

I’m embarrassed to admit how readily I overlooked the “on” in “buttonhole”, and even more embarrassed how afraid I became when your post still made sense.

Well, for certain fringe definitions of “sense”.

New comment by stephenhumphrey in "I didn't reverse-engineer the protocol for my blood pressure monitor in 24 hours"

stephenhumphrey — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 02:33:29 +0000

“Luck favors the prepared.”

New comment by stephenhumphrey in "No reachable chess position with more than 218 moves"

stephenhumphrey — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 11:04:32 +0000

Huh. I also have that personal policy. Yet this time I jumped first to the comments before reading the article. I’m not certain why. Perhaps I subconsciously intuited that the ambiguity in the headline might be resolved by some of you smart people. Brains are weird; mine is, anyway.

New comment by stephenhumphrey in "Covers as a way of learning music and code"

stephenhumphrey — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 19:29:15 +0000

Your video is so pedagogically beautiful. The subtext of what you’re doing in those two minutes hints deeply at the cyclical, iterative process practiced by most engineers and many other creatives. Concise, illustrative, memorable. I’ll be showing this to students regularly. Well done.

New comment by stephenhumphrey in "You Wouldn't Download a Hacker News"

stephenhumphrey — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:47:39 +0000

Regardless of whether that final line reflects reality or is merely tongue-in-cheek snark, it elevates the whole post into the sublime.

New comment by stephenhumphrey in "Honey Bunnies"

stephenhumphrey — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 18:21:56 +0000

Unknown, but for anyone under-resourced, this experiment from the site loaded instantly for me:

https://mameson.com/experiment/glsl/ferro_9/ferro_9.html

Wild Magic: Creating a Prismatic D20 [video]

stephenhumphrey — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 22:42:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I8qPU_79Fk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42825673

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by stephenhumphrey in "Blue Origin reaches orbit on first flight of its titanic New Glenn rocket"

stephenhumphrey — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:10:12 +0000

As Diane Rehm once lamented on her radio show about two decades ago, as she was interviewing some cutting-edge engineer about his work, “why does it have to be so haaaard?!?”

New comment by stephenhumphrey in "A 10-Year Battery for AirTag"

stephenhumphrey — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 13:26:55 +0000

We thought he was a goner.

New comment by stephenhumphrey in "Losing my son"

stephenhumphrey — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 19:53:22 +0000

I will make some personal comments to Lars privately, but let me say this, publicly:

I read between 10 and 100 articles or posts linked from HN every single day, and I have for years. As you can see for yourselves, I almost never comment. At this late stage in my life and career, it just seems fruitless to add my lone voice to the world of mostly-vapid, interconnected noise.

But Lar’s three poignant and vulnerable essays, as well as his comments on this post, seem to have brought out nearly universally the best people I’ve yet to see on HN or even on the larger net.

Wow. Most of you commenting are demonstrably fine people, and without calling out any in particular, I must decloak for this brief moment to say thank you for being such thoughtful, expressive, kind people.

I certainly hope some of your best comments resonate with and help Lars. However, even if not, your wisdom and humanity have helped me today — helped me process my own life and my still-too-raw tragedies.

Well done, HN “friends.” Keep up your “good works.” May we meet again, in real life or beyond.