Hacker News: sumnole

New comment by sumnole in "Delphi 13.1 Released, with ARM64 support"

sumnole — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:39:11 +0000

Visual Studio has WinForms, which is pretty RAD.

New comment by sumnole in "TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool"

sumnole — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:53:18 +0000

The UIs are text only, so they are textual. Modern TUIs may support mouse events. That this tool can export to several TUI frameworks is evidence that these UIs are indeed TUIs, even if not the most traditional.

New comment by sumnole in "Show HN: AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns"

sumnole — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:28:03 +0000

Another to add to the list: Allow flexible naming. For example, drilling the two sum problem requires the user name the hashmap prev_map, but I feel memorizing this sort of stuff detracts from the lesson.

New comment by sumnole in "Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode"

sumnole — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:18:33 +0000

And a banner ad may display on a laptop in your home, what's your point? Location or device type matters not. This ad doesn't interrupt the user or demand any attention.

New comment by sumnole in "Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode"

sumnole — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:10:47 +0000

Ads really aren't that bad. Targeted ads may even help you discover products you'll enjoy.

The ad in the article is pretty obviously an ad to anyone that can read the words, "New Series. Start Watching".

Ads like these that randomly display during idle is hardly what I consider invasive.

Hopefully OP's sister gets her mental health under control, but I wouldn't immediately raise pitch forks to ban an entire industry vital to the economy and business-consumer communication.

New comment by sumnole in ".NET 10"

sumnole — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:52:01 +0000

I wouldn't worry. Updating .NET rarely breaks anything.

New comment by sumnole in "I hate screenshots of text"

sumnole — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 02:24:18 +0000

Aside from copying text from images, OneNote can also make text in images searchable.

New comment by sumnole in "Beets: The music geek’s media organizer"

sumnole — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 21:58:27 +0000

The average user likely just streams from Spotify. The users collecting mp3s are probably more tolerant to the learning curve.

New comment by sumnole in "Synesthesia helps me find four-leaf clovers (2023)"

sumnole — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 21:52:37 +0000

It helps that the four leaf phenotype can be recessively carried and passed on by normal clovers.

New comment by sumnole in "The Maker Bill of Rights"

sumnole — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 20:10:52 +0000

Meaningful and specific parts lists shall be included.

Cases shall be easy to open.

Batteries shall be replaceable.

Special tools are allowed only for darn good reasons.

Profiting by selling expensive special tools is wrong, and not making special tools available is even worse.

Torx is OK; tamperproof is rarely OK.

Components, not entirely subassemblies, shall be replaceable.

Consumables, like fuses and filters, shall be easy to access.

Circuit boards shall be commented.

Power from USB is good; power from proprietary power adapters is bad.

Standard connectors shall have pinouts defined.

If it snaps shut, it shall snap open.

Screws better than glues.

Docs and drivers shall have permalinks and shall reside for all perpetuity at archive.org.

Ease of repair shall be a design ideal, not an afterthought.

Metric or standard, not both.

Schematics shall be included.

The Maker Bill of Rights

sumnole — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 20:10:52 +0000

Article URL: https://gofoss.net/origins/the_makers_bill_of_rights/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45880317

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by sumnole in "Collins Aerospace: Sending text messages to the cockpit with test:test"

sumnole — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 19:36:53 +0000

Pedantics aside, not much reasoning against quality. Perhaps I've lucked out, but I've worked in many sectors and do not at all agree with sentiment here about DOD software quality. There is significant formal investment/research in DOD to improve operations, including taking the best of practices in commercial. In my experience, the worst of software is written by teams with little experience improvising under Agile and taking on tech debt with no time/resources to get things done the right way.

New comment by sumnole in "Collins Aerospace: Sending text messages to the cockpit with test:test"

sumnole — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:09:09 +0000

> Well, this is just standard Aerospace grade software

Can't be further from the truth. DOD software is given huge budgets where it's not surprising to see 3 separate teams performing QA for one software milestone. It's one of the few sectors that still plan software upfront waterfall style and implement strict procedures for traceability, change management, etc. Who else is using formal methods or safety critical stacks like ADA/Spark?

New comment by sumnole in "Rock Tumbler Instructions"

sumnole — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 21:42:15 +0000

Halite is my favorite. I grind it up and put it in everything.

New comment by sumnole in "The Little Book of Calculus"

sumnole — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 01:20:13 +0000

Looking forward to this being finished (especially after reading Little Book of Linear Algebra, which was great).

New comment by sumnole in "Show HN: Lazy Tetris"

sumnole — Wed, 28 May 2025 12:33:48 +0000

Matching the controls from the official tetris.com would be a good idea imho.

New comment by sumnole in "Why Pascal is not my favorite programming language (1981) [pdf]"

sumnole — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 23:30:01 +0000

Which is just not true. Pascal is going strong within the Lazarus / RAD community.

New comment by sumnole in "Vine: A programming language based on Interaction Nets"

sumnole — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 01:06:07 +0000

> Think inets as like sort of lambda calculus runtime: > lambdas -> inets -> reduced inets -> lambdas

a bit like Tree Calculus but with nets.

New comment by sumnole in "Show HN: A simple web game to help learn chords and basic progressions"

sumnole — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 21:36:55 +0000

You need to both have existing midi devices and allow browser access.

Microsoft's New PC Looks Just Like a Mac Mini but Serves a Whole New Purpose

sumnole — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 02:12:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.slashgear.com/1717092/microsoft-new-pc-mac-mini-lookalike/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42218757

Points: 9

# Comments: 26