Hacker News: tehologist

New comment by tehologist in "AlpineBSD"

tehologist — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:27:19 +0000

Also why did you mention MIT licensed, it is obviously BSD licensed.

New comment by tehologist in "AlpineBSD"

tehologist — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:26:46 +0000

Linux success has nothing to do with GPL and everything to do with a lawsuit and timing. Linus himself said if it wasn't for the lawsuit Linux probably would not exist.

New comment by tehologist in "Make Tmux the OS"

tehologist — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:59:19 +0000

I was a windows 2k user during that time because win xp was horribly unstable till sp3. It was rock solid after that, finally as good as windows 2k. Though I never liked the Fisher price color scheme.

New comment by tehologist in "Can AI design circuit boards yet?"

tehologist — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 04:47:29 +0000

Interesting, I would think it would work much better results with myhdl, nmigen or systemC since LLMs already do python and c fairly well. Has anyone tried LLMs with verilog or spice yet?

New comment by tehologist in "Since it was stripped of planetary status, Pluto’s defenders have been fighting"

tehologist — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 23:51:52 +0000

OMG, I was taught there was 9 planets my whole life. I had no idea there is now 8 planets in the solar system. My very educated mother just sold nine....

New comment by tehologist in "Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools with Tcl/Tk"

tehologist — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 23:49:34 +0000

I take issue with the only 100 MB footprint, that is still pretty big when consider fasm, tcc and rebol are all closer to 1 meg.

New comment by tehologist in "Why Target Common Lisp for Code Generation?"

tehologist — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 03:16:05 +0000

As an aside, I wrote a dialect of forth and LLM was pretty good about constraining itself to a subset and create fairly usable code. I was having it implement cordic functions to implement sin/cos.

New comment by tehologist in "Why Target Common Lisp for Code Generation?"

tehologist — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 03:14:02 +0000

I was under the impression LISP is nice to write and work with but difficult to read. How well can you understand LISP written by a LLM?

New comment by tehologist in "“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers"

tehologist — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:01:34 +0000

Coding is easy if you enjoy doing it, met plenty of professional programmers that hated it and never felt the desire to improve. To them it was a way to get a paycheck that paid reasonably well.

New comment by tehologist in "Don't use your phone while you poop"

tehologist — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:37:26 +0000

WTF, growing up I read and always kept a book or magazine in the restroom. I fail to see the difference.

New comment by tehologist in "Amiga clarifies Commodore rights and the future of AmigaOS"

tehologist — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:20:34 +0000

I think you are greatly minimizing what Mr. Fractic has done, I don't get the phone thing either. He got a lot of the original developers of commodore and the original molds, the guy is a super fan and I can't think of anyone better to continue the brand

New comment by tehologist in "An AI voice agent running locally on a $50 Arduino uno Q"

tehologist — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:15:20 +0000

That is really cool, I have been looking into using my uno q with whisper and piper tts also. Though still at the research stage.

New comment by tehologist in "Making your own programming language is easier than you think (but also harder)"

tehologist — Sun, 10 May 2026 03:49:44 +0000

Re: bison and yacc. It came from the dragon book which for forever was the way to learn to write languages.

New comment by tehologist in "Windows API is Successful Cross-Platform API (2024)"

tehologist — Sun, 03 May 2026 12:34:24 +0000

Whoa, I didn't know about this. Looks pretty new.

Win32 in a browser

https://github.com/lqs/retrotick

New comment by tehologist in "Windows API is Successful Cross-Platform API (2024)"

tehologist — Sun, 03 May 2026 12:30:31 +0000

The win32 api is extremely well documented, still supported and very stable. With tons of working examples to do pretty much everything with.

New comment by tehologist in "Windows API Is Successful Cross-Platform API"

tehologist — Sun, 03 May 2026 04:48:47 +0000

As an added bonus, since win32 is so old. AI is quite strong at generating code for it, I have even had success with qwen 3.5 1.5B parameters with win32 and opengl 1.1

New comment by tehologist in "Windows API is Successful Cross-Platform API (2024)"

tehologist — Sun, 03 May 2026 04:47:04 +0000

Considering you can use 500 kilobyte distro of tcc that can self compile to build win32 apps and those versions will very easily run on wine. I think it is a valid point and a strategy I have used for sometime. Since windows can't decide what you should use for developing Windows apps

New comment by tehologist in "Intel Arc Pro B70 Review"

tehologist — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:41:45 +0000

I have one, this isn't true. The wattage of a 5070 is about 300. The spark entire unit runs at 200 watts max. In reality it runs like a rtx 5060 with lots of vram. Very good for training, okay for inferencing if you are running batch jobs and don't mind waiting.

New comment by tehologist in "OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS"

tehologist — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:21:59 +0000

This was also when most of these machines were not online. Security wasn't as much of a concern.

New comment by tehologist in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

tehologist — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 04:27:11 +0000

Python pdftools to convert to images and tesseract to ocr them to text files. Fast free and can run on CPU.