Hacker News: thomasfl

New comment by thomasfl in "Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation"

thomasfl — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:52:08 +0000

As a Norwegian I envy your ethical pension fund. Our Norwegian pension fund goes by the name the oil fund, and was financed solely by fossil fuel production.

New comment by thomasfl in "The dead economy theory"

thomasfl — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:31:19 +0000

Thanks for pointing that out. Not nitpicking, but facts.

New comment by thomasfl in "The dead economy theory"

thomasfl — Sat, 30 May 2026 07:01:14 +0000

AI will accelerate the decline in the world’s population. No job, no marriage and no kids will be the norm for most people. For many years to come. Some will say it’s good for the planet and especially for other species of vertebrates. Others will see it as a personal failure to not have any living offspring when they get old.

In ancient Greece, Diana was the goddess of hunting, wildlife and personal freedom and Venus was the goddess of love, family and domestic life. The Greeks had stories and plays about how those two goddesses never seemed to get along very well. If you feel like you’re a follower of Diana, then the future will be bright. If you feel like a follower of Venus, then rough times are ahead.

New comment by thomasfl in "High Density Living, 2000 Years Ago: Inside the Roman Apartment Building"

thomasfl — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:32:48 +0000

For thousands of years, people have seen the benefits of living in cities.What is really a city? Simply a place where people have a mutual interest in living close to each other. Urban sprawl and car centric society seems to be a really bad idea. Build better cities rather than self driving cars.

New comment by thomasfl in "Ti-84 Evo"

thomasfl — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:28:11 +0000

Distraction free tools like this calculator, is increasingly important to help keeping focus.

New comment by thomasfl in "Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser"

thomasfl — Fri, 01 May 2026 13:14:46 +0000

How much does a subscription for this website costs per month? After all it says Adobe in the title.

New comment by thomasfl in "Soft launch of open-source code platform for government"

thomasfl — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:54:46 +0000

Next step is to use this for laws and legislations. Do you have a proposal for new law? Make a pull request!

New comment by thomasfl in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

thomasfl — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:13:45 +0000

If Github were shut down, it would feel even worse than if Hacker News was shot down. I am github user 1520. Signed up a just few days after Mithcel on february 2008. I remember the early days sitting in a hotel lobby next to Chris Wanstrath and discussing a bug I found on github. Not ready to do the switch yet.

New comment by thomasfl in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

thomasfl — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:19:27 +0000

This is the same reason why I switched from riding a car to riding bicycles. Easy to get parts. Easily repairable. No electronics.

New comment by thomasfl in "Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design"

thomasfl — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 21:25:07 +0000

I hope the authors mom is not on the internet. Cursing in capslock. Good grief.

New comment by thomasfl in "Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language"

thomasfl — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:35:16 +0000

It is a lot of good code there.

New comment by thomasfl in "Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language"

thomasfl — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 07:15:54 +0000

The brunost programming language could be very useful for norwegian government agencies. It is common to use norwegian names for variables and functions at the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV in Norwegian). A subset of typescript where the reserved words are written in nynorsk, would help prevent misunderstanding.

New comment by thomasfl in "DaVinci Resolve – Photo"

thomasfl — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:46:26 +0000

Great news. One more piece of software that makes the world less reliable on A*be's expensive subscription fee based software.

New comment by thomasfl in "Doom, Played over Curl"

thomasfl — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:46:33 +0000

This is a good template for making terminal based apps that run on remote servers.

New comment by thomasfl in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

thomasfl — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:22:27 +0000

Not directly related but still interesting. The fellow who came up with the ide for the Architectural Uprisings we have seen around the world, is still anonymous.

New comment by thomasfl in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

thomasfl — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:17:29 +0000

My favorite pasttime for the last 12 years, besides reading hacker news, is to make music on my phone, ipad or on my piano. Will I stop making music now that Suno is here? No frigging way. Because I still like to make music. I won’t stop talking either, just because some AI is better at doing conversation about research. If I make enough money on my latest, I will spend more time making music.

Some of my music is available om SoundCloud. Most of it is made on an iPhone. https://on.soundcloud.com/lHJN26CwcwtnQzc2CB

New comment by thomasfl in "Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work"

thomasfl — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:42:26 +0000

Is there some documentation for this? The code is probably the simplest (Not So) Large Language Model implementation possible, but it is not straight forward to understand for developers not familiar with multi-head attention, ReLU FFN, LayerNorm and learned positional embeddings.

This projects shares similarities with Minix. Minix is still used at universities as an educational tool for teaching operating system design. Minix is the operating system that taught Linus Torvalds how to design (monolithic) operating systems. Similarly having students adding capabilities to GuppyLM is a good way to learn LLM design.

New comment by thomasfl in "Do Architects Still Need to Draw? (2020)"

thomasfl — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:42:38 +0000

Yes, architects still very much needs to draw by hand. Imagining working as an architect on a single family house. Being able to listen to the client and make drawings by hand in meetings is the best way to communicate architectural ideas. Drawing on paper before continuing on a computer, also makes it easier for an architect to design something other than square boxes.

New comment by thomasfl in "A useless infinite scroll experiment"

thomasfl — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:44:38 +0000

Just likte this demonstrates the stupidity of infinite scrolling, here is a site that demonstrates how easy it is to manipulate everybody to click click on things that gives us rewards:

https://neal.fun/stimulation-clicker/

New comment by thomasfl in "WebMCP is available for early preview"

thomasfl — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:28:22 +0000

Semantic web is for computers to read data from your website. WebMCP is for interacting with your website.

Using URIs as identifiers and RDF as interchange format, makes it possible for LLM's and computers to understand well what something really means. It makes it well suited for making sure LLM's and computers understand scientific data and are able to aggregate it.