Hacker News: throwaway2046

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts"

throwaway2046 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:55:09 +0000

Looks interesting... Is there an equivalent encoder that can be used with this to generate VHS footage purely in software?

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts"

throwaway2046 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 09:05:25 +0000

Could you provide a link to your project?

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son"

throwaway2046 — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:56:44 +0000

I see what you mean, but ultimately the video shows both the social worker and the judge were on the couple's side, despite the first impression... The social worker was painted as this very bureaucratic person who follows the rules to a tee, while still being sympathetic to the couple's situation. And the judge was painted as the intimidating figure with the final say, who eventually rules in favor of the couple and gives the child a permanent home. I agree with the other commenter who said the story was too good to be true, so the film making some artistic decisions for dramatic effect doesn't sound too bad.

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son"

throwaway2046 — Sat, 23 May 2026 11:46:33 +0000

Inspiring to see the couple accomplish this and in the early 2000s no less. Wishing them all the best. If you haven't already, watch the animated short film[1] by Zombie Studio. It was my introduction to this case before reading the article.

[1] https://vimeo.com/1092249009

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Cartoon Network Flash Games"

throwaway2046 — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:51:02 +0000

The mirrors one was part of the PC game[1], I remember it vividly.

[1] https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Dexter%27s_Laboratory:_Sci...

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Ubuntu 26.04"

throwaway2046 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:59:39 +0000

Debian offers Nvidia drivers as well although they tend to be outdated. Thankfully you can use Nvidia's official .deb repos to get the latest drivers on both Debian and Ubuntu.

New comment by throwaway2046 in "State of Kdenlive"

throwaway2046 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:10:23 +0000

That's quite the impressive feature set. I do want to use Kdenlive but coming from Shotcut I didn't find the UI as easy to use, especially when it comes to handling the timeline... Maybe I'll try it again one day.

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play"

throwaway2046 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:50:53 +0000

The official website states on the front page:

    This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove"

throwaway2046 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:59:46 +0000

Absolutely amazing collection, and it has lossless FLACs too! Many thanks to the fans and IA for making this possible.

Remember to donate and help keep the Internet Archive alive.

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed"

throwaway2046 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:03:23 +0000

Ninja is great and feels natural coming from Make. What it lacks in features it makes up for with speed, which is what ultimately matters.

Also worth mentioning is samurai[1], a pure C implementation of Ninja that's almost as fast yet easier to bootstrap needing only a C compiler.

[1] https://github.com/michaelforney/samurai

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

throwaway2046 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:11:31 +0000

> Stable ABI literally only benefits software where the user doesn’t have the source

Stable ABI benefits everyone. If I need to recompile a hundred packages with every OS update instead of doing real work then there's something seriously wrong with my OS.

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Windows native app development is a mess"

throwaway2046 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:02:39 +0000

wxWidgets is just a wrapper around existing UI libraries; win32 on Windows, and Gtk/Qt on *nix.

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste"

throwaway2046 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:39:10 +0000

These are beautiful, thank you for sharing. I really like the one with the triangles, was it inspired by Rule 30?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_30

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc"

throwaway2046 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:56:08 +0000

https://archive.ph/CFQBU

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)"

throwaway2046 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:12:49 +0000

I've almost never seen SFML used in the wild. Does it offer anything significant over SDL?

New comment by throwaway2046 in "How to talk to anyone and why you should"

throwaway2046 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 22:33:49 +0000

https://archive.ph/VrnI7

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Baby chicks pass the bouba-kiki test, challenging a theory of language evolution"

throwaway2046 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:20:14 +0000

https://archive.ph/QX0Oo

New comment by throwaway2046 in "Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube"

throwaway2046 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:24:35 +0000

> Seems like films mostly switched over to "modern" acting in the 70s

Can you elaborate on this point? I think I agree with you, I just don't know why.

New comment by throwaway2046 in "I write games in C (yes, C) (2016)"

throwaway2046 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 06:01:01 +0000

> that guy asked Stack Overflow how to make gcc compile his .png

Do you have a link to this? All the search results I'm getting are related to libpng.

New comment by throwaway2046 in "The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen"

throwaway2046 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:06:31 +0000

I'm guessing the pain of fighting the various build systems that insist on dynamic linking, sometimes against the user's explicit wishes.