Hacker News: timknauf

New comment by timknauf in "Programming as Extended Cognition"

timknauf — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 10:21:34 +0000

I thought this was pretty great! “Codebase and tooling as extended cognition” is a helpful way of understanding why it just feels so bad when technical debt passes a certain threshold.

New comment by timknauf in "For $595, you get what nobody else can give you for twice the price (1982) [pdf]"

timknauf — Sun, 11 May 2025 10:42:59 +0000

I’ve seen this sentiment a lot, and I do understand it but… I just feel so completely differently. The 2000s web, early web apps and Flash, the iPhone and smartphone revolution, the incredible buffet that is modern video games, virtual and mixed reality, and yes, even (imperfect, fraught) AI have all seemed as magical to me as those wonderful things from the 80s and 90s. Probably not coincidentally, many of those things have featured in my working life pretty heavily!

New comment by timknauf in "For $595, you get what nobody else can give you for twice the price (1982) [pdf]"

timknauf — Sun, 11 May 2025 10:31:54 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to write that! I really enjoyed hearing about your journey, and I learned a fair bit about the Coco too, which wasn’t really known in my part of the world. Sounds like a great little machine, actually!

New comment by timknauf in "For $595, you get what nobody else can give you for twice the price (1982) [pdf]"

timknauf — Sun, 11 May 2025 10:22:36 +0000

Maybe not in 1982, but as other commenters have pointed out, by 1985 you had the Amiga, which definitely DID have serious co-processors.

New comment by timknauf in "For $595, you get what nobody else can give you for twice the price (1982) [pdf]"

timknauf — Sun, 11 May 2025 10:18:38 +0000

I had the same reaction, and had to read it three or four times to make sense of it. (Native speaker, with a degree in English.) I think it’s a very hard-to-follow sentence construction.

New comment by timknauf in "“Normal” engineers are the key to great teams"

timknauf — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 09:20:48 +0000

Egads, that spell checker is absolutely beautiful.

I guess it’s worth pointing out that he does support one of the arguments the article makes:

> But they didn't, and come to think of it, why should they know about something so far outisde their specialty?

So yeah, he’s implicitly saying, “I have a lot of domain knowledge here.”

But that said: wow, that code is so concise and elegant, it gives me tingles. If anyone IS a 10x engineer, it’d surely have to be Norvig.

New comment by timknauf in "Hacker News for Gamedev"

timknauf — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 10:51:03 +0000

Is there a mechanism for applying, or were you able to ask via a friend? This is right up my alley — I like the Lobsters format, and have long wished for a game dev-specific take on it!

New comment by timknauf in "A Game in F#? Why, yes indeed"

timknauf — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 02:10:44 +0000

For a recent side project, I made a short incremental game to teach myself F#. I absolutely loved the experience, so put my hand up to do what turned into a fairly big blog post for the 2024 "F# Advent Calendar".

A Game in F#? Why, yes indeed

timknauf — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 02:10:44 +0000

Article URL: https://tim.knauf.kiwi/blog/posts/2024/truffle-wizard-game-in-fsharp/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42372968

Points: 11

# Comments: 1

New comment by timknauf in "The English Paradox: Four decades of life and language in Japan"

timknauf — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 08:23:17 +0000

Thank you! I never understood the expression, but this explanation was immediately clarifying for me.

New comment by timknauf in "Browsers are the most likely disruptor of the mobile duopoly"

timknauf — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 07:51:50 +0000

No-Bullshit Games [1] is a good resource for finding quality fixed-cost / premium games.

[1] https://nobsgames.stavros.io/

New comment by timknauf in "We Become What We Behold (2017)"

timknauf — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 19:49:15 +0000

In my country (New Zealand), while we wouldn’t expect that wealth necessarily came from cheating and stealing, the idea of money as “abstraction of reputation and honor” would be foreign to most, I think. For example, while there were some Trump supporters here, I think nearly everyone was confused about the assumption that his personal wealth implied anything about his worth or worthiness.

New comment by timknauf in "How will 'chipageddon' affect you?"

timknauf — Sat, 06 Feb 2021 18:51:28 +0000

I’m just on 1080p and a GTX 1070, so haven’t experienced it for myself, but from Digital Foundry’s breakdown of DLSS 2.0 in Control, it sure looks to be more than a “cute hack”.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2020-contr...

New comment by timknauf in "gemini:// space"

timknauf — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 18:35:07 +0000

I read “niche within a niche” as referring to multi-lingual accessibility within the ‘niche’ of Gemini.

New comment by timknauf in "Intel's disruption is now complete"

timknauf — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 17:23:53 +0000

“Same rules for everyone” resonates very strongly here in New Zealand. There is a book-length study [1] on our national obsession with ‘fairness’ (contrasted with the USA and ‘freedom’).

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12112539-fairness-and-fr...

New comment by timknauf in "The strange new world of being a deepfake actor"

timknauf — Sun, 11 Oct 2020 10:25:44 +0000

As I understood it, that particular activist had gone public by that point.

New comment by timknauf in "The Meddling Middlemen of Academia"

timknauf — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 12:11:25 +0000

I think the “Reddit one-upsmanship” that the parent was referring to was actually in the other direction; i.e., people “one-upping” how long it took them to read it.

New comment by timknauf in "Making a SNES game in 2020 using modern tools"

timknauf — Sun, 31 May 2020 11:28:25 +0000

I’m pretty excited about the upcoming Playdate: https://play.date/

New comment by timknauf in "Who Has Your Back 2014: Protecting Your Data From Government Requests"

timknauf — Fri, 16 May 2014 09:06:03 +0000

I've been constantly surprised about how little scrutiny that kind of statement has received in the media - American or otherwise. I thought it would've publicly raised more hackles here in New Zealand (but I guess we all ultimately just feel powerless in the face of such determined surveillance might).

New comment by timknauf in "Who Has Your Back 2014: Protecting Your Data From Government Requests"

timknauf — Fri, 16 May 2014 09:01:13 +0000

My understanding is that, as a non US-citizen, I'd be generally considered 'fair game' for a lot of blanket surveillance that would not be applied to Americans. Maybe this is what scrrr is referring to? [Edit: I see this is what harkyns_castle alludes to as well.]