Hacker News: timonoko

New comment by timonoko in "Shimano Bicycle Museum Review"

timonoko — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:37:29 +0000

I think Shimano become famed with "self-centering" derailleur some 50 years ago?

Before that you had to watch gears all the time.

I remember tinkering with my Ukrainian gears to make them more loose in "Shimano style".

https://uk-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B0%D1...

New comment by timonoko in "Shimano Bicycle Museum Review"

timonoko — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:05:46 +0000

History of Kharkiv Bicycle Factory in Ukraine.

https://uk-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B0%D1...

Praiseworthy because "Timo Noko" is mentioned as a customer. Those bicycles were good but dirt cheap, maybe even 1/10 of Raleigh or Shimano.

New comment by timonoko in "My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps"

timonoko — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 07:48:37 +0000

When you kayak along Norway coast, you have to use google street view constantly, because communities do not advertise their services seawards and you cannot see from bottom of the fjord what is happening up there.

In de olden times I tried to listen to cars for example. When they seem to slow down, there is invisible Co-op or Narvesen up there.

New comment by timonoko in "Sony's First Computer – The SMC-70 from 1982 [video]"

timonoko — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:53:13 +0000

This is from the time when Made in Japan meant cheap copy of things. Sony stole this Dark-Brown-Green + Grey color scheme from Olivetti. It was on all prof equipment like Tv-cameras and Beta-recorders.

New comment by timonoko in "Sony's First Computer – The SMC-70 from 1982 [video]"

timonoko — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:36:49 +0000

Exactly same colours and looks as Olivetti Teleprinter 1969. Amazing, almost creepy.

New comment by timonoko in "Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes"

timonoko — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:54:38 +0000

More interesting idea was to make compiler for some subset of Python bytecode. But Antigravity said this idea suxs, for some complex reasons. If the target is ATtiny, makes more sense to ask the AI translate Python to C++, which approach works amazingly well indeed.

New comment by timonoko in "Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering?"

timonoko — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 05:31:30 +0000

Flux like Rossmann

New comment by timonoko in "How bicycle coaster brakes work (2018)"

timonoko — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:22:52 +0000

Two speed - Sturmey Archer was the best. No cables, no maintenance. Drove 4000 kilometers at one go and only needed new tire every 1000 km.

New comment by timonoko in "Restroom Archive"

timonoko — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:54:06 +0000

Situation Critical in Sweden:

Jag vill ha runda "Door Knobs" till mina innerdörrar! Finns det att hitta i Sverige och fungerar det till våra kantiga dörrpryttlar (ja, du vet de där som ser till att dörren hålles stängd. Vad sjutton heter det??)?

New comment by timonoko in "Restroom Archive"

timonoko — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:48:39 +0000

Door knob seems to be british-american thing?

Gemini: You've spotted a real historical and geographical divide. Door knobs are predominantly an Anglo-American standard, while lever handles dominate continental Europe, Scandinavia, and much of the rest of the world.

New comment by timonoko in "Restroom Archive"

timonoko — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:38:31 +0000

Kiri Engine with AI and Splats might be even better on this.

New comment by timonoko in "Restroom Archive"

timonoko — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:36:16 +0000

Only in America: Door knob so you cannot use your sleeve to exit sanitarily.

Also obligatory fluffy and sticky floor mat is missing.

New comment by timonoko in "OpenShot 4.0: Record, Edit, and Color Like Never Before"

timonoko — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:45:01 +0000

I have dream that Oneday Oneday these surpass Cinelerra, written in 1996. Thirty Years Ago.

New comment by timonoko in "Emacs vs. Vim 2026: 24.3% vs. 8% Usage, 20x Memory Gap"

timonoko — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:18:12 +0000

TIL Vim Script. OMG. LOL.

I asked Grok compile some elisp to Vim Script. It was possible but weird. Grok says it is not a language perse but ed-primitives with some add-ons like function! .

New comment by timonoko in "Experiments with Plotter Art"

timonoko — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:41:04 +0000

Silhouette-cutter/plotter by Google Gemini:

https://github.com/timonoko/Plotters/blob/main/gcodegen-from...

Github-repository is awful mess, but this might be of interest. It sends Gcode-command to EiBotBoard-plotter, which for some reason is popular among artistic types.

https://github.com/timonoko/Plotters/blob/main/plotgcode.py

New comment by timonoko in "Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU"

timonoko — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 13:03:13 +0000

[redacted] forgot this is Hacker News.

New comment by timonoko in "Show HN: I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machines"

timonoko — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 03:35:55 +0000

No we do not.

There is correct time and correct season for everything.

-- 3 points by timonoko 11 days ago: Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS:

I wrote Pascal for 8080 in 1976 and Finnish Army even paid some money for it. I was truly disappointed that Turbo Pascal did not copy my handy PORT-metavariable. You can write & read IO-ports without any extra hässle:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/qeJpYb94XzLBCE139

New comment by timonoko in "Show HN: I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machines"

timonoko — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:29:04 +0000

Off-topic, but some average AI would have made all this in 7 seconds.

New comment by timonoko in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

timonoko — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 06:48:22 +0000

You voted for this.

And there no mechanism you can fix it.

If you now vote for something else, they just cancel the results and make you vote again.

New comment by timonoko in "Nearly 1,400 live streams from Japan"

timonoko — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:24:07 +0000

Not many recreational boats in harbors. Same as in Northern Norway: Conditions mostly suck and there no particular places to boat to.