Hacker News: tomcam

New comment by tomcam in "Behold the pawpaw"

tomcam — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 06:06:54 +0000

Thus began the legend of Leatherface

New comment by tomcam in "Behold the pawpaw"

tomcam — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 06:05:39 +0000

Can’t grow them here in Seattle. Keep trying and failing.

New comment by tomcam in "Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell"

tomcam — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 03:05:07 +0000

> I guess I am dating myself!

at least you never have to worry about who pays

New comment by tomcam in "People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes"

tomcam — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:50:58 +0000

> Unlike the Navier-Stokes equations

deep cut

New comment by tomcam in "Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived"

tomcam — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:07:44 +0000

The home page for Foxscript is perfect IMHO. Loads fast, well written, easy to understand, looks great.

New comment by tomcam in "Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test"

tomcam — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:23:04 +0000

wouldn't you like to know

New comment by tomcam in "Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business"

tomcam — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:22:25 +0000

> You could Google this and find a thousand articles about it.

Such articles are frequently by the people who would benefit the most from them and usually lack specifics. My favorite version of this is to do a web search for "fastest growing hobby in the world". Lots of hobbies are the fastest growing hobby in the world, it turns out.

New comment by tomcam in "Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test"

tomcam — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:14:55 +0000

I would be insulted. My wife is a Grey. She permanently morphed out of reptilian form 222 years ago.

New comment by tomcam in "Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test"

tomcam — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:12:24 +0000

I'm a sniper so this feature is mission-critical to me

New comment by tomcam in "San Francisco Onion Futures Company"

tomcam — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 19:36:58 +0000

At last, the final piece of my retirement portfolio drops neatly into place

New comment by tomcam in "AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible"

tomcam — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 19:24:19 +0000

Those posters all look pretty damn good to me. Thanks for that page. Super helpful for me and I need that right now.

New comment by tomcam in "Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint"

tomcam — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 02:14:54 +0000

Like you've never worn an ass helmet

New comment by tomcam in "Devil's Arrows: Ancient builders hauled 55k-lb stones 11 miles for UK stone row"

tomcam — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 06:52:09 +0000

I’m beginning to conclude that about 47% of all ancient activities in England consisted solely of either moving comically huge rocks around, or attempting to convince the remaining 53% to do their fair share.

New comment by tomcam in "Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%"

tomcam — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:17:34 +0000

I am sick of underachieving beavers. Go us! Seriously, that would require statutory change here in Washington state. I live in a rural area with salmon waterways all over. Farmers just quietly clear the way for them, because it's illegal to make any changes to the waterway even if it's trash thrown out of cars.

New comment by tomcam in "Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly"

tomcam — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:15:07 +0000

You handled GP's post much better than I would have.

New comment by tomcam in "Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly"

tomcam — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:14:13 +0000

I couldn't detect it from my casual read. English is almost certainly OP's second language so it seems much more forgivable.

PocketJS: UI runtime for every kind of computer

tomcam — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 01:08:53 +0000

Article URL: https://pocketjs.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49504523

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Hugh Howey's distraction-free word processor

tomcam — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 17:37:22 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/hughhowey/neo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491696

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by tomcam in "507 Mechanical Movements"

tomcam — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 23:30:02 +0000

I don't approve. I can't find a donation link.

New comment by tomcam in "Dolly Parton has died"

tomcam — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:28:17 +0000

Oh. You weren't kidding! It's good. They avoid all the traps, like not trying to outdo Jimmy Page's guitar solo.