Hacker News: ttw44

New comment by ttw44 in "A fast 3D collision detection algorithm"

ttw44 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 13:58:56 +0000

This stuff is always so interesting to me because this is the part/step of solo game-development where people don't make too much content about it online, so you need to find books/scraps of content about rolling your own complex physics engine. It's all knowledge that's stuck in the industry/random github repos it seems.

New comment by ttw44 in "Libpostal: C library for parsing/normalizing street addresses around the world"

ttw44 — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 12:36:40 +0000

When I was first engaging into web development a year ago, I was making forms that took addresses. From a C and C++ background, I kept asking, what if they lived in a specific country? How can I make my database truly safe? What is the best way to store all these addresses? I immediately gave up on that effort. Very impressive.

New comment by ttw44 in "Highlights from the Claude 4 system prompt"

ttw44 — Tue, 27 May 2025 12:42:51 +0000

Especially when all of these language models have been built on and learned from said copyrighted content.

New comment by ttw44 in "Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?"

ttw44 — Tue, 27 May 2025 12:25:32 +0000

Wikipedia

New comment by ttw44 in "Why do websites prevent pasting via onpaste="return false;""

ttw44 — Fri, 09 May 2025 11:36:56 +0000

You're not wrong in any capacity. It's just bad and doesn't improve any "security" if that was intended.

New comment by ttw44 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

ttw44 — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:23:01 +0000

Working on a reverse proxy in Rust, https://rpdm.geneseesoftwarellc.com (NYS property lookup), a 3D physics and rendering engine using Entity-Component-System architecture, a time logging application for our clients at work, and another C program for low level graphics stuff.

New comment by ttw44 in "Careless People"

ttw44 — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 11:41:24 +0000

I suddenly now imagine Zuck no differently from some of my unemployed friends.

New comment by ttw44 in "4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak"

ttw44 — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:45:24 +0000

I'm actually familiar with 4chan and lurked on it when I was underage at least daily. It was funny for the time.

I'm not sure where the idea comes from that the entire site's reputation is containerized inside /pol/ or any NSFW board. It's just misleading if you take 5 minutes to browse around (if you still can, anyway). The language and harassment used in ALL boards of any group of people or individual is disgusting.

New comment by ttw44 in "4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak"

ttw44 — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:41:36 +0000

Obviously those people will continue to think and exist the way they are. But we can't assume things will slowly start getting better if we continually allow increasingly racist "discourse" and misinformation in our society.

New comment by ttw44 in "4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak"

ttw44 — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:38:39 +0000

Yet another reason 4chan and its anonymity is a misinformation and propaganda warzone.

New comment by ttw44 in "4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak"

ttw44 — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 15:55:46 +0000

That is a completely separate problem, and it's dishonest making the comparison. Extremist right wing ideology and genocide is actively advocated on /pol/ as well as anti-Jewish rhetoric. Neo-nazism is not pointing out Israel's war crimes, and pointing out Israel's war crimes is not neo-nazism or anti-Jewish. /pol/ isn't antisemitic for Israel's genocide; they just hate Jewish people.

The Trump administration trying to deport people for doing so is also unjustified. People are freely criticizing Israel on other popular social media (notably TikTok and Instagram) without inciting a modern neo-nazi and right wing movement like what has happened on 4chan in the past 10 years.

New comment by ttw44 in "4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak"

ttw44 — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 13:38:39 +0000

That's fine, I don't really expect a 22 year old site with generational backup storage to actually go down forever. I'm 23, so I got them beat!

New comment by ttw44 in "4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak"

ttw44 — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 12:41:08 +0000

We've heard it time and time again that 4chan is the so called "last bastion of free speech on the internet" when this so called free speech is just being unapologetically racist and antisemitic. I hope its gone for good.

New comment by ttw44 in "Justice Dept. scales back crypto cases in line with Trump administration memo"

ttw44 — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 14:39:34 +0000

My understanding is that Biden was very concerned about his legacy and there are rumors about the "no daylight" phrase he spoke with Harris on her campaign and probably part of the reason she lost. But Biden should have dropped down much earlier and will taint his legacy forever. At least he passed the infrastructure bill.

New comment by ttw44 in "Show HN: I built an app to generate story relationships using Mermaidjs"

ttw44 — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 11:33:34 +0000

It's impressive you're able to have decent results from free tiers and open source models.

New comment by ttw44 in "Justice Dept. scales back crypto cases in line with Trump administration memo"

ttw44 — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 11:29:44 +0000

What about the headline is a lie (I do think it may have changed, but I'm not sure after looking at it this morning)?

New comment by ttw44 in "Justice Dept. scales back crypto cases in line with Trump administration memo"

ttw44 — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 18:39:21 +0000

Unfortunately, the Constitution's text has been increasingly under subject of debate. Trump himself is trying to redefine the meaning of the jurisdiction clause in birthright citizenship.

New comment by ttw44 in "Justice Dept. scales back crypto cases in line with Trump administration memo"

ttw44 — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 18:33:07 +0000

Interesting take. I believe this is a theme that everyone in the US is familiar with, but the idea that "big money is the enemy" and the reality of it has somehow not permeated through the general public enough. It seems that the Trump-voting public sees the Democrats as compromised rather than the Republicans, but even with this one action by Trump you can argue strongly that they are as well.

New comment by ttw44 in "Justice Dept. scales back crypto cases in line with Trump administration memo"

ttw44 — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 18:04:42 +0000

I try to view things like this from the other perspective and wonder just why so many people still view this person like he's the common man's savior. I think I'm cognitively dissonance-ing myself from possibly all the cognitive dissonance I'm surrounded with.

New comment by ttw44 in "AI 2027"

ttw44 — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 11:23:31 +0000

I don't disagree with this either. Capitalism requires a constant stream of new people to operate effectively to increase labor output. This is the system we've been dependent on. We wouldn't need a >2.5 birthrate to maintain all of our water, electrical, and communication systems.