Hacker News: ustad

Hot-Potato Routing

ustad — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:30:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM3103.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212855

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

WordPress 7.0

ustad — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:19:10 +0000

Article URL: https://wordpress.org/news/2026/05/armstrong/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212660

Points: 32

# Comments: 9

WiFi Spatial Sensing

ustad — Wed, 20 May 2026 12:12:32 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ruvnet/RuView

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48206429

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

FreeBASIC

ustad — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:58:58 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/freebasic/fbc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48105104

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

The Rooks Have Returned

ustad — Sat, 02 May 2026 10:27:54 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rooks_Have_Returned

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47985121

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by ustad in "ARC-AGI-3"

ustad — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:18:15 +0000

You are joking right?

GitLab Active Incident

ustad — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:26:36 +0000

Article URL: https://status.gitlab.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47236570

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Situated Software

ustad — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:01:21 +0000

Article URL: https://gwern.net/doc/technology/2004-03-30-shirky-situatedsoftware.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47133772

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ustad in "Apple-1 Computer Prototype Board #0 sold for $2.75M"

ustad — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 08:19:26 +0000

Does anyone know the history of the previous owners?

Why ChatGPT Can't Draw a Full Glass of Wine [video]

ustad — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:03:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=160F8F8mXlo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46825193

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

PostSecret

ustad — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:43:24 +0000

Article URL: https://postsecret.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46771236

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Hexapod Simulator

ustad — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 08:32:09 +0000

Article URL: https://hexapod-simulator.onrender.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46751959

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ustad in "Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids"

ustad — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:29:23 +0000

Whats the model?

Story of Pong

ustad — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:06:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/inside-story-of-pong-excerpt/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46575417

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ustad in "I switched from VSCode to Zed"

ustad — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 09:56:48 +0000

I’d rather someone say “we architected this poorly and are working to fix the design” than “things slip through sometimes, report them when you find them.” The former is honest AND shows they understand the problem. The latter treats a design flaw as an acceptable steady state.

Being honest about shipping bugs is good. Being honest that you’ve designed a system where the same category of bug will keep happening? That deserves criticism, not praise for honesty.

New comment by ustad in "I switched from VSCode to Zed"

ustad — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 08:23:28 +0000

VS Code is a flagship product from Microsoft. Relying on “we try our best to push fixes as soon as possible” for a global opt-out setting feels below the engineering standards we’d expect. This should be fail-safe by design, not best-effort.

SimpleX Secure Messaging

ustad — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 09:11:35 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46390497

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

Gallery of Babel

ustad — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 07:42:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.echohive.ai/gallery-of-babel/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46343010

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Turtletoy

ustad — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 18:57:08 +0000

Article URL: https://turtletoy.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46138459

Points: 317

# Comments: 60

New comment by ustad in "Show HN: MyTimers.app offline-first PWA with no build step and zero dependencies"

ustad — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 07:20:12 +0000

I have a suspicion that someone holds worldwide patents on multi timers with repetitions and notifications (audio and vibration).

Thats the only explanation I have to explain the dire state of the built in timers on iphones and the free apps available on the app store. And no, I’m not going to pay $$$ per month for the premium apps.

And don’t even get me started on the PITA it is to make a web app to do the same (useful for runners) - you would think it would be a simple thing todo? Have a go and let me know if it doesn't break your balls.