Hacker News: veltas

New comment by veltas in "The secrets of the Shinkansen"

veltas — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:04:44 +0000

New comment by veltas in "Second Revision of 6502 Laptop"

veltas — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:18:51 +0000

Okay what if something else had prevented something better than a 6502 being mass market available?

New comment by veltas in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

veltas — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:36:34 +0000

"The West", don't lump us all in.

New comment by veltas in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

veltas — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:37:33 +0000

Why not Deja Vu Sans Mono? That was the default for years and it's what a lot of us are used to.

New comment by veltas in "Unit: A self-replicating Forth mesh agent running in a browser tab"

veltas — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:23:01 +0000

Could do with examples relating to the "self-replicating" nature.

Also should indicate it's case-insensitive, and the tutorial should be more permissive about how you type the examples e.g. typing lower case should be okay.

Missing a lot of basic words like HERE and , but I'm guessing this is to do with limitations of the underlying memory model, but there's not a lot of info on how to achieve arrays/lists without it.

New comment by veltas in "Social media bans and digital curfews to be trialled on UK teenagers"

veltas — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 08:47:11 +0000

I'm sure parents back in the day thought the same about video games. You're lumping a lot of kids together there, maybe some of them will become journalists... Maybe social media is the only media that will even be relevant in 20 years when their career gets serious.

New comment by veltas in "Social media bans and digital curfews to be trialled on UK teenagers"

veltas — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 08:45:43 +0000

They said same about video games but it turns out I didn't just want to play them, I also invested crazy amounts of time learning how to make them. Best time to spend crazy hours pursuing something you care about before the busy schedule of an adult saps all that away. It got me ahead. Not everyone just wants quick fixes.

New comment by veltas in "Social media bans and digital curfews to be trialled on UK teenagers"

veltas — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 08:43:46 +0000

I think you understood my point and you understand the reasons for the act. But I'm just protesting on behalf of the kids that will pretty much have their lives ruined or made worse for this decision, for what it's worth.

New comment by veltas in "Social media bans and digital curfews to be trialled on UK teenagers"

veltas — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:05:22 +0000

As a British teen I concerned my parents a lot with my computer usage, with all they had heard about the dangers of over use. But for me that was an outlet in a pretty miserable childhood and turned into my career, I was programming and learning how stuff worked. I don't envy the kids that found an outlet doing something productive only to have a nanny state eventually rip it away from them.

New comment by veltas in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

veltas — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:14:14 +0000

Relevant to the accuracy of quote

New comment by veltas in "Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem"

veltas — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 09:49:36 +0000

It's not 'magic' though but previously LLMs have performed very badly on longer multiplication, 'insight' is the wrong word but I'm saying maybe they're not wildly better at this calculation... maybe they are just optimising these well known jagged edges.

New comment by veltas in "Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem"

veltas — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 09:12:51 +0000

Do we know for a fact that LLMs aren't now configured to pass simple arithmetic like this in a simpler calculator, to add illusion of actual insight?

New comment by veltas in "BidWix – Fast fair way to agree on a price, from creator of myNoise.net"

veltas — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:44:32 +0000

Notably this was made by the person who created myNoise.net

BidWix – Fast fair way to agree on a price, from creator of myNoise.net

veltas — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:44:32 +0000

Article URL: https://bidwix.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486818

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by veltas in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

veltas — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 09:44:16 +0000

> Also, it's clear that a military officer is obviously a legitimate military target in a war.

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Process vs. Result – Why Some Programmers Resist AI

veltas — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:42:32 +0000

Article URL: https://isene.org/2026/01/AI-Coding.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47465230

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Meta AI agent's instruction causes large sensitive data leak

veltas — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 08:44:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/20/meta-ai-agents-instruction-causes-large-sensitive-data-leak-to-employees

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452045

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by veltas in "IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display"

veltas — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:28:13 +0000

From a linked article on shift registers:

> To avoid these astronomical prices, some computers used the cheaper alternative of shift register memory.

Might be a direction for 2026 too?

New comment by veltas in "“This is not the computer for you”"

veltas — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 08:20:35 +0000

The overwhelming majority of UNIX-like software is available in the package managers right now for major BSDs.

New comment by veltas in "“This is not the computer for you”"

veltas — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 08:19:14 +0000

I didn't grow up in a 3rd world country but had the same experience, bar running games I don't own. Not everyone in the west had parents that wanted to just spend thousands on hardware that seemed to be obsolete next year, or any means of making that money. And I've never stopped using sub-par hardware, to this day I enjoy squeezing every drop of performance from cheap pre-owned stuff.