Hacker News: werdnapk

New comment by werdnapk in "Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers"

werdnapk — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:18:51 +0000

Where did they say they used AI for this?

New comment by werdnapk in "I want to live like Costco people"

werdnapk — Thu, 07 May 2026 23:42:19 +0000

I will not buy coffee at Costco. I've had Costco coffee beans and it's terrible. I only buy premium beans at specialty shops and always will. The masses can drink their subpar coffee from Costco if they wish.

New comment by werdnapk in "BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets"

werdnapk — Wed, 06 May 2026 19:36:52 +0000

Canada reduced theirs to 6.1% from 100% about a month ago.

New comment by werdnapk in "Alberta voter list leak is a potential public safety disaster"

werdnapk — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:09:18 +0000

It's mentioned explicitly in the article:

"Elections Alberta salts the electors’ lists with the names of fake voters, so if one copy of a list is leaked, the agency can trace its origins. An analysis determined the list came from the Republican Party of Alberta, headed by Cam Davies, who, like Parker, has a well-documented history in Alberta as a political operative who pushes boundaries."

New comment by werdnapk in "I'm done making desktop applications (2009)"

werdnapk — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:51:57 +0000

You could have bought bored apes (and any of the other scammy NFTs) and ended up losing your shirt in the end. Overall, who cares if you miss the boat on something, it's not good for the mind to dwell on it.

New comment by werdnapk in "CSS as a Query Language"

werdnapk — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:35:41 +0000

document.evaluate is also widespread client-side.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/ev...

New comment by werdnapk in "I'm done making desktop applications (2009)"

werdnapk — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:01:17 +0000

You simply can't get hung up on what could have been. Same applies to trying to time the stock market... should have bought, should have sold. Best thing is to know there's nothing that can be done about the past and move along and deal with what you can do now instead.

New comment by werdnapk in "Stephen's Sausage Roll remains one of the most influential puzzle games"

werdnapk — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:25:06 +0000

Almost anybody who grew up with video games in the 80s played Sokoban and knows exactly what that refers to. It was THE puzzle game in the early days of video games... that and maybe millipede.

New comment by werdnapk in "Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated"

werdnapk — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:56:24 +0000

I'm in Canada and have been a Deezer subscriber for almost 2 decades now. Their premium subscription is well worth the money - I pay less than $90 for the year. They also have one of the highest track counts available compared to other streaming services (according to google).

New comment by werdnapk in "GitHub's Fake Star Economy"

werdnapk — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:22:11 +0000

And sometimes the maintainer simply doesn't respond to a perfectly acceptable issue due to either the maintainer abandoning the project, not enough maintainers or simple neglect.

New comment by werdnapk in "It's OK to compare floating-points for equality"

werdnapk — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:37:02 +0000

The use of epsilon is correct here. It's exactly what I was taught in comp sci over 20 years ago. You can call it's use here an "epsilon-delta".

New comment by werdnapk in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

werdnapk — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:42:30 +0000

insert "AI is just if statements" meme

New comment by werdnapk in "If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos"

werdnapk — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:18:37 +0000

I've been using gitosis to manage private repos for almost 2 decades now. It's extremely easy to host your own repositories.

I just looked up gitosis on github though and it was last updated 12 years ago.... still works for me though.

Overall, hosting your own repos is very easy.

New comment by werdnapk in "French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?"

werdnapk — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:26:45 +0000

I'm a native English speaker who's very exposed to French, but doesn't speak it, I find the use of accents in French very welcome to getting the pronunciation right when exposed to a new word. English is just a mess in comparison and I wish it had made use of accents as well to avoid a lot of the ambiguities in pronunciation. Perhaps some of the old English letters that are no longer in use helped a bit, but I'm not familiar enough with those to know if it used to be better.

New comment by werdnapk in "The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'"

werdnapk — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:45:15 +0000

I have stacks of them still saved in boxes from the 80's.

New comment by werdnapk in "Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?"

werdnapk — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:38:39 +0000

When I was in CS, we were taught theory. If you wanted to be caught up with the current tech, you'd teach yourself.

New comment by werdnapk in "Why XML tags are so fundamental to Claude"

werdnapk — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:51:16 +0000

CSS on the tags:

word-break: break-all;

New comment by werdnapk in "Compact disc story (1998)"

werdnapk — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:07:33 +0000

For a thorough breakdown of everything CDs, here's Technology Connections playlist on the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv0jwu7G_DFWBEyCKt4tK...

New comment by werdnapk in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

werdnapk — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:56:29 +0000

A designer knows things from experience and would be aware of small details that if not designed correctly, become very apparent when built in reality.

New comment by werdnapk in "A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words"

werdnapk — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:47:12 +0000

I've been waiting years for my word to be my first guess and still nothing... it's been my opener for years. I know my word hasn't been used as I've checked the list of used words.

So for me, reusing words is not what I want to hear.