Hacker News: whitten

New comment by whitten in "Show HN: Loreline, narrative language transpiled via Haxe: C++/C#/JS/Java/Py/Lua"

whitten — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 03:53:08 +0000

I like how Loreline transpiles to multiple languages. I wonder why a transpire to Inform 6 or Inform 7 has not already been done as it seems an easy conceptual leap. Perhaps I don’t fully understand the use cases here.

New comment by whitten in "Ur-Scheme: A GPL self-hosting compiler from a subset of Scheme to x86 asm (2008)"

whitten — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:58:29 +0000

This was written in 2008. Has Ur-Scheme received any love since then ?

New comment by whitten in "Ghostty – Terminal Emulator"

whitten — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 04:11:24 +0000

Does ghostty support single duplex ? I couldn’t find out.

Also, does it support visible control characters ? EXACT EMULATION ? 3270 ? VT-105 ? VT-220 ? VT-320 ? VT-420 ? SIXEL ? NAPLPS ?

New comment by whitten in "Printable Grid Paper"

whitten — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:10:21 +0000

I know this a nice square grid, but how do you make a hex grid, (not the hex in the drop down) or even a page of some other tessellating shape ?

New comment by whitten in "Leaving Meta and PyTorch"

whitten — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:56:47 +0000

What is the Oxford flowers dataset ? Where is it available ?

New comment by whitten in "Parsing Chemistry"

whitten — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 13:57:01 +0000

Does the SMILE (or Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry System) code have an EBNF definition ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Molecular_Input_Lin... Claims there is a context free grammar.

New comment by whitten in "Kaitai Struct: declarative binary format parsing language"

whitten — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 02:25:50 +0000

To quote from the page: id: flags type: u1

This seems to say flags is a sort of unsigned integer.

Is there a way to break the flags into big endiaN bits where the first two bits are either 01 or 10 but not 00 or 11 with 01 meaning DATA and 01 meaning POINTER with the next five bits as a counter of segments and the next bit is 1 if the default is BLACK and 1 if the default is WHITE ?

New comment by whitten in "LLMs can get "brain rot""

whitten — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 01:08:47 +0000

So if the vibes are wild, I’m not a hippie but an AI ? Cool. Is that an upgrade or &endash; or not ?

New comment by whitten in "Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it"

whitten — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 18:26:59 +0000

What tool do you use to make such a video ?

New comment by whitten in "SkiftOS: A hobby OS built from scratch using C/C++ for ARM, x86, and RISC-V"

whitten — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 17:03:10 +0000

I think the fact that the line protocol for DEC VT terminals is as the ANSI X3.64 standard is why the issue hasn’t been addressed or modernized

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code

New comment by whitten in "Branch prediction: Why CPUs can't wait?"

whitten — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 20:38:12 +0000

I know branch prediction is essential if you have instruction pipelining in actual CPU hardware.

It is an interesting thought experiment re instruction pipelining in a virtual machine or interpreter design. What would you change in a design to allow it ? Would an asynchronous architecture be necessary ? How would you merge control flow together efficiently to take advantage of it ?

New comment by whitten in "Why Semantic Layers Matter (and how to build one with DuckDB)"

whitten — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 20:31:17 +0000

I think Common Logic ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Logic - ISO/IEC 24707:2007) would be a good addition to any effort trying to add a semantic layer to any database.

This is a good write up that doesn’t require DuckDB as it isn’t specific to a particular database.

New comment by whitten in "MS-DOS development resources"

whitten — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 23:21:34 +0000

I really enjoyed seeing the tools that provide an MS-DOS ecosystem.

I didn’t know there was an open source version of the Watcom compilers and a 16-bit library to support them.

New comment by whitten in "Show HN: I built an AI that turns any book into a text adventure game"

whitten — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 02:55:23 +0000

What are the issues re the SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE ?

Description: https://opensource.org/license/ofl-1-1 Also https://openfontlicense.org/

All licenses: https://opensource.org/licenses

New comment by whitten in "Faking a JPEG"

whitten — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 14:14:55 +0000

penalizing the web spider for scraping their site

New comment by whitten in "MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System"

whitten — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 20:06:56 +0000

what is IFTTT ?

New comment by whitten in "Implementing Logic Programming"

whitten — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 11:33:12 +0000

Is that research publically available, and where ?

New comment by whitten in "Implementing Logic Programming"

whitten — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 11:31:39 +0000

What does CTE stand for, and how do I research it ?

New comment by whitten in "Launch HN: WorkDone (YC X25) – AI Audit of Medical Charts"

whitten — Thu, 22 May 2025 19:17:03 +0000

If you are interested in interfacing with an open source EHR/EMR, World VistA is available.

I have extensive experience with it and am willing to help.

information is at https://worldvista.org and https://hardhats.org and https://va.gov/vdl

New comment by whitten in "Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It renders google.com)"

whitten — Mon, 19 May 2025 04:30:22 +0000

Do you think it is attainable ? Could someone like you break the task up into small enough pieces to let each piece be coded by a group of rust newbies ?