Hacker News: whtrbt

New comment by whtrbt in "All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes"

whtrbt — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:54:41 +0000

I used to want this kind of recipe card, but I've cooked so much that's no longer the case (I actually forgot all about the idea until reading this comment). I can usually look at the list of ingredients, and imagine what needs to be done. If it's an unusual or unfamiliar cuisine I will read the method, but after that point the list of ingredients suffice. If I read a recipe somewhere and want to cook it later, I will just write the ingredients on a post-it (usually in cooking order) and maybe 1-2 brief comments.

I imagine in domains you are skilled at you'd also prefer high level instructions than a step-by-step tutorial.

I agree that doesn't help the beginner, or someone who doesn't cook regularly, or someone cooking something new and I think most recipe writers are just following the established structure without thinking about what they and others really need.

New comment by whtrbt in "Men who stare at walls"

whtrbt — Thu, 07 May 2026 10:39:33 +0000

Yes.

New comment by whtrbt in "Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp first-person game"

whtrbt — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:37:53 +0000

Very cool! The dither is no longer in screenspace though, which kills the retro charm.

New comment by whtrbt in "I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed"

whtrbt — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:15:09 +0000

Business Analyst

New comment by whtrbt in "List animals until failure"

whtrbt — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 09:00:29 +0000

You would need to say "red fox". I think that feature, managing specificity, is actually quite well implemented.

New comment by whtrbt in "Play Aardwolf MUD"

whtrbt — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 10:59:11 +0000

It’s certainly possible, but you don’t need to go to any trouble - I’d hate to have misremembered the name and waste your time.

New comment by whtrbt in "Play Aardwolf MUD"

whtrbt — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 05:25:48 +0000

There was a MUD I read a printout of the textile manual for when I was a kid (didn’t have a computer). It explained how to create mobs and zones, and one of the example characters they used repeatedly was a knight or paladin called Geoffrey. I think it also introduced me to kobolds.

I’d love to find it again and reread it.

I thought it was called Legends but that hasn’t turned up the same thing.

New comment by whtrbt in "NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission"

whtrbt — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 23:04:55 +0000

_America of Theseus_ is a great shorthand for what you're describing. Did you just come up with it then?

New comment by whtrbt in "A 4k-Room Text Adventure Written by One Human in QBasic No AI"

whtrbt — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 03:11:43 +0000

In what way do those imperfections make something like cutlery inferior?

New comment by whtrbt in "Self-Assembly Gets Automated in Reverse of 'Game of Life'"

whtrbt — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 20:55:16 +0000

You can probably manage to reproduce the butterfly battle here (original paper): https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca

New comment by whtrbt in "The underground cathedral protecting Tokyo from floods (2018)"

whtrbt — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:24:18 +0000

I've also been (December 2024), I didn't realise it was so difficult to get reservations.

It is an awesome space and surprisingly well lit.

New comment by whtrbt in "Probabilistic Artificial Intelligence"

whtrbt — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 20:12:22 +0000

Maybe stupid answer, but I’ve read a few older papers that used ensembles to identify when a prediction is out of distribution. Not sure what SotA approach is though.

It is as if you were on your phone – a game by Pippin Barr

whtrbt — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 22:45:10 +0000

Article URL: http://pippinbarr.com/it-is-as-if-you-were-on-your-phone/info/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43304262

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by whtrbt in "Stimulants in Germanic communities of the Roman period"

whtrbt — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 11:37:42 +0000

They mention that the length of the thong by which the spoon is attached to the belt is about the right length to lift it to your face, but that's it.

0DE5 (a course/encyclopedia for the apprentice hacker

whtrbt — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 02:52:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.0de5.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41737337

Points: 3

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New comment by whtrbt in "The new science of meditation"

whtrbt — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 02:40:38 +0000

You're going to be battling with your attention a lot in the beginning. I think just making a habit of it regardless and putting in the time is necessary.

You could always go on a retreat — you'll have very limited options for distractions. It might sound like an extreme thing to do, and maybe it is, but I did it without much prior practice and got a lot out of it.

New comment by whtrbt in "The 90s Developer Starter Pack"

whtrbt — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 03:19:38 +0000

Does the demoscene count?

New comment by whtrbt in "Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of?"

whtrbt — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 22:30:03 +0000

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1654475429 just over 36 mins in.

Is It My Body: technological horror in film

whtrbt — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 22:01:23 +0000

Article URL: https://reallifemag.com/is-it-my-body/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32757602

Points: 2

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New comment by whtrbt in "Library Writing Realizations (2015)"

whtrbt — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 23:21:58 +0000

I read the docs too. Great docs can spell the difference between using your code and giving up or finding another solution. If you're new to a particular language or programming, code with great docs can also teach you how the language itself works.

Tabulator (http://tabulator.info/docs/5.3) is the last example that comes to mind, had to use it earlier this year.