Hacker News: wlkr

New comment by wlkr in "M5Stack CardputerZero – Pocket Raspberry Pi Computer for Hackers"

wlkr — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:11:06 +0000

Hopefully this doesn't seem like advertising - I'm not affiliated with the project in any way. I just particularly enjoy playing with cyberdecks [1] and stumbled upon this while browsing. I continue to have a lot of fun with the uConsole and SDR, but I've long wanted a Cardputer with a bit more oomph. I should add, if anyone is interested in a uConsole, brace yourself for the shipping times... [2].

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClockworkPi/comments/1fk893z/shippi...

M5Stack CardputerZero – Pocket Raspberry Pi Computer for Hackers

wlkr — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:05:14 +0000

Article URL: https://shop.m5stack.com/pages/m5-cardputerzero

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47804267

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by wlkr in "Show HN: I Built Paul Graham's Intellectual Captcha Idea"

wlkr — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:35:25 +0000

Yes, I also assumed an imperfect system with cases of fraud for the medical exam question and was quite surprised by the overly simplistic response.

New comment by wlkr in "No leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026"

wlkr — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:41:17 +0000

Interesting! There's a lot I don't know about this, but I know a little more now. I'll admit, I naively thought this would be more regular than it appears to be [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second

New comment by wlkr in "UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs"

wlkr — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 10:34:11 +0000

I'm very interested to see how some VPN providers react to this. For a zero logs VPN provider, if such a thing can really exist, how big of a problem is this? Presumably many customers pay with a debit/credit card already so there's some PII on file? Usage remains the same? Surely savvy people can just use their existing VPN to buy a VPN from outside the UK.

Of course, we're sliding quite rapidly down that slippery slope here so I'm sure logging and easier government tracking would be next. The justifications will get weaker and even more lacking in supporting evidence for their implementation.

New comment by wlkr in "Phel: A Functional Lisp Dialect for PHP Developers"

wlkr — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 13:40:53 +0000

This seems to have been posted a few times over the years, e.g. [0]. I was impressed and pleased to see that I hadn't missed the boat on this, and in fact, the project seems to still be going very strong [1]!

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26184044

[1]: https://github.com/phel-lang/phel-lang

Phel: A Functional Lisp Dialect for PHP Developers

wlkr — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 13:36:45 +0000

Article URL: https://phel-lang.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46004451

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Matrix collapses: Mathematics proves universe cannot be a computer simulation

wlkr — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 23:37:41 +0000

Article URL: https://interestingengineering.com/culture/mathematics-ends-matrix-simulation-theory

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45786509

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by wlkr in "Clojure Land – Discover open-source Clojure libraries and frameworks"

wlkr — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 13:33:49 +0000

Thanks for responding, and, especially recognising the name, thanks for all your work on the Clojure ecosystem! To answer the question, for me personally, it would be largely full-stack web and data science tooling, but that's just me. I was moreso thinking out loud about the posted project and highlighting libraries that could be semi-official or strongly recommended by the community. The Clojure community offers many different libraries that, on the surface, are similar, even if each addresses a particular set of concerns. For a lowly idiot like me without enough time to spend writing code in Clojure, I'd love to just be directed to those used by the experts and have solid backing and anticipated longevity - 'gold star' libraries.

New comment by wlkr in "Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead with Ads in Maps App"

wlkr — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 14:07:29 +0000

Perhaps a bit cynical, but it seems that as Microsoft continue to shove ads in absolutely everywhere and track everything they possibly can, Apple are content to be just marginally better rather than actually having meaningfully higher standards. Of course, it's business as usual, but we are boiling the frog for the next generation by tolerating it.

New comment by wlkr in "Clojure Land – Discover open-source Clojure libraries and frameworks"

wlkr — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 11:49:43 +0000

It would be helpful to see some additional stats, like the number of issues and the last update. Of course, these are only heuristics, but they are still helpful to see. It's often pointed out that one of the great things about Clojure is that the libraries generally don't need updating that often because the language is pretty stable. However, quite often I do find that libraries have a number of long open issues or depend on outdated, sometimes insecure, versions of Java libraries. I realise that I'm complaining about free code, so 'fork it and contribute' is a valid response, but at the risk of further fragmentation and yet another library that exists for just a short period.

Separately, I do wish Clojure would adopt a bit more of an opinionated way of doing things and coalesce around some solid core/common libraries that the official docs could point to. This year, Clojure didn't make it into the named languages list on the Stack Overflow developer survey (1.2% in 2024). It's clear that it's not all that popular, even though there's some commercial backing and a friendly community, and there just aren't enough developers to support a myriad of different ways of doing things. I do feel there needs to be a focus on getting beginners in, and that means helping them to do things easily.

New comment by wlkr in "macOS 26 Tahoe review: Power under glass"

wlkr — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 20:28:45 +0000

This is a good article, but in my opinion overlooks changes to the existing display accessibility features as a result of liquid glass (although I appreciate it can't cover absolutely everything). I enable high contrast in light mode (along with some other tweaks, like clearer button indicators). Unfortunately, this is quite a bit worse for me in Tahoe. I'm hoping it improves with future updates but it's annoying. I'm otherwise neutral to slightly negative on liquid glass so far.

New comment by wlkr in "CIA Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room"

wlkr — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:31:09 +0000

It's not quite as pronounced for me, but it still seems to be a bit off. The CSS suggests that the intended font is GT America Extended.

New comment by wlkr in "Lasagna Battery Cell"

wlkr — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 22:28:19 +0000

Interesting phenomenon I hadn't heard of before today. It looks like someone else thought to cross-post this from Reddit!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Weird/comments/1lwj0qy/weird_holes_...

New comment by wlkr in "Define policy forbidding use of AI code generators"

wlkr — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000

New comment by wlkr in "Using Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor on Ubuntu"

wlkr — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 12:45:55 +0000

I think it's Maple Mono.

https://font.subf.dev/en/

https://github.com/subframe7536/maple-font

Ubuntu 25.04 upgrades halted due to Kubuntu users getting a broken desktop

wlkr — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 18:27:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/ubuntu-25-04-upgrades-halted-due-to-kubuntu-users-getting-a-broken-desktop/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43797014

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by wlkr in "Apache ECharts"

wlkr — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 23:06:13 +0000

This looks great, thanks! I didn't come across this this in my search but I'll definitely try it out.

New comment by wlkr in "Apache ECharts"

wlkr — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 17:46:03 +0000

Funny seeing this here with your comment, as I was exploring using ECharts for a project recently to work exactly with HTMX from a Clojure backend. I eventually settled on Chart.js as I found that for my use case, I wanted the charts to more easily fit their dynamically sized container, which isn’t quite as simple with ECharts and Vega. I also didn't need particularly complex plots. Nevertheless, this is a nice project! There remain some open challenges with web-based visualisation libraries more generally around responsive design and accessibility, but we’ve come a long way.

Odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 have reached new high

wlkr — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:17:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2468890-odds-of-asteroid-2024-yr4-hitting-earth-in-2032-have-reached-new-high/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43093851

Points: 20

# Comments: 8