Hacker News: zoenolan

New comment by zoenolan in "Brexit Ten Years On: The Economy"

zoenolan — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:20:32 +0000

> If being in the EU was so great, then why don't Norway or Switzerland join?

https://www.ft.com/content/5c8a871f-9a49-45f4-9ac0-543a608a5...

https://archive.is/dCYJG

New comment by zoenolan in "Ask HN: Job market for SDMs/Engineering Managers. Any reliable data?"

zoenolan — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:14:00 +0000

The CTO Craft survey would be my go to buy tends to be quite UK focused.

https://ctocraft.com/blog/compensation-survey-report-2026/

The Art and Engineering of Silpheed

zoenolan — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:13:38 +0000

Article URL: https://fabiensanglard.net/silpheed/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363813

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by zoenolan in "The TfL Cupboard Filled with Lost Tube Moquettes"

zoenolan — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:19:58 +0000

One of my first jobs was working on the website for John Holdsworth (now https://www.camirafabrics.com/), scanning all the different types of moquette

New comment by zoenolan in "BFI Online Video Collection"

zoenolan — Sat, 23 May 2026 22:51:40 +0000

and some background

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNqbcZzXnpI

New comment by zoenolan in "I’m writing again"

zoenolan — Fri, 22 May 2026 23:45:22 +0000

https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Robert_X._Cringely

Hyperland [video]

zoenolan — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:01:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyAQgK7BkA8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48099916

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by zoenolan in "Guy Goma's Accidental BBC Interview Lives on After 20 Years"

zoenolan — Mon, 11 May 2026 06:30:01 +0000

Guy and Elliott Gotkine interviewed about the book

https://youtu.be/VO0kaSHAOSE

Who will be the senior engineers of 2035?

zoenolan — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:03:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theengineeringmanager.com/current-affairs/who-will-be-the-senior-engineers-of-2035/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47757779

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by zoenolan in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

zoenolan — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:08:47 +0000

https://github.com/cavedave/Manannan

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47024184

New comment by zoenolan in "Bulldog: A compiler for VLIW architectures [pdf]"

zoenolan — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:40:25 +0000

New comment by zoenolan in "The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes"

zoenolan — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:19:15 +0000

New comment by zoenolan in "What happened to GEM?"

zoenolan — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:19:06 +0000

Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim) was on the Retro Hour talking about the Atari ST at the start of the year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-UOBjJjGuM

New comment by zoenolan in "Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver"

zoenolan — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:43:30 +0000

Tom Scott visits Peachtree City, Georgia

https://youtu.be/pcVGqtmd2wM

New comment by zoenolan in "March for Billionaires"

zoenolan — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:20:39 +0000

Reminds me of https://youtu.be/t5zQpN28xa4 and https://youtu.be/PN-vUaawaF8

New comment by zoenolan in "The battle to stop clever people betting"

zoenolan — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 01:11:29 +0000

https://archive.is/kyqxs

The battle to stop clever people betting

zoenolan — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 01:11:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2025/12/18/the-battle-to-stop-clever-people-betting

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46398170

Points: 85

# Comments: 127

New comment by zoenolan in "Geometric Algorithms for Translucency Sorting in Minecraft [pdf]"

zoenolan — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:26:07 +0000

- Stencil Routed A-buffer [1]

- Multi-Fragment Effects on the GPU using the k-Buffer [2]

- Production Volume Rendering [3]

- Translucent Shadow Maps [4]

[1] https://developer.download.nvidia.com/presentations/2007/sig...

[2] https://www.sci.utah.edu/~stevec/papers/kbuffer.pdf

[3] https://graphics.pixar.com/library/ProductionVolumeRendering...

[4] https://www.scribd.com/document/657069029/Translucent-Shadow...

Scammers, spies and triads: inside cyber-crime's $15T global empire

zoenolan — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 06:58:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9cugMoM89w

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46309657

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by zoenolan in "Ask HN: As CTO, do you pick JavaScript/TS as the default stack?"

zoenolan — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 06:01:10 +0000

I went with JS/TS at my last place. It worked well. I wrote up some thoughts.

https://zoenolan.org/2022/09/language-choices/

Today, I'd add having some sort of a plan on how to deal with npm attacks but wouldn't see that as a deal breaker.