Hacker News: zuluonezero

New comment by zuluonezero in "Work with the garage door up (2024)"

zuluonezero — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:46:07 +0000

Very much liked the split screen popping from one link to another flow from this website. Nice idea.

New comment by zuluonezero in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"

zuluonezero — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:44:48 +0000

Yes. Supports .md but when you try to save back to .txt it does something to line endings that you cannot see in notepad but if you grep your .txt files from wsl like, I do all the time, you get page long strings instead of matching lines. It's weird and I haven't dug into the cause as it was easier to save as a new note but pretty sukky for an IT company to miss something like that.

New comment by zuluonezero in "I write games in C (yes, C) (2016)"

zuluonezero — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:50:38 +0000

Nice looking games though.

New comment by zuluonezero in "Mini: Tonemaps (2023)"

zuluonezero — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 22:55:19 +0000

Nice succinct article. Thanks.

New comment by zuluonezero in "Which colors are primary?"

zuluonezero — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 23:17:28 +0000

Gourney Color and Light and one of the same name by Pickard et al. are a really good artist centric exploration of color.

New comment by zuluonezero in "Local LLMs versus offline Wikipedia"

zuluonezero — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 02:27:10 +0000

Now this is the juicy tidbits I read HN for! A proper comment about doing something technical with something that's been invested in personally in an interesting manner. With just enough detail to tantalise. This seems like the best use of GenAI so far. Not writing my code for me or helping me grock something I should just be reading the source for or pumping up a stupid start up funding grab. I've been working through building an LLM from scratch and this is one time it actually appears useful because for the life of me I just can't seem to find much value in it so far. I must have more to learn so thanks for the pointer.

New comment by zuluonezero in "2.5D Rendering on PlayDate"

zuluonezero — Fri, 09 May 2025 07:08:54 +0000

Good article and interesting technical description. Stays on the side of "proud developer keen to share details others would find interesting" and away from the "I made a game and here is my blog to advertise it". I do like hearing about Playdate development and wish I had one. There is lots of other Doom-like games out there with decent descriptions of the ray casting algorithm but the additional tweaks you made for the platform are fascinating.

New comment by zuluonezero in "Scientists discover new way to convert corn waste to low-cost sugar for biofuel"

zuluonezero — Tue, 06 May 2025 21:47:45 +0000

Related technology developed in Australia with bagasse (sugar cane waste products) https://www.statedevelopment.qld.gov.au/news-and-events/turn...

New comment by zuluonezero in "Show HN: I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass"

zuluonezero — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 20:55:06 +0000

No thanks my closest grass is covered in dog pee!

New comment by zuluonezero in "Pigment Mixing into Digital Painting"

zuluonezero — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 10:59:29 +0000

This is the feature that sold me on Rebelle 7 (which is hands down the best digital painting software I've used). Being able to translate oil painting mixing techniques onto a digital workflow was a game changer for me.

New comment by zuluonezero in "Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History"

zuluonezero — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 21:04:07 +0000

This is fine but Australian history seems to start in 1860! Completely misses about 60,000 years of history. https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/map-indigenous-australia

New comment by zuluonezero in "Unexpected Keyboard"

zuluonezero — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 20:56:53 +0000

Thanks this seems very good. Being able to flick #! off the 'e' is nice. The position of . and , is a bit weird on the left of the keybord. But i do like the curser control and brackets usage. There is some buggy activity with capitals appearing eg ttt55555%%%%%TTT% randomly. And it misses autocomplete and auto capitalisation for general usec

New comment by zuluonezero in "In Praise of Print: Reading Is Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse"

zuluonezero — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 20:38:04 +0000

What I found particularly disturbing about this was that I had to swipe away two pop ups and a lower banner just to start reading. All the while my subconscious was asking if I would like to just pick up a book. Then I got distracted by an ad for another article on the right of the screen. .

New comment by zuluonezero in "I lost my Google Play dev account"

zuluonezero — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 21:52:31 +0000

On the positive side you just got another happy player. Thanks for making it available and accessible.

New comment by zuluonezero in "Medieval"

zuluonezero — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 08:35:31 +0000

Life changed

New comment by zuluonezero in "A Swiss town banned billboards. Zurich, Bern may soon follow"

zuluonezero — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 22:33:27 +0000

I'm feeling the irony of not being able to read this article due to the banner advertising in the Bloomberg site.

New comment by zuluonezero in "An animated introduction to Fourier series"

zuluonezero — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 22:15:32 +0000

This is an excellent review with animations that make the math visually intuitive. I love how it grows from the simple to the ridiculously complex at a reasonable pace.

New comment by zuluonezero in "Atari's Mike Jang"

zuluonezero — Sat, 04 May 2024 22:38:42 +0000

The design of the Star Wars cabinet stands out as the single most immersive game experience in my life. It fired my imagination. I was always bad at that game but while playingit I was a Starship Pilot! But I could clock Missile Command so I learned to play it with my feet sitting on a stool. It's not sad news for me that Mike has died, we all do, and seemed to have lived a full life. Thanks for giving some insight into it.

New comment by zuluonezero in "The new Windows update made me think I'd installed malware"

zuluonezero — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 20:39:34 +0000

The irony of reading this article on pc gamer and getting a pop up for them sending me notifications in my browser was priceless.

New comment by zuluonezero in "Learning about debuggers"

zuluonezero — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 21:22:15 +0000

On the other hand finding curated lists like this opens up whole new worlds of investigation and get bookmarked for further discovery. This is one of the main reasons I enjoy HN. Thanks for sharing.