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glfw! that's a bit surprising.

i'd expect sdl, given wider platform coverage (e.g. mobile), more system integration (e.g. clipboard), and an existing port (https://androwish.org/home/dir?ci=trunk&name=jni%2Fsdl2tk)

5-on Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones

and photogrammetry from crowd-sourced disparate still images was the biggest, flashiest "public" display of the technology: https://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_how_photosyn...

5-on Mastering Dyalog APL

typical implementations of apl (including dyalog) are interpreted, not compiled ahead of time.

5-on The Mercury logic programming system

prince, a high quality html renderer used for typesetting, is written in mercury:

https://www.princexml.com/doc/acknowledgements/

5-on Introduction to Nintendo DS Programming

all of game boy advance and nintendo ds hardware is exhaustively documented in a single text file:

https://problemkaputt.de/gbatek.txt

(but you can replace txt with htm for a fancier version)

this ranges from physical description to compact arm instruction set reference -- you really only need this document (and a way to get your console to run your code!) to program completely from scratch.

i've picked up a dsi because it can load code from an sd card, so only the console, an sd card and a computer is required for programming it, but see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47706877 further down this thread for the case for preferring the gba.

5-on 'Pokémon Go' players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30B images

see this 2007 talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_how_photosyn...

i remember this being available in google maps in 2008 or so. fun technology!

5-on Malus – Clean Room as a Service

one could say calling a company "palantir" isn't too far off that.

5-on High fidelity font synthesis for CJK languages

previously (1982): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cangjie_input_method#Early_dev...

i think this is a dos port of it? http://www.cbflabs.com/down/show.php?id=62

seems to work for me in dosbox

5-on Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks

maybe the chicks and norman get it, but i'm currently renting an apartment in france that has a bunch of these light switches installed all upside down, with "-" at the top:

https://www.legrand.com.gh/en/catalog/products/arteor-push-b...

5-on Show HN: SHDL – A minimal hardware description language built from logic gates

perhaps similar in scope to the hdl used in 'the elements of computing systems' aka nand2tetris.org ?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dPj4XNby9iuAs-47U9k3xtYy9hJ...

honorary mention: https://www.funghisoft.com/mhrd

5-on The Cray-1 Computer System (1977) [pdf]

thank you! that is very informative.

5-on The Cray-1 Computer System (1977) [pdf]

for a much more in-depth description of its predecessor, see https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/CDC/cdc.6...

i don't think there is a comparable book about the cray-1?

5-on Adventure 751 (1980)

also of note: the "fifty years of interactive fiction" post series: https://if50.substack.com/archive?sort=top (much discussed on hn)

or in book form: https://if50.textories.com/

5-on What an unprocessed photo looks like

5-on The Origins of APL (1974) [video]

there is also "computer architecture: concepts and evolution" by blaauw and brooks which also uses apl throughout.

https://search.worldcat.org/title/Computer-architecture-:-co...

5-on Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on?

have been using linux ever since i got my first personal computer.

our customers all run linux in production too, so it's very easy and natural to develop and test the software in its usual environment (although i wish my laptop had eight times the ram to match).

my ide is linux: https://plan9.io/cm/cs/upe/

5-on Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support

great to see thunderbird joining evolution in supporting ews among free software email clients.

evolution has been keeping me sane whenever i needed to use ews for years.

5-on Welcome, the entire land – "Hello, world" in hieroglyphics (2009)

doesn't the same argument apply to ordinal dates? i see some people on hn also using longnow-style five-digit years, but i really can't see the point.

did the crossing of the rhine take place in 00406, 0406, or 406? what extra information do the two former styles convey?

also, what about the year 100000?

we are somehow doing just fine without leading zeroes for other quantities.

there is an argument to be made about e.g. iso8601 datetime formats that need to be lexicographically sortable; but i don't see any of the longnow fans using anything like those.

5-on AI is Dunning-Kruger as a service

> Making a brochure. You need a photo of a happy family.

do you really?

> you don't quite know what the panels need to look like.

look at your competition, ask your users, think?

> Most people know they can't fly a plane

this isn't how llm products are marketed, and what the tfa is complaining about.

5-on Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become smart (2024)

> as long as you remember what you've built

yes! like any craft, this works only if you keep practising it.

various implementations of k, written in this style (with iterative improvements), have been in constant development for decades getting very good use out of these macros.

5-on Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition

indeed. with how good and cheap/free decompilers have gotten over the years my preferred way to read abstraction-happy c++ and rust code is to compile it with optimisations and debug symbols and then read the decompiler output.

5-on Tags to make HTML work like you expect

> Zoom works but doesn’t stick.

perhaps try using a user agent that remembers your settings? e.g. firefox

5-on The last European train that travels by sea

or ghost in the shell

5-on How I turned Zig into my favorite language to write network programs in

perhaps it's a trivial observation that people tend to conflate the programming language in the strict sense (syntax, semantics, compiler implementation etc.) with its standard and/or community libraries and tooling.

of course these are very important, but perhaps i'm just a language nerd/pedant who gets confused when an article about a programming language tends to be about async i/o libraries.

5-on Movie posters from Ghana in the 1980s and 90s

bonus: soviet star wars posters: https://www.fanthatracks.com/news/collecting/star-wars-poste...

(the bbc seem to have lost the body of their original article)

5-on Project Amplify: Powered footwear for running and walking

> an athlete said I'm looking to go a little faster and farther with the aid of a powered device

isn't that a time-honoured tradition at tour de france?

5-on When you opened a screen shot of a video in Paint, the video was playing in it

haven't had a chance to try this myself, but i've been told e70's joystick simply needs disassembly and cleaning (perhaps with a judicious application of wd-40).

5-on When you opened a screen shot of a video in Paint, the video was playing in it

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone

5-on When you opened a screen shot of a video in Paint, the video was playing in it

i had forgotten about this technique when i was at the excellent https://tnmoc.org recently, looking at their sgi irix exhibit featuring a webcam.

the latency of the camera feed on the crt screen was unbelievable even (especially?) by modern standards!

after a minute of pure wonder i remembered about overlays. still mighty impressive.